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12 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _SC_SIGSTKSZ_SOURCE or
13 _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
14 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
15 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ).
17 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
18 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
19 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
21 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
22 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
23 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
24 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
26 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
28 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
29 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
32 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
33 programs should use the equivalent standard function
34 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
36 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
37 programs should use the equivalent standard function
38 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
40 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
41 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
43 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
45 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
46 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
47 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
48 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
50 Security related changes:
52 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
53 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
54 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
55 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
57 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
59 [The release manager will add the list generated by
60 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
67 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
68 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
69 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
71 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
72 to change argv[0] string.
74 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
75 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
76 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
77 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
78 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
79 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
80 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
81 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
82 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
84 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
85 information and library search path diagnostics.
87 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
88 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
89 larger than fit in an integer.
91 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
93 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
94 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
100 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
103 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
104 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
105 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
106 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
109 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
111 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
114 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
115 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
116 Instead, the default implementation is used.
118 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
119 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
120 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
123 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
124 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
125 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
127 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
128 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
129 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
130 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
131 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
132 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
134 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
135 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
136 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
137 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
138 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
139 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
142 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
144 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
145 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
146 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
147 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
148 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
149 perform any adjustments.
151 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
152 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
153 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
154 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
156 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
158 Security related changes:
160 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
161 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
162 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
163 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
164 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
166 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
167 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
168 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
170 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
171 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
173 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
174 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
176 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
178 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
179 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
180 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
181 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
183 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
184 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
185 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
186 "haswell" platform subdirectory
187 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
189 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
191 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
193 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
194 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
195 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
196 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
197 changing gnuc version
198 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
200 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
202 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
203 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
204 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
205 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
206 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
207 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
208 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
209 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
210 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
212 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
213 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
214 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
216 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
218 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
219 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
221 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
222 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
223 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
224 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
225 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
227 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
228 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
229 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
231 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
232 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
233 at the end of a memory mapping
234 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
235 by the caller to the kernel
236 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
237 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
238 declarations for __sigsetjmp
239 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
241 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
242 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
243 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
244 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
245 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
246 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
247 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
249 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
250 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
251 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
252 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
254 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
256 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
258 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
259 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
260 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
261 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
263 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
265 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
266 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
267 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
269 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
271 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
273 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
275 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
276 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
277 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
278 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
280 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
282 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
284 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
285 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
286 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
288 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
289 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
290 [27177] dynamic-link:
291 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
293 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
294 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
295 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
296 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
303 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
304 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
305 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
307 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
309 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
310 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
311 Three ABIs are supported:
317 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
318 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
320 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
321 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
323 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
324 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
325 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
328 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
329 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
330 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
332 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
333 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
334 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
336 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
337 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
338 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
339 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
342 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
343 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
344 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
345 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
346 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
347 NULL for an invalid signal number.
349 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
350 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
352 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
353 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
354 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
355 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
356 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
357 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
359 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
360 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
362 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
363 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
364 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
365 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
366 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
367 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
368 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
369 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
370 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
371 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
372 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
375 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
377 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
378 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
379 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
380 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
381 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
382 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
383 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
385 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
386 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
387 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
388 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
389 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
390 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
391 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
392 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
393 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
395 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
396 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
397 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
398 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
399 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
401 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
402 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
403 was not declared in any header file.
405 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
406 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
407 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
408 sigaction functions instead.
410 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
411 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
413 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
414 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
415 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
416 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
419 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
420 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
421 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
422 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
423 strerror or strerror_r instead.
425 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
426 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
427 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
428 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
430 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
431 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
432 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
433 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
434 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
435 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
436 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
438 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
439 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
440 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
441 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
442 flavor of secure RPC.)
444 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
445 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
446 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
447 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
448 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
449 object, to enable the hooks.
451 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
452 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
453 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
456 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
458 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
459 long double redirects.
461 Security related changes:
463 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
464 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
465 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
467 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
468 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
469 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
471 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
472 expanding ~user has been fixed.
474 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
475 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
476 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
479 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
481 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
482 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
483 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
484 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
485 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
486 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
487 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
488 filtee has constructor
489 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
490 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
491 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
492 character entities for infinity & pi
493 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
494 segfaults in applications
495 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
496 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
497 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
498 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
499 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
500 function with -mlong-double-64
501 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
503 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
505 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
506 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
507 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
508 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
509 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
510 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
512 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
513 dynamically loaded dsos
514 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
515 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
517 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
518 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
519 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
520 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
521 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
522 stale configuration forever
523 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
525 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
527 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
528 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
530 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
531 on 32 bit and old kernel
532 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
533 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
535 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
536 amount of sigset_t bytes
537 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
539 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
540 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
541 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
542 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
543 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
544 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
545 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
546 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
547 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
548 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
550 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
551 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
552 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
553 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
554 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
555 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
556 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
558 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
559 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
561 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
562 exiting detached thread
563 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
565 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
567 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
568 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
569 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
570 dependencies in audit mode
571 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
572 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
573 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
574 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
575 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
577 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
578 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
580 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
581 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
583 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
584 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
585 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
586 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
587 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
588 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
596 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
597 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
598 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
599 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
600 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
601 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
603 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
604 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
605 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
606 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
608 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
609 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
610 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
612 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
614 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
615 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
616 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
617 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
618 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
619 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
620 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
621 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
623 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
625 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
626 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
627 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
628 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
629 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
630 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
632 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
633 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
634 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
636 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
637 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
638 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
639 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
641 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
642 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
643 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
644 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
645 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
646 made this no longer practical.
648 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
649 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
650 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
651 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
654 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
655 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
656 with the current time, use the localtime function.
658 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
659 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
660 using clock_gettime instead.
