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12 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
13 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
14 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
15 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
16 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
17 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
19 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
20 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
21 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
23 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
24 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
27 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
28 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
29 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
30 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
32 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
33 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
34 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
35 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
36 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
37 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
38 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
39 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
40 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
41 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
42 validation by applications.
44 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, and fsconfig functions have
45 been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel mount APIs that allow
46 applications to more flexibly configure and operate on filesystem mounts.
47 The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work with namespaces.
49 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
50 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
53 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
55 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
56 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
57 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
59 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
60 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
61 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
62 when libc.so is issued directly.
64 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
66 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
68 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
70 Security related changes:
72 [Add security related changes here]
74 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
76 [The release manager will add the list generated by
77 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
84 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
85 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
86 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
88 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
89 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
91 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
92 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
93 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
94 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
95 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
96 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
97 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
98 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
99 glibc, and must be installed.
101 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
102 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
103 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
105 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
106 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
108 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
111 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
112 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
113 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
114 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
115 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
116 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
118 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
119 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
120 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
123 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
124 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
126 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
129 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
131 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
132 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
133 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
135 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
136 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
137 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
138 object dependency cases.
140 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
141 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
142 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
143 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
145 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
146 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
147 return value is only used for its boolean status.
149 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
150 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
151 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
152 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
153 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
154 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
155 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
156 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
157 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
158 Restartable Sequences.
160 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
161 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
163 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
164 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
165 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
166 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
167 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
168 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
169 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
172 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
173 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
174 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
175 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
176 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
179 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
180 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
182 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
183 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
186 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
187 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
192 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
193 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
195 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
196 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
197 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
198 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
199 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
201 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
202 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
204 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
205 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
206 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
208 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
209 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
210 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
211 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
214 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
215 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
217 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
219 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
220 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
221 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
223 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
224 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
226 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
227 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
229 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
231 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
233 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
234 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
235 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
237 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
238 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
239 catching coredumps and backtraces.
241 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
242 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
243 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
245 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
246 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
247 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
249 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
250 support prelink PIE binaries.
252 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
254 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
255 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
256 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
257 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
258 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
260 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
261 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
262 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
263 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
265 Security related changes:
267 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
268 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
269 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
271 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
272 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
274 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
275 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
276 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
278 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
279 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
280 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
281 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
282 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
284 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
286 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
287 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
288 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
289 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
291 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
292 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
294 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
296 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
297 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
298 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
299 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
300 ID whose lifetime has not ended
301 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
303 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
305 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
306 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
307 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
308 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
309 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
310 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
311 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
312 --enable-initfini-array
313 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
314 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
315 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
316 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
317 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
318 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
320 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
321 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
322 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
324 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
325 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
326 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
328 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
329 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
331 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
332 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
333 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
335 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
336 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
337 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
338 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
339 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
340 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
341 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
343 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
345 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
346 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
348 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
349 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
350 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
351 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
352 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
353 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
354 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
356 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
358 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
359 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
360 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
361 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
363 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
364 systems with TIMESIZE=64
365 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
366 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
367 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
368 spurious NUL character on state reset
369 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
371 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
372 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
374 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
375 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
377 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
378 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
379 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
380 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
381 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
382 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
384 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
386 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
387 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
388 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
389 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
391 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
392 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
393 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
394 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
395 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
396 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
397 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
398 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
399 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
400 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
401 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
402 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
403 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
404 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
406 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
408 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
409 results (CVE-2021-3998)
410 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
412 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
413 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
415 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
417 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
418 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
419 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
426 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
427 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
428 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
429 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
430 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
431 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
432 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
433 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
434 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
435 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
436 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
437 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
438 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
439 potentially exposing application bugs.
441 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
442 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
443 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
444 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
446 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
447 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
448 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
449 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
450 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
453 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
454 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
455 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
457 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
458 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
459 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
460 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
462 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
464 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
465 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
466 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
467 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
468 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
470 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
471 --disable-scv configure option.
473 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
474 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
475 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
476 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
477 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
478 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
481 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
482 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
483 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
484 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
485 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
486 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
489 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
490 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
492 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
493 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
494 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
495 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
496 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
497 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
498 is currently a GNU extension.
500 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
501 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
503 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
504 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
505 although it is also present in other systems.
507 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
508 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
509 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
510 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
512 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
513 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
514 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
516 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
518 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
519 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
522 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
523 programs should use the equivalent standard function
524 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
526 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
527 programs should use the equivalent standard function
528 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
530 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
531 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
533 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
535 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
536 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
537 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
538 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
539 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
540 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
541 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
542 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
543 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
544 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
545 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
547 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
548 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
549 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
550 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
551 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
552 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
553 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
554 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
556 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
557 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
558 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
559 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
560 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
561 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
562 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
564 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
565 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
566 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
567 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
568 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
569 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
570 upgrade or downgrade process.
572 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
573 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
574 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
576 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
577 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
578 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
579 no longer have any effect on malloc.
581 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
582 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
583 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
584 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
585 this functionality back.
587 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
588 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
589 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
590 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
592 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
593 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
594 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
595 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
596 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
597 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
598 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
599 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
600 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
602 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
604 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
605 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
606 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
607 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
609 Security related changes:
611 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
612 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
613 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
614 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
616 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
617 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
618 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
620 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
621 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
622 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
624 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
626 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
627 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
628 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
629 given integer (closefrom)
630 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
631 name containing multi-byte character(s)
632 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
633 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
634 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
635 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
636 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
638 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
639 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
640 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
641 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
642 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
643 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
644 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
646 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
647 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
648 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
649 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
650 pthread_create and dlopen
651 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
652 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
653 when non-root user changes priority
654 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
656 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
657 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
658 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
660 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
661 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
663 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
664 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
665 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
666 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
668 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
669 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
670 the right free implementation
671 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
672 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
673 shm_open to pick wrong directory
674 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
675 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
677 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
678 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
679 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
680 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
681 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
682 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
683 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
685 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
686 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
688 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
689 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
690 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
691 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
692 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
693 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
695 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
696 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
697 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
698 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
699 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
700 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
701 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
702 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
704 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
705 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
707 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
708 information for the current directory
709 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
710 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
712 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
713 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
715 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
716 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
717 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
718 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
720 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
721 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
722 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
723 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
724 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
725 tries resolving them lazily
726 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
728 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
729 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
731 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
732 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
733 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
735 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
737 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
738 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
739 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
741 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
742 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
743 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
744 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
745 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
746 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
747 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
748 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
749 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
751 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
752 thread never allocated anything
753 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
754 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
755 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
756 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
757 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
759 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
760 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
761 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
763 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
771 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
772 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
773 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
775 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
776 to change argv[0] string.
778 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
779 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
780 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
781 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
782 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
783 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
784 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
785 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
786 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
788 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
789 information and library search path diagnostics.
791 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
792 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
793 larger than fit in an integer.
795 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
797 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
798 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
804 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
807 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
808 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
809 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
810 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
813 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
815 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
818 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
819 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
820 Instead, the default implementation is used.
822 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
823 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
824 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
827 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
828 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
829 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
831 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
832 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
833 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
834 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
835 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
836 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
838 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
839 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
840 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
841 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
842 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
843 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
846 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
848 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
849 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
850 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
851 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
852 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
853 perform any adjustments.
