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12 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
13 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
15 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
16 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
17 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
18 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
19 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
20 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
21 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
22 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
23 glibc, and must be installed.
25 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
26 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
27 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
29 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
30 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
32 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
35 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
36 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
38 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
40 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
41 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
43 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
44 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
46 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
48 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
50 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
52 Security related changes:
54 [Add security related changes here]
56 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
58 [The release manager will add the list generated by
59 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
66 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
67 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
68 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
69 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
70 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
71 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
72 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
73 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
74 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
75 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
76 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
77 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
78 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
79 potentially exposing application bugs.
81 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
82 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
83 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
84 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
86 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
87 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
88 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
89 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
90 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
93 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
94 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
95 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
97 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
98 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
99 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
100 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
102 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
104 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
105 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
106 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
107 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
108 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
110 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
111 --disable-scv configure option.
113 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
114 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
115 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
116 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
117 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
118 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
121 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
122 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
123 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
124 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
125 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
126 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
129 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
130 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
132 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
133 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
134 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
135 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
136 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
137 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
138 is currently a GNU extension.
140 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
141 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
143 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
144 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
145 although it is also present in other systems.
147 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
148 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
149 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
150 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
152 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
154 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
155 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
158 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
159 programs should use the equivalent standard function
160 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
162 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
163 programs should use the equivalent standard function
164 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
166 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
167 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
169 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
171 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
172 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
173 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
174 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
175 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
176 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
177 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
178 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
179 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
180 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
181 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
183 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
184 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
185 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
186 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
187 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
188 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
189 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
190 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
192 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
193 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
194 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
195 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
196 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
197 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
198 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
200 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
201 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
202 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
203 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
204 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
205 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
206 upgrade or downgrade process.
208 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
209 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
210 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
212 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
213 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
214 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
215 no longer have any effect on malloc.
217 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
218 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
219 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
220 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
221 this functionality back.
223 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
224 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
225 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
226 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
228 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
229 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
230 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
231 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
232 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
233 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
234 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
235 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
236 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
238 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
240 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
241 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
242 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
243 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
245 Security related changes:
247 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
248 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
249 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
250 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
252 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
253 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
254 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
256 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
257 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
258 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
260 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
262 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
263 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
264 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
265 given integer (closefrom)
266 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
267 name containing multi-byte character(s)
268 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
269 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
270 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
271 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
272 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
274 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
275 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
276 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
277 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
278 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
279 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
280 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
282 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
283 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
284 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
285 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
286 pthread_create and dlopen
287 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
288 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
289 when non-root user changes priority
290 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
292 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
293 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
294 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
296 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
297 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
299 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
300 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
301 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
302 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
304 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
305 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
306 the right free implementation
307 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
308 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
309 shm_open to pick wrong directory
310 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
311 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
313 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
314 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
315 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
316 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
317 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
318 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
319 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
321 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
322 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
324 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
325 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
326 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
327 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
328 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
329 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
331 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
332 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
333 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
334 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
335 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
336 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
337 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
338 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
340 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
341 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
343 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
344 information for the current directory
345 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
346 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
348 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
349 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
351 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
352 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
353 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
354 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
356 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
357 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
358 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
359 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
360 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
361 tries resolving them lazily
362 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
364 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
365 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
367 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
368 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
369 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
371 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
373 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
374 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
375 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
377 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
378 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
379 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
380 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
381 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
382 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
383 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
384 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
385 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
387 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
388 thread never allocated anything
389 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
390 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
391 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
392 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
393 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
395 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
396 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
397 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
399 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
407 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
408 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
409 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
411 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
412 to change argv[0] string.
414 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
415 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
416 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
417 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
418 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
419 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
420 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
421 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
422 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
424 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
425 information and library search path diagnostics.
427 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
428 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
429 larger than fit in an integer.
431 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
433 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
434 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
440 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
443 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
444 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
445 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
446 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
449 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
451 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
454 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
455 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
456 Instead, the default implementation is used.
458 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
459 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
460 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
463 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
464 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
465 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
467 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
468 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
469 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
470 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
471 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
472 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
474 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
475 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
476 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
477 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
478 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
479 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
482 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
484 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
485 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
486 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
487 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
488 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
489 perform any adjustments.
491 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
492 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
493 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
494 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
496 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
498 Security related changes:
500 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
501 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
502 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
503 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
504 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
506 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
507 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
508 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
510 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
511 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
513 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
514 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
516 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
518 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
519 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
520 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
521 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
523 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
524 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
525 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
526 "haswell" platform subdirectory
527 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
529 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
531 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
533 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
534 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
535 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
536 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
537 changing gnuc version
538 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
540 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
542 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
543 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
544 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
545 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
546 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
547 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
548 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
549 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
550 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
552 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
553 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
554 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
556 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
558 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
559 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
561 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
562 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
563 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
564 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
565 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
567 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
568 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
569 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
571 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
572 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
573 at the end of a memory mapping
574 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
575 by the caller to the kernel
576 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
577 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
578 declarations for __sigsetjmp
579 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
581 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
582 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
583 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
584 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
585 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
586 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
587 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
589 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
590 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
591 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
592 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
594 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
596 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
598 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
599 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
600 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
601 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
603 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
605 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
606 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
607 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
609 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
611 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
613 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
615 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
616 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
617 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
618 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
620 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
622 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
624 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
625 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
626 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
628 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
629 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
630 [27177] dynamic-link:
631 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
633 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
634 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
635 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
636 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
643 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
644 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
645 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
647 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
649 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
650 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
651 Three ABIs are supported:
657 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
658 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
660 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
661 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
663 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
664 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
665 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
668 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
669 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
670 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
672 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
673 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
674 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
676 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
677 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
678 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
679 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
682 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
683 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
684 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
685 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
686 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
687 NULL for an invalid signal number.
689 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
690 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
692 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
693 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
694 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
695 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
696 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
697 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
699 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
700 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
702 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
703 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
704 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
705 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
706 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
707 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
708 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
709 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
710 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
711 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
712 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
715 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
717 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
718 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
719 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
720 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
721 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
722 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
723 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
725 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
726 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
727 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
728 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
729 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
730 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
731 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
732 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
733 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
735 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
736 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
737 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
738 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
739 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
741 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
742 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
743 was not declared in any header file.
745 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
746 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
747 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
748 sigaction functions instead.
750 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
751 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
753 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
754 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
755 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
756 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
759 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
760 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
761 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
762 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
763 strerror or strerror_r instead.
765 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
766 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
767 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
768 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
770 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
771 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
772 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
773 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
774 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
775 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
776 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
778 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
779 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
780 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
781 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
782 flavor of secure RPC.)
784 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
785 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
786 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
787 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
788 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
789 object, to enable the hooks.
791 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
792 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
793 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
796 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
798 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
799 long double redirects.