662 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
663 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
664 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
665 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
666 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
668 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
669 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
670 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
671 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
673 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
674 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
675 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
676 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
677 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
678 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
680 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
681 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
682 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
683 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
686 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
687 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
688 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
690 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
693 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
694 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
695 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
696 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
697 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
699 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
700 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
701 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
702 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
703 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
704 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
705 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
706 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
708 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
709 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
711 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
712 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
713 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
714 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
715 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
716 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
718 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
720 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
721 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
722 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
724 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
725 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
726 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
728 Security related changes:
730 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
731 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
733 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
734 environment variable during program execution after a security
735 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
736 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
737 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
739 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
741 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
742 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
743 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
744 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
745 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
746 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
747 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
748 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
750 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
751 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
752 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
753 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
754 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
755 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
756 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
757 constructors/destructors is not fatal
758 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
759 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
761 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
763 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
764 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
765 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
766 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
767 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
768 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
769 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
771 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
773 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
774 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
775 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
776 (stringop-overflow error)
777 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
778 functions other can lead to crashes
779 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
780 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
782 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
783 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
784 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
785 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
786 still can fail with an error
787 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
788 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
789 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
790 initialized correctly
791 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
793 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
795 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
796 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
797 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
799 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
801 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
803 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
805 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
806 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
807 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
809 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
810 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
812 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
813 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
814 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
815 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
816 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
817 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
824 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
825 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
826 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
828 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
829 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
831 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
832 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
833 to the callback function.
835 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
837 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
838 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
841 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
843 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
844 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
845 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
846 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
847 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
849 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
850 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
851 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
852 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
853 link time reference, is gone.
855 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
856 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
857 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
858 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
859 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
860 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
861 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
862 the clock choice at initialization time).
864 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
865 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
866 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
868 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
870 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
871 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
872 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
873 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
874 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
875 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
876 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
877 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
878 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
880 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
881 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
882 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
883 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
886 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
887 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
889 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
890 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
892 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
893 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
895 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
898 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
899 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
900 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
902 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
903 header have been removed.
905 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
906 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
907 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
908 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
910 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
912 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
914 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
915 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
917 Security related changes:
919 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
920 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
921 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
922 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
923 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
924 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
925 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
927 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
928 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
929 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
931 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
933 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
934 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
935 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
936 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
937 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
938 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
939 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
940 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
941 invalid input drops valid char
942 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
943 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
944 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
945 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
946 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
948 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
949 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
950 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
951 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
953 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
954 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
955 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
956 for long double = double
957 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
959 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
960 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
961 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
963 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
964 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
966 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
967 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
968 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
969 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
970 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
971 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
972 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
973 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
974 not the default "nor"
975 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
976 false positives, change to modern flexible array
977 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
978 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
980 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
981 unnecessary librt dependencies
982 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
983 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
984 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
985 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
987 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
988 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
990 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
991 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
993 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
994 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
995 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
996 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
998 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
999 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1000 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1001 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1003 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1005 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1006 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1008 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1009 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1010 kernels and break testing
1011 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1012 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1013 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1014 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1015 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1016 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1017 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1019 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1020 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1022 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1024 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1025 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1026 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1027 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1028 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1029 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1030 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1031 always implemented in the same library
1032 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1033 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1034 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1042 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1043 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1045 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1046 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1047 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1048 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1049 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1050 configured location.
1052 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1054 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1055 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1057 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1058 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1059 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1060 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1061 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1062 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1063 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1064 process actually does not use HTM).
1066 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1067 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1068 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1069 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1070 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1073 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1074 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1075 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1076 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1077 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1079 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1080 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1082 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1083 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1085 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1086 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1087 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1088 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1089 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1090 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1091 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1093 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1094 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1095 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1097 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1099 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1100 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1102 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1103 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1104 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1105 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1107 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1108 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1109 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1110 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1113 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1114 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1115 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1116 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1117 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1118 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1120 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1121 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1122 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1123 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1124 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1126 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1127 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1128 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1130 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1132 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1134 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1135 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1137 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1138 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1140 Security related changes:
1142 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1143 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1144 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1146 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1147 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1148 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1149 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1150 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1152 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1153 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1154 or command injection issues in applications.
1156 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1158 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1159 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1160 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1162 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1163 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1164 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1166 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1167 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1168 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1169 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1170 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1171 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1172 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1173 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1174 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1175 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1176 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1177 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1178 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1179 pointer argument is non-NULL
1180 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1181 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1182 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1183 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1184 multithreads call popen
1185 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1186 and pthread_create fails.
1187 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1188 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1190 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1191 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1192 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1194 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1196 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1198 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1199 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1201 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1202 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1203 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1204 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1205 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1206 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1207 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1209 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1210 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1211 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1213 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1214 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1215 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1216 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1218 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1220 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1221 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1222 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1223 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1225 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1227 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1228 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1229 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1231 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1232 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1233 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1234 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1235 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1236 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1238 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1239 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1240 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1241 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1242 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1243 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1244 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1245 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1246 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1247 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1248 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1249 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1250 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1251 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1253 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1254 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1255 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1256 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1257 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1259 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1260 nearest rounding mode
1261 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1262 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1263 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1264 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1265 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1266 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1267 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1268 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1269 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1271 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1272 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1274 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1275 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1276 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1277 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1279 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1281 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1283 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1285 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1286 answers will be rejected)
1287 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1294 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1295 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1296 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1297 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1298 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1299 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1300 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1301 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1302 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1303 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1304 archive or binary locales.
1306 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1307 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1308 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1309 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1310 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1311 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1312 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1313 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1314 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1315 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1316 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1319 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1320 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1321 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1322 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1323 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1324 field) to indicate such support is required.
1326 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1327 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1328 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1330 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1331 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1333 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1334 fMxaddfNx functions.
1336 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1337 fMxsubfNx functions.
1339 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1340 fMxmulfNx functions.
1342 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1343 fMxdivfNx functions.
1345 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1346 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1347 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1348 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1351 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1352 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1354 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1357 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1358 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1359 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1360 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1361 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1362 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1363 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1364 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1366 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1367 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1368 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1369 the fstatat64 function.
1371 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1372 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1373 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1374 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1375 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1376 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1377 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1378 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1379 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1381 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1382 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1383 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1384 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1385 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1386 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1387 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1388 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1389 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1390 results in a load failure now.