855 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
856 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
857 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
858 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
860 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
862 Security related changes:
864 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
865 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
866 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
867 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
868 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
870 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
871 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
872 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
874 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
875 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
877 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
878 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
880 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
882 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
883 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
884 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
885 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
887 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
888 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
889 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
890 "haswell" platform subdirectory
891 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
893 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
895 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
897 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
898 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
899 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
900 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
901 changing gnuc version
902 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
904 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
906 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
907 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
908 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
909 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
910 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
911 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
912 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
913 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
914 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
916 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
917 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
918 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
920 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
922 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
923 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
925 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
926 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
927 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
928 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
929 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
931 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
932 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
933 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
935 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
936 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
937 at the end of a memory mapping
938 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
939 by the caller to the kernel
940 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
941 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
942 declarations for __sigsetjmp
943 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
945 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
946 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
947 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
948 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
949 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
950 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
951 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
953 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
954 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
955 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
956 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
958 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
960 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
962 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
963 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
964 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
965 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
967 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
969 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
970 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
971 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
973 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
975 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
977 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
979 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
980 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
981 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
982 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
984 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
986 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
988 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
989 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
990 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
992 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
993 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
994 [27177] dynamic-link:
995 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
997 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
998 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
999 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1000 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1007 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1008 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1009 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1011 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1013 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1014 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1015 Three ABIs are supported:
1021 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1022 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1024 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1025 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1027 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1028 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1029 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1032 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1033 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1034 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1036 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1037 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1038 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1040 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1041 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1042 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1043 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1046 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1047 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1048 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1049 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1050 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1051 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1053 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1054 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1056 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1057 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1058 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1059 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1060 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1061 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1063 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1064 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1066 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1067 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1068 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1069 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1070 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1071 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1072 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1073 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1074 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1075 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1076 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1079 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1081 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1082 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1083 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1084 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1085 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1086 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1087 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1089 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1090 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1091 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1092 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1093 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1094 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1095 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1096 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1097 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1099 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1100 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1101 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1102 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1103 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1105 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1106 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1107 was not declared in any header file.
1109 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1110 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1111 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1112 sigaction functions instead.
1114 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1115 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1117 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1118 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1119 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1120 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1123 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1124 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1125 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1126 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1127 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1129 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1130 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1131 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1132 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1134 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1135 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1136 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1137 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1138 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1139 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1140 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1142 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1143 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1144 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1145 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1146 flavor of secure RPC.)
1148 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1149 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1150 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1151 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1152 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1153 object, to enable the hooks.
1155 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1156 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1157 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1160 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1162 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1163 long double redirects.
1165 Security related changes:
1167 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1168 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1169 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1171 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1172 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1173 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1175 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1176 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1178 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1179 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1180 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1183 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1185 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1186 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1187 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1188 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1189 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1190 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1191 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1192 filtee has constructor
1193 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1194 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1195 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1196 character entities for infinity & pi
1197 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1198 segfaults in applications
1199 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1200 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1201 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1202 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1203 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1204 function with -mlong-double-64
1205 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1207 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1209 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1210 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1211 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1212 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1213 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1214 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1216 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1217 dynamically loaded dsos
1218 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1219 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1221 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1222 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1223 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1224 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1225 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1226 stale configuration forever
1227 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1229 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1231 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1232 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1234 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1235 on 32 bit and old kernel
1236 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1237 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1239 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1240 amount of sigset_t bytes
1241 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1243 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1244 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1245 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1246 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1247 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1248 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1249 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1250 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1251 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1252 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1254 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1255 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1256 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1257 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1258 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1259 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1260 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1262 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1263 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1265 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1266 exiting detached thread
1267 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1269 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1271 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1272 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1273 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1274 dependencies in audit mode
1275 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1276 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1277 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1278 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1279 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1281 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1282 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1284 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1285 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1287 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1288 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1289 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1290 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1291 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1292 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1293 corruption in memset
1300 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1301 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1302 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1303 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1304 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1305 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1307 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1308 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1309 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1310 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1312 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1313 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1314 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1316 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1318 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1319 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1320 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1321 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1322 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1323 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1324 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1325 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1327 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1329 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1330 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1331 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1332 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1333 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1334 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1336 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1337 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1338 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1340 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1341 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1342 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1343 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1345 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1346 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1347 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1348 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1349 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1350 made this no longer practical.
1352 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1353 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1354 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1355 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1358 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1359 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1360 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1362 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1363 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1364 using clock_gettime instead.
1366 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1367 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1368 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1369 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1370 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1372 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1373 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1374 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1375 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1377 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1378 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1379 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1380 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1381 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1382 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1384 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1385 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1386 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1387 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1390 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1391 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1392 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1394 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1397 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1398 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1399 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1400 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1401 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1403 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1404 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1405 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1406 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1407 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1408 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1409 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1410 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1412 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1413 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1415 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1416 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1417 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1418 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1419 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1420 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1422 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1424 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1425 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1426 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1428 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1429 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1430 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1432 Security related changes:
1434 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1435 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1437 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1438 environment variable during program execution after a security
1439 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1440 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1441 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1443 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1445 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1446 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1447 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1448 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1449 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1450 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1451 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1452 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1454 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1455 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1456 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1457 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1458 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1459 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1460 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1461 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1462 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1463 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1465 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1467 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1468 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1469 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1470 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1471 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1472 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1473 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1475 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1477 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1478 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1479 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1480 (stringop-overflow error)
1481 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1482 functions other can lead to crashes
1483 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1484 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1486 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1487 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1488 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1489 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1490 still can fail with an error
1491 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1492 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1493 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1494 initialized correctly
1495 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1497 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1498 value to an unsigned
1499 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1500 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1501 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1503 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1505 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1507 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1509 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1510 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1511 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1513 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1514 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1516 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1517 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1518 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1519 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1520 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1521 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1528 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1529 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1530 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1532 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1533 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1535 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1536 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1537 to the callback function.
1539 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1541 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1542 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1545 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1547 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1548 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1549 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1550 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1551 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1553 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1554 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1555 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1556 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1557 link time reference, is gone.
1559 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1560 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1561 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1562 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1563 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1564 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1565 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1566 the clock choice at initialization time).
1568 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1569 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1570 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1572 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1574 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1575 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1576 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1577 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1578 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1579 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1580 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1581 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1582 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1584 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1585 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1586 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1587 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1590 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1591 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1593 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1594 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1596 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1597 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1599 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1602 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1603 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1604 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1606 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1607 header have been removed.
