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12 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin and tan
13 with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and H.J. Lu from Intel.
15 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
17 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f and powf.
19 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
20 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
21 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
22 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
23 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
24 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
25 from a security and performance perspective.
27 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
28 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
29 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
30 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
32 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
33 alpha, mips64, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements _Float128
34 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These
35 are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
36 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
38 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
40 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
41 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
43 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
44 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
45 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
46 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
47 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
48 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
49 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
51 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
52 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
53 exp10l for these functions instead.
55 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
56 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
57 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
59 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
60 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
63 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
65 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
67 Security related changes:
69 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
70 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
71 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
72 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
75 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
76 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
77 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
78 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
80 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
82 [The release manager will add the list generated by
83 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
90 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
91 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
92 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
93 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
94 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
95 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
96 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
98 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
99 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
100 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
101 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
102 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
103 are rendered with pango, see for example:
104 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
106 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
107 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
110 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
112 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
113 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
114 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
116 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
117 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
118 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
119 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
120 object are still limited to six search domains.
122 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
123 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
124 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
126 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
127 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
129 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
130 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
131 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
132 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
134 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
135 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
136 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
137 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
139 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
140 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
141 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
142 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
144 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
145 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
146 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
148 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
149 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
150 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
151 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
153 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
154 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
155 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
156 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
157 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
159 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
160 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
161 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
162 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
163 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
164 interfaces should be used instead.
166 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
168 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
169 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
170 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
171 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
172 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
173 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
174 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
175 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
177 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
180 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
181 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
182 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
183 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
185 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
186 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
189 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
190 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
191 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
192 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
193 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
195 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
196 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
197 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
198 name service modules, to be built and installed.
200 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
201 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
202 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
203 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
205 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
206 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
208 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
209 exported by accident.
211 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
212 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
213 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
215 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
216 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
217 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
218 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
220 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
222 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
224 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
227 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
228 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
230 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
231 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
233 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
234 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
235 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
236 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
237 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
238 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
239 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
240 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
242 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
243 synced with the kernel:
245 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
246 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
248 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
249 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
250 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
252 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
253 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
255 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
257 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
258 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
261 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
263 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
264 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
266 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
267 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
268 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
269 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
270 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
272 Security related changes:
274 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
275 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
277 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
278 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
280 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
281 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
284 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
285 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
287 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
289 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
290 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
291 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
293 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
295 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
296 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
297 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
299 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
300 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
301 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
302 x86 and other generic code
303 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
304 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
306 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
307 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
308 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
309 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
310 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
311 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
312 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
314 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
315 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
316 order of 0D36 and 0D37
317 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
319 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
320 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
322 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
324 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
325 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
326 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
328 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
329 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
330 failures consistently
331 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
332 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
333 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
334 frame-pointer on i386
335 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
337 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
338 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
339 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
340 generic c code is used
341 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
342 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
344 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
346 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
347 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
349 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
350 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
351 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
352 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
353 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
354 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
355 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
356 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
357 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
358 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
360 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
362 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
363 new posix_spawn implementation
364 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
365 leads to lower CPU frequency
366 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
367 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
368 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
369 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
370 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
371 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
372 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
373 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
374 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
375 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
376 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
377 not support gethostbyname4_r
378 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
380 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
382 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
383 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
384 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
385 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
386 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
387 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
388 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
390 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
391 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
392 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
393 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
394 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
395 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
396 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
397 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
398 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
399 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
400 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
401 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
403 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
404 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
405 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
406 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
407 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
408 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
409 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
410 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
412 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
413 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
414 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
415 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
416 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
417 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
418 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
419 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
420 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
421 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
422 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
423 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
424 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
425 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
426 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
427 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
428 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
429 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
430 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
431 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
432 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
434 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
435 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
436 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
437 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
438 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
440 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
441 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
443 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
444 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
446 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
447 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
449 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
450 posix/sched_cpucount.c
451 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
452 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
454 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
455 leading to relocation crash
456 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
457 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
458 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
459 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
460 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
461 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
462 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
463 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
464 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
466 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
468 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
469 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
470 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
471 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
472 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
473 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
474 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
475 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
477 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
479 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
481 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
482 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
483 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
484 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
485 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
486 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
487 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
488 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
489 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
490 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
491 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
492 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
493 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
494 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
495 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
496 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
497 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
498 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
499 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
500 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
501 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
502 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
503 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
504 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
505 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
506 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
507 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
509 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
510 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
511 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
512 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
513 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
518 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
519 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
520 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
523 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
524 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
525 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
528 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
529 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
530 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
533 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
534 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
535 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
536 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
537 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
538 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
539 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
542 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
543 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
546 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
547 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
548 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
550 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
551 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
552 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
553 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
556 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
557 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
558 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
560 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
561 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
562 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
563 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
564 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
565 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
566 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
567 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
568 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
569 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
570 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
573 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
575 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
577 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
578 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
579 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
581 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
582 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
584 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
587 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
589 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
591 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
592 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
594 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
596 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
597 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
599 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
600 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
602 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
603 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
604 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
606 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
607 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
608 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
609 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
610 effects of the memory clear).
