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12 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
13 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
14 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
15 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
17 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
18 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
19 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
20 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
21 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
23 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
24 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
25 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
26 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
27 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
28 posix_spawn interface.
30 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
31 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
32 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
34 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
35 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
36 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
37 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
38 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
39 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
41 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
42 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
43 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
46 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
47 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
48 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
49 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
50 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
51 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
52 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
53 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
55 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
57 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
58 ".tmp", to avoid examining temporary files created by the RPM and dpkg
61 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
62 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
63 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
64 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
65 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
66 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
67 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
69 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
70 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
71 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
72 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
74 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
75 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
76 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
77 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
80 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
82 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
85 Security related changes:
87 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
88 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
90 [The release manager will add the list generated by
91 scripts/process-fixed-cves.sh just before the release.]
93 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
95 [The release manager will add the list generated by
96 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
102 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
103 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
104 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
105 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
106 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
107 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
108 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
109 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
110 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
111 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
112 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
114 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
117 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
118 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
119 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
120 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
121 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
122 specified in draft ISO C2X.
124 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
125 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
127 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
128 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
132 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
133 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
134 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
135 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
136 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
138 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
139 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
141 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
142 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
143 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
144 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
145 original behavior unchanged.
147 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
149 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
150 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
151 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
152 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
154 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
155 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
156 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
157 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
158 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
159 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
161 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
162 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
163 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
165 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
166 feature is now always enabled.
168 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
170 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
173 Security related changes:
175 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
176 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
177 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
178 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
179 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
180 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
182 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
184 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
185 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
187 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
188 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
189 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
190 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
192 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
193 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
195 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
196 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
197 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
198 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
199 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
200 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
202 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
203 symlink for libraries without soname
204 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
206 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
207 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
208 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
209 profiling data correctly
210 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
211 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
212 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
213 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
215 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
216 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
217 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
219 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
220 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
222 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
223 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
224 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
230 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
231 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
232 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
233 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
235 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
237 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
238 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
239 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
240 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
242 Security related changes:
244 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
245 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
246 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
247 portion of the contents of the heap.
249 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
251 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
252 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
253 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
254 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
255 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
256 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
257 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
259 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
260 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
262 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
263 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
264 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
265 gethostbyname and other functions
266 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
267 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
268 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
270 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
271 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
273 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
274 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
276 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
278 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
279 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
280 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
281 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
282 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
283 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
284 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
286 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
287 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
289 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
291 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
293 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
294 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
295 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
296 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
297 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
299 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
300 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
301 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
302 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
304 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
306 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
307 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
308 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
310 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
312 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
314 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
315 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
316 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
317 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
318 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
319 aux.S: No such file or directory)
320 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
321 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
322 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
323 coincides with offset change
324 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
325 length in fortify mode
331 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
332 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
333 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
334 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
335 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
336 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
338 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
339 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
340 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
342 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
343 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
346 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
347 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
348 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
349 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
351 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
352 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
353 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
354 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
355 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
356 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
357 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
358 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
359 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
360 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
361 validation by applications.
363 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
364 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
365 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
366 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
369 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
370 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
371 unpredictable output.
373 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
374 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
375 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
376 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
377 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
378 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
379 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
380 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
382 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
383 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
384 quality randomness from the kernel.
386 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
387 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
390 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
392 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
394 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
396 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
397 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
398 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
400 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
401 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
402 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
403 when libc.so is issued directly.
405 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
407 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
409 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
410 return different result with versioned "foo"
411 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
413 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
414 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
415 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
417 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
418 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
419 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
421 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
423 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
425 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
426 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
427 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
428 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
429 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
430 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
431 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
433 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
435 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
436 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
437 (breaks test isolation)
438 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
439 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
440 __convert_scm_timestamps
441 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
442 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
443 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
445 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
446 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
447 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
448 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
449 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
450 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
451 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
453 [28936] build: nm: No such file
454 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
455 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
457 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
459 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
460 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
461 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
463 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
465 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
466 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
467 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
468 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
469 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
470 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
471 is promoted to global scope
472 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
473 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
474 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
476 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
478 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
480 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
481 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
482 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
483 before '__fortified_attr_access'
484 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
485 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
486 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
487 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
488 value for filling after \0
489 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
490 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
491 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
493 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
494 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
495 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
496 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
497 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
498 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
499 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
501 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
502 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
503 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
504 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
505 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
506 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
507 missing on microblaze with largefile
513 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
514 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
515 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
517 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
518 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
520 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
521 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
522 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
523 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
524 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
525 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
526 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
527 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
528 glibc, and must be installed.
530 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
531 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
532 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
534 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
535 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
537 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
540 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
541 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
542 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
543 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
544 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
545 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
547 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
548 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
549 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
552 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
553 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
555 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
558 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
560 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
561 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
562 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
564 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
565 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
566 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
567 object dependency cases.
569 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
570 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
571 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
572 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
574 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
575 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
576 return value is only used for its boolean status.
578 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
579 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
580 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
581 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
582 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
583 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
584 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
585 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
586 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
587 Restartable Sequences.
589 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
590 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
592 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
593 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
594 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
595 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
596 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
597 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
598 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
601 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
602 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
603 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
604 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
605 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
608 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
609 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
611 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
612 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
615 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
616 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
621 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
622 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
624 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
625 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
626 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
627 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
628 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
630 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
631 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
633 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
634 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
635 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
637 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
638 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
639 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
640 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
643 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
644 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
646 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
648 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
649 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
650 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
652 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
653 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
655 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
656 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
658 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
660 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
662 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
663 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
664 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
666 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
667 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
668 catching coredumps and backtraces.
670 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
671 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
672 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
674 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
675 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
676 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
678 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
679 support prelink PIE binaries.
681 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
683 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
684 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
685 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
686 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
687 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
689 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
690 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
691 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
692 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
694 Security related changes:
696 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
697 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
698 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
700 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
701 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
703 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
704 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
705 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
707 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
708 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
709 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
710 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
711 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
713 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
715 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
716 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
717 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
718 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
720 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
721 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
723 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
725 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
726 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
727 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
728 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
729 ID whose lifetime has not ended
730 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
732 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
734 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
735 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
736 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
737 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
738 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
739 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
740 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
741 --enable-initfini-array
742 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
743 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
744 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
745 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
746 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
747 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
749 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
750 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
751 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
753 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
754 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
755 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
757 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
758 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
760 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
761 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
762 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
764 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
765 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
766 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
767 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
768 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
769 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
770 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
772 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
774 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
775 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
777 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
778 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
779 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
780 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
781 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
782 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
783 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
785 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
787 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
788 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
789 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
790 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
792 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
793 systems with TIMESIZE=64
794 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
795 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
796 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
797 spurious NUL character on state reset
798 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
800 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
801 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
803 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
804 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
806 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
807 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
808 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
809 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
810 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
811 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
813 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
815 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
816 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
817 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
818 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
820 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
821 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
822 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
823 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
824 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
825 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
826 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
827 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
828 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
829 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
830 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
831 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
832 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
833 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
835 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
837 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
838 results (CVE-2021-3998)
839 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
841 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
842 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
844 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
846 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
847 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
848 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
855 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
856 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
857 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
858 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
859 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
860 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
861 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
862 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
863 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
864 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
865 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
866 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
867 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
868 potentially exposing application bugs.
870 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
871 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
872 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
873 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
875 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
876 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
877 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
878 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
879 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
882 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
883 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
884 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
886 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
887 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
888 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
889 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
891 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
893 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
894 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
895 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
896 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
897 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
899 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
900 --disable-scv configure option.