1609 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1610 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1611 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1612 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1614 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1616 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1618 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1619 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1621 Security related changes:
1623 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1624 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1625 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1626 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1627 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1628 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1629 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1631 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1632 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1633 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1635 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1637 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1638 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1639 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1640 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1641 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1642 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1643 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1644 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1645 invalid input drops valid char
1646 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1647 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1648 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1649 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1650 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1652 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1653 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1654 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1655 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1657 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1658 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1659 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1660 for long double = double
1661 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1662 long double = double
1663 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1664 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1665 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1667 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1668 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1670 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1671 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1672 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1673 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1674 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1675 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1676 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1677 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1678 not the default "nor"
1679 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1680 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1681 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1682 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1684 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1685 unnecessary librt dependencies
1686 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1687 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1688 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1689 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1691 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1692 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1694 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1695 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1696 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1697 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1698 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1699 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1700 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1701 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1702 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1703 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1704 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1705 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1707 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1709 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1710 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1712 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1713 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1714 kernels and break testing
1715 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1716 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1717 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1718 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1719 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1720 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1721 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1723 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1724 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1726 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1728 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1729 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1730 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1731 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1732 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1733 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1734 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1735 always implemented in the same library
1736 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1737 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1738 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1746 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1747 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1749 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1750 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1751 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1752 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1753 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1754 configured location.
1756 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1758 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1759 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1761 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1762 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1763 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1764 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1765 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1766 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1767 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1768 process actually does not use HTM).
1770 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1771 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1772 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1773 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1774 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1777 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1778 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1779 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1780 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1781 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1783 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1784 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1786 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1787 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1789 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1790 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1791 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1792 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1793 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1794 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1795 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1797 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1798 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1799 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1801 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1803 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1804 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1806 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1807 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1808 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1809 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1811 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1812 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1813 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1814 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1817 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1818 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1819 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1820 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1821 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1822 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1824 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1825 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1826 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1827 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1828 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1830 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1831 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1832 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1834 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1836 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1838 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1839 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1841 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1842 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1844 Security related changes:
1846 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1847 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1848 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1850 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1851 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1852 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1853 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1854 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1856 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1857 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1858 or command injection issues in applications.
1860 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1862 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1863 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1864 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1866 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1867 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1868 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1870 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1871 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1872 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1873 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1874 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1875 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1876 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1877 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1878 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1879 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1880 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1881 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1882 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1883 pointer argument is non-NULL
1884 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1885 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1886 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1887 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1888 multithreads call popen
1889 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1890 and pthread_create fails.
1891 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1892 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1894 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1895 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1896 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1898 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1900 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1902 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1903 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1905 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1906 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1907 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1908 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1909 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1910 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1911 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1913 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1914 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1915 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1917 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1918 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1919 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1920 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1922 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1924 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1925 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1926 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1927 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1929 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1931 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1932 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1933 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1935 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1936 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1937 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1938 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1939 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1940 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1942 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1943 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1944 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1945 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1946 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1947 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1948 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1949 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1950 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1951 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1952 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1953 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1954 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1955 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1957 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1958 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1959 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1960 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1961 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1963 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1964 nearest rounding mode
1965 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1966 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1967 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1968 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1969 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1970 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1971 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1972 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1973 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1975 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1976 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1978 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1979 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1980 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1981 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1983 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1985 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1987 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1989 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1990 answers will be rejected)
1991 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1998 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1999 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2000 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2001 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2002 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2003 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2004 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2005 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2006 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2007 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2008 archive or binary locales.
2010 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2011 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2012 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2013 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2014 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2015 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2016 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2017 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2018 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2019 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2020 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2023 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2024 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2025 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2026 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2027 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2028 field) to indicate such support is required.
2030 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2031 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2032 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2034 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2035 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2037 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2038 fMxaddfNx functions.
2040 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2041 fMxsubfNx functions.
2043 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2044 fMxmulfNx functions.
2046 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2047 fMxdivfNx functions.
2049 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2050 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2051 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2052 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2055 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2056 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2058 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2061 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2062 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2063 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2064 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2065 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2066 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2067 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2068 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2070 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2071 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2072 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2073 the fstatat64 function.
2075 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2076 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2077 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2078 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2079 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2080 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2081 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2082 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2083 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2085 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2086 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2087 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2088 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2089 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2090 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2091 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2092 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2093 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2094 results in a load failure now.
2096 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2097 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2100 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2101 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2103 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2104 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2106 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2108 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2109 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2111 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2113 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2115 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2117 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2118 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2119 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2121 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2122 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2123 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2124 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2125 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2126 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2128 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2129 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2130 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2131 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2132 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2133 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2136 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2137 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2138 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2139 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2140 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2141 further explanation.
2143 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2144 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2145 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2147 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2149 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2150 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2151 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2153 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2154 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2155 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2156 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2158 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2159 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2160 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2161 for this function instead.
2163 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2164 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2165 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2167 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2168 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2169 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2170 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2172 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2173 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2174 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2175 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2176 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2178 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2179 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2180 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2181 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2182 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2183 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2186 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2187 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2188 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2191 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2192 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2193 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2195 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2196 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2197 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2198 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2199 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2200 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2202 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2203 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2204 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2205 behavior in a future release.
2207 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2209 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2211 Security related changes:
2213 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2214 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2215 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2216 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2218 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2219 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2221 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2222 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2225 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2226 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2227 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2229 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2231 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2232 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2233 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2234 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2235 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2236 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2237 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2238 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2239 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2241 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2242 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2243 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2244 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2245 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2247 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2249 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2250 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2251 scope with -O1 and higher
2252 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2253 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2254 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2255 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2256 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2257 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2258 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2259 horrible machine code)
2260 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2262 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2263 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2265 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2266 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2268 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2269 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2270 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2271 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2272 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2274 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2275 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2276 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2277 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2278 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2280 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2281 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2282 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2284 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2285 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2286 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2287 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2288 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2289 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2290 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2291 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2292 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2293 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2294 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2295 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2296 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2298 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2300 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2301 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2302 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2303 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2304 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2305 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2306 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2307 for Spanish with CLDR
2308 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2309 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2310 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2311 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2312 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2313 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2315 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2317 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2318 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2319 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2320 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2322 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2323 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2324 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2325 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2326 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2327 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2328 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2329 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2330 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2331 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2332 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2333 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2334 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2335 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2336 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2337 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2338 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2340 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2341 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2343 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2344 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2345 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2346 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2347 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2348 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2350 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2352 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2353 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2354 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2355 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2356 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2357 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2358 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2359 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2360 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2361 and libc build with -Os)
2362 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2363 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2364 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2365 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2366 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2367 that changes /etc/passwd
2368 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2370 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2371 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2372 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2374 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2375 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2376 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2377 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2378 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2380 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2381 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2383 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2384 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2385 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2386 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2388 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2389 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2390 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2391 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2393 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2395 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2397 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2399 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2401 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2402 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2403 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2404 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2405 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2406 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2407 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2408 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2410 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2417 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2418 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2419 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2420 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2421 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2422 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2423 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2424 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2425 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2427 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2428 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2431 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2433 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2435 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2436 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2437 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2438 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2439 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2440 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2441 from a security and performance perspective.
2443 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2444 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2445 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2446 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2448 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2449 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2450 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2451 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2452 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2454 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2455 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2456 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2457 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2460 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2461 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2462 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2464 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2466 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2467 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2470 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2472 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2474 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2475 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2476 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2478 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2479 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2480 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2481 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2482 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2483 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2484 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2486 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2487 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2488 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2489 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2490 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2491 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2492 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2494 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2495 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2496 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2497 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2500 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2501 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2502 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2503 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2505 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2506 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2507 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2509 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2510 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2511 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2513 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2514 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2515 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2521 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2523 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2524 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2525 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2526 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2527 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2528 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2529 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2530 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2531 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2534 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2535 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2536 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2538 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2539 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2540 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2541 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2542 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2543 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2544 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2545 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2546 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2547 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2548 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2549 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2550 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2551 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2552 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2553 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2554 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2555 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2556 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2557 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2558 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2559 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2560 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2561 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2562 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2563 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2565 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2566 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2568 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2569 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2570 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2571 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2572 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2573 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2574 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2576 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2577 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2578 exp10l for these functions instead.