612 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
613 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
614 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
615 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
617 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
618 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
619 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
620 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
621 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
622 if they are compiled or used with those options.
624 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
627 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
628 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
629 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
630 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
631 as large as several megabytes.
633 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
634 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
637 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
638 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
639 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
640 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
641 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
642 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
643 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
645 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
646 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
647 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
648 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
650 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
651 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
652 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
655 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
656 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
657 They were already unimplemented.
659 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
660 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
661 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
662 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
664 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
665 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
666 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
667 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
668 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
670 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
671 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
672 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
673 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
674 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
676 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
677 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
678 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
679 did not reflect that.
681 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
682 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
683 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
684 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
685 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
686 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
687 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
690 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
691 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
692 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
693 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
695 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
696 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
697 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
698 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
700 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
701 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
704 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
705 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
708 Security related changes:
710 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
711 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
712 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
713 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
714 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
716 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
717 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
718 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
719 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
722 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
724 [4099] stdio: Overly agressive caching by stream i/o functions.
725 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
727 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
728 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
729 before it started waiting
730 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
731 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
732 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
733 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
735 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
736 library linked with pthread
737 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
739 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
740 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
741 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
742 after being __libc_memalign()'d
743 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
745 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
747 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
748 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
749 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
750 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
751 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
752 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
753 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
754 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
755 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
757 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
758 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
759 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
760 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
761 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
762 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
763 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
764 causes a segmentation fault
765 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
767 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
768 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
770 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
772 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
773 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
774 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
776 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
777 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
779 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
780 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
781 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
782 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
783 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
784 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
785 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
786 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
788 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
789 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
790 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
792 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
794 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
796 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
797 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
798 cause transition penalty
799 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
800 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
801 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
802 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
803 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
805 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
807 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
808 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
809 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
810 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
811 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
812 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
814 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
816 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
817 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
818 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
819 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
820 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
821 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
822 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
823 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
824 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
825 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
826 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
827 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
828 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
829 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
831 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
832 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
833 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
834 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
835 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
836 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
837 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
838 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
839 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
840 U+20AC), not same as GBK
841 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
842 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
843 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
844 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
845 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
846 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
847 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
848 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
850 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
851 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
852 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
853 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
854 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
856 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
857 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
858 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
859 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
860 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
861 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
862 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
864 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
865 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
866 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
867 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
868 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
872 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
873 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
874 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
875 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
876 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
879 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
880 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
881 been included in previous releases.
883 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
884 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
886 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
887 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
888 instead of “union wait”.
890 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
891 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
892 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
893 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
894 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
895 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
896 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
898 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
901 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
902 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
905 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
906 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
907 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
908 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
909 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
912 Security related changes:
914 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
915 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
916 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
918 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
919 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
920 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
921 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
923 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
924 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
925 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
927 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
928 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
929 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
931 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
932 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
933 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
934 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
936 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
938 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
939 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
941 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
942 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
943 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
944 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
945 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
946 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
947 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
948 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
950 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
951 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
952 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
953 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
954 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
955 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
957 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
959 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
960 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
961 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
962 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
963 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
964 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
965 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
966 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
967 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
968 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
969 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
971 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
972 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
973 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
974 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
975 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
976 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
978 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
979 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
981 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
982 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
984 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
986 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
987 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
989 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
990 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
991 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
992 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
994 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
996 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
997 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
998 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
999 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
1000 when using RTLD_NEXT
1001 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
1002 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
1003 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
1004 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
1005 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
1006 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
1007 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
1008 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
1009 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
1011 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1012 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1013 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1014 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
1016 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
1018 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
1020 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
1021 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
1022 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
1023 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
1024 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
1025 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
1027 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
1028 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
1030 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
1031 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
1033 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
1035 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
1037 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
1038 pointers and lengths in error-case.
1039 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
1040 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
1041 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
1042 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
1043 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
1044 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
1045 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
1046 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
1047 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
1048 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
1049 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
1050 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
1052 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
1054 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
1055 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
1056 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
1057 response to getaddrinfo
1058 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
1059 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
1060 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
1061 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
1062 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
1063 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
1065 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
1066 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
1067 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
1069 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
1070 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
1071 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
1072 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
1074 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
1075 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
1076 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
1078 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
1079 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
1080 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
1081 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
1082 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
1083 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
1084 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
1085 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
1087 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
1088 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
1089 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
1091 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
1092 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
1093 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
1094 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
1095 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
1096 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
1097 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
1098 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
1099 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
1100 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
1101 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
1102 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
1103 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
1105 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
1106 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
1107 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
1108 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
1110 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
1111 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
1113 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
1114 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
1115 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
1116 AS not supporting AVX512
1117 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
1119 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1120 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
1122 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
1123 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
1124 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
1125 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
1126 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
1128 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
1129 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
1131 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
1132 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
1133 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
1134 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1135 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1136 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
1137 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1138 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
1139 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
1141 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1142 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1143 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1144 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1145 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1146 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
1147 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
1148 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
1149 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
1150 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
1151 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
1152 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
1153 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
1155 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
1156 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
1157 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
1158 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
1159 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
1161 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
1162 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
1164 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
1165 "invalid" exceptions
1166 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
1167 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
1168 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
1169 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
1170 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
1171 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
1172 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
1173 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
1174 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
1178 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1179 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
1180 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1181 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
1182 89, 16061, and 18568.