801 Security related changes:
803 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
804 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
805 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
807 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
808 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
809 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
811 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
812 expanding ~user has been fixed.
814 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
815 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
816 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
819 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
821 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
822 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
823 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
824 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
825 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
826 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
827 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
828 filtee has constructor
829 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
830 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
831 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
832 character entities for infinity & pi
833 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
834 segfaults in applications
835 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
836 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
837 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
838 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
839 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
840 function with -mlong-double-64
841 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
843 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
845 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
846 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
847 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
848 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
849 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
850 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
852 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
853 dynamically loaded dsos
854 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
855 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
857 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
858 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
859 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
860 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
861 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
862 stale configuration forever
863 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
865 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
867 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
868 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
870 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
871 on 32 bit and old kernel
872 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
873 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
875 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
876 amount of sigset_t bytes
877 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
879 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
880 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
881 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
882 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
883 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
884 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
885 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
886 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
887 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
888 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
890 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
891 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
892 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
893 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
894 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
895 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
896 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
898 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
899 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
901 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
902 exiting detached thread
903 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
905 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
907 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
908 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
909 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
910 dependencies in audit mode
911 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
912 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
913 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
914 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
915 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
917 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
918 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
920 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
921 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
923 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
924 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
925 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
926 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
927 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
928 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
936 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
937 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
938 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
939 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
940 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
941 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
943 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
944 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
945 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
946 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
948 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
949 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
950 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
952 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
954 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
955 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
956 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
957 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
958 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
959 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
960 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
961 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
963 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
965 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
966 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
967 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
968 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
969 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
970 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
972 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
973 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
974 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
976 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
977 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
978 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
979 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
981 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
982 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
983 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
984 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
985 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
986 made this no longer practical.
988 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
989 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
990 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
991 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
994 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
995 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
996 with the current time, use the localtime function.
998 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
999 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1000 using clock_gettime instead.
1002 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1003 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1004 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1005 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1006 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1008 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1009 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1010 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1011 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1013 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1014 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1015 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1016 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1017 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1018 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1020 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1021 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1022 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1023 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1026 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1027 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1028 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1030 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1033 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1034 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1035 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1036 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1037 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1039 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1040 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1041 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1042 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1043 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1044 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1045 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1046 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1048 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1049 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1051 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1052 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1053 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1054 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1055 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1056 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1058 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1060 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1061 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1062 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1064 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1065 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1066 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1068 Security related changes:
1070 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1071 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1073 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1074 environment variable during program execution after a security
1075 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1076 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1077 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1079 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1081 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1082 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1083 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1084 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1085 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1086 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1087 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1088 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1090 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1091 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1092 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1093 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1094 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1095 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1096 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1097 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1098 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1099 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1101 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1103 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1104 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1105 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1106 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1107 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1108 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1109 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1111 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1113 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1114 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1115 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1116 (stringop-overflow error)
1117 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1118 functions other can lead to crashes
1119 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1120 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1122 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1123 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1124 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1125 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1126 still can fail with an error
1127 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1128 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1129 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1130 initialized correctly
1131 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1133 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1134 value to an unsigned
1135 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1136 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1137 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1139 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1141 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1143 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1145 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1146 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1147 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1149 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1150 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1152 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1153 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1154 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1155 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1156 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1157 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1164 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1165 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1166 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1168 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1169 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1171 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1172 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1173 to the callback function.
1175 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1177 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1178 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1181 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1183 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1184 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1185 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1186 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1187 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1189 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1190 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1191 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1192 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1193 link time reference, is gone.
1195 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1196 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1197 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1198 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1199 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1200 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1201 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1202 the clock choice at initialization time).
1204 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1205 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1206 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1208 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1210 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1211 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1212 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1213 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1214 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1215 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1216 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1217 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1218 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1220 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1221 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1222 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1223 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1226 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1227 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1229 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1230 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1232 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1233 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1235 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1238 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1239 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1240 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1242 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1243 header have been removed.
1245 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1246 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1247 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1248 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1250 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1252 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1254 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1255 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1257 Security related changes:
1259 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1260 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1261 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1262 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1263 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1264 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1265 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1267 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1268 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1269 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1271 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1273 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1274 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1275 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1276 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1277 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1278 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1279 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1280 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1281 invalid input drops valid char
1282 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1283 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1284 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1285 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1286 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1288 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1289 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1290 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1291 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1293 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1294 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1295 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1296 for long double = double
1297 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1298 long double = double
1299 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1300 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1301 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1303 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1304 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1306 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1307 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1308 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1309 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1310 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1311 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1312 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1313 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1314 not the default "nor"
1315 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1316 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1317 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1318 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1320 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1321 unnecessary librt dependencies
1322 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1323 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1324 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1325 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1327 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1328 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1330 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1331 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1332 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1333 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1334 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1335 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1336 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1337 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1338 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1339 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1340 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1341 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1343 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1345 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1346 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1348 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1349 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1350 kernels and break testing
1351 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1352 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1353 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1354 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1355 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1356 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1357 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1359 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1360 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1362 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1364 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1365 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1366 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1367 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1368 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1369 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1370 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1371 always implemented in the same library
1372 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1373 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1374 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1382 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1383 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1385 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1386 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1387 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1388 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1389 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1390 configured location.
1392 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1394 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1395 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1397 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1398 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1399 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1400 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1401 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1402 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1403 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1404 process actually does not use HTM).
1406 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1407 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1408 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1409 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1410 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1413 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1414 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1415 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1416 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1417 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1419 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1420 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1422 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1423 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1425 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1426 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1427 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1428 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1429 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1430 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1431 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1433 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1434 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1435 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1437 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1439 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1440 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1442 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1443 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1444 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1445 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1447 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1448 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1449 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1450 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1453 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1454 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1455 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1456 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1457 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1458 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1460 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1461 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1462 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1463 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1464 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1466 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1467 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1468 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1470 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1472 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1474 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1475 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1477 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1478 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1480 Security related changes:
1482 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1483 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1484 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1486 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1487 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1488 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1489 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1490 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1492 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1493 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1494 or command injection issues in applications.
1496 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1498 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1499 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1500 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1502 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1503 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1504 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1506 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1507 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1508 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1509 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1510 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1511 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1512 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1513 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1514 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1515 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1516 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1517 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1518 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1519 pointer argument is non-NULL
1520 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1521 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1522 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1523 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1524 multithreads call popen
1525 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1526 and pthread_create fails.