902 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
903 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
904 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
905 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
906 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
907 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
910 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
911 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
912 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
913 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
914 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
915 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
918 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
919 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
921 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
922 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
923 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
924 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
925 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
926 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
927 is currently a GNU extension.
929 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
930 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
932 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
933 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
934 although it is also present in other systems.
936 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
937 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
938 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
939 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
941 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
942 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
943 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
945 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
947 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
948 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
951 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
952 programs should use the equivalent standard function
953 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
955 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
956 programs should use the equivalent standard function
957 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
959 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
960 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
962 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
964 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
965 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
966 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
967 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
968 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
969 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
970 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
971 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
972 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
973 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
974 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
976 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
977 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
978 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
979 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
980 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
981 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
982 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
983 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
985 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
986 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
987 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
988 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
989 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
990 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
991 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
993 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
994 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
995 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
996 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
997 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
998 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
999 upgrade or downgrade process.
1001 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1002 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1003 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1005 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1006 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1007 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1008 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1010 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1011 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1012 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1013 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1014 this functionality back.
1016 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1017 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1018 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1019 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1021 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1022 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1023 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1024 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1025 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1026 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1027 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1028 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1029 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1031 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1033 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1034 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1035 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1036 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1038 Security related changes:
1040 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1041 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1042 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1043 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1045 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1046 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1047 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1049 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1050 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1051 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1053 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1055 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1056 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1057 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1058 given integer (closefrom)
1059 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1060 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1061 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1062 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1063 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1064 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1065 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1067 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1068 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1069 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1070 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1071 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1072 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1073 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1075 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1076 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1077 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1078 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1079 pthread_create and dlopen
1080 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1081 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1082 when non-root user changes priority
1083 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1085 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1086 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1087 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1089 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1090 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1092 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1093 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1094 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1095 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1097 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1098 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1099 the right free implementation
1100 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1101 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1102 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1103 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1104 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1106 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1107 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1108 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1109 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1110 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1111 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1112 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1114 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1115 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1117 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1118 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1119 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1120 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1121 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1122 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1124 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1125 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1126 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1127 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1128 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1129 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1130 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1131 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1133 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1134 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1136 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1137 information for the current directory
1138 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1139 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1140 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1141 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1142 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1144 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1145 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1146 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1147 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1149 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1150 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1151 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1152 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1153 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1154 tries resolving them lazily
1155 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1157 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1158 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1160 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1161 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1162 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1164 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1166 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1167 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1168 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1170 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1171 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1172 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1173 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1174 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1175 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1176 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1177 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1178 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1179 with n >= 0x80000000
1180 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1181 thread never allocated anything
1182 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1183 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1184 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1185 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1186 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1188 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1189 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1190 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1192 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1200 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1201 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1202 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1204 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1205 to change argv[0] string.
1207 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1208 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1209 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1210 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1211 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1212 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1213 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1214 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1215 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1217 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1218 information and library search path diagnostics.
1220 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1221 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1222 larger than fit in an integer.
1224 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1226 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1227 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1233 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1236 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1237 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1238 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1239 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1242 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1244 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1247 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1248 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1249 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1251 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1252 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1253 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1256 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1257 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1258 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1260 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1261 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1262 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1263 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1264 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1265 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1267 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1268 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1269 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1270 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1271 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1272 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1275 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1277 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1278 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1279 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1280 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1281 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1282 perform any adjustments.
1284 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1285 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1286 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1287 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1289 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1291 Security related changes:
1293 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1294 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1295 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1296 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1297 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1299 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1300 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1301 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1303 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1304 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1306 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1307 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1309 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1311 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1312 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1313 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1314 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1316 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1317 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1318 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1319 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1320 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1322 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1324 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1326 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1327 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1328 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1329 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1330 changing gnuc version
1331 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1333 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1335 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1336 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1337 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1338 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1339 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1340 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1341 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1342 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1343 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1344 too much stack space
1345 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1346 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1347 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1349 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1351 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1352 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1354 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1355 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1356 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1357 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1358 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1360 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1361 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1362 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1364 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1365 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1366 at the end of a memory mapping
1367 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1368 by the caller to the kernel
1369 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1370 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1371 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1372 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1374 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1375 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1376 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1377 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1378 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1379 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1380 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1382 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1383 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1384 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1385 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1387 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1389 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1391 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1392 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1393 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1394 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1396 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1398 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1399 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1400 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1402 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1404 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1406 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1408 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1409 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1410 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1411 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1413 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1415 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1417 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1418 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1419 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1421 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1422 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1423 [27177] dynamic-link:
1424 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1426 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1427 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1428 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1429 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1436 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1437 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1438 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1440 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1442 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1443 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1444 Three ABIs are supported:
1450 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1451 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1453 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1454 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1456 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1457 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1458 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1461 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1462 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1463 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1465 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1466 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1467 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1469 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1470 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1471 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1472 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1475 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1476 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1477 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1478 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1479 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1480 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1482 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1483 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1485 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1486 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1487 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1488 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1489 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1490 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1492 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1493 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1495 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1496 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1497 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1498 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1499 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1500 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1501 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1502 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1503 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1504 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1505 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1508 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1510 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1511 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1512 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1513 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1514 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1515 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1516 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1518 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1519 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1520 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1521 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1522 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1523 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1524 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1525 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1526 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1528 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1529 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1530 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1531 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1532 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1534 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1535 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1536 was not declared in any header file.
1538 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1539 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1540 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1541 sigaction functions instead.
1543 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1544 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1546 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1547 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1548 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1549 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1552 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1553 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1554 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1555 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1556 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1558 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1559 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1560 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1561 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1563 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1564 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1565 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1566 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1567 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1568 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1569 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1571 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1572 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1573 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1574 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1575 flavor of secure RPC.)
1577 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1578 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1579 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1580 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1581 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1582 object, to enable the hooks.
1584 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1585 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1586 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1589 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1591 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1592 long double redirects.
1594 Security related changes:
1596 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1597 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1598 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1600 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1601 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1602 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1604 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1605 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1607 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1608 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1609 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1612 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1614 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1615 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1616 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1617 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1618 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1619 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1620 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1621 filtee has constructor
1622 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1623 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1624 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1625 character entities for infinity & pi
1626 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1627 segfaults in applications
1628 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1629 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1630 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1631 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1632 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1633 function with -mlong-double-64
1634 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1636 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1638 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1639 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1640 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1641 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1642 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1643 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1645 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1646 dynamically loaded dsos
1647 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1648 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1650 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1651 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1652 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1653 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1654 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1655 stale configuration forever
1656 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1658 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1660 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1661 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1663 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1664 on 32 bit and old kernel
1665 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1666 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1668 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1669 amount of sigset_t bytes
1670 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1672 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1673 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1674 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1675 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1676 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1677 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1678 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1679 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1680 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1681 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1683 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1684 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1685 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1686 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1687 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1688 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1689 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1691 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1692 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1694 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1695 exiting detached thread
1696 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1698 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1700 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1701 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1702 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1703 dependencies in audit mode
1704 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1705 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1706 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1707 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1708 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1710 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1711 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1713 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1714 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1716 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1717 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1718 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1719 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1720 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1721 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1722 corruption in memset
1729 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1730 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1731 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1732 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1733 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1734 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1736 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1737 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1738 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1739 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1741 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1742 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1743 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1745 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1747 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1748 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1749 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1750 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1751 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1752 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1753 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1754 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1756 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1758 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1759 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1760 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1761 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1762 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1763 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1765 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1766 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1767 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1769 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1770 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1771 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1772 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1774 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1775 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1776 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1777 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1778 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1779 made this no longer practical.