1184 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
1185 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
1186 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
1187 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
1188 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
1189 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
1190 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
1192 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
1193 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
1194 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
1196 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
1197 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
1198 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
1199 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
1200 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
1201 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
1202 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
1204 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
1205 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
1206 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
1207 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
1208 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
1209 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
1210 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
1213 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
1214 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
1215 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
1216 independent of the GNU C Library.
1218 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
1219 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
1221 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
1222 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
1223 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
1224 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
1225 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
1228 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
1229 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
1231 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
1232 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
1233 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
1234 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
1235 defining their own copy.
1237 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1238 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1239 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1241 Security related changes:
1243 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
1244 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
1246 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
1247 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
1248 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
1249 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
1252 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
1253 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
1255 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
1256 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
1258 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
1259 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
1260 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
1262 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
1263 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
1264 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
1265 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
1266 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
1267 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
1268 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
1269 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
1270 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
1271 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
1272 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
1273 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
1274 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
1276 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1278 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
1279 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
1280 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1281 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
1282 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
1283 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
1285 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
1286 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
1287 overflow/underflow errors
1288 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
1290 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
1291 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
1292 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
1293 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
1294 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
1295 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
1297 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
1298 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
1299 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
1300 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
1301 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
1302 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
1303 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
1304 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
1305 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
1307 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
1309 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
1310 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
1311 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
1313 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
1314 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
1315 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
1316 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
1317 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
1319 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
1320 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
1322 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
1323 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
1324 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
1325 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
1326 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
1327 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
1328 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
1329 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
1331 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
1332 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
1333 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
1334 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
1335 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
1337 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
1338 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
1340 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
1341 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
1342 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
1343 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
1344 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
1346 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
1347 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
1348 (related to lock elision)
1349 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
1350 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
1351 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
1352 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
1354 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
1355 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
1356 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
1357 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
1358 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
1359 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
1360 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
1361 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
1362 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
1363 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
1364 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
1365 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
1366 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
1367 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
1368 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
1369 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
1370 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
1371 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
1372 contains a vector instruction exception.
1373 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
1374 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
1376 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
1377 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
1378 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
1379 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
1380 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
1382 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
1384 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
1385 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
1387 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
1388 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
1389 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
1390 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
1391 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
1393 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
1394 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
1395 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
1396 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
1397 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
1398 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
1399 statically too large
1400 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
1401 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
1402 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
1403 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
1404 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
1405 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
1406 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
1407 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
1408 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
1410 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
1411 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
1412 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
1413 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
1414 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
1415 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
1416 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
1418 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
1419 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
1420 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
1421 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
1423 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
1424 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
1425 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
1426 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
1427 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
1428 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
1430 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
1431 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
1432 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
1433 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
1434 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
1435 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
1437 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
1438 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
1439 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
1440 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
1441 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
1442 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1443 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
1444 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
1446 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
1447 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
1448 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
1449 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
1450 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
1451 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
1452 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
1453 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
1454 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
1456 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
1458 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
1459 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
1460 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
1462 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
1463 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
1464 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
1465 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
1466 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
1467 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
1468 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
1469 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
1470 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
1471 pthread_setaffinity_np
1472 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
1473 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
1474 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
1475 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
1476 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
1478 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
1479 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
1480 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
1481 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
1482 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
1483 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
1484 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
1486 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
1487 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
1488 for C99-based standards
1489 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
1490 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
1492 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
1493 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
1494 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
1496 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
1497 "inexact" exceptions
1498 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
1500 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
1501 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
1502 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
1503 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
1505 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
1506 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
1507 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
1508 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
1509 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
1510 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
1511 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
1512 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
1513 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
1514 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
1516 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
1517 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
1518 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
1519 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
1521 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
1522 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
1523 error on 32-bit architectures
1524 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
1525 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
1526 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
1527 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
1528 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
1529 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
1530 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
1531 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
1532 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
1534 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
1536 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
1537 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
1538 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
1539 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
1541 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
1545 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1547 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
1548 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
1549 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
1550 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
1551 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
1552 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
1553 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
1554 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
1555 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
1556 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
1557 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
1558 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
1559 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
1560 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
1561 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
1562 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
1563 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
1564 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
1565 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
1566 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
1568 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
1569 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
1571 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
1572 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
1573 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
1574 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
1575 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
1576 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
1578 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
1579 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
1580 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
1581 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
1582 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
1584 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
1585 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
1586 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
1588 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
1589 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
1590 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
1593 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
1594 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
1595 condition in some applications.