1527 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1528 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1530 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1531 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1532 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1534 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1536 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1538 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1539 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1541 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1542 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1543 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1544 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1545 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1546 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1547 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1549 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1550 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1551 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1553 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1554 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1555 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1556 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1558 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1560 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1561 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1562 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1563 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1565 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1567 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1568 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1569 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1571 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1572 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1573 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1574 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1575 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1576 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1578 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1579 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1580 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1581 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1582 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1583 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1584 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1585 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1586 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1587 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1588 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1589 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1590 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1591 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1593 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1594 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1595 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1596 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1597 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1599 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1600 nearest rounding mode
1601 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1602 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1603 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1604 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1605 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1606 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1607 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1608 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1609 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1611 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1612 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1614 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1615 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1616 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1617 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1619 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1621 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1623 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1625 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1626 answers will be rejected)
1627 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1634 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1635 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1636 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1637 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1638 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1639 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1640 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1641 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1642 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1643 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1644 archive or binary locales.
1646 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1647 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1648 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1649 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1650 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1651 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1652 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1653 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1654 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1655 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1656 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1659 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1660 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1661 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1662 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1663 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1664 field) to indicate such support is required.
1666 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1667 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1668 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1670 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1671 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1673 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1674 fMxaddfNx functions.
1676 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1677 fMxsubfNx functions.
1679 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1680 fMxmulfNx functions.
1682 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1683 fMxdivfNx functions.
1685 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1686 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1687 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1688 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1691 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1692 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1694 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1697 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1698 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1699 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1700 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1701 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1702 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1703 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1704 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1706 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1707 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1708 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1709 the fstatat64 function.
1711 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1712 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1713 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1714 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1715 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1716 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1717 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1718 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1719 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1721 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1722 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1723 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1724 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1725 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1726 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1727 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1728 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1729 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1730 results in a load failure now.
1732 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1733 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1736 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1737 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1739 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1740 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1742 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1744 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1745 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1747 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1749 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1751 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1753 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1754 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1755 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1757 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1758 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1759 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1760 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1761 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1762 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1764 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1765 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1766 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1767 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1768 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1769 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1772 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1773 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1774 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1775 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1776 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1777 further explanation.
1779 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1780 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1781 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1783 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1785 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1786 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1787 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1789 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1790 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1791 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1792 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1794 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1795 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1796 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1797 for this function instead.
1799 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1800 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1801 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1803 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1804 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1805 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1806 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1808 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1809 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1810 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1811 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1812 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1814 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1815 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1816 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1817 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1818 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1819 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1822 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1823 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1824 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1827 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1828 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1829 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1831 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1832 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1833 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1834 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1835 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1836 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1838 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1839 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1840 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1841 behavior in a future release.
1843 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1845 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1847 Security related changes:
1849 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1850 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1851 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1852 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1854 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1855 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1857 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1858 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1861 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1862 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1863 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1865 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1867 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1868 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1869 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1870 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1871 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1872 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1873 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1874 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1875 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1877 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1878 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1879 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1880 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1881 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1883 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1885 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1886 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1887 scope with -O1 and higher
1888 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1889 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1890 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1891 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1892 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1893 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1894 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1895 horrible machine code)
1896 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1898 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1899 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1901 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1902 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1904 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1905 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1906 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1907 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1908 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1910 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1911 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1912 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1913 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1914 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1916 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1917 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1918 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1920 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1921 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1922 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1923 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1924 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1925 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1926 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1927 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1928 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1929 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1930 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1931 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1932 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1934 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1936 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1937 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1938 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1939 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1940 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1941 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1942 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1943 for Spanish with CLDR
1944 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1945 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1946 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1947 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1948 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1949 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1951 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1953 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1954 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1955 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1956 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1958 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1959 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1960 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1961 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1962 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1963 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1964 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1965 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1966 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1967 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1968 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1969 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1970 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1971 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1972 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1973 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1974 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1976 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1977 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1979 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1980 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1981 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1982 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1983 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1984 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1986 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1988 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1989 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1990 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1991 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1992 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1993 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1994 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1995 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1996 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1997 and libc build with -Os)
1998 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1999 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2000 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2001 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2002 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2003 that changes /etc/passwd
2004 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2006 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2007 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2008 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2010 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2011 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2012 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2013 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2014 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2016 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2017 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2019 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2020 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2021 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2022 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2024 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2025 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2026 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2027 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2029 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2031 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2033 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2035 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2037 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2038 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2039 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2040 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2041 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2042 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2043 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2044 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2046 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2053 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2054 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2055 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2056 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2057 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2058 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2059 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2060 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2061 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2063 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2064 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2067 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2069 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2071 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2072 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2073 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2074 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2075 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2076 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2077 from a security and performance perspective.
2079 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2080 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2081 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2082 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2084 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2085 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2086 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2087 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2088 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2090 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2091 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2092 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2093 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2096 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2097 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2098 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2100 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2102 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2103 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2106 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2108 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2110 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2111 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2112 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2114 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2115 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2116 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2117 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2118 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2119 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2120 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2122 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2123 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2124 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2125 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2126 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2127 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2128 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2130 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2131 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2132 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2133 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2136 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2137 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2138 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2139 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2141 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2142 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2143 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2145 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2146 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2147 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2149 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2150 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2151 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2157 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2159 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2160 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2161 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2162 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2163 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2164 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2165 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2166 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2167 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2170 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2171 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2172 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2174 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2175 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2176 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2177 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2178 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2179 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2180 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2181 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2182 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2183 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2184 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2185 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2186 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2187 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2188 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2189 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2190 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2191 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2192 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2193 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2194 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2195 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2196 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2197 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2198 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2199 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2201 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2202 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2204 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2205 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2206 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2207 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2208 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2209 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2210 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2212 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2213 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2214 exp10l for these functions instead.
2216 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2217 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2218 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2220 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2221 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2224 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2225 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2226 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2227 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2229 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2230 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2232 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2233 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2235 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2238 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2240 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2241 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2242 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2245 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2246 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2247 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2248 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2249 use, but predates the bits convention.
2251 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2253 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2256 Security related changes:
2258 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2259 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2260 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2261 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2264 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2265 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2266 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2267 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2269 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2270 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2271 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2274 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2275 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2276 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2278 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2279 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2280 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2281 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2283 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2284 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2285 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2288 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2289 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2290 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2291 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2292 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2294 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2295 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2298 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2299 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2300 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2302 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2303 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2304 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2306 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2307 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2308 small, instead of NULL.
