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12 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
13 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
14 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
15 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
17 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
18 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
19 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
20 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
21 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
22 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
24 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
26 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
28 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
30 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
32 Security related changes:
34 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
35 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
37 [The release manager will add the list generated by
38 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
40 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
42 [The release manager will add the list generated by
43 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
49 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
50 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
51 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
53 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
54 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
56 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
57 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
58 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
59 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
61 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
62 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
63 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
64 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
65 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
67 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
68 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
69 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
70 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
71 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
72 posix_spawn interface.
74 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
75 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
76 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
78 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
79 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
80 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
81 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
82 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
83 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
85 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
86 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
87 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
90 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
91 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
92 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
93 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
94 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
95 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
96 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
97 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
99 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
100 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
101 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
102 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
103 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
104 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
106 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
108 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
109 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
110 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
112 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
113 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
114 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
115 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
116 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
117 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
118 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
120 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
121 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
122 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
123 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
125 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
126 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
127 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
128 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
131 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
132 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
133 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
134 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
137 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
139 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
141 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
144 Security related changes:
146 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
147 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
150 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
153 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
156 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
160 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
163 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
166 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
168 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
170 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
171 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
172 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
173 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
174 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
175 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
176 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
177 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
178 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
179 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
180 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
181 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
182 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
184 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
186 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
187 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
188 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
189 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
190 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
191 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
192 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
194 [27601] localedata: License information update in
195 localedata/locales/ast_ES
196 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
198 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
199 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
200 following dlclose with unused TLS
201 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
202 week should be Monday
203 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
204 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
205 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
206 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
207 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
208 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
209 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
211 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
212 encoding name was wrong
213 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
215 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
217 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
218 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
219 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
220 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
221 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
222 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
223 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
224 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
226 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
227 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
228 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
230 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
232 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
233 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
235 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
237 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
239 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
240 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
241 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
243 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
245 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
247 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
249 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
251 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
253 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
254 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
255 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
257 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
258 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
260 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
262 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
263 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
264 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
265 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
266 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
268 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
269 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
270 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
271 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
272 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
274 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
275 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
276 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
277 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
278 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
279 same as the full month names
280 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
281 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
282 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
284 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
290 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
291 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
292 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
293 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
294 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
295 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
296 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
297 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
298 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
299 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
300 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
302 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
305 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
306 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
307 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
308 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
309 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
310 specified in draft ISO C2X.
312 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
313 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
315 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
316 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
320 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
321 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
322 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
323 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
324 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
326 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
327 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
329 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
330 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
331 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
332 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
333 original behavior unchanged.
335 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
337 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
338 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
339 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
340 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
342 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
343 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
344 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
345 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
346 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
347 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
349 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
350 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
351 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
353 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
354 feature is now always enabled.
356 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
358 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
361 Security related changes:
363 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
364 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
365 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
366 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
367 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
368 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
370 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
372 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
373 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
375 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
376 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
377 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
378 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
380 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
381 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
383 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
384 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
385 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
386 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
387 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
388 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
390 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
391 symlink for libraries without soname
392 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
394 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
395 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
396 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
397 profiling data correctly
398 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
399 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
400 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
401 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
403 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
404 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
405 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
407 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
408 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
410 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
411 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
412 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
418 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
419 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
420 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
421 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
423 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
425 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
426 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
427 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
428 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
430 Security related changes:
432 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
433 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
434 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
435 portion of the contents of the heap.
437 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
439 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
440 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
441 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
442 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
443 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
444 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
445 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
447 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
448 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
450 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
451 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
452 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
453 gethostbyname and other functions
454 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
455 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
456 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
458 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
459 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
461 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
462 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
464 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
466 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
467 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
468 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
469 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
470 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
471 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
472 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
474 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
475 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
477 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
479 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
481 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
482 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
483 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
484 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
485 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
487 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
488 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
489 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
490 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
492 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
494 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
495 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
496 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
498 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
500 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
502 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
503 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
504 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
505 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
506 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
507 aux.S: No such file or directory)
508 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
509 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
510 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
511 coincides with offset change
512 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
513 length in fortify mode
519 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
520 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
521 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
522 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
523 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
524 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
526 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
527 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
528 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
530 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
531 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
534 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
535 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
536 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
537 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
539 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
540 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
541 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
542 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
543 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
544 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
545 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
546 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
547 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
548 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
549 validation by applications.
551 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
552 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
553 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
554 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
557 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
558 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
559 unpredictable output.
561 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
562 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
563 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
564 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
565 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
566 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
567 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
568 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
570 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
571 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
572 quality randomness from the kernel.
574 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
575 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
578 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
580 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
582 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
584 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
585 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
586 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
588 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
589 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
590 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
591 when libc.so is issued directly.
593 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
595 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
597 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
598 return different result with versioned "foo"
599 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
601 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
602 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
603 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
605 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
606 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
607 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
609 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
611 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
613 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
614 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
615 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
616 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
617 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
618 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
619 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
621 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
623 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
624 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
625 (breaks test isolation)
626 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
627 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
628 __convert_scm_timestamps
629 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
630 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
631 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
633 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
634 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
635 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
636 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
637 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
638 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
639 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
641 [28936] build: nm: No such file
642 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
643 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
645 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
647 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
648 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
649 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
651 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
653 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
654 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
655 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
656 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
657 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
658 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
659 is promoted to global scope
660 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
661 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
662 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
664 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
666 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
668 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
669 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
670 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
671 before '__fortified_attr_access'
672 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
673 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
674 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
675 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
676 value for filling after \0
677 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
678 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
679 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
681 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
682 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
683 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
684 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
685 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
686 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
687 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
689 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
690 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
691 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
692 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
693 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
694 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
695 missing on microblaze with largefile
701 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
702 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
703 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
705 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
706 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
708 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
709 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
710 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
711 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
712 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
713 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
714 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
715 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
716 glibc, and must be installed.
718 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
719 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
720 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
722 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
723 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
725 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
728 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
729 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
730 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
731 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
732 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
733 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
735 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
736 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
737 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
740 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
741 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
743 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
746 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
748 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
749 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
750 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
752 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
753 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
754 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
755 object dependency cases.
757 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
758 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
759 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
760 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
762 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
763 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
764 return value is only used for its boolean status.
766 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
767 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
768 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
769 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
770 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
771 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
772 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
773 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
774 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
775 Restartable Sequences.
777 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
778 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
780 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
781 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
782 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
783 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
784 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
785 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
786 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
789 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
790 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
791 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
792 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
793 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
796 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
797 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
799 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
800 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
803 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
804 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
809 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
810 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
812 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
813 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
814 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
815 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
816 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
818 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
819 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
821 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
822 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
823 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
825 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
826 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
827 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
828 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
831 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
832 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
834 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
836 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
837 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
838 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
840 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
841 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
843 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
844 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
846 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
848 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
850 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
851 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
852 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
854 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
855 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
856 catching coredumps and backtraces.
858 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
859 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
860 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
862 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
863 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
864 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
866 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
867 support prelink PIE binaries.