1392 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1393 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1396 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1397 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1399 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1400 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1402 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1404 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1405 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1407 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1409 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1411 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1413 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1414 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1415 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1417 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1418 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1419 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1420 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1421 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1422 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1424 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1425 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1426 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1427 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1428 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1429 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1432 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1433 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1434 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1435 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1436 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1437 further explanation.
1439 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1440 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1441 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1443 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1445 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1446 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1447 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1449 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1450 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1451 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1452 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1454 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1455 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1456 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1457 for this function instead.
1459 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1460 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1461 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1463 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1464 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1465 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1466 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1468 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1469 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1470 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1471 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1472 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1474 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1475 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1476 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1477 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1478 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1479 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1482 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1483 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1484 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1487 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1488 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1489 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1491 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1492 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1493 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1494 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1495 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1496 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1498 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1499 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1500 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1501 behavior in a future release.
1503 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1505 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1507 Security related changes:
1509 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1510 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1511 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1512 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1514 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1515 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1517 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1518 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1521 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1522 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1523 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1525 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1527 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1528 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1529 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1530 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1531 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1532 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1533 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1534 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1535 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1537 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1538 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1539 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1540 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1541 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1543 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1545 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1546 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1547 scope with -O1 and higher
1548 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1549 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1550 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1551 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1552 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1553 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
1554 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
1555 horrible machine code)
1556 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
1558 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
1559 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
1561 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
1562 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
1564 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
1565 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
1566 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
1567 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
1568 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
1570 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
1571 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
1572 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
1573 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
1574 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
1576 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
1577 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
1578 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
1580 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
1581 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
1582 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
1583 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
1584 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
1585 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
1586 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
1587 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
1588 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
1589 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
1590 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
1591 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
1592 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
1594 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
1596 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
1597 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
1598 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
1599 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
1600 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
1601 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
1602 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
1603 for Spanish with CLDR
1604 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
1605 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
1606 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
1607 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
1608 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
1609 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
1611 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
1613 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
1614 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
1615 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
1616 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
1618 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
1619 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
1620 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
1621 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
1622 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
1623 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
1624 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
1625 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
1626 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
1627 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
1628 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
1629 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
1630 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
1631 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
1632 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
1633 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
1634 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
1636 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
1637 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
1639 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
1640 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
1641 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
1642 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
1643 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
1644 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
1646 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
1648 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
1649 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
1650 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
1651 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
1652 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
1653 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
1654 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
1655 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
1656 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
1657 and libc build with -Os)
1658 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
1659 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
1660 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
1661 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
1662 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
1663 that changes /etc/passwd
1664 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
1666 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
1667 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
1668 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
1670 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
1671 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
1672 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
1673 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
1674 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
1676 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
1677 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
1679 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
1680 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
1681 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
1682 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
1684 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
1685 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
1686 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
1687 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
1689 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
1691 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
1693 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
1695 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
1697 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
1698 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
1699 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
1700 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
1701 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
1702 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
1703 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
1704 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
1706 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
1713 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
1714 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
1715 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
1716 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
1717 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
1718 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
1719 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
1720 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
1721 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
1723 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
1724 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
1727 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
1729 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
1731 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
1732 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
1733 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
1734 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
1735 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
1736 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
1737 from a security and performance perspective.
1739 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
1740 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
1741 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
1742 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
1744 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
1745 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
1746 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
1747 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
1748 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
1750 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
1751 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
1752 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
1753 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
1756 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
1757 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
1758 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
1760 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
1762 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
1763 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
1766 * The copy_file_range function was added.
1768 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
1770 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
1771 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
1772 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
1774 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
1775 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
1776 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
1777 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
1778 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
1779 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
1780 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
1782 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
1783 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
1784 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
1785 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
1786 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
1787 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
1788 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
1790 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
1791 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
1792 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
1793 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
1796 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
1797 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
1798 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
1799 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
1801 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
1802 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
1803 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
1805 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
1806 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
1807 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
1809 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
1810 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
1811 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1817 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1819 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
1820 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
1821 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
1822 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
1823 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
1824 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
1825 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
1826 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
1827 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
1830 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
1831 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
1832 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
1834 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
1835 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
1836 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
1837 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
1838 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
1839 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
1840 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
1841 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
1842 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
1843 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
1844 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
1845 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
1846 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
1847 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
1848 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
1849 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
1850 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
1851 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
1852 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
1853 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
1854 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
1855 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
1856 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
1857 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
1858 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
1859 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
1861 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
1862 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
1864 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
1865 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
1866 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
1867 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
1868 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
1869 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
1870 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
1872 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
1873 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
1874 exp10l for these functions instead.
1876 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
1877 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
1878 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
1880 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
1881 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
1884 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
1885 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
1886 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
1887 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
1889 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
1890 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
1892 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
1893 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
1895 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
1898 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
1900 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
1901 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
1902 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
1905 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
1906 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
1907 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
1908 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
1909 use, but predates the bits convention.
1911 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1913 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
1916 Security related changes:
1918 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
1919 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
1920 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
1921 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
1924 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1925 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
1926 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
1927 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1929 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
1930 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
1931 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
1934 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
1935 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
1936 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
1938 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1939 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
1940 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
1941 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
1943 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
1944 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
1945 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
1948 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
1949 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
1950 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
1951 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
1952 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
1954 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
1955 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
1958 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
1959 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
1960 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
1962 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
1963 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
1964 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
1966 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
1967 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
1968 small, instead of NULL.