2310 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2312 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2313 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2314 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2316 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2317 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2318 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2320 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2321 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2322 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2323 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2324 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2325 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2326 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2327 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2328 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2330 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2331 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2332 width Latin characters
2333 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2334 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2335 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2337 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2338 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2340 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2341 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2342 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2343 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2344 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2346 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2347 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2348 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2349 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2350 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2351 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2352 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2353 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2354 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2355 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2357 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2358 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2359 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2360 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2361 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2362 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2363 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2364 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2366 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2367 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2369 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2370 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2372 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2373 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2374 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2375 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2376 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2377 __regcall calling convention
2378 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2379 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2380 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2381 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2382 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2383 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2384 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2385 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2386 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2387 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2388 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2389 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2390 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2392 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2394 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2396 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2397 consistency check failures
2398 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2399 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2400 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2401 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2403 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2405 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2406 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2407 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2408 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2409 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2410 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2411 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2412 on memory allocation failure
2413 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2414 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2416 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2418 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2419 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2420 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2421 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2422 instead of EAI_NODATA
2423 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2424 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2425 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2426 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2428 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2429 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2430 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2431 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2432 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2433 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2434 allocation in syscall loops)
2435 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2436 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2437 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2438 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2439 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2440 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2441 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2442 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2443 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2445 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2446 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2447 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2449 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2450 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2452 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2454 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2455 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2456 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2457 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2458 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2459 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2460 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2461 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2462 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2463 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2464 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2465 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2466 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2467 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2468 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2469 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2470 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2471 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2473 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2475 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2476 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2478 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2479 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2480 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2481 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2483 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2484 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2485 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2486 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2487 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2488 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2489 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2490 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2491 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2492 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2493 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2495 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2496 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2497 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2498 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2499 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2500 the svid compat wrapper
2501 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2502 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2503 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2504 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2505 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2506 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2508 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2509 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2511 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2512 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2513 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2514 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2515 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2516 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2518 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2519 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2520 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2521 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2523 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2524 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2526 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2527 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2528 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2529 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2530 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2531 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2532 inside the ASCII printable range
2533 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2535 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2536 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2537 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2539 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2540 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2542 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2543 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2544 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2546 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2547 networking interface
2548 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2549 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2550 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2551 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2552 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2553 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2554 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2555 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2556 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2558 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2559 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2560 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2561 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2562 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2563 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2564 same as for Croatian
2565 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2566 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2567 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2569 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2571 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2572 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2573 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2574 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2575 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2577 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2578 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2579 modified in case of success
2580 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2581 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2583 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2585 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2586 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2587 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2588 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2589 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2590 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2591 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2592 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2594 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2595 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2596 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2597 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2598 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2599 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2600 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2601 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2602 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2604 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2605 elision and tunables
2606 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2608 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2609 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2610 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2612 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2613 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2615 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2616 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2617 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2618 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2619 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2620 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2621 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2622 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2623 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2630 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2631 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2632 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2633 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2634 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2635 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2636 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2638 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2639 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2640 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2641 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2642 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2643 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2644 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2646 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2647 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2650 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2652 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2653 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2654 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2656 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2657 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2658 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2659 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2660 object are still limited to six search domains.
2662 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2663 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2664 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2666 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2667 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2669 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2670 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2671 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2672 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2674 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2675 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2676 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2677 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2679 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2680 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2681 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2682 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2684 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2685 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2686 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2688 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2689 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2690 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2691 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2693 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2694 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2695 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2696 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2697 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2699 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2700 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2701 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2702 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2703 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2704 interfaces should be used instead.
2706 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2708 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2709 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2710 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2711 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2712 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2713 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2714 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2715 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2717 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2720 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2721 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2722 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2723 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2725 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2726 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2729 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2730 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2731 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2732 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2733 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2735 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2736 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2737 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2738 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2740 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2741 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2742 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2743 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2745 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2746 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2748 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2749 exported by accident.
2751 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2752 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2753 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2755 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2756 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2757 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2758 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2760 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2762 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2764 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2767 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2768 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2770 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2771 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2773 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2774 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2775 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2776 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2777 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2778 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2779 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2780 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2782 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2783 synced with the kernel:
2785 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2786 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2788 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2789 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2790 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2792 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2793 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2795 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2797 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2798 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2801 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2803 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2804 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2806 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2807 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2808 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2809 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2810 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2812 Security related changes:
2814 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2815 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2817 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2818 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2820 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2821 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2824 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2825 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2827 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2829 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2830 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2831 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2833 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2835 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2836 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2837 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2839 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2840 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2841 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2842 x86 and other generic code
2843 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2844 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2846 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2847 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2848 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2849 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2850 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2851 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2852 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2854 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2855 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2856 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2857 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2859 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2860 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2862 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2864 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2865 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2866 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2868 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2869 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2870 failures consistently
2871 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2872 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2873 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2874 frame-pointer on i386
2875 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2877 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2878 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2879 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2880 generic c code is used
2881 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2882 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2884 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2886 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2887 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2889 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2890 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2891 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2892 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2893 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2894 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2895 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2896 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2897 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2898 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2900 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2902 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2903 new posix_spawn implementation
2904 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2905 leads to lower CPU frequency
2906 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2907 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2908 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2909 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2910 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2911 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2912 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2913 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2914 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2915 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2916 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2917 not support gethostbyname4_r
2918 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2920 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2922 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2923 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2924 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2925 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2926 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2927 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2928 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2930 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2931 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2932 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2933 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2934 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2935 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2936 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2937 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2938 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2939 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2940 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2941 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2943 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2944 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2945 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2946 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2947 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2948 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2949 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2950 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2952 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2953 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2954 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2955 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2956 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2957 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2958 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2959 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2960 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2961 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2962 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2963 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2964 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2965 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2966 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2967 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2968 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2969 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2970 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2971 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2972 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2974 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2975 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2976 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2977 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2978 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2980 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2981 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2983 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2984 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2986 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2987 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2989 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2990 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2991 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2992 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2994 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2995 leading to relocation crash
2996 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2997 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2998 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2999 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3000 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3001 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3002 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3003 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3004 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3006 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3008 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3009 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3010 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3011 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3012 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3013 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3014 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3015 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3017 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3019 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3021 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3022 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3023 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3024 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3025 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3026 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3027 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3028 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3029 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3030 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3031 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3032 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3033 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3034 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3035 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3036 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3037 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3038 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3039 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3040 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3041 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3042 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3043 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3044 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3045 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3046 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3047 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3049 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3050 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3051 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3052 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3053 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3058 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3059 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3060 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3063 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3064 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3065 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3068 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3069 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3070 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3073 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3074 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3075 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3076 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3077 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3078 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3079 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3082 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3083 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3086 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3087 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3088 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3090 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3091 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3092 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3093 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3096 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3097 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3098 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3100 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3101 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3102 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3103 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3104 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3105 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3106 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3107 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3108 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3109 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3110 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3113 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3115 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3117 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3118 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3119 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3121 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3122 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3124 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3127 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3129 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3131 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3132 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3134 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3136 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3137 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3139 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3140 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3142 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3143 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3144 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3146 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3147 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3148 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3149 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3150 effects of the memory clear).
3152 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3153 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3154 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3155 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3157 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3158 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3159 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3160 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3161 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3162 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3164 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3167 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3168 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3169 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3170 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3171 as large as several megabytes.
3173 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3174 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3177 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3178 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3179 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3180 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3181 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3182 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3183 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3185 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3186 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3187 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3188 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3190 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3191 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3192 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3195 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3196 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3197 They were already unimplemented.