2580 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2581 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2582 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2584 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2585 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2588 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2589 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2590 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2591 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2593 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2594 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2596 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2597 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2599 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2602 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2604 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2605 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2606 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2609 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2610 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2611 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2612 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2613 use, but predates the bits convention.
2615 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2617 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2620 Security related changes:
2622 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2623 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2624 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2625 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2628 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2629 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2630 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2631 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2633 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2634 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2635 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2638 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2639 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2640 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2642 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2643 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2644 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2645 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2647 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2648 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2649 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2652 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2653 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2654 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2655 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2656 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2658 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2659 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2662 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2663 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2664 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2666 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2667 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2668 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2670 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2671 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2672 small, instead of NULL.
2674 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2676 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2677 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2678 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2680 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2681 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2682 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2684 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2685 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2686 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2687 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2688 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2689 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2690 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2691 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2692 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2694 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2695 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2696 width Latin characters
2697 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2698 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2699 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2701 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2702 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2704 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2705 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2706 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2707 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2708 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2710 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2711 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2712 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2713 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2714 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2715 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2716 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2717 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2718 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2719 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2721 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2722 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2723 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2724 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2725 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2726 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2727 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2728 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2730 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2731 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2733 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2734 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2736 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2737 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2738 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2739 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2740 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2741 __regcall calling convention
2742 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2743 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2744 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2745 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2746 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2747 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2748 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2749 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2750 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2751 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2752 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2753 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2754 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2756 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2758 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2760 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2761 consistency check failures
2762 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2763 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2764 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2765 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2767 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2769 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2770 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2771 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2772 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2773 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2774 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2775 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2776 on memory allocation failure
2777 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2778 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2780 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2782 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2783 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2784 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2785 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2786 instead of EAI_NODATA
2787 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2788 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2789 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2790 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2792 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2793 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2794 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2795 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2796 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2797 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2798 allocation in syscall loops)
2799 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2800 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2801 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2802 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2803 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2804 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2805 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2806 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2807 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2809 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2810 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2811 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2813 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2814 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2816 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2818 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2819 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2820 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2821 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2822 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2823 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2824 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2825 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2826 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2827 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2828 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2829 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2830 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2831 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2832 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2833 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2834 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2835 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2837 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2839 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2840 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2842 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2843 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2844 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2845 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2847 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2848 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2849 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2850 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2851 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2852 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2853 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2854 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2855 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2856 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2857 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2859 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2860 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2861 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2862 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2863 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2864 the svid compat wrapper
2865 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2866 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2867 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2868 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2869 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2870 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2872 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2873 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2875 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2876 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2877 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2878 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2879 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2880 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2882 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2883 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2884 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2885 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2887 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2888 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2890 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2891 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2892 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2893 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2894 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2895 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2896 inside the ASCII printable range
2897 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2899 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2900 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2901 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2903 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2904 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2906 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2907 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2908 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2910 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2911 networking interface
2912 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2913 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2914 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2915 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2916 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2917 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2918 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2919 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2920 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2922 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2923 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2924 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2925 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2926 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2927 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2928 same as for Croatian
2929 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2930 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2931 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2933 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2935 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2936 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2937 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2938 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2939 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2941 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2942 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2943 modified in case of success
2944 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2945 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2947 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2949 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2950 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2951 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2952 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2953 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2954 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2955 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2956 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2958 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2959 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2960 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2961 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2962 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2963 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2964 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2965 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2966 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2968 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2969 elision and tunables
2970 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2972 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2973 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2974 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2976 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2977 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2979 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2980 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2981 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2982 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2983 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2984 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2985 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2986 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2987 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2994 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2995 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2996 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2997 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2998 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2999 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3000 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3002 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3003 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3004 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3005 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3006 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3007 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3008 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3010 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3011 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3014 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3016 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3017 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3018 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3020 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3021 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3022 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3023 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3024 object are still limited to six search domains.
3026 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3027 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3028 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3030 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3031 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3033 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3034 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3035 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3036 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3038 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3039 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3040 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3041 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3043 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3044 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3045 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3046 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3048 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3049 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3050 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3052 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3053 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3054 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3055 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3057 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3058 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3059 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3060 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3061 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3063 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3064 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3065 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3066 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3067 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3068 interfaces should be used instead.
3070 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3072 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3073 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3074 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3075 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3076 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3077 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3078 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3079 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3081 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3084 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3085 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3086 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3087 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3089 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3090 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3093 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3094 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3095 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3096 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3097 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3099 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3100 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3101 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3102 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3104 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3105 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3106 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3107 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3109 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3110 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3112 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3113 exported by accident.
3115 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3116 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3117 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3119 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3120 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3121 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3122 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3124 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3126 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3128 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3131 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3132 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3134 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3135 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3137 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3138 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3139 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3140 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3141 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3142 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3143 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3144 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3146 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3147 synced with the kernel:
3149 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3150 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3152 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3153 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3154 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3156 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3157 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3159 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3161 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3162 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3165 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3167 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3168 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3170 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3171 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3172 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3173 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3174 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3176 Security related changes:
3178 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3179 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3181 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3182 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3184 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3185 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3188 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3189 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3191 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3193 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3194 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3195 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3197 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3199 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3200 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3201 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3203 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3204 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3205 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3206 x86 and other generic code
3207 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3208 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3210 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3211 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3212 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3213 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3214 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3215 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3216 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3218 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3219 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3220 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3221 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3223 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3224 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3226 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3228 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3229 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3230 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3232 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3233 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3234 failures consistently
3235 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3236 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3237 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3238 frame-pointer on i386
3239 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3241 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3242 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3243 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3244 generic c code is used
3245 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3246 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3248 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3250 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3251 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3253 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3254 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3255 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3256 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3257 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3258 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3259 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3260 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3261 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3262 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3264 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3266 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3267 new posix_spawn implementation
3268 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3269 leads to lower CPU frequency
3270 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3271 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3272 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3273 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3274 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3275 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3276 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3277 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3278 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3279 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3280 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3281 not support gethostbyname4_r
3282 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3284 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3286 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3287 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3288 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3289 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3290 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3291 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3292 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3294 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3295 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3296 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3297 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3298 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3299 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3300 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3301 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3302 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3303 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3304 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3305 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3307 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3308 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3309 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3310 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3311 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3312 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3313 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3314 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3316 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3317 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3318 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3319 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3320 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3321 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3322 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3323 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3324 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3325 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3326 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3327 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3328 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3329 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3330 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3331 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3332 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3333 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3334 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3335 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3336 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3338 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3339 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3340 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3341 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3342 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3344 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3345 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3347 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3348 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3350 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3351 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3353 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3354 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3355 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3356 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3358 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3359 leading to relocation crash
3360 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3361 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3362 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3363 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3364 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3365 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3366 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3367 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3368 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3370 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3372 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3373 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3374 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3375 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3376 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3377 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3378 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3379 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3381 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3383 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3385 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3386 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3387 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3388 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3389 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3390 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3391 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3392 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3393 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3394 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3395 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3396 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3397 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3398 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3399 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3400 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3401 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3402 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3403 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3404 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3405 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3406 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3407 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3408 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3409 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3410 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3411 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3413 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3414 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3415 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3416 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3417 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3422 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3423 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3424 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3427 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3428 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3429 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3432 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3433 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3434 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3437 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3438 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3439 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3440 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3441 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3442 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3443 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3446 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3447 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3450 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3451 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3452 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3454 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3455 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3456 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3457 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3460 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3461 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3462 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3464 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3465 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3466 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3467 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3468 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3469 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3470 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3471 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3472 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3473 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3474 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3477 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3479 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3481 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3482 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3483 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3485 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3486 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3488 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3491 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3493 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3495 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3496 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3498 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3500 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3501 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3503 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3504 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3506 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3507 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3508 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3510 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3511 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3512 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3513 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3514 effects of the memory clear).