869 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
871 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
872 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
873 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
874 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
875 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
877 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
878 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
879 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
880 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
882 Security related changes:
884 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
885 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
886 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
888 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
889 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
891 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
892 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
893 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
895 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
896 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
897 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
898 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
899 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
901 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
903 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
904 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
905 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
906 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
908 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
909 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
911 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
913 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
914 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
915 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
916 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
917 ID whose lifetime has not ended
918 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
920 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
922 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
923 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
924 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
925 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
926 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
927 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
928 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
929 --enable-initfini-array
930 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
931 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
932 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
933 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
934 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
935 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
937 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
938 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
939 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
941 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
942 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
943 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
945 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
946 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
948 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
949 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
950 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
952 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
953 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
954 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
955 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
956 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
957 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
958 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
960 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
962 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
963 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
965 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
966 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
967 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
968 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
969 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
970 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
971 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
973 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
975 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
976 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
977 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
978 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
980 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
981 systems with TIMESIZE=64
982 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
983 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
984 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
985 spurious NUL character on state reset
986 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
988 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
989 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
991 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
992 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
994 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
995 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
996 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
997 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
998 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
999 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1001 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1003 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1004 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1005 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1006 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1008 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1009 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1010 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1011 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1012 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1013 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1014 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1015 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1016 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1017 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1018 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1019 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1020 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1021 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1023 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1025 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1026 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1027 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1029 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1030 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1032 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1034 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1035 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1036 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1043 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1044 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1045 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1046 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1047 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1048 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1049 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1050 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1051 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1052 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1053 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1054 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1055 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1056 potentially exposing application bugs.
1058 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1059 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1060 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1061 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1063 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1064 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1065 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1066 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1067 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1070 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1071 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1072 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1074 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1075 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1076 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1077 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1079 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1081 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1082 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1083 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1084 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1085 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1087 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1088 --disable-scv configure option.
1090 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1091 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1092 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1093 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1094 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1095 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1098 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1099 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1100 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1101 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1102 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1103 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1106 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1107 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1109 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1110 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1111 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1112 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1113 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1114 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1115 is currently a GNU extension.
1117 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1118 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1120 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1121 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1122 although it is also present in other systems.
1124 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1125 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1126 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1127 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1129 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1130 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1131 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1133 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1135 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1136 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1139 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1140 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1141 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1143 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1144 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1145 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1147 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1148 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1150 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1152 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1153 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1154 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1155 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1156 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1157 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1158 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1159 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1160 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1161 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1162 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1164 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1165 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1166 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1167 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1168 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1169 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1170 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1171 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1173 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1174 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1175 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1176 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1177 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1178 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1179 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1181 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1182 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1183 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1184 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1185 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1186 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1187 upgrade or downgrade process.
1189 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1190 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1191 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1193 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1194 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1195 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1196 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1198 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1199 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1200 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1201 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1202 this functionality back.
1204 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1205 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1206 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1207 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1209 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1210 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1211 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1212 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1213 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1214 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1215 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1216 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1217 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1219 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1221 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1222 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1223 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1224 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1226 Security related changes:
1228 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1229 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1230 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1231 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1233 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1234 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1235 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1237 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1238 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1239 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1241 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1243 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1244 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1245 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1246 given integer (closefrom)
1247 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1248 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1249 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1250 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1251 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1252 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1253 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1255 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1256 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1257 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1258 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1259 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1260 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1261 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1263 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1264 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1265 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1266 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1267 pthread_create and dlopen
1268 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1269 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1270 when non-root user changes priority
1271 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1273 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1274 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1275 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1277 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1278 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1280 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1281 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1282 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1283 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1285 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1286 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1287 the right free implementation
1288 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1289 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1290 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1291 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1292 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1294 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1295 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1296 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1297 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1298 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1299 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1300 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1302 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1303 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1305 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1306 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1307 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1308 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1309 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1310 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1312 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1313 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1314 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1315 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1316 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1317 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1318 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1319 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1321 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1322 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1324 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1325 information for the current directory
1326 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1327 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1328 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1329 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1330 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1332 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1333 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1334 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1335 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1337 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1338 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1339 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1340 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1341 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1342 tries resolving them lazily
1343 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1345 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1346 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1348 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1349 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1350 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1352 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1354 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1355 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1356 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1358 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1359 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1360 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1361 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1362 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1363 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1364 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1365 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1366 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1367 with n >= 0x80000000
1368 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1369 thread never allocated anything
1370 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1371 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1372 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1373 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1374 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1376 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1377 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1378 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1380 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1388 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1389 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1390 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1392 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1393 to change argv[0] string.
1395 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1396 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1397 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1398 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1399 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1400 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1401 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1402 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1403 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1405 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1406 information and library search path diagnostics.
1408 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1409 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1410 larger than fit in an integer.
1412 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1414 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1415 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1421 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1424 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1425 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1426 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1427 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1430 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1432 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1435 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1436 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1437 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1439 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1440 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1441 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1444 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1445 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1446 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1448 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1449 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1450 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1451 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1452 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1453 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1455 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1456 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1457 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1458 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1459 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1460 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1463 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1465 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1466 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1467 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1468 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1469 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1470 perform any adjustments.
1472 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1473 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1474 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1475 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1477 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1479 Security related changes:
1481 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1482 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1483 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1484 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1485 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1487 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1488 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1489 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1491 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1492 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1494 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1495 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1497 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1499 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1500 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1501 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1502 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1504 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1505 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1506 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1507 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1508 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1510 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1512 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1514 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1515 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1516 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1517 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1518 changing gnuc version
1519 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1521 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1523 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1524 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1525 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1526 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1527 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1528 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1529 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1530 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1531 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1532 too much stack space
1533 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1534 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1535 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1537 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1539 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1540 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1542 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1543 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1544 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1545 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1546 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1548 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1549 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1550 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1552 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1553 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1554 at the end of a memory mapping
1555 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1556 by the caller to the kernel
1557 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1558 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1559 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1560 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1562 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1563 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1564 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1565 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1566 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1567 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1568 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1570 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1571 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1572 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1573 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1575 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1577 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1579 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1580 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1581 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1582 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1584 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1586 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1587 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1588 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1590 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1592 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1594 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1596 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1597 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1598 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1599 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1601 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1603 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1605 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1606 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1607 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1609 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1610 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1611 [27177] dynamic-link:
1612 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1614 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1615 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1616 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1617 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1624 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1625 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1626 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1628 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1630 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1631 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1632 Three ABIs are supported:
1638 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1639 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1641 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1642 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1644 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1645 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1646 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1649 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1650 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1651 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1653 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1654 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1655 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1657 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1658 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1659 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1660 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1663 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1664 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1665 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1666 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1667 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1668 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1670 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1671 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1673 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1674 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1675 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1676 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1677 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1678 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1680 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1681 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1683 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1684 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1685 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1686 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1687 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1688 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1689 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1690 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1691 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1692 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1693 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1696 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1698 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1699 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1700 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1701 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1702 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1703 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1704 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1706 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1707 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1708 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1709 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1710 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1711 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1712 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1713 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1714 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1716 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1717 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1718 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1719 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1720 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1722 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1723 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1724 was not declared in any header file.
1726 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1727 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1728 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1729 sigaction functions instead.
1731 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1732 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1734 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1735 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1736 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1737 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1740 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1741 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1742 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1743 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1744 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1746 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1747 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1748 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1749 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1751 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1752 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1753 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1754 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1755 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1756 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1757 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1759 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1760 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1761 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1762 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1763 flavor of secure RPC.)
1765 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1766 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1767 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1768 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1769 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1770 object, to enable the hooks.
1772 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1773 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1774 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1777 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1779 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1780 long double redirects.
1782 Security related changes:
1784 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1785 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1786 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1788 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1789 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1790 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1792 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1793 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1795 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1796 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1797 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1800 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1802 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1803 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1804 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1805 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1806 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1807 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1808 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1809 filtee has constructor
1810 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1811 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1812 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1813 character entities for infinity & pi
1814 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1815 segfaults in applications
1816 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1817 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1818 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1819 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1820 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1821 function with -mlong-double-64
1822 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1824 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1826 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1827 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1828 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1829 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1830 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1831 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1833 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1834 dynamically loaded dsos
1835 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1836 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1838 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1839 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1840 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1841 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1842 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1843 stale configuration forever
1844 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1846 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1848 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1849 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1851 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1852 on 32 bit and old kernel
1853 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1854 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1856 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1857 amount of sigset_t bytes
1858 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1860 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1861 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1862 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1863 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1864 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1865 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1866 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1867 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1868 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1869 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1871 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1872 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1873 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1874 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1875 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1876 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1877 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1879 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1880 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1882 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1883 exiting detached thread
1884 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1886 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1888 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1889 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1890 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1891 dependencies in audit mode
1892 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1893 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1894 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1895 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1896 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1898 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1899 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1901 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1902 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1904 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1905 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1906 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1907 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1908 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1909 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1910 corruption in memset
1917 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1918 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1919 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1920 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1921 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1922 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1924 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1925 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1926 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1927 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1929 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1930 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1931 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1933 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1935 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1936 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1937 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1938 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1939 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1940 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1941 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1942 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1944 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1946 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1947 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1948 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1949 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1950 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1951 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1953 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1954 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1955 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1957 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1958 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1959 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1960 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1962 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1963 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1964 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1965 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1966 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1967 made this no longer practical.