3199 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3200 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3201 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3202 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3204 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3205 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3206 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3207 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3208 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3210 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3211 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3212 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3213 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3214 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3216 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3217 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3218 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3219 did not reflect that.
3221 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3222 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3223 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3224 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3225 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3226 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3227 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3230 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3231 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3232 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3233 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3235 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3236 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3237 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3238 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3240 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3241 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3244 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3245 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3248 Security related changes:
3250 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3251 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3252 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3253 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3254 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3256 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3257 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3258 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3259 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3262 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3264 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3265 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3267 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3268 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3269 before it started waiting
3270 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3271 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3272 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3273 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3275 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3276 library linked with pthread
3277 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3278 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3279 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3280 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3281 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3282 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3283 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3285 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3287 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3288 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3289 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3290 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3291 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3292 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3293 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3294 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3295 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3297 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3298 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3299 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3300 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3301 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3302 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3303 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3304 causes a segmentation fault
3305 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3307 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3308 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3310 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3312 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3313 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3314 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3316 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3317 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3319 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3320 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3321 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3322 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3323 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3324 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3325 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3326 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3328 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3329 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3330 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3332 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3334 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3336 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3337 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3338 cause transition penalty
3339 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3340 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3341 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3342 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3343 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3345 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3347 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3348 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3349 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3350 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3351 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3352 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3354 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3356 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3357 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3358 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3359 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3360 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3361 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3362 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3363 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3364 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3365 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3366 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3367 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3368 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3369 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3371 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3372 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3373 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3374 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3375 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3376 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3377 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3378 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3379 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3380 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3381 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3382 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3383 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3384 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3385 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3386 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3387 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3388 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3390 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3391 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3392 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3393 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3394 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3396 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3397 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3398 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3399 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3400 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3401 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3402 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3404 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3405 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3406 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3407 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3408 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3412 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3413 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3414 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3415 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3416 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3419 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3420 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3421 been included in previous releases.
3423 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3424 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3426 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3427 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3428 instead of “union wait”.
3430 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3431 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3432 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3433 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3434 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3435 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3436 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3438 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3441 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3442 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3445 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3446 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3447 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3448 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3449 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3452 Security related changes:
3454 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3455 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3456 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3458 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3459 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3460 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3461 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3463 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3464 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3465 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3467 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3468 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3469 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3471 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3472 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3473 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3474 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3476 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3478 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3479 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3481 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3482 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3483 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3484 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3485 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3486 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3487 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3488 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3490 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3491 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3492 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3493 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3494 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3495 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3497 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3499 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3500 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3501 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3502 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3503 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3504 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3505 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3506 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3507 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3508 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3509 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3511 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3512 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3513 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3514 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3515 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3516 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3518 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3519 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3521 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3522 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3523 Romanian locale data
3524 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3526 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3527 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3529 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3530 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3531 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3532 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3534 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3536 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3537 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3538 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3539 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3540 when using RTLD_NEXT
3541 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3542 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3543 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3544 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3545 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3546 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3547 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3548 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3549 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3551 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3552 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3553 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3554 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3556 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3558 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3560 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3561 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3562 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3563 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3564 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3565 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3567 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3568 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3570 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3571 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3573 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3575 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3577 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3578 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3579 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3580 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3581 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3582 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3583 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3584 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3585 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3586 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3587 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3588 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3589 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3590 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3592 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3594 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3595 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3596 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3597 response to getaddrinfo
3598 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3599 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3600 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3601 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3602 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3603 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3605 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3606 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3607 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3609 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3610 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3611 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3612 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3614 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3615 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3616 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3618 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3619 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3620 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3621 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3622 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3623 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3624 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3625 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3627 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3628 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3629 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3631 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3632 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3633 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3634 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3635 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3636 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3637 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3638 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3639 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3640 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3641 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3642 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3643 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3645 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3646 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3647 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3648 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3650 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3651 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3653 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3654 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3655 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3656 AS not supporting AVX512
3657 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3659 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3660 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3662 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3663 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3664 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3665 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3666 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3668 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3669 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3671 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3672 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3673 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3674 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3675 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3676 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3677 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3678 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3679 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3681 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3682 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3683 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3684 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3685 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3686 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3687 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3688 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3689 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3690 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3691 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3692 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3693 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3695 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3696 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3697 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3698 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3699 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3701 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3702 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3704 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3705 "invalid" exceptions
3706 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3707 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3708 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3709 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3710 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3711 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3712 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3713 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3714 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3718 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3719 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3720 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3721 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3722 89, 16061, and 18568.
3724 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3725 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3726 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3727 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3728 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3729 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3730 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3732 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3733 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3734 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3736 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3737 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3738 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3739 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3740 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3741 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3742 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3744 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3745 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3746 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3747 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3748 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3749 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3750 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3753 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3754 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3755 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3756 independent of the GNU C Library.
3758 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3759 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3761 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3762 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3763 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3764 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3765 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3768 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3769 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3771 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3772 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3773 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3774 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3775 defining their own copy.
3777 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3778 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3779 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3781 Security related changes:
3783 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3784 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3786 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3787 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3788 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3789 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3792 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3793 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3795 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3796 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3798 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3799 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3800 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3802 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3803 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3804 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3805 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3806 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3807 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3808 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3809 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3810 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3811 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3812 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3813 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3814 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3816 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3818 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3819 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3820 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3821 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3822 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3823 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3825 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3826 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3827 overflow/underflow errors
3828 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3830 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3831 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3832 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3833 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3834 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3835 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3837 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3838 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3839 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3840 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3841 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3842 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3843 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3844 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3845 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3847 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3849 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3850 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3851 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3853 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3854 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3855 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3856 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3857 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3859 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3860 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3862 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3863 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3864 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3865 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3866 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3867 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3868 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3869 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3871 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3872 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3873 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3874 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3875 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3877 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3878 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3880 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3881 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3882 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3883 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3884 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3886 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3887 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3888 (related to lock elision)
3889 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3890 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3891 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3892 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3894 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3895 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3896 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3897 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3898 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3899 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3900 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3901 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3902 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3903 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3904 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3905 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3906 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3907 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3908 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3909 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3910 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3911 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3912 contains a vector instruction exception.