3516 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3517 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3518 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3519 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3521 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3522 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3523 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3524 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3525 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3526 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3528 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3531 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3532 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3533 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3534 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3535 as large as several megabytes.
3537 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3538 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3541 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3542 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3543 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3544 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3545 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3546 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3547 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3549 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3550 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3551 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3552 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3554 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3555 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3556 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3559 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3560 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3561 They were already unimplemented.
3563 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3564 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3565 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3566 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3568 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3569 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3570 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3571 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3572 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3574 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3575 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3576 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3577 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3578 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3580 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3581 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3582 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3583 did not reflect that.
3585 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3586 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3587 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3588 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3589 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3590 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3591 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3594 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3595 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3596 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3597 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3599 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3600 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3601 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3602 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3604 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3605 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3608 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3609 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3612 Security related changes:
3614 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3615 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3616 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3617 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3618 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3620 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3621 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3622 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3623 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3626 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3628 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3629 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3631 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3632 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3633 before it started waiting
3634 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3635 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3636 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3637 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3639 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3640 library linked with pthread
3641 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3642 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3643 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3644 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3645 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3646 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3647 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3649 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3651 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3652 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3653 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3654 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3655 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3656 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3657 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3658 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3659 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3661 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3662 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3663 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3664 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3665 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3666 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3667 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3668 causes a segmentation fault
3669 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3671 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3672 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3674 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3676 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3677 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3678 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3680 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3681 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3683 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3684 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3685 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3686 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3687 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3688 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3689 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3690 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3692 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3693 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3694 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3696 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3698 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3700 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3701 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3702 cause transition penalty
3703 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3704 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3705 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3706 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3707 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3709 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3711 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3712 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3713 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3714 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3715 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3716 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3718 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3720 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3721 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3722 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3723 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3724 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3725 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3726 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3727 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3728 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3729 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3730 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3731 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3732 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3733 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3735 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3736 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3737 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3738 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3739 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3740 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3741 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3742 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3743 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3744 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3745 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3746 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3747 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3748 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3749 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3750 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3751 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3752 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3754 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3755 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3756 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3757 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3758 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3760 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3761 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3762 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3763 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3764 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3765 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3766 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3768 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3769 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3770 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3771 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3772 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3776 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3777 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3778 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3779 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3780 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3783 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3784 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3785 been included in previous releases.
3787 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3788 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3790 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3791 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3792 instead of “union wait”.
3794 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3795 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3796 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3797 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3798 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3799 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3800 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3802 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3805 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3806 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3809 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3810 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3811 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3812 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3813 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3816 Security related changes:
3818 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3819 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3820 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3822 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3823 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3824 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3825 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3827 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3828 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3829 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3831 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3832 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3833 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3835 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3836 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3837 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3838 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3840 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3842 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3843 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3845 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3846 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3847 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3848 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3849 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3850 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3851 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3852 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3854 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3855 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3856 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3857 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3858 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3859 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3861 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3863 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3864 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3865 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3866 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3867 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3868 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3869 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3870 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3871 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3872 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3873 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3875 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3876 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3877 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3878 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3879 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3880 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3882 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3883 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3885 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3886 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3887 Romanian locale data
3888 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3890 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3891 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3893 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3894 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3895 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3896 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3898 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3900 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3901 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3902 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3903 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3904 when using RTLD_NEXT
3905 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3906 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3907 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3908 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3909 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3910 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3911 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3912 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3913 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3915 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3916 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3917 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3918 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3920 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3922 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3924 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3925 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3926 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3927 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3928 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3929 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3931 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3932 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3934 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3935 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3937 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3939 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3941 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3942 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3943 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3944 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3945 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3946 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3947 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3948 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3949 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3950 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3951 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3952 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3953 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3954 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3956 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3958 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3959 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3960 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3961 response to getaddrinfo
3962 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3963 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3964 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3965 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3966 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3967 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3969 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3970 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3971 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3973 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3974 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3975 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3976 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3978 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3979 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3980 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3982 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3983 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3984 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3985 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3986 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3987 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3988 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3989 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3991 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3992 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3993 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3995 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3996 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3997 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3998 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3999 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4000 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4001 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4002 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4003 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4004 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4005 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4006 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4007 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4009 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4010 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4011 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4012 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4014 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4015 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4017 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4018 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4019 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4020 AS not supporting AVX512
4021 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4023 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4024 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4026 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4027 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4028 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4029 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4030 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4032 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4033 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4035 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4036 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4037 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4038 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4039 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4040 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4041 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4042 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4043 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4045 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4046 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4047 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4048 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4049 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4050 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4051 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4052 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4053 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4054 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4055 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4056 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4057 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4059 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4060 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4061 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4062 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4063 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4065 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4066 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4068 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4069 "invalid" exceptions
4070 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4071 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4072 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4073 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4074 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4075 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4076 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4077 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4078 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4082 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4083 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4084 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4085 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4086 89, 16061, and 18568.
4088 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4089 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4090 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4091 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4092 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4093 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4094 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4096 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4097 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4098 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4100 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4101 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4102 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4103 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4104 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4105 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4106 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4108 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4109 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4110 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4111 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4112 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4113 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4114 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4117 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4118 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4119 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4120 independent of the GNU C Library.
4122 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4123 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4125 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4126 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4127 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4128 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4129 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4132 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4133 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4135 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4136 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4137 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4138 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4139 defining their own copy.
4141 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4142 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4143 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4145 Security related changes:
4147 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4148 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4150 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4151 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4152 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4153 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4156 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4157 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4159 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4160 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4162 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4163 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4164 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4166 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4167 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4168 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4169 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4170 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4171 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4172 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4173 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4174 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4175 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4176 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4177 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4178 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4180 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4182 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4183 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4184 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4185 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4186 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4187 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4189 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4190 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4191 overflow/underflow errors
4192 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4194 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4195 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4196 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4197 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4198 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4199 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4201 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4202 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4203 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4204 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4205 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4206 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4207 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4208 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4209 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4211 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4213 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4214 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4215 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4217 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4218 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4219 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4220 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4221 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4223 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4224 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4226 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4227 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4228 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4229 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4230 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4231 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4232 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4233 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4235 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4236 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4237 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4238 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4239 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4241 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4242 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4244 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4245 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4246 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4247 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4248 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4250 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4251 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4252 (related to lock elision)
4253 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4254 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4255 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4256 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4258 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4259 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4260 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4261 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4262 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4263 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4264 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4265 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4266 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4267 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4268 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4269 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4270 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4271 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4272 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4273 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4274 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4275 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4276 contains a vector instruction exception.