1781 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1782 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1783 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1784 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1787 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1788 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1789 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1791 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1792 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1793 using clock_gettime instead.
1795 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1796 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1797 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1798 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1799 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1801 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1802 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1803 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1804 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1806 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1807 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1808 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1809 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1810 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1811 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1813 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1814 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1815 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1816 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1819 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1820 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1821 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1823 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1826 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1827 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1828 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1829 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1830 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1832 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1833 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1834 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1835 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1836 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1837 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1838 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1839 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1841 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1842 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1844 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1845 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1846 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1847 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1848 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1849 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1851 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1853 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1854 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1855 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1857 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1858 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1859 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1861 Security related changes:
1863 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1864 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1866 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1867 environment variable during program execution after a security
1868 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1869 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1870 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1872 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1874 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1875 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1876 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1877 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1878 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1879 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1880 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1881 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1883 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1884 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1885 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1886 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1887 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1888 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1889 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1890 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1891 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1892 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1894 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1896 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1897 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1898 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1899 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1900 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1901 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1902 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1904 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1906 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1907 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1908 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1909 (stringop-overflow error)
1910 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1911 functions other can lead to crashes
1912 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1913 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1915 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1916 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1917 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1918 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1919 still can fail with an error
1920 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1921 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1922 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1923 initialized correctly
1924 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1926 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1927 value to an unsigned
1928 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1929 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1930 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1932 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1934 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1936 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1938 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1939 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1940 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1942 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1943 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1945 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1946 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1947 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1948 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1949 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1950 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1957 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1958 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1959 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1961 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1962 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1964 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1965 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1966 to the callback function.
1968 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1970 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1971 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1974 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1976 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1977 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1978 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1979 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1980 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1982 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1983 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1984 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1985 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1986 link time reference, is gone.
1988 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1989 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1990 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1991 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1992 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1993 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1994 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1995 the clock choice at initialization time).
1997 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1998 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1999 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2001 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2003 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2004 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2005 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2006 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2007 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2008 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2009 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2010 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2011 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2013 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2014 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2015 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2016 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2019 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2020 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2022 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2023 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2025 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2026 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2028 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2031 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2032 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2033 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2035 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2036 header have been removed.
2038 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2039 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2040 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2041 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2043 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2045 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2047 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2048 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2050 Security related changes:
2052 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2053 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2054 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2055 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2056 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2057 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2058 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2060 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2061 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2062 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2064 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2066 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2067 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2068 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2069 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2070 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2071 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2072 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2073 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2074 invalid input drops valid char
2075 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2076 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2077 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2078 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2079 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2081 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2082 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2083 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2084 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2086 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2087 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2088 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2089 for long double = double
2090 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2091 long double = double
2092 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2093 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2094 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2096 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2097 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2099 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2100 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2101 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2102 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2103 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2104 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2105 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2106 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2107 not the default "nor"
2108 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2109 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2110 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2111 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2113 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2114 unnecessary librt dependencies
2115 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2116 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2117 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2118 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2120 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2121 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2123 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2124 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2125 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2126 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2127 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2128 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2129 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2130 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2131 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2132 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2133 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2134 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2136 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2138 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2139 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2141 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2142 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2143 kernels and break testing
2144 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2145 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2146 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2147 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2148 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2149 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2150 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2152 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2153 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2155 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2157 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2158 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2159 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2160 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2161 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2162 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2163 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2164 always implemented in the same library
2165 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2166 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2167 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2175 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2176 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2178 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2179 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2180 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2181 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2182 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2183 configured location.
2185 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2187 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2188 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2190 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2191 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2192 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2193 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2194 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2195 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2196 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2197 process actually does not use HTM).
2199 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2200 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2201 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2202 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2203 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2206 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2207 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2208 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2209 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2210 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2212 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2213 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2215 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2216 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2218 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2219 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2220 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2221 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2222 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2223 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2224 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2226 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2227 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2228 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2230 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2232 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2233 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2235 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2236 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2237 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2238 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2240 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2241 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2242 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2243 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2246 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2247 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2248 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2249 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2250 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2251 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2253 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2254 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2255 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2256 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2257 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2259 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2260 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2261 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2263 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2265 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2267 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2268 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2270 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2271 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2273 Security related changes:
2275 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2276 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2277 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2279 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2280 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2281 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2282 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2283 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2285 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2286 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2287 or command injection issues in applications.
2289 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2291 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2292 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2293 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2295 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2296 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2297 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2299 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2300 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2301 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2302 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2303 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2304 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2305 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2306 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2307 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2308 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2309 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2310 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2311 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2312 pointer argument is non-NULL
2313 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2314 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2315 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2316 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2317 multithreads call popen
2318 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2319 and pthread_create fails.
2320 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2321 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2323 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2324 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2325 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2327 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2329 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2331 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2332 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2334 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2335 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2336 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2337 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2338 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2339 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2340 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2342 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2343 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2344 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2346 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2347 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2348 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2349 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2351 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2353 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2354 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2355 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2356 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2358 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2360 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2361 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2362 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2364 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2365 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2366 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2367 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2368 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2369 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2371 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2372 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2373 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2374 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2375 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2376 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2377 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2378 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2379 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2380 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2381 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2382 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2383 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2384 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2386 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2387 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2388 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2389 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2390 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2392 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2393 nearest rounding mode
2394 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2395 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2396 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2397 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2398 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2399 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2400 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2401 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2402 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2404 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2405 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2407 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2408 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2409 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2410 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2412 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2414 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2416 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2418 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2419 answers will be rejected)
2420 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2427 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2428 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2429 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2430 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2431 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2432 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2433 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2434 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2435 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2436 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2437 archive or binary locales.
2439 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2440 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2441 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2442 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2443 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2444 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2445 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2446 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2447 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2448 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2449 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2452 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2453 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2454 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2455 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2456 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2457 field) to indicate such support is required.
2459 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2460 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2461 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2463 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2464 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2466 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2467 fMxaddfNx functions.
2469 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2470 fMxsubfNx functions.
2472 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2473 fMxmulfNx functions.
2475 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2476 fMxdivfNx functions.
2478 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2479 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2480 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2481 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2484 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2485 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2487 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2490 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2491 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2492 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2493 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2494 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2495 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2496 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2497 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2499 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2500 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2501 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2502 the fstatat64 function.
2504 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2505 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2506 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2507 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2508 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2509 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2510 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2511 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2512 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2514 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2515 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2516 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2517 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2518 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2519 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2520 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2521 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2522 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2523 results in a load failure now.
2525 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2526 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2529 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2530 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2532 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2533 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2535 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2537 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2538 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2540 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2542 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2544 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2546 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2547 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2548 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2550 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2551 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2552 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2553 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2554 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2555 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2557 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2558 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2559 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2560 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2561 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2562 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2565 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2566 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2567 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2568 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2569 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2570 further explanation.
2572 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2573 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2574 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2576 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2578 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2579 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2580 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2582 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2583 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2584 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2585 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2587 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2588 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2589 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2590 for this function instead.
2592 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2593 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2594 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2596 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2597 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2598 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2599 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2601 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2602 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2603 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2604 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2605 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2607 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2608 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2609 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2610 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2611 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2612 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2615 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2616 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2617 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2620 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2621 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2622 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2624 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2625 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2626 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2627 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2628 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2629 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2631 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2632 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2633 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2634 behavior in a future release.