1970 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1972 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
1973 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
1974 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
1976 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
1977 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
1978 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
1980 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1981 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
1982 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
1983 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
1984 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
1985 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
1986 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
1987 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
1988 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
1990 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
1991 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
1992 width Latin characters
1993 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
1994 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
1995 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
1997 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
1998 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2000 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2001 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2002 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2003 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2004 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2006 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2007 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2008 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2009 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2010 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2011 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2012 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2013 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2014 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2015 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2017 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2018 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2019 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2020 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2021 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2022 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2023 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2024 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2026 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2027 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2029 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2030 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2032 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2033 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2034 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2035 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2036 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2037 __regcall calling convention
2038 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2039 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2040 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2041 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2042 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2043 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2044 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2045 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2046 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2047 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2048 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2049 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2050 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2052 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2054 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2056 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2057 consistency check failures
2058 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2059 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2060 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2061 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2063 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2065 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2066 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2067 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2068 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2069 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2070 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2071 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2072 on memory allocation failure
2073 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2074 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2076 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2078 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2079 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2080 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2081 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2082 instead of EAI_NODATA
2083 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2084 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2085 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2086 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2088 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2089 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2090 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2091 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2092 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2093 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2094 allocation in syscall loops)
2095 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2096 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2097 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2098 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2099 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2100 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2101 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2102 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2103 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2105 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2106 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2107 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2109 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2110 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2112 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2114 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2115 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2116 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2117 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2118 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2119 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2120 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2121 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2122 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2123 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2124 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2125 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2126 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2127 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2128 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2129 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2130 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2131 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2133 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2135 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2136 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2138 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2139 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2140 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2141 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2143 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2144 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2145 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2146 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2147 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2148 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2149 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2150 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2151 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2152 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2153 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2155 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2156 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2157 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2158 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2159 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2160 the svid compat wrapper
2161 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2162 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2163 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2164 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2165 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2166 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2168 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2169 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2171 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2172 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2173 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2174 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2175 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2176 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2178 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2179 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2180 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2181 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2183 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2184 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2186 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2187 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2188 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2189 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2190 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2191 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2192 inside the ASCII printable range
2193 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2195 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2196 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2197 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2199 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2200 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2202 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2203 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2204 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2206 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2207 networking interface
2208 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2209 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2210 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2211 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2212 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2213 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2214 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2215 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2216 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2218 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2219 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2220 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2221 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2222 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2223 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2224 same as for Croatian
2225 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2226 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2227 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2229 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2231 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2232 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2233 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2234 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2235 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2237 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2238 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2239 modified in case of success
2240 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2241 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2243 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2245 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2246 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2247 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2248 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2249 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2250 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2251 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2252 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2254 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2255 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2256 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2257 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2258 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2259 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2260 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2261 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2262 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2264 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2265 elision and tunables
2266 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2268 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2269 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2270 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2272 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2273 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2275 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2276 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2277 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2278 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2279 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2280 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2281 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2282 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2283 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2290 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2291 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2292 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2293 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2294 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2295 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2296 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2298 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2299 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2300 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2301 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2302 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2303 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2304 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2306 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2307 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2310 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2312 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2313 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2314 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2316 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2317 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2318 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2319 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2320 object are still limited to six search domains.
2322 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2323 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2324 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2326 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2327 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2329 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2330 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2331 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2332 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2334 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2335 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2336 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2337 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2339 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2340 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2341 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2342 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2344 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2345 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2346 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2348 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2349 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2350 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2351 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2353 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2354 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2355 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2356 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2357 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2359 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2360 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2361 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2362 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2363 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2364 interfaces should be used instead.
2366 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2368 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2369 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2370 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2371 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2372 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2373 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2374 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2375 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2377 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2380 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2381 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2382 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2383 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2385 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2386 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2389 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2390 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2391 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2392 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2393 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2395 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2396 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2397 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2398 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2400 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2401 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2402 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2403 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2405 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2406 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2408 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2409 exported by accident.
2411 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2412 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2413 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2415 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2416 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2417 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2418 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2420 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2422 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2424 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2427 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2428 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2430 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2431 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2433 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2434 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2435 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2436 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2437 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2438 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2439 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2440 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2442 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2443 synced with the kernel:
2445 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2446 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2448 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2449 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2450 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2452 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2453 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2455 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2457 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2458 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2461 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2463 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2464 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2466 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2467 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2468 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2469 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2470 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2472 Security related changes:
2474 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2475 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2477 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2478 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2480 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2481 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2484 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2485 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2487 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2489 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2490 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2491 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2493 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2495 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2496 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2497 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2499 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2500 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2501 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2502 x86 and other generic code
2503 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2504 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2506 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2507 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2508 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2509 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2510 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2511 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2512 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2514 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2515 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2516 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2517 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2519 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2520 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2522 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2524 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2525 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2526 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2528 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2529 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2530 failures consistently
2531 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2532 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2533 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2534 frame-pointer on i386
2535 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2537 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2538 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2539 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2540 generic c code is used
2541 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2542 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2544 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2546 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2547 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2549 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2550 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2551 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2552 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2553 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
2554 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
2555 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
2556 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
2557 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
2558 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
2560 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
2562 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
2563 new posix_spawn implementation
2564 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
2565 leads to lower CPU frequency
2566 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
2567 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
2568 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
2569 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
2570 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
2571 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
2572 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
2573 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
2574 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
2575 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
2576 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
2577 not support gethostbyname4_r
2578 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
2580 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
2582 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
2583 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
2584 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
2585 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
2586 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
2587 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
2588 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
2590 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
2591 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
2592 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
2593 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
2594 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
2595 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
2596 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
2597 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
2598 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
2599 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
2600 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
2601 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
2603 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
2604 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
2605 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
2606 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
2607 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
2608 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
2609 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
2610 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
2612 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
2613 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
2614 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
2615 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
2616 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
2617 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
2618 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
2619 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
2620 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
2621 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
2622 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
2623 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
2624 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
2625 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
2626 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
2627 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
2628 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
2629 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
2630 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
2631 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
2632 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
2634 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
2635 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
2636 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
2637 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
2638 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
2640 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
2641 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
2643 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
2644 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
2646 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
2647 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
2649 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
2650 posix/sched_cpucount.c
2651 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
2652 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2654 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
2655 leading to relocation crash
2656 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
2657 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
2658 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
2659 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
2660 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
2661 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
2662 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
2663 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
2664 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
2666 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
2668 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
2669 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
2670 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
2671 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
2672 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
2673 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
2674 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
2675 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
2677 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
2679 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
2681 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
2682 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
2683 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
2684 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
2685 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
2686 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
2687 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
2688 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
2689 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
2690 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
2691 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
2692 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
2693 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
2694 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
2695 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
2696 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
2697 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
2698 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2699 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
2700 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
2701 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
2702 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
2703 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
2704 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
2705 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
2706 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
2707 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
2709 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
2710 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
2711 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
2712 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
2713 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
2718 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
2719 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
2720 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
2723 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2724 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2725 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
2728 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
2729 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
2730 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
2733 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
2734 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
2735 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
2736 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
2737 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
2738 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
2739 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
2742 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
2743 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
2746 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
2747 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
2748 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
2750 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
2751 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
2752 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
2753 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
2756 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
2757 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
2758 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
2760 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
2761 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
2762 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
2763 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
2764 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
2765 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
2766 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
2767 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
2768 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
2769 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
2770 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
2773 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
2775 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
2777 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
2778 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
2779 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
2781 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
2782 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
2784 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
2787 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
2789 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
2791 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
2792 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
2794 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
2796 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
2797 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
2799 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
2800 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
2802 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
2803 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
2804 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
2806 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
2807 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
2808 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
2809 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
2810 effects of the memory clear).