1597 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
1598 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
1600 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
1601 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
1602 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
1603 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
1604 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
1606 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
1607 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
1608 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
1609 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
1611 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
1612 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
1613 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
1615 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
1616 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
1618 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
1619 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
1620 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
1622 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
1623 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
1624 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
1628 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1630 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
1631 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
1632 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
1633 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
1634 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
1635 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
1636 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
1637 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
1638 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
1639 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
1642 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
1643 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
1644 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
1645 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
1648 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
1649 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
1650 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
1651 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
1652 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
1653 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
1655 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
1657 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
1658 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
1659 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
1661 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
1662 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
1663 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
1664 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
1665 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
1666 effects being visible outside transactions.
1668 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
1669 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1671 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
1673 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
1674 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
1675 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
1676 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
1677 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
1679 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
1680 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
1682 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
1683 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
1686 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
1687 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
1688 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
1690 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
1691 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
1693 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
1695 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
1696 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
1697 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
1698 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
1700 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
1701 with newer versions of bison.
1703 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
1704 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
1705 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
1706 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
1707 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
1708 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
1709 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
1710 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
1711 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
1712 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
1713 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
1714 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
1715 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
1717 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
1718 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
1719 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
1720 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
1721 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
1725 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1727 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
1728 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
1729 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
1730 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
1731 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
1732 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
1733 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
1734 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
1735 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
1736 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
1737 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
1738 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
1739 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
1740 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
1741 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
1743 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1744 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
1745 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
1746 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
1747 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
1748 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
1749 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
1750 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
1751 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
1752 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
1754 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
1755 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
1756 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
1757 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
1758 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
1760 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1762 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
1763 can be used with is 2.6.32.
1765 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
1766 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
1767 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
1768 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
1769 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
1770 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
1772 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
1775 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
1776 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
1777 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
1778 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
1779 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
1780 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
1781 test macros defined.
1783 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
1785 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
1786 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
1787 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
1788 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
1789 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
1790 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
1793 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
1794 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
1795 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
1796 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
1799 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
1800 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
1801 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
1803 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
1804 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
1805 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
1806 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
1808 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
1809 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
1810 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
1811 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
1812 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
1813 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
1814 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
1817 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
1818 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
1819 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
1820 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
1821 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
1822 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
1823 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
1824 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
1825 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
1827 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
1828 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
1829 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
1830 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
1831 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
1832 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
1834 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
1835 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
1836 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
1837 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
1841 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1843 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
1844 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
1845 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
1846 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
1847 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
1848 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
1849 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
1850 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
1851 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
1852 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
1853 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
1854 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
1855 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
1856 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
1857 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
1858 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
1859 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
1860 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
1862 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
1863 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
1865 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
1866 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
1867 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
1868 extension which uses __block.
1870 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
1871 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
1872 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
1873 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
1874 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
1876 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
1877 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
1878 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
1879 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
1882 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
1883 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
1884 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
1885 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
1886 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
1888 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
1889 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
1890 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
1892 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
1893 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
1894 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
1897 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
1898 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
1900 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
1901 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
1903 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
1905 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
1908 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
1910 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
1912 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
1913 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
1914 for which the C library was built.
1916 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
1917 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
1918 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
1919 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
1920 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
1921 in the following circumstances:
1923 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
1925 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
1926 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
1928 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
1929 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
1931 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
1932 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
1934 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
1936 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
1937 transcendental functions have been introduced.
1939 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
1941 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
1943 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
1945 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
1946 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
1947 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
1948 disable some of those declarations.
1950 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
1951 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
1952 that did nothing) has also been removed.
1954 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
1955 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
1957 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
1958 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
1959 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
1960 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
1961 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
1962 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
1963 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
1964 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
1965 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
1966 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
1967 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
1968 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
1969 require recompilation.
1973 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1975 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
1976 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
1977 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
1978 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
1979 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
1980 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
1981 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
1982 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
1983 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
1984 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
1985 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
1986 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
1987 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
1990 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
1991 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
1992 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
1993 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
1994 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
1995 understands and accepts the risks.
1997 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
2000 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
2001 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
2003 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
2004 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
2005 destructor calls to glibc.
2007 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
2010 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
2011 non-x86 architectures.
2013 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
2015 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
2017 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
2020 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2022 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
2025 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
2026 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2028 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
2030 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
2031 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
2033 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
2034 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
2036 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
2037 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
2038 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
2040 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
2041 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
2042 attributes of a process.