4277 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4278 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4280 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4281 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4282 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4283 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4284 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4286 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4288 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4289 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4291 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4292 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4293 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4294 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4295 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4297 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4298 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4299 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4300 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4301 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4302 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4303 statically too large
4304 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4305 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4306 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4307 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4308 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4309 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4310 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4311 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4312 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4314 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4315 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4316 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4317 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4318 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4319 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4320 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4322 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4323 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4324 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4325 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4327 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4328 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4329 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4330 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4331 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4332 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4334 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4335 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4336 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4337 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4338 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4339 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4341 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4342 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4343 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4344 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4345 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4346 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4347 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4348 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4350 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4351 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4352 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4353 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4354 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4355 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4356 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4357 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4358 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4360 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4362 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4363 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4364 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4366 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4367 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4368 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4369 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4370 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4371 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4372 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4373 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4374 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4375 pthread_setaffinity_np
4376 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4377 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4378 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4379 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4380 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4382 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4383 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4384 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4385 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4386 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4387 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4388 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4390 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4391 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4392 for C99-based standards
4393 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4394 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4396 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4397 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4398 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4400 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4401 "inexact" exceptions
4402 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4404 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4405 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4406 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4407 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4409 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4410 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4411 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4412 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4413 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4414 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4415 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4416 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4417 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4418 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4420 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4421 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4422 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4423 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4425 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4426 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4427 error on 32-bit architectures
4428 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4429 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4430 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4431 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4432 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4433 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4434 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4435 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4436 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4438 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4440 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4441 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4442 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4443 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4445 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4449 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4451 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4452 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4453 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4454 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4455 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4456 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4457 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4458 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4459 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4460 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4461 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4462 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4463 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4464 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4465 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4466 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4467 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4468 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4469 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4470 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4472 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4473 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4475 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4476 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4477 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4478 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4479 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4480 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4482 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4483 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4484 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4485 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4486 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4488 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4489 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4490 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4492 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4493 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4494 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4497 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4498 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4499 condition in some applications.
4501 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4502 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4504 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4505 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4506 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4507 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4508 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4510 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4511 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4512 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4513 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4515 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4516 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4517 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4519 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4520 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4522 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4523 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4524 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4526 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4527 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4528 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4532 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4534 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4535 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4536 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4537 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4538 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4539 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4540 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4541 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4542 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4543 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4546 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4547 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4548 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4549 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4552 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4553 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4554 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4555 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4556 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4557 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4559 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4561 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4562 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4563 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4565 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4566 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4567 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4568 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4569 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4570 effects being visible outside transactions.
4572 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4573 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4575 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4577 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4578 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4579 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4580 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4581 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4583 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4584 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4586 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4587 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4590 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4591 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4592 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4594 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4595 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4597 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4599 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4600 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4601 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4602 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4604 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4605 with newer versions of bison.
4607 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4608 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4609 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4610 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4611 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4612 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4613 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4614 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4615 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4616 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4617 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4618 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4619 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4621 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4622 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4623 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4624 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4625 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4629 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4631 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4632 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4633 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4634 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4635 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4636 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4637 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4638 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4639 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4640 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4641 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4642 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4643 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4644 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4645 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4647 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4648 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4649 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4650 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4651 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4652 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4653 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4654 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4655 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4656 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4658 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4659 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4660 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4661 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4662 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4664 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4666 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4667 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4669 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4670 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4671 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4672 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4673 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4674 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4676 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4679 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4680 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4681 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4682 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4683 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4684 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4685 test macros defined.
4687 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4689 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4690 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4691 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4692 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4693 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4694 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4697 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4698 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4699 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4700 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4703 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4704 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4705 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4707 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4708 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4709 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4710 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4712 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4713 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4714 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4715 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4716 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4717 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4718 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4721 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4722 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4723 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4724 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4725 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4726 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4727 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4728 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4729 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4731 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4732 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4733 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4734 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4735 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4736 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4738 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4739 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4740 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4741 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4745 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4747 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4748 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4749 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4750 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4751 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4752 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4753 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4754 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4755 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4756 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4757 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4758 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4759 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4760 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4761 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4762 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4763 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4764 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4766 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4767 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4769 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4770 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4771 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4772 extension which uses __block.
4774 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4775 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4776 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4777 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4778 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4780 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4781 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4782 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4783 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4786 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4787 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4788 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4789 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4790 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4792 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4793 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4794 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4796 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4797 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4798 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4801 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4802 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4804 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4805 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4807 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4809 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4812 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4814 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4816 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4817 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4818 for which the C library was built.
4820 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4821 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4822 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4823 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4824 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4825 in the following circumstances:
4827 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4829 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4830 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4832 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4833 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4835 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4836 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4838 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4840 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4841 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4843 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4845 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4847 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4849 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4850 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4851 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4852 disable some of those declarations.
4854 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4855 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4856 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4858 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4859 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4861 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4862 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4863 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4864 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4865 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4866 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4867 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4868 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4869 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4870 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4871 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4872 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4873 require recompilation.
4877 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4879 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4880 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4881 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4882 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4883 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4884 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4885 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4886 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4887 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4888 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4889 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4890 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4891 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4894 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4895 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4896 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4897 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4898 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4899 understands and accepts the risks.
4901 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4904 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4905 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4907 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4908 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4909 destructor calls to glibc.
4911 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4914 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4915 non-x86 architectures.
4917 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4919 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4921 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4924 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4926 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4929 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4930 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4932 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4934 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4935 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4937 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4938 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4940 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4941 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4942 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4944 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4945 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4946 attributes of a process.
4948 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4949 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4950 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4951 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4954 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4955 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4957 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4961 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4963 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4964 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4965 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4966 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4967 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4968 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4969 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4970 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4971 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4972 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4973 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4974 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4975 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4976 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4977 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4979 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4981 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4982 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4984 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4985 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4987 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4989 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4990 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4992 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4994 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4995 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4996 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4998 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4999 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5001 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5002 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5004 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5005 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5007 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5008 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5010 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5011 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5012 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5013 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5015 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5016 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5018 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5019 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5022 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5023 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5024 information in --help and --version output.
5026 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5027 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5028 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5030 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5031 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5032 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5033 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5034 when the mode is enabled.
5036 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5037 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5038 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5039 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5040 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5041 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5042 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5044 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5049 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5051 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5052 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5053 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5054 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5055 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5056 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5057 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5058 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5059 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5060 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5061 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5062 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5063 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5064 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5065 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5066 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5067 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5068 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5069 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5070 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5071 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5072 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5075 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5076 configuring glibc with:
5077 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5078 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5079 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5083 + define static_assert
5085 + do not declare gets
5087 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5089 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5090 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5091 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5094 + timespec_get added
5096 + uchar.h support added
5098 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5100 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5102 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5104 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5106 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5109 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5110 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5112 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5113 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5114 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5115 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5116 existing applications.