1969 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1970 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1971 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1972 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1975 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1976 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1977 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1979 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1980 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1981 using clock_gettime instead.
1983 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1984 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1985 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1986 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1987 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1989 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1990 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1991 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1992 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1994 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1995 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1996 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1997 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1998 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1999 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2001 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2002 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2003 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2004 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2007 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2008 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2009 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2011 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2014 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2015 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2016 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2017 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2018 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2020 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2021 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2022 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2023 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2024 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2025 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2026 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2027 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2029 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2030 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2032 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2033 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2034 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2035 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2036 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2037 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2039 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2041 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2042 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2043 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2045 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2046 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2047 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2049 Security related changes:
2051 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2052 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2054 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2055 environment variable during program execution after a security
2056 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2057 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2058 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2060 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2062 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2063 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2064 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2065 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2066 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2067 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2068 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2069 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2071 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2072 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2073 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2074 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2075 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2076 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2077 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2078 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2079 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2080 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2082 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2084 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2085 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2086 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2087 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2088 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2089 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2090 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2092 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2094 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2095 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2096 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2097 (stringop-overflow error)
2098 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2099 functions other can lead to crashes
2100 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2101 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2103 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2104 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2105 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2106 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2107 still can fail with an error
2108 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2109 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2110 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2111 initialized correctly
2112 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2114 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2115 value to an unsigned
2116 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2117 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2118 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2120 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2122 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2124 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2126 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2127 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2128 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2130 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2131 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2133 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2134 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2135 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2136 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2137 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2138 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2145 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2146 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2147 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2149 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2150 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2152 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2153 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2154 to the callback function.
2156 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2158 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2159 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2162 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2164 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2165 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2166 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2167 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2168 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2170 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2171 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2172 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2173 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2174 link time reference, is gone.
2176 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2177 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2178 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2179 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2180 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2181 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2182 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2183 the clock choice at initialization time).
2185 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2186 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2187 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2189 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2191 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2192 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2193 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2194 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2195 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2196 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2197 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2198 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2199 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2201 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2202 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2203 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2204 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2207 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2208 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2210 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2211 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2213 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2214 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2216 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2219 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2220 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2221 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2223 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2224 header have been removed.
2226 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2227 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2228 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2229 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2231 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2233 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2235 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2236 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2238 Security related changes:
2240 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2241 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2242 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2243 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2244 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2245 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2246 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2248 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2249 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2250 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2252 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2254 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2255 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2256 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2257 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2258 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2259 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2260 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2261 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2262 invalid input drops valid char
2263 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2264 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2265 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2266 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2267 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2269 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2270 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2271 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2272 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2274 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2275 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2276 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2277 for long double = double
2278 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2279 long double = double
2280 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2281 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2282 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2284 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2285 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2287 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2288 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2289 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2290 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2291 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2292 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2293 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2294 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2295 not the default "nor"
2296 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2297 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2298 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2299 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2301 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2302 unnecessary librt dependencies
2303 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2304 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2305 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2306 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2308 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2309 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2311 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2312 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2313 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2314 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2315 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2316 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2317 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2318 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2319 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2320 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2321 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2322 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2324 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2326 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2327 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2329 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2330 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2331 kernels and break testing
2332 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2333 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2334 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2335 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2336 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2337 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2338 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2340 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2341 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2343 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2345 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2346 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2347 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2348 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2349 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2350 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2351 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2352 always implemented in the same library
2353 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2354 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2355 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2363 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2364 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2366 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2367 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2368 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2369 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2370 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2371 configured location.
2373 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2375 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2376 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2378 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2379 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2380 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2381 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2382 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2383 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2384 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2385 process actually does not use HTM).
2387 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2388 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2389 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2390 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2391 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2394 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2395 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2396 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2397 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2398 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2400 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2401 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2403 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2404 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2406 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2407 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2408 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2409 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2410 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2411 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2412 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2414 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2415 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2416 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2418 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2420 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2421 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2423 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2424 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2425 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2426 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2428 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2429 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2430 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2431 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2434 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2435 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2436 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2437 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2438 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2439 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2441 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2442 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2443 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2444 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2445 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2447 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2448 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2449 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2451 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2453 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2455 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2456 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2458 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2459 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2461 Security related changes:
2463 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2464 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2465 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2467 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2468 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2469 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2470 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2471 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2473 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2474 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2475 or command injection issues in applications.
2477 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2479 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2480 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2481 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2483 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2484 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2485 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2487 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2488 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2489 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2490 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2491 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2492 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2493 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2494 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2495 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2496 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2497 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2498 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2499 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2500 pointer argument is non-NULL
2501 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2502 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2503 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2504 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2505 multithreads call popen
2506 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2507 and pthread_create fails.
2508 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2509 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2511 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2512 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2513 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2515 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2517 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2519 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2520 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2522 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2523 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2524 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2525 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2526 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2527 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2528 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2530 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2531 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2532 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2534 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2535 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2536 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2537 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2539 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2541 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2542 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2543 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2544 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2546 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2548 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2549 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2550 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2552 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2553 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2554 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2555 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2556 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2557 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2559 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2560 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2561 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2562 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2563 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2564 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2565 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2566 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2567 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2568 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2569 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2570 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2571 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2572 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2574 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2575 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2576 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2577 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2578 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2580 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2581 nearest rounding mode
2582 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2583 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2584 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2585 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2586 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2587 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2588 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2589 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2590 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2592 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2593 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2595 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2596 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2597 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2598 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2600 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2602 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2604 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2606 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2607 answers will be rejected)
2608 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2615 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2616 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2617 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2618 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2619 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2620 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2621 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2622 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2623 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2624 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2625 archive or binary locales.
2627 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2628 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2629 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2630 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2631 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2632 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2633 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2634 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2635 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2636 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2637 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2640 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2641 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2642 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2643 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2644 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2645 field) to indicate such support is required.
2647 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2648 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2649 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2651 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2652 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2654 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2655 fMxaddfNx functions.
2657 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2658 fMxsubfNx functions.
2660 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2661 fMxmulfNx functions.
2663 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2664 fMxdivfNx functions.
2666 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2667 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2668 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2669 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2672 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2673 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2675 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2678 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2679 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2680 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2681 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2682 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2683 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2684 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2685 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2687 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2688 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2689 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2690 the fstatat64 function.
2692 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2693 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2694 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2695 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2696 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2697 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2698 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2699 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2700 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2702 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2703 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2704 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2705 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2706 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2707 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2708 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2709 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2710 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2711 results in a load failure now.
2713 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2714 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2717 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2718 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2720 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2721 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2723 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2725 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2726 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2728 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2730 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2732 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2734 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2735 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2736 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2738 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2739 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2740 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2741 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2742 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2743 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2745 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2746 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2747 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2748 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2749 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2750 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2753 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2754 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2755 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2756 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2757 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2758 further explanation.
2760 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2761 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2762 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2764 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2766 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2767 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2768 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2770 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2771 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2772 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2773 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2775 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2776 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2777 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2778 for this function instead.