2044 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
2045 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
2046 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
2047 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
2050 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
2051 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2053 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
2057 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2059 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
2060 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
2061 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
2062 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
2063 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
2064 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
2065 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
2066 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
2067 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
2068 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
2069 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
2070 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
2071 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
2072 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
2073 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
2075 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
2077 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
2078 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
2080 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
2081 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
2083 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
2085 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
2086 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
2088 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2090 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
2091 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
2092 the internal function __secure_getenv.
2094 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
2095 Implemented by Gary Benson.
2097 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
2098 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
2100 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
2101 can be used with is 2.6.16.
2103 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
2104 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
2106 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
2107 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
2108 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
2109 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
2111 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
2112 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
2114 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
2115 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
2118 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
2119 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
2120 information in --help and --version output.
2122 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
2123 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
2124 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
2126 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
2127 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
2128 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
2129 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
2130 when the mode is enabled.
2132 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
2133 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
2134 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
2135 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
2136 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
2137 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
2138 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
2140 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
2145 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2147 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
2148 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
2149 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
2150 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
2151 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
2152 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
2153 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
2154 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
2155 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
2156 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
2157 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
2158 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
2159 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
2160 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
2161 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
2162 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
2163 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
2164 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
2165 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
2166 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
2167 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
2168 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
2171 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
2172 configuring glibc with:
2173 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
2174 Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
2175 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2179 + define static_assert
2181 + do not declare gets
2183 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
2185 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
2186 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
2187 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
2190 + timespec_get added
2192 + uchar.h support added
2194 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
2196 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2198 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
2200 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
2202 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
2203 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2205 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
2206 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2208 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
2209 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
2210 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
2211 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
2212 existing applications.
2214 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
2215 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
2218 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
2219 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
2220 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
2222 * New locales: mag_IN
2224 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
2225 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
2226 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
2227 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
2228 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
2230 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2232 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
2235 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
2237 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
2238 without a previously built glibc.
2240 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
2241 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
2243 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
2244 now supported for ARM processors.
2246 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
2247 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
2248 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
2250 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
2252 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
2253 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
2254 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
2255 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
2257 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
2258 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
2259 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
2260 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2262 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
2263 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
2264 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
2265 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
2266 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
2268 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
2269 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
2270 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
2271 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
2275 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2277 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
2278 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
2279 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
2280 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
2281 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
2282 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
2283 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
2285 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
2286 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2288 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
2289 and support for initgroups lookups.
2290 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2292 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
2293 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2295 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
2296 Contributed by HJ Lu.
2298 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
2299 on x86-32 and x86-64.
2300 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2302 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
2303 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2305 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
2306 for x86-64 and x86-32.
2307 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
2309 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
2310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2312 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
2313 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2315 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
2316 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2318 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
2319 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2321 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
2322 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2324 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
2325 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2327 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
2329 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
2330 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2332 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
2333 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
2335 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
2339 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2341 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
2342 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
2343 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
2344 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
2345 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
2346 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
2347 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
2348 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
2349 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
2350 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
2352 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
2353 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
2354 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
2355 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
2357 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
2358 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
2359 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
2360 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2362 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
2363 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
2365 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
2366 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
2368 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
2370 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
2371 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2373 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
2374 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
2375 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
2376 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
2380 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2382 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
2383 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
2384 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
2385 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
2388 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
2390 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
2392 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
2393 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
2394 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2398 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2400 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
2401 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
2402 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
2403 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
2404 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
2405 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
2406 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
2407 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
2409 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
2411 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
2413 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
2415 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
2416 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
2417 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2419 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
2420 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
2421 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
2422 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
2423 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2425 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
2429 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2431 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
2432 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
2433 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
2434 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
2435 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
2436 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
2438 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
2440 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2442 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
2443 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2445 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
2446 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2448 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
2450 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
2451 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
2452 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
2453 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2455 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
2456 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2458 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
2460 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
2462 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
2463 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
2465 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
2466 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
2468 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
2469 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2471 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
2472 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
2473 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
2474 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
2475 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
2476 necessity is every process again.
2477 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2479 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
2480 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
2482 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
2483 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
2485 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
2486 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
2487 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2489 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
2493 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2495 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
2496 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
2497 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
2498 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
2499 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
2501 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
2502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2504 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
2505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2507 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
2508 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
2510 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
2513 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
2514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2516 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
2517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2519 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
2520 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2522 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
2523 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2525 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
2526 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
2527 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2529 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
2531 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
2532 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2534 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
2535 and extend existing format specifiers.
2536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2538 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
2539 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2541 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
2542 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
2543 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
2544 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
2545 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
2546 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2550 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2552 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
2553 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
2554 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
2555 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
2556 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
2558 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
2559 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2561 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
2562 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
2564 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
2565 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2567 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
2568 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
2569 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2571 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
2572 Implemented by Eric Blake.
2574 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
2576 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
2577 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2579 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
2580 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
2581 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
2582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2584 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
2585 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2587 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
2589 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2591 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
2595 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2597 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
2598 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
2599 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
2600 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
2601 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
2602 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
2603 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
2605 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
2607 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
2609 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
2610 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
2612 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
2614 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
2615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2617 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
2618 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2620 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
2621 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
2622 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2624 * Faster memset for x86-64.