2636 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2638 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2640 Security related changes:
2642 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2643 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2644 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2645 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2647 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2648 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2650 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2651 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2654 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2655 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2656 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2658 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2660 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2661 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2662 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2663 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2664 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2665 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2666 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2667 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2668 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2670 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2671 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2672 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2673 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2674 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2676 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2678 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2679 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2680 scope with -O1 and higher
2681 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2682 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2683 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2684 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2685 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2686 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2687 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2688 horrible machine code)
2689 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2691 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2692 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2694 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2695 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2697 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2698 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2699 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2700 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2701 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2703 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2704 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2705 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2706 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2707 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2709 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2710 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2711 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2713 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2714 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2715 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2716 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2717 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2718 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2719 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2720 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2721 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2722 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2723 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2724 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2725 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2727 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2729 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2730 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2731 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2732 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2733 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2734 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2735 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2736 for Spanish with CLDR
2737 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2738 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2739 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2740 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2741 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2742 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2744 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2746 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2747 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2748 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2749 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2751 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2752 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2753 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2754 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2755 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2756 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2757 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2758 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2759 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2760 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2761 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2762 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2763 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2764 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2765 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2766 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2767 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2769 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2770 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2772 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2773 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2774 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2775 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2776 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2777 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2779 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2781 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2782 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2783 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2784 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2785 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2786 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2787 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2788 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2789 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2790 and libc build with -Os)
2791 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2792 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2793 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2794 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2795 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2796 that changes /etc/passwd
2797 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2799 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2800 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2801 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2803 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2804 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2805 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2806 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2807 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2809 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2810 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2812 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2813 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2814 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2815 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2817 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2818 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2819 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2820 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2822 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2824 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2826 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2828 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2830 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2831 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2832 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2833 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2834 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2835 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2836 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2837 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2839 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2846 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2847 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2848 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2849 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2850 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2851 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2852 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2853 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2854 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2856 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2857 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2860 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2862 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2864 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2865 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2866 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2867 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2868 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2869 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2870 from a security and performance perspective.
2872 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2873 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2874 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2875 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2877 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2878 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2879 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2880 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2881 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2883 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2884 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2885 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2886 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2889 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2890 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2891 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2893 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2895 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2896 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2899 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2901 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2903 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2904 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2905 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2907 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2908 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2909 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2910 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2911 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2912 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2913 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2915 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2916 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2917 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2918 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2919 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2920 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2921 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2923 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2924 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2925 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2926 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2929 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2930 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2931 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2932 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2934 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2935 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2936 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2938 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2939 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2940 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2942 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2943 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2944 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2950 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2952 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2953 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2954 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2955 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2956 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2957 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2958 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2959 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2960 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2963 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2964 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2965 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2967 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2968 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2969 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2970 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2971 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2972 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2973 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2974 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2975 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2976 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2977 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2978 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2979 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2980 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2981 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2982 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2983 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2984 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2985 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2986 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2987 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2988 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2989 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2990 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2991 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2992 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2994 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2995 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2997 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2998 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2999 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3000 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3001 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3002 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3003 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3005 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3006 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3007 exp10l for these functions instead.
3009 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3010 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3011 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3013 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3014 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3017 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3018 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3019 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3020 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3022 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3023 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3025 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3026 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3028 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3031 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3033 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3034 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3035 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3038 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3039 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3040 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3041 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3042 use, but predates the bits convention.
3044 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3046 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3049 Security related changes:
3051 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3052 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3053 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3054 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3057 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3058 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3059 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3060 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3062 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3063 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3064 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3067 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3068 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3069 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3071 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3072 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3073 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3074 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3076 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3077 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3078 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3081 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3082 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3083 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3084 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3085 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3087 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3088 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3091 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3092 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3093 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3095 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3096 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3097 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3099 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3100 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3101 small, instead of NULL.
3103 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3105 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3106 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3107 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3109 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3110 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3111 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3113 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3114 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3115 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3116 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3117 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3118 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3119 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3120 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3121 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3123 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3124 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3125 width Latin characters
3126 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3127 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3128 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3130 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3131 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3133 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3134 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3135 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3136 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3137 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3139 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3140 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3141 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3142 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3143 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3144 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3145 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3146 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3147 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3148 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3150 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3151 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3152 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3153 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3154 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3155 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3156 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3157 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3159 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3160 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3162 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3163 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3165 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3166 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3167 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3168 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3169 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3170 __regcall calling convention
3171 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3172 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3173 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3174 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3175 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3176 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3177 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3178 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3179 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3180 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3181 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3182 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3183 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3185 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3187 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3189 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3190 consistency check failures
3191 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3192 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3193 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3194 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3196 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3198 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3199 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3200 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3201 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3202 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3203 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3204 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3205 on memory allocation failure
3206 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3207 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3209 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3211 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3212 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3213 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3214 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3215 instead of EAI_NODATA
3216 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3217 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3218 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3219 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3221 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3222 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3223 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3224 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3225 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3226 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3227 allocation in syscall loops)
3228 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3229 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3230 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3231 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3232 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3233 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3234 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3235 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3236 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3238 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3239 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3240 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3242 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3243 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3245 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3247 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3248 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3249 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3250 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3251 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3252 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3253 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3254 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3255 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3256 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3257 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3258 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3259 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3260 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3261 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3262 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3263 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3264 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3266 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3268 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3269 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3271 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3272 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3273 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3274 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3276 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3277 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3278 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3279 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3280 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3281 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3282 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3283 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3284 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3285 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3286 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3288 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3289 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3290 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3291 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3292 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3293 the svid compat wrapper
3294 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3295 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3296 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3297 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3298 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3299 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3301 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3302 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3304 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3305 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3306 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3307 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3308 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3309 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3311 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3312 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3313 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3314 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3316 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3317 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3319 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3320 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3321 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3322 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3323 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3324 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3325 inside the ASCII printable range
3326 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3328 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3329 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3330 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3332 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3333 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3335 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3336 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3337 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3339 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3340 networking interface
3341 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3342 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3343 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3344 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3345 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3346 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3347 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3348 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3349 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3351 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3352 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3353 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3354 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3355 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3356 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3357 same as for Croatian
3358 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3359 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3360 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3362 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3364 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3365 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3366 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3367 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3368 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3370 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3371 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3372 modified in case of success
3373 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3374 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3376 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3378 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3379 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3380 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3381 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3382 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3383 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3384 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3385 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3387 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3388 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3389 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3390 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3391 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3392 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3393 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3394 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3395 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3397 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3398 elision and tunables
3399 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3401 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3402 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3403 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3405 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3406 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3408 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3409 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3410 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3411 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3412 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3413 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3414 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3415 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3416 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3423 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3424 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3425 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3426 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3427 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3428 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3429 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3431 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3432 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3433 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3434 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3435 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3436 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3437 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3439 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3440 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3443 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3445 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3446 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3447 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3449 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3450 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3451 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3452 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3453 object are still limited to six search domains.
3455 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3456 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3457 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3459 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3460 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3462 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3463 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3464 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3465 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3467 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3468 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3469 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3470 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3472 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3473 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3474 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3475 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3477 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3478 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3479 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3481 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3482 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3483 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3484 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3486 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3487 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3488 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3489 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3490 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3492 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3493 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3494 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3495 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3496 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3497 interfaces should be used instead.
3499 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3501 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3502 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3503 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3504 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3505 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3506 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3507 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3508 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3510 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3513 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3514 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3515 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3516 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3518 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3519 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3522 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3523 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3524 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3525 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3526 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3528 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3529 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3530 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3531 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3533 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3534 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3535 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3536 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3538 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3539 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3541 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3542 exported by accident.