2780 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2781 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2782 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2784 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2785 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2786 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2787 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2789 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2790 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2791 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2792 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2793 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2795 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2796 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2797 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2798 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2799 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2800 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2803 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2804 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2805 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2808 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2809 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2810 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2812 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2813 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2814 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2815 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2816 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2817 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2819 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2820 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2821 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2822 behavior in a future release.
2824 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2826 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2828 Security related changes:
2830 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2831 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2832 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2833 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2835 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2836 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2838 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2839 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2842 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2843 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2844 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2846 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2848 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2849 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2850 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2851 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2852 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2853 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2854 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2855 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2856 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2858 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2859 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2860 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2861 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2862 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2864 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2866 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2867 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2868 scope with -O1 and higher
2869 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2870 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2871 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2872 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2873 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2874 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2875 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2876 horrible machine code)
2877 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2879 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2880 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2882 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2883 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2885 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2886 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2887 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2888 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2889 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2891 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2892 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2893 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2894 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2895 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2897 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2898 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2899 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2901 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2902 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2903 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2904 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2905 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2906 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2907 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2908 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2909 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2910 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2911 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2912 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2913 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2915 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2917 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2918 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2919 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2920 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2921 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2922 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2923 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2924 for Spanish with CLDR
2925 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2926 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2927 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2928 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2929 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2930 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2932 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2934 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2935 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2936 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2937 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2939 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2940 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2941 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2942 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2943 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2944 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2945 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2946 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2947 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2948 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2949 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2950 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2951 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2952 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2953 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2954 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2955 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2957 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2958 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2960 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2961 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2962 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2963 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2964 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2965 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2967 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2969 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2970 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2971 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2972 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2973 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2974 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2975 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2976 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2977 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2978 and libc build with -Os)
2979 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2980 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2981 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2982 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2983 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2984 that changes /etc/passwd
2985 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2987 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2988 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2989 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2991 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2992 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2993 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2994 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2995 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2997 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2998 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3000 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3001 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3002 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3003 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3005 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3006 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3007 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3008 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3010 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3012 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3014 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3016 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3018 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3019 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3020 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3021 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3022 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3023 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3024 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3025 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3027 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3034 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3035 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3036 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3037 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3038 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3039 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3040 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3041 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3042 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3044 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3045 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3048 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3050 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3052 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3053 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3054 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3055 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3056 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3057 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3058 from a security and performance perspective.
3060 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3061 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3062 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3063 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3065 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3066 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3067 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3068 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3069 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3071 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3072 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3073 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3074 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3077 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3078 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3079 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3081 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3083 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3084 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3087 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3089 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3091 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3092 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3093 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3095 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3096 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3097 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3098 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3099 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3100 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3101 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3103 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3104 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3105 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3106 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3107 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3108 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3109 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3111 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3112 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3113 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3114 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3117 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3118 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3119 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3120 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3122 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3123 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3124 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3126 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3127 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3128 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3130 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3131 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3132 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3138 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3140 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3141 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3142 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3143 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3144 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3145 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3146 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3147 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3148 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3151 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3152 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3153 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3155 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3156 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3157 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3158 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3159 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3160 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3161 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3162 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3163 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3164 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3165 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3166 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3167 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3168 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3169 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3170 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3171 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3172 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3173 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3174 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3175 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3176 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3177 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3178 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3179 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3180 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3182 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3183 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3185 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3186 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3187 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3188 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3189 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3190 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3191 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3193 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3194 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3195 exp10l for these functions instead.
3197 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3198 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3199 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3201 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3202 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3205 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3206 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3207 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3208 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3210 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3211 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3213 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3214 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3216 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3219 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3221 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3222 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3223 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3226 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3227 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3228 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3229 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3230 use, but predates the bits convention.
3232 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3234 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3237 Security related changes:
3239 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3240 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3241 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3242 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3245 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3246 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3247 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3248 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3250 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3251 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3252 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3255 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3256 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3257 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3259 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3260 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3261 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3262 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3264 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3265 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3266 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3269 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3270 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3271 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3272 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3273 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3275 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3276 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3279 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3280 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3281 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3283 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3284 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3285 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3287 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3288 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3289 small, instead of NULL.
3291 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3293 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3294 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3295 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3297 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3298 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3299 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3301 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3302 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3303 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3304 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3305 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3306 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3307 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3308 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3309 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3311 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3312 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3313 width Latin characters
3314 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3315 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3316 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3318 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3319 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3321 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3322 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3323 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3324 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3325 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3327 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3328 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3329 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3330 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3331 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3332 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3333 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3334 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3335 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3336 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3338 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3339 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3340 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3341 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3342 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3343 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3344 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3345 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3347 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3348 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3350 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3351 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3353 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3354 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3355 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3356 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3357 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3358 __regcall calling convention
3359 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3360 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3361 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3362 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3363 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3364 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3365 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3366 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3367 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3368 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3369 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3370 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3371 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3373 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3375 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3377 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3378 consistency check failures
3379 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3380 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3381 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3382 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3384 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3386 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3387 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3388 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3389 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3390 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3391 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3392 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3393 on memory allocation failure
3394 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3395 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3397 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3399 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3400 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3401 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3402 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3403 instead of EAI_NODATA
3404 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3405 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3406 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3407 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3409 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3410 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3411 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3412 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3413 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3414 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3415 allocation in syscall loops)
3416 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3417 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3418 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3419 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3420 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3421 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3422 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3423 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3424 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3426 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3427 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3428 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3430 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3431 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3433 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3435 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3436 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3437 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3438 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3439 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3440 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3441 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3442 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3443 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3444 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3445 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3446 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3447 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3448 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3449 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3450 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3451 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3452 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3454 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3456 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3457 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3459 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3460 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3461 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3462 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3464 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3465 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3466 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3467 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3468 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3469 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3470 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3471 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3472 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3473 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3474 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3476 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3477 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3478 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3479 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3480 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3481 the svid compat wrapper
3482 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3483 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3484 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3485 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3486 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3487 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3489 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3490 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3492 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3493 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3494 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3495 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3496 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3497 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3499 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3500 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3501 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3502 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3504 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3505 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3507 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3508 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3509 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3510 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3511 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3512 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3513 inside the ASCII printable range
3514 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3516 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3517 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3518 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3520 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3521 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3523 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3524 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3525 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3527 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3528 networking interface
3529 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3530 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3531 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3532 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3533 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3534 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3535 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3536 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3537 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3539 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3540 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3541 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3542 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3543 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3544 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3545 same as for Croatian
3546 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3547 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3548 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3550 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3552 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3553 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3554 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3555 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3556 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3558 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3559 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3560 modified in case of success
3561 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3562 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3564 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3566 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3567 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3568 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3569 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3570 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3571 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3572 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3573 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3575 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3576 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3577 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3578 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3579 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3580 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3581 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3582 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3583 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3585 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3586 elision and tunables
3587 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3589 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3590 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3591 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3593 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3594 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3596 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3597 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3598 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3599 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3600 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3601 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3602 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3603 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3604 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3611 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3612 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3613 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3614 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3615 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3616 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3617 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3619 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3620 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3621 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3622 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3623 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3624 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3625 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3627 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3628 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3631 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3633 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3634 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3635 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3637 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3638 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3639 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3640 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3641 object are still limited to six search domains.
3643 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3644 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3645 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3647 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3648 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3650 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3651 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3652 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3653 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3655 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3656 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3657 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3658 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3660 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3661 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3662 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3663 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3665 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3666 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3667 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3669 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3670 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3671 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3672 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3674 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3675 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3676 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3677 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3678 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3680 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3681 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3682 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3683 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3684 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3685 interfaces should be used instead.