2812 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
2813 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
2814 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
2815 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
2817 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
2818 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
2819 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
2820 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
2821 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
2822 if they are compiled or used with those options.
2824 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
2827 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
2828 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
2829 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
2830 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
2831 as large as several megabytes.
2833 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
2834 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
2837 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
2838 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
2839 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
2840 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
2841 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
2842 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
2843 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
2845 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
2846 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
2847 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
2848 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
2850 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
2851 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
2852 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
2855 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
2856 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
2857 They were already unimplemented.
2859 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
2860 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
2861 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
2862 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
2864 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
2865 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
2866 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
2867 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
2868 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
2870 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
2871 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
2872 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
2873 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
2874 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
2876 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
2877 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
2878 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
2879 did not reflect that.
2881 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
2882 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
2883 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
2884 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
2885 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
2886 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
2887 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
2890 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
2891 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
2892 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
2893 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
2895 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
2896 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
2897 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
2898 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
2900 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
2901 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
2904 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
2905 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
2908 Security related changes:
2910 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
2911 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
2912 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
2913 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
2914 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
2916 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
2917 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
2918 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
2919 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
2922 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2924 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
2925 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
2927 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
2928 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
2929 before it started waiting
2930 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
2931 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
2932 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
2933 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
2935 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
2936 library linked with pthread
2937 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
2938 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
2939 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
2940 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
2941 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
2942 after being __libc_memalign()'d
2943 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
2945 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
2947 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
2948 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
2949 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
2950 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
2951 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
2952 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
2953 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
2954 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
2955 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
2957 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
2958 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
2959 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
2960 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
2961 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
2962 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
2963 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
2964 causes a segmentation fault
2965 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
2967 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
2968 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
2970 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
2972 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
2973 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
2974 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
2976 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
2977 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
2979 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
2980 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
2981 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
2982 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
2983 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
2984 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
2985 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
2986 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
2988 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
2989 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
2990 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
2992 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
2994 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
2996 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
2997 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
2998 cause transition penalty
2999 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3000 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3001 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3002 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3003 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3005 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3007 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3008 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3009 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3010 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3011 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3012 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3014 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3016 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3017 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3018 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3019 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3020 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3021 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3022 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3023 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3024 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3025 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3026 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3027 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3028 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3029 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3031 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3032 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3033 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3034 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3035 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3036 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3037 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3038 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3039 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3040 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3041 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3042 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3043 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3044 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3045 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3046 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3047 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3048 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3050 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3051 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3052 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3053 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3054 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3056 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3057 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3058 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3059 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3060 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3061 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3062 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3064 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3065 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3066 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3067 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3068 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3072 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3073 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3074 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3075 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3076 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3079 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3080 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3081 been included in previous releases.
3083 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3084 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3086 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3087 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3088 instead of “union wait”.
3090 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3091 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3092 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3093 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3094 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3095 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3096 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3098 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3101 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3102 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3105 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3106 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3107 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3108 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3109 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3112 Security related changes:
3114 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3115 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3116 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3118 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3119 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3120 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3121 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3123 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3124 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3125 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3127 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3128 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3129 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3131 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3132 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3133 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3134 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3136 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3138 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3139 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3141 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3142 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3143 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3144 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3145 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3146 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3147 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3148 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3150 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3151 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3152 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3153 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3154 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3155 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3157 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3159 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3160 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3161 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3162 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3163 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3164 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3165 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3166 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3167 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3168 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3169 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3171 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3172 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3173 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3174 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3175 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3176 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3178 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3179 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3181 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3182 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3183 Romanian locale data
3184 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3186 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3187 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3189 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3190 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3191 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3192 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3194 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3196 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3197 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3198 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3199 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3200 when using RTLD_NEXT
3201 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3202 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3203 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3204 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3205 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3206 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3207 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3208 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3209 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3211 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3212 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3213 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3214 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3216 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3218 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3220 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3221 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3222 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3223 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3224 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3225 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3227 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3228 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3230 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3231 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3233 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3235 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3237 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3238 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3239 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3240 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3241 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3242 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3243 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3244 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3245 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3246 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3247 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3248 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3249 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3250 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3252 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3254 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3255 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3256 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3257 response to getaddrinfo
3258 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3259 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3260 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3261 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3262 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3263 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3265 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3266 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3267 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3269 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3270 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3271 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3272 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3274 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3275 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3276 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3278 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3279 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3280 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3281 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3282 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3283 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3284 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3285 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3287 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3288 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3289 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3291 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3292 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3293 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3294 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3295 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3296 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3297 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3298 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3299 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3300 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3301 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3302 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3303 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3305 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3306 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3307 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3308 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3310 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3311 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3313 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3314 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3315 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3316 AS not supporting AVX512
3317 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3319 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3320 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3322 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3323 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3324 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3325 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3326 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3328 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3329 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3331 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3332 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3333 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3334 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3335 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3336 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3337 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3338 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3339 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3341 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3342 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3343 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3344 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3345 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3346 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3347 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3348 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3349 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3350 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3351 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3352 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3353 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3355 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3356 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3357 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3358 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3359 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3361 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3362 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3364 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3365 "invalid" exceptions
3366 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3367 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3368 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3369 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3370 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3371 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3372 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3373 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3374 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3378 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3379 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3380 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3381 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3382 89, 16061, and 18568.