3913 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3914 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3916 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3917 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3918 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3919 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3920 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3922 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3924 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3925 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3927 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3928 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3929 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3930 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3931 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3933 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3934 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3935 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3936 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3937 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3938 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3939 statically too large
3940 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3941 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3942 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3943 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3944 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3945 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3946 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3947 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3948 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3950 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3951 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3952 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3953 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3954 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3955 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3956 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3958 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3959 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3960 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3961 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3963 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3964 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3965 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3966 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3967 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3968 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3970 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3971 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3972 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3973 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3974 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3975 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3977 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3978 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3979 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3980 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3981 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3982 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3983 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3984 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3986 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3987 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3988 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3989 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3990 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3991 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3992 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3993 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3994 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3996 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3998 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3999 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4000 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4002 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4003 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4004 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4005 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4006 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4007 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4008 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4009 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4010 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4011 pthread_setaffinity_np
4012 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4013 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4014 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4015 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4016 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4018 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4019 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4020 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4021 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4022 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4023 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4024 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4026 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4027 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4028 for C99-based standards
4029 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4030 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4032 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4033 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4034 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4036 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4037 "inexact" exceptions
4038 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4040 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4041 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4042 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4043 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4045 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4046 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4047 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4048 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4049 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4050 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4051 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4052 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4053 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4054 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4056 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4057 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4058 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4059 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4061 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4062 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4063 error on 32-bit architectures
4064 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4065 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4066 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4067 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4068 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4069 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4070 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4071 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4072 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4074 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4076 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4077 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4078 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4079 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4081 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4085 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4087 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4088 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4089 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4090 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4091 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4092 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4093 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4094 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4095 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4096 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4097 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4098 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4099 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4100 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4101 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4102 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4103 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4104 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4105 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4106 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4108 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4109 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4111 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4112 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4113 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4114 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4115 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4116 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4118 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4119 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4120 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4121 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4122 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4124 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4125 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4126 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4128 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4129 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4130 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4133 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4134 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4135 condition in some applications.
4137 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4138 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4140 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4141 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4142 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4143 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4144 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4146 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4147 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4148 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4149 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4151 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4152 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4153 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4155 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4156 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4158 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4159 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4160 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4162 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4163 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4164 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4168 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4170 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4171 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4172 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4173 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4174 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4175 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4176 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4177 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4178 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4179 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4182 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4183 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4184 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4185 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4188 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4189 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4190 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4191 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4192 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4193 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4195 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4197 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4198 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4199 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4201 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4202 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4203 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4204 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4205 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4206 effects being visible outside transactions.
4208 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4209 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4211 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4213 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4214 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4215 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4216 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4217 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4219 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4220 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4222 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4223 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4226 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4227 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4228 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4230 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4231 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4233 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4235 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4236 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4237 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4238 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4240 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4241 with newer versions of bison.
4243 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4244 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4245 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4246 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4247 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4248 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4249 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4250 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4251 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4252 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4253 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4254 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4255 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4257 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4258 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4259 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4260 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4261 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4265 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4267 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4268 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4269 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4270 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4271 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4272 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4273 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4274 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4275 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4276 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4277 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4278 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4279 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4280 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4281 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4283 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4284 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4285 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4286 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4287 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4288 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4289 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4290 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4291 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4292 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4294 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4295 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4296 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4297 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4298 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4300 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4302 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4303 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4305 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4306 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4307 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4308 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4309 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4310 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4312 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4315 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4316 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4317 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4318 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4319 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4320 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4321 test macros defined.
4323 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4325 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4326 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4327 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4328 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4329 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4330 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4333 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4334 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4335 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4336 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4339 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4340 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4341 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4343 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4344 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4345 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4346 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4348 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4349 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4350 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4351 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4352 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4353 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4354 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4357 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4358 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4359 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4360 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4361 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4362 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4363 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4364 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4365 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4367 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4368 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4369 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4370 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4371 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4372 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4374 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4375 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4376 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4377 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4381 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4383 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4384 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4385 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4386 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4387 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4388 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4389 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4390 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4391 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4392 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4393 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4394 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4395 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4396 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4397 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4398 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4399 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4400 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4402 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4403 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4405 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4406 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4407 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4408 extension which uses __block.
4410 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4411 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4412 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4413 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4414 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4416 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4417 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4418 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4419 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4422 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4423 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4424 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4425 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4426 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4428 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4429 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4430 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4432 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4433 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4434 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4437 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4438 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4440 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4441 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4443 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4445 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4448 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4450 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4452 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4453 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4454 for which the C library was built.
4456 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4457 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4458 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4459 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4460 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4461 in the following circumstances:
4463 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4465 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4466 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4468 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4469 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4471 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4472 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4474 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4476 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4477 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4479 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4481 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4483 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4485 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4486 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4487 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4488 disable some of those declarations.
4490 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4491 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4492 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4494 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4495 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4497 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4498 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4499 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4500 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4501 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4502 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4503 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4504 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4505 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4506 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4507 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4508 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4509 require recompilation.
4513 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4515 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4516 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4517 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4518 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4519 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4520 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4521 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4522 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4523 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4524 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4525 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4526 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4527 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4530 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4531 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4532 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4533 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4534 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4535 understands and accepts the risks.
4537 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4540 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4541 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4543 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4544 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4545 destructor calls to glibc.
4547 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4550 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4551 non-x86 architectures.
4553 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4555 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4557 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4560 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4562 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4565 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4566 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4568 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4570 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4571 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4573 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4574 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4576 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4577 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4578 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4580 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4581 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4582 attributes of a process.
4584 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4585 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4586 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4587 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4590 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4591 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4593 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4597 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4599 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4600 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4601 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4602 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4603 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4604 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4605 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4606 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4607 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4608 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4609 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4610 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4611 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4612 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4613 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4615 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4617 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4618 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4620 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4621 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4623 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4625 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4626 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4628 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4630 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4631 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4632 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4634 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4635 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4637 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4638 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4640 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4641 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4643 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4644 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4646 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4647 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4648 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4649 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4651 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4652 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4654 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4655 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4658 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4659 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4660 information in --help and --version output.
4662 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4663 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4664 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4666 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4667 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4668 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4669 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4670 when the mode is enabled.
4672 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4673 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4674 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4675 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4676 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4677 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4678 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4680 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4685 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4687 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4688 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4689 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4690 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4691 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4692 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4693 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4694 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4695 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4696 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4697 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4698 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4699 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4700 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4701 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4702 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4703 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4704 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4705 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4706 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4707 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4708 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4711 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4712 configuring glibc with:
4713 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4714 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4715 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4719 + define static_assert
4721 + do not declare gets
4723 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4725 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4726 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4727 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4730 + timespec_get added
4732 + uchar.h support added
4734 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4736 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4738 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4740 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4742 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4743 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4745 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4746 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4748 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4749 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4750 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4751 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4752 existing applications.
4754 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4755 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4758 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4759 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4760 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4762 * New locales: mag_IN
4764 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4765 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4766 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4767 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4768 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4770 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4772 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4775 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4777 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4778 without a previously built glibc.
4780 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4781 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4783 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4784 now supported for ARM processors.
4786 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4787 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4788 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4790 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4792 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4793 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4794 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4795 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4797 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4798 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4799 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4800 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4802 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4803 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4804 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4805 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4806 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4808 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4809 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4810 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4811 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4815 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4817 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4818 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4819 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4820 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4821 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4822 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4823 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4825 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4828 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4829 and support for initgroups lookups.