3544 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3545 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3546 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3548 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3549 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3550 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3551 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3553 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3555 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3557 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3560 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3561 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3563 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3564 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3566 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3567 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3568 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3569 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3570 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3571 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3572 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3573 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3575 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3576 synced with the kernel:
3578 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3579 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3581 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3582 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3583 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3585 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3586 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3588 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3590 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3591 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3594 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3596 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3597 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3599 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3600 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3601 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3602 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3603 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3605 Security related changes:
3607 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3608 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3610 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3611 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3613 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3614 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3617 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3618 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3620 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3622 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3623 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3624 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3626 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3628 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3629 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3630 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3632 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3633 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3634 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3635 x86 and other generic code
3636 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3637 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3639 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3640 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3641 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3642 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3643 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3644 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3645 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3647 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3648 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3649 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3650 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3652 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3653 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3655 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3657 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3658 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3659 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3661 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3662 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3663 failures consistently
3664 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3665 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3666 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3667 frame-pointer on i386
3668 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3670 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3671 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3672 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3673 generic c code is used
3674 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3675 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3677 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3679 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3680 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3682 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3683 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3684 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3685 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3686 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3687 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3688 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3689 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3690 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3691 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3693 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3695 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3696 new posix_spawn implementation
3697 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3698 leads to lower CPU frequency
3699 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3700 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3701 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3702 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3703 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3704 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3705 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3706 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3707 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3708 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3709 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3710 not support gethostbyname4_r
3711 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3713 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3715 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3716 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3717 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3718 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3719 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3720 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3721 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3723 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3724 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3725 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3726 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3727 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3728 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3729 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3730 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3731 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3732 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3733 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3734 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3736 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3737 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3738 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3739 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3740 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3741 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3742 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3743 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3745 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3746 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3747 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3748 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3749 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3750 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3751 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3752 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3753 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3754 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3755 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3756 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3757 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3758 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3759 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3760 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3761 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3762 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3763 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3764 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3765 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3767 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3768 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3769 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3770 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3771 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3773 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3774 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3776 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3777 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3779 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3780 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3782 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3783 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3784 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3785 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3787 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3788 leading to relocation crash
3789 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3790 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3791 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3792 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3793 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3794 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3795 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3796 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3797 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3799 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3801 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3802 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3803 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3804 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3805 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3806 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3807 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3808 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3810 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3812 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3814 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3815 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3816 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3817 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3818 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3819 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3820 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3821 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3822 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3823 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3824 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3825 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3826 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3827 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3828 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3829 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3830 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3831 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3832 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3833 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3834 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3835 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3836 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3837 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3838 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3839 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3840 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3842 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3843 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3844 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3845 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3846 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3851 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3852 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3853 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3856 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3857 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3858 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3861 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3862 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3863 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3866 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3867 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3868 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3869 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3870 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3871 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3872 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3875 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3876 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3879 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3880 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3881 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3883 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3884 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3885 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3886 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3889 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3890 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3891 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3893 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3894 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3895 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3896 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3897 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3898 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3899 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3900 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3901 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3902 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3903 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3906 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3908 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3910 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3911 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3912 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3914 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3915 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3917 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3920 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3922 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3924 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3925 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3927 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3929 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3930 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3932 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3933 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3935 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3936 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3937 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3939 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3940 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3941 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3942 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3943 effects of the memory clear).
3945 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3946 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3947 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3948 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3950 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3951 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3952 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3953 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3954 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3955 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3957 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3960 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3961 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3962 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3963 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3964 as large as several megabytes.
3966 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3967 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3970 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3971 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3972 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3973 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3974 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3975 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3976 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3978 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3979 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3980 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3981 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3983 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3984 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3985 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3988 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3989 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3990 They were already unimplemented.
3992 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3993 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3994 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3995 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3997 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3998 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3999 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4000 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4001 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4003 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4004 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4005 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4006 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4007 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4009 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4010 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4011 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4012 did not reflect that.
4014 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4015 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4016 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4017 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4018 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4019 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4020 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4023 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4024 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4025 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4026 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4028 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4029 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4030 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4031 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4033 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4034 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4037 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4038 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4041 Security related changes:
4043 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4044 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4045 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4046 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4047 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4049 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4050 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4051 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4052 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4055 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4057 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4058 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4060 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4061 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4062 before it started waiting
4063 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4064 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4065 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4066 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4068 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4069 library linked with pthread
4070 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4071 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4072 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4073 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4074 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4075 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4076 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4078 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4080 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4081 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4082 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4083 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4084 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4085 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4086 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4087 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4088 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4090 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4091 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4092 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4093 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4094 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4095 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4096 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4097 causes a segmentation fault
4098 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4100 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4101 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4103 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4105 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4106 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4107 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4109 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4110 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4112 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4113 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4114 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4115 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4116 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4117 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4118 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4119 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4121 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4122 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4123 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4125 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4127 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4129 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4130 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4131 cause transition penalty
4132 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4133 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4134 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4135 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4136 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4138 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4140 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4141 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4142 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4143 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4144 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4145 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4147 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4149 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4150 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4151 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4152 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4153 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4154 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4155 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4156 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4157 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4158 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4159 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4160 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4161 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4162 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4164 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4165 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4166 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4167 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4168 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4169 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4170 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4171 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4172 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4173 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4174 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4175 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4176 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4177 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4178 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4179 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4180 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4181 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4183 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4184 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4185 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4186 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4187 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4189 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4190 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4191 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4192 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4193 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4194 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4195 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4197 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4198 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4199 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4200 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4201 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4205 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4206 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4207 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4208 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4209 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4212 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4213 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4214 been included in previous releases.
4216 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4217 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4219 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4220 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4221 instead of “union wait”.
4223 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4224 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4225 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4226 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4227 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4228 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4229 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4231 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4234 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4235 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4238 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4239 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4240 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4241 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4242 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4245 Security related changes:
4247 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4248 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4249 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4251 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4252 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4253 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4254 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4256 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4257 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4258 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4260 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4261 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4262 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4264 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4265 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4266 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4267 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4269 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4271 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4272 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4274 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4275 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4276 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4277 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4278 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4279 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4280 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4281 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4283 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4284 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4285 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4286 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4287 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4288 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4290 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4292 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4293 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4294 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4295 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4296 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4297 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4298 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4299 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4300 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4301 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4302 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4304 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4305 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4306 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4307 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4308 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4309 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4311 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4312 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4314 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4315 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4316 Romanian locale data
4317 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4319 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4320 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4322 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4323 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4324 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4325 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4327 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4329 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4330 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4331 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4332 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4333 when using RTLD_NEXT
4334 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4335 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4336 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4337 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4338 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4339 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4340 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4341 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4342 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4344 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4345 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4346 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4347 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4349 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4351 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4353 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4354 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4355 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4356 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4357 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4358 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4360 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4361 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4363 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4364 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4366 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4368 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4370 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4371 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4372 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4373 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4374 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4375 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4376 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4377 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4378 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4379 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4380 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4381 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4382 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4383 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4385 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4387 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4388 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4389 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4390 response to getaddrinfo
4391 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4392 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4393 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4394 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4395 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4396 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4398 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4399 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4400 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4402 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4403 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4404 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4405 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4407 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4408 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4409 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4411 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4412 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4413 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4414 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4415 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4416 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4417 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4418 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4420 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4421 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4422 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4424 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4425 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4426 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4427 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4428 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4429 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4430 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4431 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4432 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4433 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4434 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4435 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4436 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4438 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4439 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4440 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4441 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4443 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4444 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4446 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4447 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4448 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4449 AS not supporting AVX512
4450 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4452 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4453 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4455 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4456 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4457 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4458 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4459 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4461 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4462 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4464 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4465 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4466 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4467 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4468 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4469 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4470 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4471 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4472 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4474 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4475 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4476 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4477 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4478 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4479 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4480 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4481 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4482 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4483 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4484 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4485 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4486 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4488 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4489 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4490 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4491 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4492 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4494 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4495 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4497 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4498 "invalid" exceptions
4499 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4500 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4501 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4502 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4503 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4504 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4505 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4506 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4507 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4511 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4512 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4513 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4514 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4515 89, 16061, and 18568.