3687 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3689 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3690 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3691 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3692 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3693 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3694 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3695 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3696 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3698 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3701 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3702 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3703 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3704 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3706 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3707 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3710 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3711 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3712 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3713 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3714 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3716 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3717 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3718 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3719 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3721 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3722 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3723 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3724 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3726 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3727 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3729 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3730 exported by accident.
3732 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3733 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3734 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3736 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3737 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3738 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3739 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3741 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3743 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3745 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3748 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3749 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3751 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3752 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3754 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3755 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3756 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3757 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3758 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3759 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3760 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3761 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3763 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3764 synced with the kernel:
3766 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3767 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3769 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3770 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3771 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3773 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3774 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3776 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3778 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3779 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3782 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3784 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3785 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3787 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3788 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3789 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3790 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3791 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3793 Security related changes:
3795 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3796 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3798 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3799 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3801 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3802 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3805 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3806 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3808 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3810 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3811 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3812 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3814 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3816 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3817 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3818 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3820 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3821 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3822 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3823 x86 and other generic code
3824 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3825 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3827 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3828 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3829 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3830 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3831 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3832 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3833 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3835 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3836 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3837 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3838 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3840 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3841 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3843 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3845 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3846 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3847 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3849 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3850 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3851 failures consistently
3852 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3853 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3854 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3855 frame-pointer on i386
3856 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3858 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3859 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3860 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3861 generic c code is used
3862 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3863 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3865 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3867 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3868 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3870 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3871 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3872 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3873 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3874 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3875 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3876 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3877 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3878 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3879 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3881 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3883 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3884 new posix_spawn implementation
3885 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3886 leads to lower CPU frequency
3887 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3888 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3889 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3890 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3891 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3892 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3893 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3894 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3895 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3896 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3897 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3898 not support gethostbyname4_r
3899 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3901 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3903 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3904 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3905 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3906 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3907 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3908 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3909 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3911 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3912 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3913 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3914 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3915 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3916 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3917 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3918 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3919 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3920 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3921 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3922 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3924 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3925 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3926 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3927 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3928 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3929 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3930 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3931 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3933 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3934 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3935 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3936 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3937 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3938 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3939 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3940 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3941 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3942 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3943 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3944 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3945 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3946 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3947 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3948 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3949 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3950 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3951 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3952 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3953 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3955 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3956 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3957 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3958 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3959 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3961 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3962 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3964 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3965 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3967 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3968 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3970 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3971 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3972 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3973 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3975 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3976 leading to relocation crash
3977 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3978 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3979 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3980 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3981 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3982 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3983 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3984 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3985 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3987 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3989 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3990 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3991 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3992 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3993 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3994 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3995 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3996 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3998 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4000 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4002 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4003 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4004 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4005 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4006 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4007 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4008 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4009 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4010 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4011 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4012 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4013 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4014 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4015 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4016 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4017 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4018 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4019 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4020 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4021 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4022 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4023 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4024 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4025 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4026 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4027 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4028 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4030 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4031 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4032 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4033 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4034 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4039 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4040 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4041 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4044 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4045 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4046 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4049 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4050 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4051 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4054 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4055 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4056 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4057 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4058 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4059 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4060 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4063 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4064 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4067 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4068 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4069 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4071 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4072 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4073 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4074 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4077 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4078 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4079 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4081 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4082 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4083 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4084 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4085 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4086 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4087 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4088 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4089 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4090 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4091 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4094 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4096 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4098 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4099 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4100 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4102 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4103 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4105 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4108 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4110 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4112 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4113 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4115 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4117 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4118 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4120 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4121 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4123 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4124 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4125 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4127 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4128 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4129 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4130 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4131 effects of the memory clear).
4133 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4134 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4135 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4136 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4138 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4139 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4140 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4141 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4142 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4143 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4145 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4148 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4149 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4150 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4151 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4152 as large as several megabytes.
4154 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4155 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4158 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4159 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4160 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4161 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4162 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4163 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4164 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4166 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4167 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4168 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4169 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4171 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4172 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4173 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4176 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4177 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4178 They were already unimplemented.
4180 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4181 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4182 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4183 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4185 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4186 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4187 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4188 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4189 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4191 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4192 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4193 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4194 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4195 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4197 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4198 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4199 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4200 did not reflect that.
4202 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4203 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4204 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4205 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4206 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4207 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4208 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4211 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4212 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4213 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4214 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4216 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4217 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4218 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4219 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4221 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4222 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4225 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4226 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4229 Security related changes:
4231 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4232 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4233 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4234 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4235 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4237 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4238 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4239 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4240 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4243 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4245 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4246 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4248 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4249 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4250 before it started waiting
4251 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4252 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4253 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4254 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4256 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4257 library linked with pthread
4258 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4259 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4260 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4261 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4262 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4263 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4264 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4266 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4268 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4269 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4270 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4271 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4272 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4273 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4274 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4275 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4276 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4278 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4279 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4280 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4281 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4282 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4283 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4284 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4285 causes a segmentation fault
4286 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4288 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4289 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4291 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4293 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4294 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4295 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4297 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4298 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4300 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4301 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4302 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4303 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4304 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4305 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4306 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4307 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4309 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4310 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4311 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4313 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4315 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4317 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4318 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4319 cause transition penalty
4320 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4321 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4322 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4323 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4324 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4326 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4328 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4329 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4330 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4331 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4332 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4333 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4335 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4337 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4338 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4339 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4340 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4341 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4342 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4343 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4344 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4345 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4346 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4347 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4348 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4349 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4350 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4352 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4353 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4354 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4355 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4356 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4357 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4358 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4359 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4360 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4361 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4362 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4363 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4364 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4365 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4366 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4367 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4368 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4369 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4371 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4372 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4373 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4374 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4375 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4377 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4378 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4379 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4380 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4381 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4382 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4383 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4385 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4386 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4387 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4388 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4389 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4393 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4394 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4395 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4396 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4397 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4400 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4401 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4402 been included in previous releases.
4404 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4405 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4407 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4408 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4409 instead of “union wait”.
4411 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4412 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4413 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4414 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4415 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4416 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4417 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4419 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4422 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4423 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4426 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4427 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4428 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4429 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4430 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4433 Security related changes:
4435 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4436 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4437 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4439 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4440 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4441 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4442 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4444 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4445 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4446 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4448 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4449 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4450 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4452 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4453 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4454 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4455 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4457 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4459 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4460 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4462 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4463 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4464 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4465 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4466 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4467 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4468 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4469 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4471 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4472 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4473 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4474 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4475 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4476 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4478 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4480 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4481 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4482 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4483 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4484 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4485 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4486 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4487 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4488 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4489 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4490 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4492 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4493 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4494 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4495 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4496 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4497 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4499 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4500 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4502 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4503 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4504 Romanian locale data
4505 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4507 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4508 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4510 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4511 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4512 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4513 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4515 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4517 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4518 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4519 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4520 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4521 when using RTLD_NEXT
4522 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4523 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4524 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4525 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4526 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4527 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4528 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4529 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4530 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4532 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4533 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4534 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4535 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4537 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4539 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4541 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4542 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4543 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4544 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4545 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4546 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4548 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4549 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4551 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4552 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4554 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4556 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4558 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4559 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4560 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4561 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4562 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4563 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4564 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4565 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4566 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4567 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4568 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4569 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4570 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4571 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4573 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4575 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4576 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4577 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4578 response to getaddrinfo
4579 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4580 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4581 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4582 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4583 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4584 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4586 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4587 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4588 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4590 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4591 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4592 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4593 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4595 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4596 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4597 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4599 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4600 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4601 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4602 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4603 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4604 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4605 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4606 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4608 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4609 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4610 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4612 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4613 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4614 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4615 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4616 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4617 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4618 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4619 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4620 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4621 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4622 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4623 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4624 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4626 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4627 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4628 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4629 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4631 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4632 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4634 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4635 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4636 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4637 AS not supporting AVX512
4638 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4640 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4641 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4643 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4644 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4645 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4646 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4647 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4649 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4650 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4652 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4653 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4654 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4655 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4656 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4657 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4658 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4659 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4660 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4662 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4663 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4664 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4665 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4666 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4667 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4668 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4669 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4670 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4671 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4672 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4673 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4674 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4676 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4677 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4678 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4679 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4680 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4682 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4683 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4685 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4686 "invalid" exceptions
4687 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4688 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4689 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4690 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4691 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4692 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4693 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4694 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4695 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4699 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4700 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4701 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4702 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4703 89, 16061, and 18568.