3384 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3385 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3386 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3387 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3388 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3389 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3390 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3392 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3393 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3394 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3396 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3397 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3398 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3399 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3400 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3401 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3402 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3404 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3405 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3406 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3407 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3408 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3409 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3410 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3413 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3414 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3415 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3416 independent of the GNU C Library.
3418 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3419 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3421 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3422 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3423 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3424 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3425 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3428 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3429 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3431 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3432 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3433 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3434 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3435 defining their own copy.
3437 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3438 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3439 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3441 Security related changes:
3443 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3444 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3446 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3447 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3448 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3449 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3452 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3453 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3455 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3456 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3458 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3459 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3460 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3462 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3463 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3464 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3465 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3466 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3467 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3468 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3469 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3470 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3471 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3472 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3473 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3474 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3476 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3478 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3479 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3480 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3481 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3482 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3483 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3485 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3486 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3487 overflow/underflow errors
3488 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3490 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3491 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3492 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3493 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3494 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3495 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3497 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3498 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3499 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3500 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3501 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3502 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3503 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3504 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3505 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3507 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3509 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3510 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3511 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3513 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3514 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3515 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3516 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3517 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3519 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3520 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3522 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3523 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3524 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3525 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3526 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3527 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3528 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3529 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3531 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3532 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3533 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3534 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3535 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3537 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3538 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3540 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3541 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3542 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3543 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3544 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3546 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3547 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3548 (related to lock elision)
3549 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3550 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3551 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3552 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
3554 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
3555 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
3556 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
3557 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
3558 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
3559 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
3560 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
3561 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
3562 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
3563 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
3564 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
3565 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
3566 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
3567 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
3568 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
3569 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
3570 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
3571 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
3572 contains a vector instruction exception.
3573 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
3574 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
3576 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
3577 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
3578 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
3579 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
3580 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
3582 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
3584 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
3585 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
3587 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
3588 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
3589 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
3590 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
3591 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
3593 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
3594 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
3595 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
3596 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
3597 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
3598 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
3599 statically too large
3600 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
3601 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
3602 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
3603 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
3604 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
3605 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
3606 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
3607 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
3608 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
3610 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
3611 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
3612 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
3613 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
3614 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
3615 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
3616 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
3618 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
3619 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
3620 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
3621 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
3623 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
3624 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
3625 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
3626 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
3627 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
3628 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
3630 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
3631 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
3632 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
3633 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
3634 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
3635 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
3637 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
3638 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
3639 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
3640 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
3641 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
3642 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3643 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
3644 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
3646 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
3647 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
3648 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
3649 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3650 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
3651 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
3652 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
3653 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
3654 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
3656 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
3658 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
3659 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
3660 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
3662 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
3663 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
3664 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
3665 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
3666 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
3667 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
3668 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
3669 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
3670 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
3671 pthread_setaffinity_np
3672 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
3673 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
3674 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
3675 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
3676 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
3678 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
3679 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
3680 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
3681 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
3682 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3683 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
3684 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
3686 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
3687 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
3688 for C99-based standards
3689 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
3690 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
3692 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
3693 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
3694 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
3696 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
3697 "inexact" exceptions
3698 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
3700 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
3701 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
3702 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
3703 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
3705 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
3706 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
3707 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
3708 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
3709 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
3710 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
3711 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
3712 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
3713 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
3714 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
3716 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
3717 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
3718 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
3719 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
3721 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
3722 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
3723 error on 32-bit architectures
3724 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
3725 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
3726 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
3727 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
3728 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
3729 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
3730 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
3731 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
3732 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
3734 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
3736 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
3737 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
3738 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
3739 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
3741 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
3745 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3747 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
3748 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
3749 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
3750 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
3751 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
3752 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
3753 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
3754 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
3755 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
3756 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
3757 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
3758 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
3759 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
3760 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
3761 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
3762 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
3763 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
3764 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
3765 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
3766 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
3768 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
3769 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
3771 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
3772 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
3773 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
3774 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
3775 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
3776 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
3778 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
3779 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
3780 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
3781 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
3782 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
3784 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
3785 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
3786 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
3788 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
3789 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
3790 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
3793 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
3794 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
3795 condition in some applications.
3797 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
3798 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
3800 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
3801 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
3802 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
3803 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
3804 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
3806 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
3807 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
3808 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
3809 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
3811 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
3812 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
3813 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
3815 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
3816 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
3818 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
3819 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
3820 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
3822 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
3823 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
3824 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
3828 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3830 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
3831 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
3832 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
3833 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
3834 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
3835 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
3836 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
3837 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
3838 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
3839 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
3842 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
3843 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
3844 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
3845 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
3848 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
3849 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
3850 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
3851 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
3852 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
3853 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
3855 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
3857 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
3858 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
3859 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
3861 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
3862 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
3863 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
3864 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
3865 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
3866 effects being visible outside transactions.
3868 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
3869 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3871 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
3873 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
3874 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
3875 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
3876 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
3877 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
3879 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
3880 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
3882 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
3883 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
3886 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3887 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3888 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3890 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
3891 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
3893 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
3895 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
3896 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
3897 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
3898 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
3900 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
3901 with newer versions of bison.
3903 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
3904 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
3905 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
3906 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
3907 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
3908 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
3909 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
3910 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
3911 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
3912 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
3913 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
3914 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
3915 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
3917 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
3918 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
3919 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
3920 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
3921 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
3925 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3927 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
3928 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
3929 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
3930 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
3931 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
3932 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
3933 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
3934 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
3935 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
3936 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
3937 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
3938 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
3939 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
3940 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
3941 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
3943 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
3944 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
3945 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
3946 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
3947 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
3948 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
3949 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
3950 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
3951 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
3952 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
3954 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
3955 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
3956 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
3957 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
3958 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
3960 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3962 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3963 can be used with is 2.6.32.