2625 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
2627 * Faster memcpy on x86.
2628 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2630 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
2631 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2633 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
2634 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2638 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2640 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
2641 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
2642 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
2643 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
2644 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
2646 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
2647 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2649 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2651 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
2652 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
2653 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
2655 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
2656 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
2658 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
2659 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2661 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2663 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
2664 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2666 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
2667 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2669 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
2670 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2672 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2674 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
2675 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2677 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
2678 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
2681 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
2682 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2686 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2688 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
2689 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
2690 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
2691 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
2692 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
2693 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
2694 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
2697 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
2699 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
2701 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2705 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2707 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
2708 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2709 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2710 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2711 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2712 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2713 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
2714 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
2715 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
2717 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
2718 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
2719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2721 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
2722 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2724 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
2726 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
2728 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
2729 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
2730 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
2731 site might have problems with the default behavior.
2732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2734 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
2735 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
2736 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
2737 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2739 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
2742 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
2744 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
2747 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
2749 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
2750 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
2754 * More overflow detection functions.
2756 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
2757 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
2759 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
2760 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
2761 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
2762 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
2763 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
2764 by Masahide Washizawa.
2766 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
2767 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2769 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
2770 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
2771 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
2772 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
2774 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
2775 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
2777 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
2779 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
2780 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
2781 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
2783 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
2784 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
2786 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
2787 for compatibility with some other systems.
2789 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
2793 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2795 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
2796 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
2797 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
2798 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
2799 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
2800 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
2802 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2804 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
2806 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
2810 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2812 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
2813 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
2814 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
2815 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
2817 Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
2821 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
2822 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2824 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
2825 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
2826 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2828 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
2829 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
2831 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
2833 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2835 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
2836 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
2839 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
2840 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
2841 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2843 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
2844 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2846 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
2847 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
2848 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
2849 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2851 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
2852 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
2853 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
2854 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
2856 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
2857 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
2858 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
2859 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
2860 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
2864 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
2865 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
2867 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
2868 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
2870 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
2871 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
2873 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
2874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2876 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
2879 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
2882 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
2887 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
2888 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
2889 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
2890 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
2891 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
2892 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
2893 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
2894 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
2895 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
2897 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
2898 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
2899 and are now also available on the Hurd.
2901 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
2903 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
2904 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
2906 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
2907 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
2909 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
2911 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
2912 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
2914 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
2915 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
2916 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
2917 of weak definition in ld.so.
2919 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
2920 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
2922 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
2923 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
2927 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
2930 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
2931 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
2933 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
2934 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
2936 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
2937 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
2939 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
2940 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
2941 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
2943 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
2944 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
2946 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
2947 implementation of regex.
2949 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
2952 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
2953 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
2955 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
2956 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
2957 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
2959 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
2960 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
2962 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
2963 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
2964 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
2966 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
2967 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
2969 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
2970 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
2973 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
2977 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
2978 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
2980 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
2981 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
2985 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
2986 128-bit long double format.
2988 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
2989 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
2991 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
2993 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
2995 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
2998 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
2999 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
3001 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
3005 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
3006 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
3008 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
3009 support Unicode 3.1.
3011 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
3012 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
3014 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
3016 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
3017 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
3018 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3020 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
3021 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
3023 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
3024 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
3026 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
3030 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
3031 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
3032 in float, double, and long double format.
3034 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
3035 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
3036 128-bit long double format.
3038 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
3039 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
3040 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
3041 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
3043 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
3044 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
3045 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3047 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
3048 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
3050 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
3051 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
3053 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
3054 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
3055 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
3057 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
3058 family of functions for Linux/S390.
3060 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
3061 of functions for Linux/x86.
3063 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
3067 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
3068 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
3069 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
3070 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
3071 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
3072 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
3075 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
3076 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
3078 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
3079 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
3080 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
3081 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3083 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
3088 only lists the names of the supported locales
3092 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
3093 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
3097 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
3098 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
3099 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
3100 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
3101 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
3103 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
3105 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
3107 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
3109 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
3110 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
3111 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
3113 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
3114 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
3116 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
3117 changed from the default "C" locale.
3119 * The usual bug fixes.
3123 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
3124 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
3127 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
3129 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
3131 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
3132 obviously requires a database library being available.
3134 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3136 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
3138 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
3139 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
3141 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
3143 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
3144 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
3147 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
3148 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
3149 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
3151 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
3152 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
3154 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
3155 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
3156 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
3158 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
3159 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
3160 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
3161 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3163 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
3164 structures for the wide character tables.
3166 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3168 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
3170 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
3172 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
3175 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
3177 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
3179 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3181 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
3183 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
3185 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
3186 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
3187 implemented for Linux.