4705 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4706 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4707 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4708 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4709 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4710 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4711 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4713 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4714 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4715 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4717 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4718 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4719 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4720 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4721 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4722 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4723 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4725 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4726 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4727 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4728 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4729 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4730 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4731 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4734 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4735 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4736 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4737 independent of the GNU C Library.
4739 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4740 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4742 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4743 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4744 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4745 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4746 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4749 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4750 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4752 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4753 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4754 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4755 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4756 defining their own copy.
4758 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4759 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4760 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4762 Security related changes:
4764 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4765 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4767 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4768 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4769 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4770 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4773 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4774 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4776 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4777 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4779 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4780 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4781 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4783 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4784 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4785 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4786 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4787 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4788 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4789 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4790 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4791 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4792 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4793 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4794 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4795 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4797 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4799 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4800 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4801 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4802 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4803 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4804 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4806 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4807 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4808 overflow/underflow errors
4809 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4811 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4812 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4813 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4814 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4815 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4816 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4818 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4819 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4820 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4821 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4822 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4823 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4824 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4825 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4826 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4828 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4830 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4831 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4832 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4834 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4835 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4836 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4837 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4838 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4840 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4841 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4843 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4844 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4845 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4846 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4847 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4848 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4849 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4850 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4852 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4853 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4854 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4855 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4856 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4858 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4859 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4861 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4862 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4863 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4864 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4865 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4867 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4868 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4869 (related to lock elision)
4870 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4871 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4872 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4873 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4875 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4876 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4877 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4878 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4879 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4880 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4881 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4882 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4883 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4884 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4885 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4886 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4887 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4888 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4889 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4890 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4891 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4892 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4893 contains a vector instruction exception.
4894 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4895 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4897 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4898 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4899 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4900 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4901 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4903 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4905 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4906 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4908 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4909 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4910 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4911 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4912 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4914 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4915 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4916 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4917 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4918 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4919 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4920 statically too large
4921 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4922 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4923 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4924 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4925 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4926 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4927 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4928 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4929 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4931 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4932 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4933 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4934 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4935 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4936 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4937 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4939 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4940 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4941 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4942 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4944 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4945 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4946 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4947 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4948 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4949 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4951 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4952 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4953 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4954 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4955 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4956 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4958 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4959 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4960 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4961 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4962 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4963 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4964 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4965 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4967 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4968 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4969 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4970 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4971 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4972 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4973 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4974 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4975 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4977 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4979 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4980 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4981 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4983 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4984 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4985 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4986 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4987 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4988 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4989 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4990 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4991 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4992 pthread_setaffinity_np
4993 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4994 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4995 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4996 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4997 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4999 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5000 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5001 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5002 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5003 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5004 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5005 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5007 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5008 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5009 for C99-based standards
5010 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5011 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5013 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5014 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5015 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5017 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5018 "inexact" exceptions
5019 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5021 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5022 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5023 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5024 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5026 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5027 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5028 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5029 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5030 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5031 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5032 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5033 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5034 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5035 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5037 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5038 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5039 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5040 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5042 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5043 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5044 error on 32-bit architectures
5045 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5046 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5047 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5048 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5049 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5050 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5051 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5052 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5053 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5055 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5057 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5058 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5059 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5060 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5062 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5066 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5068 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5069 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5070 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5071 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5072 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5073 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5074 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5075 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5076 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5077 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5078 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5079 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5080 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5081 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5082 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5083 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5084 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5085 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5086 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5087 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5089 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5090 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5092 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5093 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5094 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5095 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5096 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5097 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5099 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5100 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5101 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5102 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5103 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5105 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5106 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5107 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5109 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5110 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5111 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5114 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5115 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5116 condition in some applications.
5118 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5119 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5121 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5122 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5123 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5124 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5125 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5127 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5128 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5129 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5130 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5132 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5133 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5134 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5136 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5137 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5139 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5140 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5141 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5143 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5144 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5145 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5149 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5151 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5152 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5153 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5154 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5155 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5156 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5157 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5158 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5159 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5160 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5163 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5164 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5165 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5166 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5169 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5170 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5171 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5172 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5173 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5174 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5176 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5178 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5179 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5180 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5182 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5183 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5184 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5185 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5186 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5187 effects being visible outside transactions.
5189 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5190 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5192 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5194 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5195 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5196 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5197 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5198 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5200 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5201 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5203 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5204 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5207 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5208 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5209 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5211 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5212 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5214 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5216 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5217 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5218 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5219 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5221 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5222 with newer versions of bison.
5224 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5225 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5226 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5227 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5228 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5229 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5230 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5231 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5232 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5233 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5234 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5235 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5236 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5238 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5239 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5240 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5241 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5242 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5246 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5248 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5249 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5250 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5251 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5252 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5253 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5254 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5255 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5256 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5257 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5258 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5259 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5260 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5261 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5262 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5264 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5265 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5266 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5267 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5268 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5269 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5270 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5271 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5272 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5273 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5275 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5276 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5277 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5278 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5279 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5281 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5283 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5284 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5286 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5287 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5288 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5289 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5290 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5291 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5293 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5296 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5297 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5298 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5299 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5300 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5301 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5302 test macros defined.
5304 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5306 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5307 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5308 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5309 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5310 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5311 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5314 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5315 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5316 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5317 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5320 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5321 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5322 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5324 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5325 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5326 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5327 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5329 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5330 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5331 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5332 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5333 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5334 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5335 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5338 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5339 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5340 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5341 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5342 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5343 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5344 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5345 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5346 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5348 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5349 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5350 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5351 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5352 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5353 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5355 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5356 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5357 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5358 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5362 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5364 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5365 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5366 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5367 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5368 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5369 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5370 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5371 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5372 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5373 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5374 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5375 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5376 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5377 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5378 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5379 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5380 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5381 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5383 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5384 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5386 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5387 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5388 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5389 extension which uses __block.
5391 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5392 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5393 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5394 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5395 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5397 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5398 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5399 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5400 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5403 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5404 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5405 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5406 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5407 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5409 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5410 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5411 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5413 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5414 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5415 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5418 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5419 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5421 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5422 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5424 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5426 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5429 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5431 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5433 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5434 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5435 for which the C library was built.
5437 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5438 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5439 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5440 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5441 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5442 in the following circumstances:
5444 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5446 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5447 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5449 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5450 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5452 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5453 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5455 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5457 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5458 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5460 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5462 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5464 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5466 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5467 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5468 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5469 disable some of those declarations.
5471 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5472 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5473 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5475 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5476 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5478 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5479 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5480 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5481 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5482 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5483 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5484 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5485 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5486 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5487 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5488 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5489 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5490 require recompilation.
5494 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5496 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5497 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5498 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5499 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5500 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5501 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5502 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5503 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5504 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5505 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5506 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5507 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5508 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5511 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5512 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5513 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5514 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5515 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5516 understands and accepts the risks.
5518 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5521 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5522 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5524 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5525 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5526 destructor calls to glibc.
5528 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5531 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5532 non-x86 architectures.
5534 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5536 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5538 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5541 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5543 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5546 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5547 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5549 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5551 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5552 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5554 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5555 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5557 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5558 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5559 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5561 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5562 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5563 attributes of a process.