5118 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5119 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5122 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5123 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5124 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5126 * New locales: mag_IN
5128 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5129 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5130 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5131 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5132 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5134 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5136 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5139 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5141 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5142 without a previously built glibc.
5144 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5145 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5147 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5148 now supported for ARM processors.
5150 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5151 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5152 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5154 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5156 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5157 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5158 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5159 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5161 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5162 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5163 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5164 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5166 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5167 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5168 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5169 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5170 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5172 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5173 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5174 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5175 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5179 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5181 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5182 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5183 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5184 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5185 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5186 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5187 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5189 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5190 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5192 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5193 and support for initgroups lookups.
5194 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5196 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5197 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5199 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5200 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5202 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5203 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5204 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5206 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5207 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5209 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5210 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5211 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5213 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5214 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5216 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5217 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5219 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5220 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5222 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5223 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5225 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5226 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5228 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5229 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5231 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5233 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5234 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5236 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5237 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5239 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5243 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5245 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5246 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5247 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5248 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5249 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5250 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5251 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5252 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5253 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5254 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5256 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5257 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5258 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5259 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5261 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5262 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5263 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5266 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5267 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5269 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5270 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5272 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5274 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5275 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5277 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5278 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5279 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5280 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5284 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5286 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5287 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5288 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5289 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5292 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5294 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5296 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5297 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5298 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5302 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5304 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5305 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5306 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5307 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5308 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5309 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5310 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5311 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5313 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5315 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5317 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5319 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5320 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5323 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5324 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5325 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5326 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5327 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5329 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5333 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5335 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5336 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5337 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5338 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5339 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5340 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5342 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5344 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5346 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5347 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5349 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5350 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5352 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5354 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5355 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5356 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5357 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5359 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5362 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5364 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5366 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5367 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5369 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5370 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5372 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5375 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5376 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5377 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5378 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5379 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5380 necessity is every process again.
5381 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5383 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5384 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5386 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5387 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5389 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5390 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5391 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5393 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5397 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5399 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5400 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5401 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5402 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5403 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5405 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5408 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5409 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5411 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5412 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5414 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5417 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5418 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5420 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5421 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5423 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5424 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5426 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5427 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5429 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5430 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5431 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5433 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5435 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5436 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5438 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5439 and extend existing format specifiers.
5440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5442 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5443 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5445 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5446 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5447 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5448 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5449 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5450 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5454 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5456 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5457 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5458 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5459 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5460 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5462 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5463 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5465 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5466 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5468 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5471 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5472 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5473 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5475 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5476 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5478 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5480 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5481 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5483 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5484 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5485 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5489 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5491 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5493 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5495 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5499 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5501 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5502 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5503 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5504 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5505 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5506 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5507 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5509 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5511 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5513 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5514 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5516 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5518 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5521 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5522 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5525 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5526 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5528 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5529 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5531 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5532 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5534 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5535 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5537 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5538 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5542 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5544 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5545 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5546 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5547 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5548 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5550 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5551 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5553 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5555 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5556 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5557 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5559 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5560 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5562 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5563 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5565 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5567 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5568 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5570 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5571 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5573 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5574 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5576 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5578 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5581 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5582 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5585 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5590 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5592 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5593 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5594 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5595 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5596 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5597 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5598 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5601 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5603 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5605 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5609 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5611 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5612 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5613 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5614 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5615 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5616 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5617 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5618 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5619 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5621 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5622 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5625 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5626 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5628 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5630 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5632 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5633 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5634 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5635 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5636 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5638 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5639 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5640 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5641 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5643 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5646 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5648 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5651 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5653 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5654 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5658 * More overflow detection functions.
5660 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5661 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5663 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5664 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5665 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5666 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5667 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5668 by Masahide Washizawa.
5670 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5671 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5673 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5674 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5675 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5676 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5678 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5679 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5681 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5683 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5684 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5685 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5687 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5688 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5690 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5691 for compatibility with some other systems.
5693 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5697 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5699 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5700 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5701 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5702 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5703 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5704 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5706 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5708 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5710 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5714 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5716 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5717 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5718 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5719 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5721 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5725 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5726 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5728 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5729 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5730 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5732 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5733 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5735 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5739 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5740 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5743 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5744 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5745 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5747 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5748 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5750 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5751 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5752 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5753 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5755 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5756 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5757 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5758 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5760 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5761 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5762 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5763 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5764 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5768 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5769 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5771 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5772 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5774 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5775 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5777 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5778 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5780 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5783 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5786 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5791 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5792 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5793 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5794 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5795 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5796 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5797 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5798 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5799 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5801 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5802 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5803 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5805 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5807 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5808 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5810 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5811 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5813 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5815 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5816 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5818 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5819 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5820 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5821 of weak definition in ld.so.
5823 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5824 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5826 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5827 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5831 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5834 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5835 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5837 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5838 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5840 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5841 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5843 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5844 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5845 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5847 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5848 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5850 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5851 implementation of regex.
5853 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5856 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5857 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5859 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5860 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5861 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5863 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5864 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5866 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5867 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5868 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5870 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5871 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5873 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5874 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5877 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5881 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5882 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5884 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5885 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5889 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5890 128-bit long double format.
5892 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5893 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5895 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5897 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5899 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5902 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5903 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5905 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5909 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5910 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5912 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5913 support Unicode 3.1.
5915 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5916 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5918 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5920 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5921 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5922 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5924 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5925 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5927 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5928 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5930 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5934 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5935 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5936 in float, double, and long double format.
5938 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5939 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5940 128-bit long double format.
5942 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5943 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5944 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5945 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5947 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5948 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5949 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5951 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5952 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5954 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5955 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5957 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5958 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5959 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5961 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5962 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5964 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5965 of functions for Linux/x86.
5967 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5971 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5972 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5973 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5974 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5975 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5976 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5979 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5980 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5982 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5983 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5984 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5985 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5987 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5992 only lists the names of the supported locales
5996 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5997 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6001 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6002 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6003 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6004 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6005 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6007 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6009 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6011 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6013 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6014 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6015 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6017 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6018 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6020 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6021 changed from the default "C" locale.
6023 * The usual bug fixes.
6027 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6028 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6031 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6033 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6035 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6036 obviously requires a database library being available.
6038 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6040 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6042 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6043 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6045 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6047 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6048 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6051 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6052 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6053 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6055 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6056 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6058 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6059 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6060 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6062 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6063 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6064 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6065 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6068 structures for the wide character tables.
6070 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6072 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6074 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6076 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6079 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6081 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6083 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6085 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6087 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6089 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6090 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6091 implemented for Linux.
6093 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6094 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6095 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6098 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6101 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6115 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6117 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6119 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6121 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6123 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6125 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6127 * Update timezone data files.
6129 * lots of charmaps corrections
6131 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6136 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6137 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6138 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6139 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6140 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6141 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6143 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6144 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6146 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6149 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6150 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6152 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6154 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6157 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6159 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6160 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6162 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6165 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6166 functions from ISO C 9X.