4517 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4518 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4519 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4520 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4521 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4522 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4523 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4525 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4526 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4527 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4529 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4530 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4531 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4532 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4533 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4534 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4535 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4537 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4538 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4539 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4540 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4541 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4542 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4543 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4546 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4547 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4548 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4549 independent of the GNU C Library.
4551 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4552 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4554 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4555 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4556 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4557 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4558 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4561 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4562 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4564 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4565 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4566 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4567 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4568 defining their own copy.
4570 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4571 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4572 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4574 Security related changes:
4576 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4577 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4579 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4580 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4581 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4582 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4585 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4586 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4588 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4589 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4591 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4592 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4593 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4595 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4596 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4597 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4598 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4599 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4600 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4601 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4602 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4603 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4604 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4605 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4606 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4607 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4609 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4611 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4612 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4613 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4614 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4615 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4616 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4618 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4619 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4620 overflow/underflow errors
4621 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4623 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4624 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4625 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4626 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4627 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4628 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4630 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4631 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4632 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4633 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4634 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4635 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4636 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4637 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4638 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4640 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4642 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4643 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4644 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4646 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4647 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4648 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4649 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4650 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4652 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4653 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4655 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4656 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4657 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4658 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4659 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4660 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4661 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4662 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4664 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4665 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4666 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4667 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4668 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4670 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4671 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4673 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4674 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4675 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4676 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4677 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4679 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4680 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4681 (related to lock elision)
4682 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4683 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4684 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4685 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4687 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4688 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4689 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4690 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4691 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4692 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4693 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4694 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4695 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4696 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4697 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4698 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4699 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4700 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4701 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4702 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4703 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4704 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4705 contains a vector instruction exception.
4706 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4707 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4709 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4710 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4711 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4712 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4713 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4715 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4717 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4718 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4720 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4721 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4722 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4723 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4724 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4726 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4727 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4728 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4729 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4730 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4731 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4732 statically too large
4733 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4734 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4735 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4736 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4737 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4738 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4739 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4740 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4741 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4743 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4744 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4745 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4746 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4747 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4748 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4749 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4751 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4752 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4753 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4754 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4756 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4757 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4758 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4759 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4760 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4761 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4763 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4764 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4765 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4766 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4767 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4768 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4770 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4771 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4772 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4773 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4774 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4775 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4776 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4777 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4779 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4780 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4781 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4782 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4783 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4784 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4785 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4786 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4787 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4789 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4791 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4792 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4793 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4795 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4796 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4797 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4798 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4799 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4800 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4801 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4802 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4803 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4804 pthread_setaffinity_np
4805 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4806 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4807 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4808 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4809 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4811 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4812 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4813 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4814 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4815 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4816 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4817 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4819 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4820 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4821 for C99-based standards
4822 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4823 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4825 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4826 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4827 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4829 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4830 "inexact" exceptions
4831 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4833 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4834 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4835 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4836 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4838 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4839 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4840 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4841 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4842 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4843 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4844 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4845 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4846 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4847 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4849 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4850 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4851 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4852 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4854 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4855 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4856 error on 32-bit architectures
4857 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4858 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4859 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4860 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4861 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4862 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4863 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4864 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4865 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4867 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4869 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4870 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4871 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4872 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4874 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4878 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4880 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4881 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4882 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4883 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4884 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4885 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4886 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4887 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4888 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4889 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4890 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4891 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4892 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4893 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4894 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4895 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4896 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4897 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4898 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4899 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4901 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4902 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4904 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4905 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4906 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4907 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4908 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4909 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4911 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4912 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4913 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4914 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4915 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4917 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4918 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4919 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4921 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4922 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4923 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4926 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4927 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4928 condition in some applications.
4930 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4931 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4933 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4934 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4935 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4936 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4937 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4939 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4940 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4941 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4942 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4944 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4945 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4946 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4948 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4949 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4951 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4952 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4953 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4955 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4956 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4957 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4961 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4963 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4964 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4965 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4966 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4967 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4968 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4969 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4970 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4971 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4972 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4975 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4976 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4977 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4978 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4981 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4982 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4983 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4984 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4985 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4986 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4988 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4990 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4991 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4992 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4994 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4995 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4996 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4997 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4998 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4999 effects being visible outside transactions.
5001 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5002 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5004 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5006 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5007 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5008 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5009 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5010 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5012 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5013 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5015 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5016 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5019 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5020 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5021 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5023 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5024 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5026 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5028 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5029 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5030 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5031 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5033 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5034 with newer versions of bison.
5036 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5037 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5038 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5039 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5040 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5041 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5042 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5043 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5044 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5045 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5046 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5047 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5048 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5050 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5051 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5052 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5053 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5054 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5058 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5060 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5061 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5062 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5063 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5064 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5065 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5066 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5067 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5068 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5069 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5070 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5071 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5072 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5073 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5074 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5076 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5077 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5078 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5079 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5080 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5081 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5082 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5083 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5084 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5085 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5087 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5088 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5089 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5090 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5091 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5093 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5095 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5096 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5098 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5099 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5100 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5101 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5102 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5103 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5105 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5108 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5109 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5110 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5111 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5112 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5113 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5114 test macros defined.
5116 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5118 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5119 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5120 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5121 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5122 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5123 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5126 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5127 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5128 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5129 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5132 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5133 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5134 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5136 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5137 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5138 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5139 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5141 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5142 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5143 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5144 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5145 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5146 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5147 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5150 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5151 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5152 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5153 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5154 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5155 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5156 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5157 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5158 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5160 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5161 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5162 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5163 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5164 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5165 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5167 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5168 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5169 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5170 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5174 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5176 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5177 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5178 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5179 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5180 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5181 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5182 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5183 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5184 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5185 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5186 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5187 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5188 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5189 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5190 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5191 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5192 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5193 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5195 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5196 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5198 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5199 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5200 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5201 extension which uses __block.
5203 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5204 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5205 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5206 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5207 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5209 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5210 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5211 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5212 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5215 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5216 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5217 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5218 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5219 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5221 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5222 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5223 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5225 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5226 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5227 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5230 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5231 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5233 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5234 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5236 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5238 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5241 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5243 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5245 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5246 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5247 for which the C library was built.
5249 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5250 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5251 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5252 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5253 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5254 in the following circumstances:
5256 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5258 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5259 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5261 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5262 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5264 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5265 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5267 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5269 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5270 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5272 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5274 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5276 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5278 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5279 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5280 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5281 disable some of those declarations.
5283 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5284 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5285 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5287 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5288 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5290 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5291 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5292 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5293 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5294 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5295 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5296 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5297 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5298 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5299 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5300 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5301 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5302 require recompilation.
5306 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5308 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5309 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5310 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5311 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5312 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5313 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5314 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5315 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5316 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5317 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5318 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5319 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5320 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5323 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5324 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5325 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5326 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5327 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5328 understands and accepts the risks.
5330 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5333 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5334 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5336 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5337 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5338 destructor calls to glibc.
5340 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5343 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5344 non-x86 architectures.
5346 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5348 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5350 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5353 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5355 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5358 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5359 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5361 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5363 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5364 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5366 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5367 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5369 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5370 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5371 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5373 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5374 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5375 attributes of a process.