3965 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
3966 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
3967 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
3968 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
3969 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
3970 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
3972 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
3975 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
3976 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
3977 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
3978 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
3979 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
3980 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
3981 test macros defined.
3983 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
3985 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
3986 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
3987 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
3988 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
3989 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
3990 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
3993 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
3994 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
3995 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
3996 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
3999 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4000 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4001 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4003 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4004 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4005 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4006 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4008 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4009 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4010 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4011 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4012 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4013 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4014 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4017 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4018 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4019 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4020 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4021 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4022 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4023 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4024 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4025 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4027 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4028 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4029 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4030 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4031 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4032 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4034 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4035 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4036 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4037 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4041 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4043 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4044 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4045 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4046 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4047 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4048 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4049 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4050 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4051 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4052 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4053 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4054 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4055 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4056 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4057 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4058 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4059 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4060 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4062 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4063 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4065 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4066 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4067 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4068 extension which uses __block.
4070 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4071 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4072 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4073 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4074 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4076 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4077 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4078 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4079 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4082 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4083 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4084 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4085 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4086 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4088 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4089 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4090 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4092 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4093 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4094 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4097 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4098 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4100 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4101 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4103 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4105 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4108 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4110 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4112 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4113 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4114 for which the C library was built.
4116 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4117 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4118 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4119 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4120 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4121 in the following circumstances:
4123 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4125 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4126 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4128 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4129 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4131 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4132 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4134 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4136 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4137 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4139 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4141 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4143 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4145 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4146 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4147 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4148 disable some of those declarations.
4150 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4151 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4152 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4154 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4155 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4157 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4158 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4159 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4160 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4161 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4162 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4163 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4164 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4165 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4166 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4167 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4168 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4169 require recompilation.
4173 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4175 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4176 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4177 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4178 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4179 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4180 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4181 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4182 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4183 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4184 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4185 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4186 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4187 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4190 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4191 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4192 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4193 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4194 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4195 understands and accepts the risks.
4197 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4200 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4201 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4203 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4204 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4205 destructor calls to glibc.
4207 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4210 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4211 non-x86 architectures.
4213 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4215 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4217 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4220 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4222 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4225 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4226 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4228 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4230 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4231 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4233 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4234 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4236 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4237 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4238 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4240 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4241 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4242 attributes of a process.
4244 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4245 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4246 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4247 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4250 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4251 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4253 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4257 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4259 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4260 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4261 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4262 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4263 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4264 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4265 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4266 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4267 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4268 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4269 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4270 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4271 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4272 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4273 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4275 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4277 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4278 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4280 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4281 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4283 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4285 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4286 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4288 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4290 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4291 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4292 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4294 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4295 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4297 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4298 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4300 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4301 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4303 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4304 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4306 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4307 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4308 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4309 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4311 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4312 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4314 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4315 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4318 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4319 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4320 information in --help and --version output.
4322 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4323 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4324 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4326 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4327 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4328 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4329 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4330 when the mode is enabled.
4332 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4333 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4334 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4335 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4336 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4337 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4338 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4340 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4345 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4347 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4348 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4349 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4350 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4351 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4352 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4353 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4354 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4355 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4356 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4357 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4358 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4359 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4360 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4361 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4362 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4363 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4364 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4365 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4366 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4367 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4368 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4371 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4372 configuring glibc with:
4373 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4374 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4375 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4379 + define static_assert
4381 + do not declare gets
4383 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4385 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4386 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4387 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4390 + timespec_get added
4392 + uchar.h support added
4394 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4396 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4398 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4400 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4402 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4403 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4405 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4406 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4408 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4409 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4410 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4411 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4412 existing applications.
4414 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4415 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4418 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4419 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4420 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4422 * New locales: mag_IN
4424 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4425 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4426 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4427 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4428 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4430 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4432 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4435 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4437 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4438 without a previously built glibc.
4440 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4441 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4443 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4444 now supported for ARM processors.
4446 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4447 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4448 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4450 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4452 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4453 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4454 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4455 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4457 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4458 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4459 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4460 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4462 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4463 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4464 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4465 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4466 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4468 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4469 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4470 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4471 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4475 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4477 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4478 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4479 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4480 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4481 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4482 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4483 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4485 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4486 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4488 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4489 and support for initgroups lookups.
4490 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4492 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4493 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4495 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4496 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4498 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4499 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4500 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4502 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4503 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4505 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4506 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4507 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4509 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4510 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4512 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4513 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4515 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4516 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4518 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4521 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4522 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4524 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4525 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4527 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4529 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4532 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4533 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4535 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4539 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4541 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4542 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4543 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4544 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4545 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4546 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4547 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4548 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4549 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4550 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4552 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4553 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
4554 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
4555 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
4557 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
4558 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
4559 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
4560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4562 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
4563 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
4565 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
4566 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
4568 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
4570 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
4571 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4573 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
4574 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
4575 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
4576 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
4580 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4582 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
4583 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
4584 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
4585 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
4588 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
4590 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
4592 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
4593 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
4594 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4598 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4600 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
4601 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
4602 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
4603 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
4604 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
4605 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
4606 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
4607 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
4609 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
4611 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
4613 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
4615 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
4616 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
4617 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4619 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
4620 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
4621 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
4622 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
4623 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4625 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
4629 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4631 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
4632 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
4633 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
4634 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
4635 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
4636 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
4638 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
4640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4642 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
4643 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4645 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
4646 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4648 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
4650 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
4651 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
4652 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
4653 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4655 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
4656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4658 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
4660 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4662 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
4663 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
4665 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
4666 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4668 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
4669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4671 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
4672 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
4673 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
4674 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
4675 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
4676 necessity is every process again.
4677 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4679 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
4680 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
4682 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
4683 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4685 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
4686 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
4687 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4689 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
4693 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4695 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
4696 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
4697 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
4698 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
4699 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
4701 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
4702 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4704 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
4705 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4707 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
4708 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
4710 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
4713 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
4714 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4716 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
4717 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4719 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
4720 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4722 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
4723 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4725 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
4726 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
4727 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4729 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
4731 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
4732 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4734 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
4735 and extend existing format specifiers.