3189 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
3190 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
3191 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
3194 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
3197 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
3211 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
3213 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
3215 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
3217 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
3219 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
3221 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
3223 * Update timezone data files.
3225 * lots of charmaps corrections
3227 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
3232 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
3233 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
3234 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
3235 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
3236 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
3237 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
3239 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
3240 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
3242 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
3245 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
3246 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
3248 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
3250 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
3253 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
3255 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
3256 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
3258 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
3261 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
3262 functions from ISO C 9X.
3264 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
3265 real valued functions.
3267 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
3269 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
3271 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
3273 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
3275 * Optimized string functions have been added.
3277 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
3279 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
3281 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
3282 daemon for NSS (nscd).
3284 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
3285 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
3289 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
3291 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
3293 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
3295 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
3297 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
3299 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
3301 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
3302 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
3305 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
3306 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
3308 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
3310 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
3312 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
3313 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
3315 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
3317 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
3320 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
3321 latest draft standards.
3323 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
3325 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
3326 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3327 addseverity NEW: Unix98
3328 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
3329 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
3330 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
3331 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
3332 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3333 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
3334 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
3335 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
3336 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
3337 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
3338 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
3339 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
3340 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
3341 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
3342 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
3343 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
3344 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
3346 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
3347 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
3348 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3349 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3350 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
3357 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
3358 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
3359 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3360 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3361 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
3363 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
3364 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
3365 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3366 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3367 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
3368 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3372 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
3373 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
3379 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
3380 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
3381 clearerr_locked REMOVED
3382 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3384 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
3385 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3386 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3396 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
3397 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
3399 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
3400 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
3405 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3406 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3409 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
3410 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
3414 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
3415 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
3417 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
3418 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
3419 endutxent NEW: Unix98
3421 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
3422 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
3426 fattach NEW: STREAMS
3427 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
3431 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3432 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3433 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3434 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3435 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3437 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3438 ferror_locked REMOVED
3439 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3440 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
3441 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
3442 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
3443 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
3444 fflush_locked REMOVED
3448 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3449 fileno_locked REMOVED
3461 fputc_locked REMOVED
3462 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3463 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3468 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
3472 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
3474 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
3475 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
3479 getchar_locked REMOVED
3481 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
3482 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
3484 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
3485 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
3486 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3487 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3488 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3489 getutxent NEW: Unix98
3490 getutxid NEW: Unix98
3491 getutxline NEW: Unix98
3492 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
3493 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
3494 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
3495 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
3496 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3497 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3499 iconv_close NEW: iconv
3500 iconv_open NEW: iconv
3501 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
3502 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
3503 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
3504 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
3505 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
3506 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
3507 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
3508 isastream NEW: STREAMS
3509 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
3510 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3511 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3512 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
3513 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
3514 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
3515 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
3516 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
3517 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
3518 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
3519 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
3520 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3521 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3522 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
3523 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3524 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3529 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3530 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3531 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
3532 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3533 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3535 makecontext NEW: Unix98
3536 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
3539 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
3543 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
3544 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
3545 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
3546 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
3547 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
3548 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
3549 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
3550 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
3554 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
3556 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
3557 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
3560 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
3561 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
3562 profil_counter REMOVED
3563 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
3564 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
3565 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
3566 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
3568 putchar_locked REMOVED
3569 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
3571 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
3572 pututxline NEW: Unix98
3576 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
3577 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
3578 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
3579 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
3581 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
3582 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
3584 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
3585 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
3586 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
3588 sendfile NEW: kernel
3589 setcontext NEW: Unix98
3590 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
3591 setutxent NEW: Unix98
3593 sigignore NEW: Unix98
3594 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
3595 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
3596 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
3597 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
3598 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
3599 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
3600 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
3601 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
3605 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
3606 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3607 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3608 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
3609 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
3610 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
3611 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
3612 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
3613 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
3614 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
3615 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
3616 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
3617 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
3621 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
3622 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
3624 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
3625 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
3626 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
3627 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
3628 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
3629 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
3631 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3632 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
3633 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
3634 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
3635 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
3636 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
3637 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
3639 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
3640 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
3641 write_profiling REMOVED
3642 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3643 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
3644 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
3645 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
3646 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
3647 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
3648 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
3649 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
3650 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
3651 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
3652 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
3653 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
3654 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
3655 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
3656 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
3657 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
3668 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
3670 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
3672 * rewrite of cbrt function
3674 * update of timezone data
3688 * add atoll function
3690 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
3692 * fix math functions
3696 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
3698 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
3700 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
3701 the ELF dynamic loader.
3703 * support for parallel builds is improved
3707 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
3708 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
3711 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
3712 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
3713 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
3714 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
3715 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
3716 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
3717 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
3718 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
3719 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
3720 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
3721 files in the ELF format.