5377 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5378 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5379 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5380 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5383 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5384 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5386 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5390 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5392 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5393 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5394 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5395 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5396 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5397 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5398 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5399 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5400 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5401 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5402 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5403 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5404 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5405 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5406 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5408 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5410 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5411 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5413 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5414 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5416 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5418 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5419 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5421 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5423 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5424 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5425 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5427 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5428 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5430 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5431 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5433 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5434 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5436 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5437 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5439 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5440 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5441 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5442 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5444 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5445 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5447 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5448 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5451 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5452 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5453 information in --help and --version output.
5455 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5456 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5457 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5459 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5460 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5461 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5462 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5463 when the mode is enabled.
5465 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5466 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5467 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5468 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5469 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5470 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5471 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5473 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5478 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5480 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5481 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5482 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5483 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5484 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5485 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5486 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5487 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5488 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5489 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5490 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5491 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5492 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5493 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5494 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5495 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5496 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5497 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5498 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5499 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5500 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5501 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5504 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5505 configuring glibc with:
5506 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5507 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5508 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5512 + define static_assert
5514 + do not declare gets
5516 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5518 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5519 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5520 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5523 + timespec_get added
5525 + uchar.h support added
5527 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5529 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5531 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5533 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5535 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5538 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5541 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5542 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5543 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5544 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5545 existing applications.
5547 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5548 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5551 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5552 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5553 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5555 * New locales: mag_IN
5557 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5558 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5559 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5560 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5561 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5563 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5565 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5568 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5570 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5571 without a previously built glibc.
5573 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5574 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5576 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5577 now supported for ARM processors.
5579 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5580 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5581 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5583 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5585 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5586 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5587 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5588 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5590 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5591 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5592 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5593 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5595 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5596 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5597 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5598 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5599 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5601 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5602 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5603 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5604 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5608 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5610 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5611 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5612 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5613 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5614 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5615 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5616 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5618 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5619 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5621 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5622 and support for initgroups lookups.
5623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5625 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5626 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5628 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5629 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5631 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5632 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5633 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5635 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5636 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5638 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5639 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5640 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5642 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5645 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5648 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5651 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5652 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5654 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5655 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5657 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5660 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5662 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5663 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5665 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5666 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5668 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5672 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5674 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5675 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5676 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5677 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5678 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5679 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5680 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5681 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5682 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5683 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5685 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5686 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5687 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5688 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5690 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5691 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5692 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5693 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5695 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5696 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5698 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5699 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5701 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5703 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5704 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5707 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5708 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5709 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5713 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5715 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5716 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5717 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5718 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5721 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5723 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5725 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5726 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5727 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5731 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5733 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5734 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5735 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5736 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5737 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5738 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5739 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5740 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5742 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5744 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5746 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5748 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5749 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5750 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5752 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5753 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5754 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5755 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5756 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5758 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5762 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5764 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5765 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5766 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5767 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5768 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5769 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5771 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5773 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5775 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5776 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5778 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5779 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5781 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5783 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5784 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5785 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5786 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5788 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5789 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5791 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5793 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5795 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5796 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5798 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5799 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5801 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5802 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5804 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5805 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5806 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5807 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5808 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5809 necessity is every process again.
5810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5812 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5813 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5815 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5816 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5818 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5819 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5822 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5826 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5828 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5829 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5830 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5831 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5832 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5834 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5837 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5838 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5840 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5841 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5843 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5846 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5850 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5852 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5853 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5855 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5856 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5859 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5860 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5862 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5864 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5867 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5868 and extend existing format specifiers.
5869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5871 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5872 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5874 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5875 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5876 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5877 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5878 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5879 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5883 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5885 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5886 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5887 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5888 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5889 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5891 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5892 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5894 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5895 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5897 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5898 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5900 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5901 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5902 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5904 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5905 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5907 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5909 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5910 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5912 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5913 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5914 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5915 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5917 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5918 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5920 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5922 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5924 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5928 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5930 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5931 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5932 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5933 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5934 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5935 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5936 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5938 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5940 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5942 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5943 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5945 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5947 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5950 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5951 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5953 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5954 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5955 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5957 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5958 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5960 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5963 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5964 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5966 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5967 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5971 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5973 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5974 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5975 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5976 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5977 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5979 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5980 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5982 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5984 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5985 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5986 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5988 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5989 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5991 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5992 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5994 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5996 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5997 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5999 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6000 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6002 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6003 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6005 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6007 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6008 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6010 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6011 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6014 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6015 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6019 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6021 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6022 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6023 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6024 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6025 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6026 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6027 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6030 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6032 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6034 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6038 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6040 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6041 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6042 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6043 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6044 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6045 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6046 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6047 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6048 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6050 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6051 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6054 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6055 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6057 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6059 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6061 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6062 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6063 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6064 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6065 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6067 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6068 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6069 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6070 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6072 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6075 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6077 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6080 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6082 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6083 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6087 * More overflow detection functions.
6089 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6090 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6092 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6093 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6094 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6095 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6096 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6097 by Masahide Washizawa.
6099 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6100 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6102 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6103 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6104 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6105 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6107 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6108 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6110 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6112 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6113 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6114 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6116 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6117 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6119 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6120 for compatibility with some other systems.
6122 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6126 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6128 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6129 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6130 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6131 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6132 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6133 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6135 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6137 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6139 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6143 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6145 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6146 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6147 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6148 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6150 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6154 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6155 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6157 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6158 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6159 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6161 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6162 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6164 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6166 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6168 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6169 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6172 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6173 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6174 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6176 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6177 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6179 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6180 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6181 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6182 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6184 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6185 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6186 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6187 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6189 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6190 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6191 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6192 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6193 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6197 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6198 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6200 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6201 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6203 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6204 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6206 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6207 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6209 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6212 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6215 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6220 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6221 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6222 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6223 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6224 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6225 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6226 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6227 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6228 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6230 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6231 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6232 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6234 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6236 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6237 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6239 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6240 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6242 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6244 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6245 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6247 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6248 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6249 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6250 of weak definition in ld.so.
6252 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6253 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6255 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6256 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6260 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6263 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6264 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6266 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6267 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6269 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6270 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6272 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6273 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6274 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6276 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6277 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6279 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6280 implementation of regex.
6282 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6285 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6286 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6288 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6289 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6290 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6292 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6293 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6295 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6296 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6297 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6299 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6300 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6302 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6303 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6306 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6310 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6311 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6313 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6314 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6318 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6319 128-bit long double format.
6321 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6322 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6324 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6326 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6328 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6331 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6332 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6334 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6338 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6339 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6341 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6342 support Unicode 3.1.
6344 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6345 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6347 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6349 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6350 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6351 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6353 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6354 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6356 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6357 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6359 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6363 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6364 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6365 in float, double, and long double format.
6367 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6368 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6369 128-bit long double format.
6371 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6372 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6373 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6374 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6376 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6377 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6378 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6380 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6381 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6383 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6384 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6386 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6387 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6388 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6390 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6391 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6393 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6394 of functions for Linux/x86.
6396 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6400 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6401 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6402 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6403 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6404 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6405 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6408 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6409 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6411 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6412 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6413 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6414 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6416 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6421 only lists the names of the supported locales
6425 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6426 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6430 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6431 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6432 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6433 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6434 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6436 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6438 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6440 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6442 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6443 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6444 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6446 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6447 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6449 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6450 changed from the default "C" locale.
6452 * The usual bug fixes.
6456 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6457 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6460 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6462 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6464 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6465 obviously requires a database library being available.
6467 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6469 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6471 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6472 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6474 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6476 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6477 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6480 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6481 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6482 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6484 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6485 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6487 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6488 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6489 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6491 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6492 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6493 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6494 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6496 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6497 structures for the wide character tables.