4830 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4832 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4833 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4835 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4836 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4838 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4839 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4840 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4842 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4843 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4845 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4846 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4847 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4849 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4852 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4853 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4855 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4858 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4859 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4861 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4862 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4864 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4867 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4869 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4870 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4872 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4873 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4875 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4879 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4881 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4882 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4883 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4884 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4885 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4886 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4887 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4888 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4889 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4890 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4892 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4893 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4894 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4895 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4897 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4898 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4899 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4900 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4902 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4903 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4905 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4906 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4908 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4910 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4913 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4914 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4915 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4916 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4920 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4922 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4923 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4924 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4925 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4928 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4930 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4932 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4933 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4934 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4938 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4940 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4941 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4942 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4943 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4944 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4945 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4946 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4947 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4949 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4951 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4953 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4955 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4956 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4957 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4959 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4960 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4961 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4962 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4963 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4965 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4969 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4971 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4972 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4973 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4974 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4975 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4976 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4978 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4980 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4982 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4983 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4985 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4986 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4988 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4990 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4991 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4992 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4993 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4995 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4996 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4998 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5000 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5002 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5003 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5005 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5006 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5008 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5009 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5011 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5012 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5013 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5014 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5015 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5016 necessity is every process again.
5017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5019 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5020 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5022 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5023 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5025 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5026 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5027 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5029 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5033 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5035 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5036 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5037 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5038 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5039 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5041 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5042 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5044 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5045 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5047 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5048 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5050 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5053 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5054 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5056 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5057 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5059 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5060 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5062 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5063 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5065 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5066 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5069 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5071 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5074 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5075 and extend existing format specifiers.
5076 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5078 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5079 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5081 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5082 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5083 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5084 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5085 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5090 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5092 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5093 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5094 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5095 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5096 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5098 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5099 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5101 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5102 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5104 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5105 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5107 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5108 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5109 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5111 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5112 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5114 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5116 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5117 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5119 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5120 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5121 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5122 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5124 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5125 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5127 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5129 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5131 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5135 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5137 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5138 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5139 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5140 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5141 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5142 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5143 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5145 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5147 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5149 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5150 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5152 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5154 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5155 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5157 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5158 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5160 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5161 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5162 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5164 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5165 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5167 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5168 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5170 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5171 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5173 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5174 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5178 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5180 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5181 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5182 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5183 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5184 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5186 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5187 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5189 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5191 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5192 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5193 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5195 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5196 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5198 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5199 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5201 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5203 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5204 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5206 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5207 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5209 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5210 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5212 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5214 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5215 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5217 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5218 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5221 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5222 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5226 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5228 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5229 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5230 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5231 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5232 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5233 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5234 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5237 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5239 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5241 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5245 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5247 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5248 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5249 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5250 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5251 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5252 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5253 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5254 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5255 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5257 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5258 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5259 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5261 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5262 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5264 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5266 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5268 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5269 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5270 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5271 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5272 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5274 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5275 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5276 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5277 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5279 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5282 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5284 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5287 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5289 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5290 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5294 * More overflow detection functions.
5296 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5297 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5299 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5300 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5301 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5302 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5303 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5304 by Masahide Washizawa.
5306 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5307 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5309 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5310 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5311 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5312 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5314 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5315 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5317 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5319 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5320 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5321 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5323 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5324 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5326 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5327 for compatibility with some other systems.
5329 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5333 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5335 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5336 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5337 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5338 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5339 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5340 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5342 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5344 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5346 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5350 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5352 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5353 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5354 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5355 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5357 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5361 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5364 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5365 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5366 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5368 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5369 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5371 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5375 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5376 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5379 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5380 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5381 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5383 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5384 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5386 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5387 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5388 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5389 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5391 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5392 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5393 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5394 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5396 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5397 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5398 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5399 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5400 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5404 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5405 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5407 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5408 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5410 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5411 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5413 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5414 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5416 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5419 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5422 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5427 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5428 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5429 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5430 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5431 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5432 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5433 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5434 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5435 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5437 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5438 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5439 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5441 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5443 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5444 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5446 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5447 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5449 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5451 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5452 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5454 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5455 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5456 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5457 of weak definition in ld.so.
5459 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5460 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5462 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5463 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5467 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5470 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5471 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5473 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5474 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5476 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5477 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5479 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5480 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5481 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5483 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5484 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5486 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5487 implementation of regex.
5489 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5492 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5493 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5495 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5496 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5497 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5499 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5500 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5502 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5503 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5504 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5506 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5507 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5509 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5510 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5513 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5517 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5518 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5520 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5521 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5525 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5526 128-bit long double format.
5528 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5529 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5531 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5533 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5535 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5538 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5539 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5541 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5545 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5546 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5548 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5549 support Unicode 3.1.
5551 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5552 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5554 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5556 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5557 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5558 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5560 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5561 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5563 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5564 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5566 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5570 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5571 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5572 in float, double, and long double format.
5574 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5575 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5576 128-bit long double format.
5578 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5579 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5580 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5581 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5583 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5584 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5585 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5587 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5588 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5590 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5591 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5593 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5594 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5595 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5597 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5598 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5600 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5601 of functions for Linux/x86.
5603 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5607 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5608 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5609 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5610 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5611 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5612 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5615 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5616 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5618 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5619 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5620 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5621 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5623 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5628 only lists the names of the supported locales
5632 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5633 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5637 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5638 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5639 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5640 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5641 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5643 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5645 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5647 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5649 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5650 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5651 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5653 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5654 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5656 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5657 changed from the default "C" locale.
5659 * The usual bug fixes.
5663 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5664 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5667 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5669 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5671 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5672 obviously requires a database library being available.
5674 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5676 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5678 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5679 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5681 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5683 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5684 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5687 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5688 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5689 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5691 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5692 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5694 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5695 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5696 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5698 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5699 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5700 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5703 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5704 structures for the wide character tables.
5706 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5708 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5710 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5712 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5715 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5717 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5719 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5721 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5723 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5725 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5726 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5727 implemented for Linux.
5729 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5730 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5731 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5734 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5737 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5751 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5753 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5755 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5757 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5759 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5761 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5763 * Update timezone data files.
5765 * lots of charmaps corrections
5767 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5772 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5773 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5774 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5775 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5776 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5777 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5779 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5780 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5785 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5786 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5788 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5790 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5793 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5795 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5796 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5798 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5801 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5802 functions from ISO C 9X.
5804 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5805 real valued functions.
5807 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5809 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5811 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5813 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5815 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5817 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5819 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5821 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5822 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5824 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5825 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5829 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5831 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5833 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5835 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5837 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5839 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5841 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5842 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5845 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5846 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5848 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5850 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5852 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5853 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5855 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5857 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5860 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5861 latest draft standards.