6168 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6169 real valued functions.
6171 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6173 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6175 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6177 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6179 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6181 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6183 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6185 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6186 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6188 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6189 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6193 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6195 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6197 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6199 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6201 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6203 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6205 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6206 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6209 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6210 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6212 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6214 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6216 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6217 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6219 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6221 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6224 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6225 latest draft standards.
6227 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6229 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6230 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6231 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6232 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6233 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6234 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6235 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6236 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6237 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6238 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6239 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6240 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6241 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6242 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6243 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6244 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6245 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6246 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6247 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6248 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6250 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6251 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6252 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6253 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6254 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6261 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6262 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6263 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6264 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6265 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6267 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6268 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6269 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6270 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6271 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6272 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6276 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6277 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6283 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6284 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6285 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6286 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6288 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6289 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6290 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6300 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6301 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6303 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6304 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6309 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6310 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6313 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6314 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6318 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6319 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6321 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6322 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6323 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6325 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6326 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6330 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6331 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6335 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6336 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6337 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6338 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6339 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6341 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6342 ferror_locked REMOVED
6343 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6344 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6345 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6346 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6347 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6348 fflush_locked REMOVED
6352 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6353 fileno_locked REMOVED
6365 fputc_locked REMOVED
6366 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6367 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6372 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6376 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6378 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6379 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6383 getchar_locked REMOVED
6385 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6386 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6388 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6389 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6390 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6391 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6392 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6393 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6394 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6395 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6396 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6397 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6398 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6399 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6400 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6401 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6403 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6404 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6405 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6406 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6407 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6408 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6409 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6410 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6411 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6412 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6413 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6414 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6415 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6416 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6417 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6418 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6419 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6420 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6421 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6422 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6423 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6424 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6425 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6426 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6427 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6428 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6433 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6434 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6435 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6436 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6437 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6439 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6440 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6443 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6447 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6448 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6449 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6450 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6451 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6452 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6453 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6454 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6458 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6460 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6461 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6464 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6465 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6466 profil_counter REMOVED
6467 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6468 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6469 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6470 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6472 putchar_locked REMOVED
6473 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6475 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6476 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6480 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6481 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6482 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6483 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6485 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6486 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6488 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6489 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6490 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6492 sendfile NEW: kernel
6493 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6494 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6495 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6497 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6498 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6499 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6500 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6501 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6502 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6503 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6504 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6505 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6509 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6510 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6511 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6512 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6513 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6514 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6515 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6516 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6517 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6518 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6519 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6520 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6521 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6525 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6526 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6528 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6529 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6530 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6531 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6532 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6533 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6535 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6536 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6537 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6538 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6539 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6540 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6541 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6543 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6544 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6545 write_profiling REMOVED
6546 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6547 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6548 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6549 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6550 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6551 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6552 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6553 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6554 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6555 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6556 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6557 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6558 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6559 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6560 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6561 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6572 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6574 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6576 * rewrite of cbrt function
6578 * update of timezone data
6592 * add atoll function
6594 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6596 * fix math functions
6600 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6602 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6604 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6605 the ELF dynamic loader.
6607 * support for parallel builds is improved
6611 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6612 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6615 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6616 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6617 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6618 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6619 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6620 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6621 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6622 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6623 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6624 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6625 files in the ELF format.
6627 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6628 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6630 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6631 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6632 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6633 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6634 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6635 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6636 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6637 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6638 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6639 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6640 about dynamically linked binaries.
6642 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6643 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6644 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6645 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6646 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6648 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6649 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6650 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6651 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6652 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6654 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6656 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6657 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6658 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6659 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6660 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6661 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6662 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6663 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6664 NSS services available.
6666 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6667 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6668 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6670 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6671 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6672 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6674 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6675 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6676 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6677 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6679 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6680 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6681 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6683 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6684 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6685 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6687 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6688 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6690 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6691 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6692 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6693 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6695 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6696 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6697 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6699 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6700 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6701 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6702 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6703 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6704 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6705 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6706 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6708 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6709 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6710 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6711 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6712 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6713 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6714 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6716 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6717 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6718 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6719 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6720 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6721 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6723 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6724 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6726 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6727 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6728 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6730 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6732 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6733 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6734 their use is discouraged.
6736 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6737 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6739 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6740 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6742 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6743 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6745 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6748 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6749 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6750 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6751 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6752 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6754 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6755 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6756 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6757 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6759 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6760 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6762 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6763 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6764 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6765 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6768 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6769 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6771 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6772 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6774 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6775 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6776 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6777 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6779 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6781 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6782 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6783 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6785 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6786 for arithmetic and string handling.
6788 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6789 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6790 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6791 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6793 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6794 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6795 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6796 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6797 programs already written to use it.)
6799 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6802 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6805 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6806 a given effective group ID.
6808 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6809 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6810 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6811 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6813 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6814 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6815 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6816 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6817 doing the same thing.
6819 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6820 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6822 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6823 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6825 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6827 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6828 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6829 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6830 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6831 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6833 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6834 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6836 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6837 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6838 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6841 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6843 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6844 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6847 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6848 and writing the utmp file.
6850 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6853 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6854 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6855 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6857 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6858 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6860 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6861 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6864 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6865 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6866 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6867 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6869 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6870 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6871 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6873 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6874 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6875 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6878 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6881 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6884 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6886 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6887 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6888 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6892 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6894 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6895 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6897 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6898 want to put themselves in the background.
6900 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6901 run without an operating system.
6903 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6904 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6906 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6907 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6909 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6911 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6912 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6915 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6918 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6919 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6923 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6924 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6925 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6927 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6928 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6930 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6931 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6933 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6935 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6937 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6940 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6941 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6942 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6944 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6946 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6947 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6948 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6950 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6951 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6952 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6953 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6954 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6957 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6958 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6959 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6960 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6961 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6964 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6965 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6969 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6970 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6972 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6973 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6974 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6976 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6977 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6978 address of the last character written.
6980 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6981 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6983 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6984 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6986 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6987 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6988 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6989 you dereference this pointer.
6991 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6992 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6994 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6995 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6996 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6997 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6999 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7000 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7001 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7002 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7006 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7007 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7008 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7009 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7010 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7012 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7014 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7016 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7017 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7019 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7020 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7022 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7023 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7025 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7026 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7027 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7028 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7029 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7031 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7032 to the error code in `errno'.
7034 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7035 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7036 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7039 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7040 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7041 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7043 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7044 uniquely-named temporary file.
7048 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7049 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7050 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7052 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7055 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7056 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7058 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7062 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7063 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7064 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7065 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7067 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7068 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7069 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7071 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7072 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7074 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7075 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7076 made itself into a shared library.
7078 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7079 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7081 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7082 with limited length.
7084 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7086 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7088 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7090 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7091 function for traversing a directory tree.
7093 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7094 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7095 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7096 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7098 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7099 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7101 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7103 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7104 things to your strings.
7106 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7108 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7109 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7110 supporting those systems.
7112 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7113 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7114 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7115 configuration files.
7117 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7118 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7120 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7121 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7124 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7125 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7126 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7127 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7128 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7129 required storage is not available.
7131 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7132 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7134 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7135 latest files released from Berkeley.
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