5565 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5566 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5567 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5568 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5571 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5572 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5574 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5578 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5580 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5581 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5582 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5583 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5584 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5585 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5586 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5587 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5588 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5589 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5590 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5591 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5592 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5593 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5594 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5596 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5598 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5599 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5601 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5602 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5604 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5606 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5607 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5609 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5611 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5612 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5613 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5615 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5616 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5618 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5619 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5621 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5622 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5624 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5625 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5627 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5628 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5629 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5630 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5632 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5633 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5635 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5636 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5639 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5640 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5641 information in --help and --version output.
5643 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5644 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5645 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5647 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5648 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5649 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5650 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5651 when the mode is enabled.
5653 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5654 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5655 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5656 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5657 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5658 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5659 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5661 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5666 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5668 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5669 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5670 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5671 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5672 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5673 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5674 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5675 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5676 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5677 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5678 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5679 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5680 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5681 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5682 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5683 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5684 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5685 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5686 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5687 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5688 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5689 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5692 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5693 configuring glibc with:
5694 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5695 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5696 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5700 + define static_assert
5702 + do not declare gets
5704 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5706 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5707 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5708 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5711 + timespec_get added
5713 + uchar.h support added
5715 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5719 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5721 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5723 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5726 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5727 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5729 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5730 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5731 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5732 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5733 existing applications.
5735 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5736 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5739 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5740 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5741 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5743 * New locales: mag_IN
5745 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5746 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5747 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5748 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5749 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5751 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5753 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5756 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5758 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5759 without a previously built glibc.
5761 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5762 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5764 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5765 now supported for ARM processors.
5767 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5768 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5769 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5771 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5773 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5774 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5775 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5776 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5778 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5779 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5780 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5781 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5783 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5784 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5785 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5786 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5787 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5789 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5790 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5791 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5792 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5796 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5798 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5799 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5800 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5801 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5802 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5803 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5804 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5806 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5809 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5810 and support for initgroups lookups.
5811 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5813 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5814 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5816 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5817 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5819 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5820 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5821 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5823 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5824 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5826 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5827 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5828 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5830 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5833 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5834 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5836 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5837 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5839 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5840 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5842 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5843 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5845 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5846 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5848 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5850 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5851 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5854 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5856 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5860 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5862 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5863 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5864 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5865 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5866 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5867 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5868 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5869 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5870 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5871 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5873 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5874 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5875 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5876 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5878 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5879 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5880 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5881 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5883 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5884 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5886 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5887 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5889 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5891 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5892 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5894 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5895 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5896 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5897 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5901 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5903 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5904 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5905 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5906 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5909 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5911 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5913 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5914 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5915 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5919 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5921 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5922 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5923 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5924 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5925 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5926 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5927 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5928 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5930 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5932 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5934 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5936 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5937 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5938 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5940 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5941 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5942 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5943 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5944 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5946 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5950 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5952 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5953 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5954 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5955 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5956 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5957 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5959 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5963 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5964 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5966 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5967 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5969 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5971 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5972 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5973 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5974 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5976 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5977 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5979 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5981 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5983 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5984 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5986 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5987 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5989 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5990 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5992 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5993 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5994 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5995 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5996 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5997 necessity is every process again.
5998 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6000 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6001 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6003 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6004 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6006 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6007 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6008 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6010 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6014 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6016 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6017 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6018 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6019 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6020 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6022 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6023 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6025 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6026 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6028 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6029 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6031 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6034 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6035 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6037 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6038 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6040 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6041 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6043 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6044 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6046 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6047 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6048 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6050 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6052 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6053 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6055 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6056 and extend existing format specifiers.
6057 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6059 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6060 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6062 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6063 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6064 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6065 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6066 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6071 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6073 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6074 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6075 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6076 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6077 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6079 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6080 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6082 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6083 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6085 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6088 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6089 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6090 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6092 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6093 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6095 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6097 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6098 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6101 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6102 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6103 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6105 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6106 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6108 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6110 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6112 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6116 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6118 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6119 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6120 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6121 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6122 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6123 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6124 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6126 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6128 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6130 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6131 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6133 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6135 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6136 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6138 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6139 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6141 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6142 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6143 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6145 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6146 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6148 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6149 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6151 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6154 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6155 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6159 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6161 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6162 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6163 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6164 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6165 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6167 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6168 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6170 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6172 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6173 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6174 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6176 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6177 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6179 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6180 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6182 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6184 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6187 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6188 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6190 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6191 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6193 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6195 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6198 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6199 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6202 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6207 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6209 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6210 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6211 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6212 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6213 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6214 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6215 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6218 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6220 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6222 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6226 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6228 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6229 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6230 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6231 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6232 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6233 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6234 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6235 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6236 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6238 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6239 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6240 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6242 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6243 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6245 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6247 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6249 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6250 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6251 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6252 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6253 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6255 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6256 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6257 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6258 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6260 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6263 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6265 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6268 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6270 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6271 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6275 * More overflow detection functions.
6277 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6278 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6280 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6281 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6282 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6283 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6284 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6285 by Masahide Washizawa.
6287 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6288 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6290 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6291 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6292 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6293 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6295 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6296 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6298 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6300 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6301 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6302 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6304 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6305 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6307 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6308 for compatibility with some other systems.
6310 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6314 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6316 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6317 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6318 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6319 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6320 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6321 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6323 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6325 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6327 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6331 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6333 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6334 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6335 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6336 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6338 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6342 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6343 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6345 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6346 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6349 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6350 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6352 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6354 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6356 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6357 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6360 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6361 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6362 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6364 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6365 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6367 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6368 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6369 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6370 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6372 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6373 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6374 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6375 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6377 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6378 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6379 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6380 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6381 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6385 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6386 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6388 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6389 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6391 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6392 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6394 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6397 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6400 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6403 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6408 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6409 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6410 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6411 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6412 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6413 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6414 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6415 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6416 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6418 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6419 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6420 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6422 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6424 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6425 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6427 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6428 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6430 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6432 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6433 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6435 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6436 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6437 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6438 of weak definition in ld.so.
6440 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6441 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6443 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6444 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6448 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6451 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6452 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6454 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6455 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6457 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6458 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6460 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6461 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6462 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6464 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6465 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6467 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6468 implementation of regex.
6470 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6473 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6474 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6476 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6477 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6478 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6480 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6481 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6483 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6484 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6485 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6487 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6488 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6490 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6491 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6494 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6498 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6499 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6501 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6502 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6506 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6507 128-bit long double format.
6509 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6510 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6512 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6514 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6516 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6519 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6520 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6522 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6526 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6527 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6529 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6530 support Unicode 3.1.
6532 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6533 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6535 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6537 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6538 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6539 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6541 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6542 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6544 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6545 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6547 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6551 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6552 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6553 in float, double, and long double format.
6555 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6556 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6557 128-bit long double format.
6559 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6560 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6561 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6562 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6564 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6565 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6566 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6568 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6569 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6571 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6572 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6574 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6575 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6576 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6578 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6579 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6581 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6582 of functions for Linux/x86.
6584 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6588 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6589 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6590 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6591 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6592 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6593 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6596 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6597 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6599 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6600 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6601 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6602 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6604 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6609 only lists the names of the supported locales
6613 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6614 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6618 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6619 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6620 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6621 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6622 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6624 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6626 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6628 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6630 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6631 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6632 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6634 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6635 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6637 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6638 changed from the default "C" locale.
6640 * The usual bug fixes.
6644 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6645 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6648 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6650 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6652 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6653 obviously requires a database library being available.
6655 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6657 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6659 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6660 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6662 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6664 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6665 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6668 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6669 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6670 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6672 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6673 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6675 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6676 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6677 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6679 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6680 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6681 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6684 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6685 structures for the wide character tables.