6499 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6501 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6503 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6505 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6508 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6510 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6512 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6514 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6516 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6518 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6519 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6520 implemented for Linux.
6522 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6523 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6524 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6527 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6530 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6544 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6546 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6548 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6550 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6552 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6554 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6556 * Update timezone data files.
6558 * lots of charmaps corrections
6560 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6565 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6566 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6567 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6568 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6569 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6570 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6572 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6573 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6575 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6578 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6579 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6581 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6583 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6586 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6588 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6589 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6591 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6594 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6595 functions from ISO C 9X.
6597 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6598 real valued functions.
6600 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6602 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6604 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6606 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6608 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6610 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6612 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6614 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6615 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6617 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6618 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6622 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6624 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6626 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6628 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6630 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6632 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6634 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6635 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6638 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6639 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6641 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6643 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6645 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6646 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6648 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6650 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6653 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6654 latest draft standards.
6656 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6658 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6659 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6660 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6661 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6662 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6663 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6664 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6665 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6666 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6667 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6668 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6669 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6670 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6671 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6672 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6673 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6674 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6675 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6676 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6677 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6679 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6681 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6683 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6692 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6693 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6694 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6696 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6699 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6700 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6701 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6705 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6706 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6712 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6713 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6714 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6715 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6717 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6718 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6719 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6729 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6730 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6732 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6733 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6739 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6742 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6743 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6747 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6748 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6750 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6751 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6752 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6754 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6755 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6759 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6760 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6764 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6765 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6766 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6767 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6768 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6770 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6771 ferror_locked REMOVED
6772 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6773 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6774 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6775 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6776 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6777 fflush_locked REMOVED
6781 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6782 fileno_locked REMOVED
6794 fputc_locked REMOVED
6795 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6796 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6801 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6805 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6807 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6808 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6812 getchar_locked REMOVED
6814 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6815 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6817 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6818 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6819 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6820 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6821 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6822 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6823 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6824 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6825 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6826 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6827 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6828 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6829 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6830 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6832 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6833 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6834 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6835 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6836 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6837 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6838 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6839 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6840 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6841 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6842 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6843 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6844 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6845 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6846 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6847 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6848 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6849 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6850 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6851 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6852 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6853 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6854 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6855 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6856 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6857 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6862 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6863 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6864 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6865 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6866 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6868 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6869 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6872 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6876 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6877 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6878 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6879 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6880 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6881 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6882 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6883 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6887 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6889 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6890 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6893 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6894 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6895 profil_counter REMOVED
6896 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6897 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6898 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6899 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6901 putchar_locked REMOVED
6902 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6904 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6905 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6909 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6910 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6911 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6912 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6914 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6915 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6917 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6918 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6919 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6921 sendfile NEW: kernel
6922 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6923 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6924 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6926 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6927 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6928 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6929 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6930 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6931 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6932 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6933 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6934 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6938 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6939 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6940 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6941 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6942 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6943 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6944 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6945 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6946 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6947 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6948 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6949 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6950 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6954 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6955 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6957 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6958 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6959 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6960 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6961 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6962 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6964 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6965 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6966 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6967 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6968 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6969 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6970 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6972 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6973 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6974 write_profiling REMOVED
6975 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6976 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6977 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6978 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6979 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6980 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6981 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6982 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6983 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6984 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6985 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6986 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6987 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6988 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6989 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6990 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7001 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7003 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7005 * rewrite of cbrt function
7007 * update of timezone data
7021 * add atoll function
7023 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7025 * fix math functions
7029 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7031 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7033 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7034 the ELF dynamic loader.
7036 * support for parallel builds is improved
7040 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7041 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7044 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7045 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7046 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7047 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7048 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7049 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7050 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7051 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7052 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7053 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7054 files in the ELF format.
7056 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7057 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7059 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7060 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7061 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7062 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7063 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7064 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7065 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7066 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7067 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7068 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7069 about dynamically linked binaries.
7071 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7072 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7073 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7074 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7075 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7077 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7078 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7079 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7080 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7081 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7083 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7085 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7086 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7087 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7088 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7089 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7090 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7091 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7092 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7093 NSS services available.
7095 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7096 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7097 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7099 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7100 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7101 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7103 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7104 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7105 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7106 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7108 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7109 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7110 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7112 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7113 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7114 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7116 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7117 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7119 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7120 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7121 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7122 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7124 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7125 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7126 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7128 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7129 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7130 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7131 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7132 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7133 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7134 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7135 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7137 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7138 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7139 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7140 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7141 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7142 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7143 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7145 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7146 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7147 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7148 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7149 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7150 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7152 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7153 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7155 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7156 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7157 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7159 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7161 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7162 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7163 their use is discouraged.
7165 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7166 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7168 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7169 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7171 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7172 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7174 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7177 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7178 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7179 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7180 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7181 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7183 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7184 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7185 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7186 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7188 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7189 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7191 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7192 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7193 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7194 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7197 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7198 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7200 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7201 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7203 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7204 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7205 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7206 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7208 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7210 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7211 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7212 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7214 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7215 for arithmetic and string handling.
7217 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7218 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7219 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7220 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7222 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7223 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7224 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7225 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7226 programs already written to use it.)
7228 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7231 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7234 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7235 a given effective group ID.
7237 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7238 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7239 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7240 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7242 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7243 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7244 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7245 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7246 doing the same thing.
7248 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7249 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7251 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7252 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7254 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7256 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7257 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7258 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7259 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7260 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7262 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7263 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7265 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7266 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7267 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7270 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7272 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7273 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7276 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7277 and writing the utmp file.
7279 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7282 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7283 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7284 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7286 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7287 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7289 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7290 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7293 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7294 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7295 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7296 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7298 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7299 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7300 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7302 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7303 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7304 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7307 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7310 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7313 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7315 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7316 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7317 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7321 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7323 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7324 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7326 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7327 want to put themselves in the background.
7329 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7330 run without an operating system.
7332 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7333 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7335 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7336 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7338 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7340 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7341 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7344 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7347 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7348 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7352 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7353 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7354 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7356 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7357 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7359 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7360 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7362 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7364 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7366 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7369 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7370 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7371 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7373 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7375 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7376 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7377 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7379 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7380 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7381 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7382 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7383 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7386 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7387 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7388 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7389 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7390 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7393 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7394 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7398 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7399 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7401 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7402 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7403 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7405 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7406 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7407 address of the last character written.
7409 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7410 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7412 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7413 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7415 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7416 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7417 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7418 you dereference this pointer.
7420 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7421 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7423 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7424 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7425 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7426 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7428 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7429 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7430 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7431 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7435 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7436 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7437 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7438 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7439 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7441 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7443 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7445 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7446 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7448 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7449 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7451 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7452 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7454 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7455 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7456 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7457 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7458 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7460 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7461 to the error code in `errno'.
7463 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7464 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7465 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7468 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7469 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7470 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7472 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7473 uniquely-named temporary file.
7477 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7478 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7479 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7481 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7484 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7485 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7487 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7491 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7492 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7493 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7494 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7496 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7497 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7498 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7500 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7501 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7503 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7504 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7505 made itself into a shared library.
7507 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7508 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7510 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7511 with limited length.
7513 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7515 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7517 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7519 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7520 function for traversing a directory tree.
7522 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7523 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7524 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7525 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7527 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7528 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7530 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7532 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7533 things to your strings.
7535 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7537 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7538 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7539 supporting those systems.
7541 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7542 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7543 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7544 configuration files.
7546 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7547 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7549 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7550 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7553 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7554 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7555 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7556 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7557 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7558 required storage is not available.
7560 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7561 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7563 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7564 latest files released from Berkeley.
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