5863 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5865 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5866 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5867 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5868 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5869 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5870 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5871 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5872 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5873 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5874 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5875 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5876 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5877 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5878 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5879 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5880 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5881 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5882 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5883 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5884 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5886 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5887 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5888 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5889 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5890 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5897 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5898 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5899 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5900 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5901 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5903 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5904 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5905 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5906 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5907 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5908 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5912 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5913 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5919 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5920 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5921 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5922 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5924 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5925 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5926 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5936 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5937 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5939 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5940 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5945 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5946 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5949 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5950 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5954 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5955 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5957 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5958 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5959 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5961 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5962 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5966 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5967 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5971 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5972 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5973 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5974 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5975 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5977 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5978 ferror_locked REMOVED
5979 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5980 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5981 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5982 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5983 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5984 fflush_locked REMOVED
5988 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5989 fileno_locked REMOVED
6001 fputc_locked REMOVED
6002 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6003 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6008 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6012 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6014 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6015 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6019 getchar_locked REMOVED
6021 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6022 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6024 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6025 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6026 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6027 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6028 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6029 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6030 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6031 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6032 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6033 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6034 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6035 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6036 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6037 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6039 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6040 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6041 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6042 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6043 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6044 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6045 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6046 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6047 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6048 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6049 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6050 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6051 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6052 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6053 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6054 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6055 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6056 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6057 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6058 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6059 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6060 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6061 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6062 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6063 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6064 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6069 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6070 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6071 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6072 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6073 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6075 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6076 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6079 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6083 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6084 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6085 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6086 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6087 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6088 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6089 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6090 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6094 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6096 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6097 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6100 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6101 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6102 profil_counter REMOVED
6103 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6104 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6105 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6106 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6108 putchar_locked REMOVED
6109 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6111 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6112 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6116 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6117 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6118 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6119 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6121 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6122 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6124 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6125 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6126 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6128 sendfile NEW: kernel
6129 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6130 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6131 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6133 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6134 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6135 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6136 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6137 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6138 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6139 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6140 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6141 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6145 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6146 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6147 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6148 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6149 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6150 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6151 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6152 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6153 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6154 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6155 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6156 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6157 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6161 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6162 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6164 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6165 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6166 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6167 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6168 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6169 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6171 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6172 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6173 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6174 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6175 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6176 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6177 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6179 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6180 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6181 write_profiling REMOVED
6182 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6183 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6184 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6185 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6186 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6187 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6188 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6189 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6190 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6191 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6192 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6193 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6194 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6195 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6196 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6197 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6208 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6210 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6212 * rewrite of cbrt function
6214 * update of timezone data
6228 * add atoll function
6230 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6232 * fix math functions
6236 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6238 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6240 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6241 the ELF dynamic loader.
6243 * support for parallel builds is improved
6247 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6248 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6251 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6252 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6253 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6254 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6255 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6256 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6257 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6258 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6259 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6260 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6261 files in the ELF format.
6263 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6264 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6266 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6267 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6268 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6269 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6270 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6271 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6272 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6273 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6274 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6275 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6276 about dynamically linked binaries.
6278 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6279 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6280 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6281 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6282 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6284 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6285 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6286 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6287 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6288 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6290 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6292 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6293 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6294 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6295 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6296 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6297 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6298 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6299 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6300 NSS services available.
6302 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6303 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6304 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6306 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6307 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6308 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6310 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6311 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6312 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6313 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6315 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6316 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6317 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6319 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6320 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6321 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6323 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6324 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6326 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6327 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6328 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6329 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6331 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6332 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6333 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6335 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6336 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6337 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6338 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6339 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6340 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6341 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6342 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6344 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6345 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6346 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6347 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6348 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6349 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6350 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6352 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6353 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6354 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6355 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6356 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6357 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6359 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6360 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6362 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6363 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6364 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6366 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6368 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6369 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6370 their use is discouraged.
6372 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6373 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6375 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6376 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6378 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6379 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6381 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6384 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6385 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6386 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6387 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6388 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6390 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6391 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6392 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6393 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6395 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6396 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6398 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6399 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6400 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6401 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6404 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6405 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6407 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6408 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6410 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6411 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6412 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6413 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6415 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6417 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6418 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6419 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6421 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6422 for arithmetic and string handling.
6424 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6425 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6426 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6427 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6429 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6430 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6431 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6432 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6433 programs already written to use it.)
6435 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6438 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6441 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6442 a given effective group ID.
6444 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6445 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6446 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6447 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6449 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6450 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6451 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6452 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6453 doing the same thing.
6455 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6456 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6458 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6459 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6461 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6463 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6464 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6465 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6466 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6467 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6469 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6470 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6472 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6473 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6474 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6477 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6479 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6480 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6483 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6484 and writing the utmp file.
6486 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6489 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6490 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6491 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6493 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6494 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6496 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6497 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6500 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6501 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6502 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6503 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6505 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6506 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6507 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6509 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6510 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6511 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6514 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6517 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6520 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6522 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6523 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6524 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6528 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6530 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6531 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6533 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6534 want to put themselves in the background.
6536 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6537 run without an operating system.
6539 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6540 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6542 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6543 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6545 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6547 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6548 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6551 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6554 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6555 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6559 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6560 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6561 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6563 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6564 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6566 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6567 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6569 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6571 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6573 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6576 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6577 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6578 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6580 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6582 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6583 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6584 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6586 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6587 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6588 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6589 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6590 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6593 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6594 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6595 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6596 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6597 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6600 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6601 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6605 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6606 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6608 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6609 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6610 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6612 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6613 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6614 address of the last character written.
6616 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6617 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6619 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6620 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6622 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6623 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6624 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6625 you dereference this pointer.
6627 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6628 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6630 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6631 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6632 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6633 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6635 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6636 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6637 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6638 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6642 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6643 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6644 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6645 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6646 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6648 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6650 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6652 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6653 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6655 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6656 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6658 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6659 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6661 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6662 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6663 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6664 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6665 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6667 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6668 to the error code in `errno'.
6670 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6671 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6672 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6675 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6676 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6677 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6679 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6680 uniquely-named temporary file.
6684 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6685 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6686 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6688 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6691 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6692 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6694 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6698 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6699 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6700 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6701 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6703 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6704 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6705 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6707 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6708 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6710 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6711 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6712 made itself into a shared library.
6714 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6715 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6717 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6718 with limited length.
6720 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6722 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6724 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6726 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6727 function for traversing a directory tree.
6729 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6730 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6731 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6732 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6734 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6735 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6737 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6739 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6740 things to your strings.
6742 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6744 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6745 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6746 supporting those systems.
6748 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6749 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6750 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6751 configuration files.
6753 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6754 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6756 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6757 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6760 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6761 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6762 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6763 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6764 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6765 required storage is not available.
6767 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6768 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6770 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6771 latest files released from Berkeley.
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