6687 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6689 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6691 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6693 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6696 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6698 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6700 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6702 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6704 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6706 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6707 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6708 implemented for Linux.
6710 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6711 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6712 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6715 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6718 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6732 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6734 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6736 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6738 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6740 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6742 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6744 * Update timezone data files.
6746 * lots of charmaps corrections
6748 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6753 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6754 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6755 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6756 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6757 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6758 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6760 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6761 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6763 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6766 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6767 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6769 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6771 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6774 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6776 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6777 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6779 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6782 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6783 functions from ISO C 9X.
6785 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6786 real valued functions.
6788 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6790 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6792 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6794 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6796 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6798 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6800 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6802 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6803 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6805 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6806 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6810 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6812 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6814 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6816 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6818 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6820 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6822 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6823 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6826 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6827 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6829 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6831 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6833 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6834 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6836 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6838 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6841 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6842 latest draft standards.
6844 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6846 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6847 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6848 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6849 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6850 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6851 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6852 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6853 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6854 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6855 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6856 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6857 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6858 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6859 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6860 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6861 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6862 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6863 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6864 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6865 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6867 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6868 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6869 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6870 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6871 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6878 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6879 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6880 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6881 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6882 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6885 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6886 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6887 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6888 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6889 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6893 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6894 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6900 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6901 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6902 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6903 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6905 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6906 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6907 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6917 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6918 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6920 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6921 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6926 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6927 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6930 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6931 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6935 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6936 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6938 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6939 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6940 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6942 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6943 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6947 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6948 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6952 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6953 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6954 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6955 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6956 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6958 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6959 ferror_locked REMOVED
6960 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6961 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6962 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6963 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6964 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6965 fflush_locked REMOVED
6969 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6970 fileno_locked REMOVED
6982 fputc_locked REMOVED
6983 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6984 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6989 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6993 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6995 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6996 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7000 getchar_locked REMOVED
7002 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7003 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7005 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7006 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7007 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7008 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7009 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7010 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7011 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7012 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7013 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7014 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7015 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7016 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7017 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7018 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7020 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7021 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7022 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7023 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7024 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7025 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7026 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7027 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7028 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7029 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7030 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7031 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7032 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7033 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7034 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7035 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7036 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7037 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7038 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7039 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7040 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7041 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7042 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7043 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7044 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7045 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7050 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7051 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7052 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7053 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7054 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7056 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7057 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7060 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7064 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7065 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7066 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7067 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7068 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7069 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7070 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7071 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7075 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7077 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7078 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7081 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7082 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7083 profil_counter REMOVED
7084 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7085 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7086 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7087 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7089 putchar_locked REMOVED
7090 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7092 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7093 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7097 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7098 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7099 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7100 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7102 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7103 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7105 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7106 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7107 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7109 sendfile NEW: kernel
7110 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7111 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7112 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7114 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7115 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7116 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7117 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7118 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7119 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7120 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7121 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7122 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7126 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7127 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7128 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7129 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7130 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7131 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7132 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7133 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7134 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7135 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7136 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7137 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7138 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7142 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7143 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7145 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7146 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7147 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7148 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7149 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7150 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7152 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7153 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7154 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7155 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7156 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7157 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7158 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7160 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7161 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7162 write_profiling REMOVED
7163 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7164 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7165 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7166 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7167 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7168 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7169 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7170 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7171 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7172 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7173 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7174 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7175 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7176 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7177 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7178 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7189 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7191 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7193 * rewrite of cbrt function
7195 * update of timezone data
7209 * add atoll function
7211 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7213 * fix math functions
7217 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7219 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7221 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7222 the ELF dynamic loader.
7224 * support for parallel builds is improved
7228 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7229 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7232 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7233 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7234 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7235 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7236 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7237 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7238 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7239 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7240 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7241 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7242 files in the ELF format.
7244 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7245 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7247 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7248 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7249 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7250 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7251 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7252 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7253 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7254 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7255 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7256 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7257 about dynamically linked binaries.
7259 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7260 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7261 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7262 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7263 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7265 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7266 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7267 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7268 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7269 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7271 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7273 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7274 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7275 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7276 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7277 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7278 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7279 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7280 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7281 NSS services available.
7283 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7284 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7285 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7287 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7288 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7289 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7291 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7292 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7293 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7294 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7296 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7297 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7298 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7300 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7301 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7302 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7304 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7305 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7307 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7308 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7309 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7310 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7312 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7313 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7314 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7316 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7317 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7318 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7319 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7320 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7321 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7322 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7323 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7325 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7326 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7327 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7328 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7329 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7330 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7331 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7333 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7334 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7335 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7336 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7337 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7338 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7340 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7341 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7343 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7344 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7345 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7347 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7349 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7350 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7351 their use is discouraged.
7353 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7354 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7356 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7357 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7359 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7360 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7362 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7365 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7366 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7367 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7368 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7369 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7371 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7372 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7373 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7374 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7376 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7377 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7379 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7380 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7381 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7382 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7385 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7386 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7388 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7389 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7391 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7392 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7393 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7394 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7396 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7398 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7399 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7400 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7402 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7403 for arithmetic and string handling.
7405 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7406 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7407 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7408 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7410 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7411 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7412 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7413 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7414 programs already written to use it.)
7416 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7419 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7422 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7423 a given effective group ID.
7425 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7426 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7427 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7428 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7430 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7431 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7432 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7433 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7434 doing the same thing.
7436 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7437 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7439 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7440 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7442 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7444 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7445 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7446 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7447 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7448 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7450 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7451 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7453 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7454 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7455 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7458 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7460 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7461 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7464 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7465 and writing the utmp file.
7467 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7470 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7471 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7472 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7474 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7475 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7477 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7478 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7481 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7482 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7483 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7484 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7486 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7487 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7488 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7490 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7491 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7492 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7495 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7498 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7501 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7503 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7504 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7505 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7509 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7511 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7512 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7514 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7515 want to put themselves in the background.
7517 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7518 run without an operating system.
7520 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7521 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7523 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7524 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7526 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7528 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7529 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7532 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7535 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7536 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7540 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7541 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7542 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7544 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7545 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7547 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7548 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7550 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7552 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7554 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7557 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7558 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7559 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7561 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7563 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7564 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7565 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7567 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7568 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7569 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7570 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7571 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7574 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7575 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7576 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7577 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7578 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7581 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7582 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7586 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7587 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7589 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7590 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7591 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7593 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7594 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7595 address of the last character written.
7597 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7598 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7600 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7601 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7603 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7604 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7605 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7606 you dereference this pointer.
7608 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7609 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7611 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7612 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7613 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7614 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7616 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7617 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7618 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7619 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7623 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7624 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7625 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7626 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7627 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7629 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7631 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7633 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7634 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7636 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7637 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7639 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7640 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7642 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7643 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7644 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7645 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7646 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7648 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7649 to the error code in `errno'.
7651 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7652 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7653 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7656 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7657 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7658 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7660 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7661 uniquely-named temporary file.
7665 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7666 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7667 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7669 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7672 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7673 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7675 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7679 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7680 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7681 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7682 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7684 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7685 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7686 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7688 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7689 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7691 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7692 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7693 made itself into a shared library.
7695 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7696 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7698 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7699 with limited length.
7701 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7703 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7705 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7707 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7708 function for traversing a directory tree.
7710 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7711 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7712 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7713 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7715 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7716 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7718 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7720 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7721 things to your strings.
7723 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7725 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7726 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7727 supporting those systems.
7729 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7730 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7731 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7732 configuration files.
7734 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7735 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7737 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7738 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7741 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7742 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7743 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7744 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7745 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7746 required storage is not available.
7748 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7749 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7751 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7752 latest files released from Berkeley.
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7763 of this document, or of portions of it,
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