3723 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
3724 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
3726 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
3727 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
3728 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
3729 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
3730 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
3731 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
3732 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
3733 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
3734 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
3735 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
3736 about dynamically linked binaries.
3738 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
3739 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
3740 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
3741 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
3742 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
3744 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
3745 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
3746 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
3747 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
3748 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
3750 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
3752 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
3753 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
3754 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
3755 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
3756 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
3757 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
3758 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
3759 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
3760 NSS services available.
3762 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
3763 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
3764 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
3766 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
3767 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
3768 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
3770 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
3771 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
3772 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
3773 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
3775 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
3776 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
3777 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
3779 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
3780 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
3781 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
3783 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
3784 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
3786 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
3787 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
3788 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
3789 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
3791 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
3792 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
3793 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
3795 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
3796 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
3797 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
3798 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
3799 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
3800 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
3801 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
3802 the header file <printf.h> for details.
3804 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
3805 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
3806 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
3807 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
3808 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
3809 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
3810 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
3812 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
3813 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
3814 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
3815 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
3816 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
3817 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
3819 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
3820 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3822 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
3823 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
3824 NSS scheme used in glibc.
3826 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
3828 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
3829 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
3830 their use is discouraged.
3832 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
3833 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
3835 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
3836 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
3838 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
3839 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
3841 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
3844 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
3845 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
3846 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
3847 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
3848 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
3850 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
3851 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
3852 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
3853 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
3855 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
3856 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
3858 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
3859 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
3860 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
3861 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
3864 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
3865 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
3867 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
3868 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
3870 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
3871 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
3872 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
3873 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
3875 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
3877 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
3878 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
3879 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
3881 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
3882 for arithmetic and string handling.
3884 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
3885 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
3886 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
3887 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
3889 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
3890 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
3891 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
3892 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
3893 programs already written to use it.)
3895 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
3898 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
3901 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
3902 a given effective group ID.
3904 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
3905 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
3906 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
3907 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
3909 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
3910 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
3911 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
3912 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
3913 doing the same thing.
3915 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
3916 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
3918 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
3919 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
3921 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
3923 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
3924 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
3925 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
3926 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
3927 `-ldb' to get these functions.
3929 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
3930 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
3932 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
3933 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
3934 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
3937 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
3939 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
3940 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
3943 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
3944 and writing the utmp file.
3946 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
3949 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
3950 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
3951 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
3953 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
3954 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
3956 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
3957 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
3960 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
3961 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
3962 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
3963 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
3965 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
3966 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
3967 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
3969 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
3970 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
3971 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
3974 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
3977 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
3980 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
3982 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
3983 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
3984 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
3988 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
3990 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
3991 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
3993 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
3994 want to put themselves in the background.
3996 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
3997 run without an operating system.
3999 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
4000 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
4002 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
4003 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
4005 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
4007 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
4008 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
4011 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
4014 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
4015 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
4019 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
4020 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
4021 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
4023 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
4024 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
4026 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
4027 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
4029 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
4031 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
4033 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
4036 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
4037 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
4038 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
4040 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
4042 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
4043 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
4044 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
4046 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
4047 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
4048 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
4049 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
4050 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
4053 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
4054 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
4055 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
4056 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
4057 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
4060 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
4061 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
4065 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
4066 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
4068 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
4069 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
4070 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
4072 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
4073 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
4074 address of the last character written.
4076 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
4077 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
4079 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
4080 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
4082 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
4083 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
4084 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
4085 you dereference this pointer.
4087 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
4088 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
4090 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
4091 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
4092 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
4093 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
4095 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
4096 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
4097 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
4098 EAGAIN in every system call function.
4102 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
4103 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
4104 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
4105 in Emacs or the `info' program.
4106 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
4108 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
4110 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
4112 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
4113 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
4115 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
4116 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
4118 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
4119 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
4121 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
4122 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
4123 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
4124 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
4125 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
4127 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
4128 to the error code in `errno'.
4130 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
4131 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
4132 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
4135 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
4136 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
4137 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
4139 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
4140 uniquely-named temporary file.
4144 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
4145 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
4146 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
4148 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
4151 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
4152 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
4154 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
4158 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
4159 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
4160 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
4161 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
4163 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
4164 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
4165 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
4167 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
4168 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
4170 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
4171 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
4172 made itself into a shared library.
4174 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
4175 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
4177 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
4178 with limited length.
4180 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
4182 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
4184 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
4186 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
4187 function for traversing a directory tree.
4189 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
4190 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
4191 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
4192 formatted output directly to an obstack.
4194 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
4195 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
4197 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
4199 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
4200 things to your strings.
4202 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
4204 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
4205 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
4206 supporting those systems.
4208 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
4209 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
4210 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
4211 configuration files.
4213 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
4214 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
4216 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
4217 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
4220 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
4221 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
4222 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
4223 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
4224 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
4225 required storage is not available.
4227 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
4228 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
4230 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
4231 latest files released from Berkeley.
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