4736 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4738 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
4739 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4741 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
4742 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
4743 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
4744 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
4745 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
4746 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4750 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4752 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
4753 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
4754 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
4755 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
4756 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
4758 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
4759 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4761 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
4762 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
4764 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
4765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4767 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
4768 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
4769 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4771 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
4772 Implemented by Eric Blake.
4774 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
4776 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
4777 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4779 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
4780 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
4781 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
4782 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4784 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
4785 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4787 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
4789 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4791 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
4795 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4797 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
4798 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
4799 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
4800 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
4801 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
4802 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
4803 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
4805 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
4807 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
4809 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
4810 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
4812 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
4814 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
4815 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4817 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
4818 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4820 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
4821 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
4822 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4824 * Faster memset for x86-64.
4825 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
4827 * Faster memcpy on x86.
4828 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4830 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
4831 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4833 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
4834 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4838 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4840 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4841 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4842 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4843 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
4844 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
4846 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
4847 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4849 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4851 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
4852 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
4853 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
4855 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
4856 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
4858 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
4859 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4861 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4863 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
4864 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4866 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
4867 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
4869 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
4870 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
4872 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4874 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
4875 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4877 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
4878 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
4881 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
4882 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4886 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4888 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
4889 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
4890 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
4891 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
4892 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4893 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4894 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4897 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
4899 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
4901 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4905 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4907 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
4908 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
4909 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
4910 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
4911 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
4912 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
4913 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
4914 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
4915 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
4917 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
4918 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
4919 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4921 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
4922 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4924 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
4926 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
4928 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
4929 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
4930 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
4931 site might have problems with the default behavior.
4932 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4934 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
4935 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
4936 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
4937 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4939 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
4942 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
4944 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
4947 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
4949 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
4950 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
4954 * More overflow detection functions.
4956 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
4957 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
4959 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
4960 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
4961 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
4962 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
4963 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
4964 by Masahide Washizawa.
4966 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
4967 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4969 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
4970 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
4971 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
4972 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
4974 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
4975 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
4977 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
4979 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
4980 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
4981 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
4983 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
4984 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
4986 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
4987 for compatibility with some other systems.
4989 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
4993 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4995 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
4996 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
4997 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
4998 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
4999 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5000 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5002 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5004 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5006 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5010 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5012 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5013 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5014 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5015 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5017 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5021 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5022 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5024 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5025 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5026 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5028 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5029 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5031 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5033 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5035 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5036 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5039 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5040 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5041 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5043 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5044 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5046 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5047 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5048 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5049 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5051 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5052 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5053 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5054 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5056 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5057 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5058 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5059 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5060 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5064 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5065 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5067 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5068 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5070 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5071 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5073 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5074 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5076 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5079 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5082 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5087 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5088 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5089 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5090 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5091 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5092 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5093 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5094 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5095 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5097 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5098 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5099 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5101 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5103 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5104 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5106 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5107 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5109 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5111 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5112 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5114 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5115 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5116 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5117 of weak definition in ld.so.
5119 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5120 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5122 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5123 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5127 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5130 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5131 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5133 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5134 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5136 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5137 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5139 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5140 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5141 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5143 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5144 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5146 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5147 implementation of regex.
5149 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5152 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5153 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5155 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5156 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5157 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5159 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5160 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5162 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5163 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5164 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5166 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5167 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5169 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5170 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5173 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5177 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5178 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5180 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5181 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5185 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5186 128-bit long double format.
5188 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5189 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5191 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5193 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5195 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5198 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5199 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5201 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5205 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5206 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5208 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5209 support Unicode 3.1.
5211 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5212 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5214 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5216 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5217 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5218 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5220 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5221 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5223 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5224 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5226 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5230 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5231 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5232 in float, double, and long double format.
5234 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5235 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5236 128-bit long double format.
5238 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5239 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5240 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5241 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5243 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5244 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5245 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5247 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5248 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5250 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5251 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5253 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5254 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5255 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5257 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5258 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5260 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5261 of functions for Linux/x86.
5263 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5267 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5268 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5269 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5270 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5271 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5272 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5275 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5276 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5278 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5279 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5280 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5281 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5283 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5288 only lists the names of the supported locales
5292 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5293 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5297 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5298 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5299 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5300 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5301 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5303 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5305 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5307 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5309 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5310 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5311 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5313 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5314 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5316 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5317 changed from the default "C" locale.
5319 * The usual bug fixes.
5323 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5324 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5327 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5329 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5331 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5332 obviously requires a database library being available.
5334 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5336 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5338 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5339 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5341 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5343 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5344 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5347 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5348 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5349 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5351 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5352 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5354 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5355 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5356 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5358 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5359 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5360 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5361 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5363 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5364 structures for the wide character tables.
5366 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5368 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5370 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5372 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5375 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5377 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5379 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5381 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5383 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5385 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5386 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5387 implemented for Linux.
5389 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5390 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5391 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5394 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5397 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5411 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5413 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5415 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5417 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5419 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5421 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5423 * Update timezone data files.
5425 * lots of charmaps corrections
5427 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5432 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5433 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5434 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5435 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5436 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5437 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5439 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5440 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5442 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5445 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5446 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5448 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5450 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5453 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5455 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5456 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5458 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5461 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5462 functions from ISO C 9X.
5464 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5465 real valued functions.
5467 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5469 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5471 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5473 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5475 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5477 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5479 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5481 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5482 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5484 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5485 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5489 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5491 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5493 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5495 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5497 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5499 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5501 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5502 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5505 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5506 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5508 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5510 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5512 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5513 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5515 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5517 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5520 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5521 latest draft standards.
5523 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5525 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5526 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5527 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5528 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5529 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5530 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5531 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5532 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5533 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5534 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5535 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5536 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5537 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5538 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5539 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5540 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5541 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5542 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5543 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5544 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5546 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5547 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5548 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5549 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5550 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
5557 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
5558 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
5559 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5560 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5561 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
5563 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
5564 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
5565 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5566 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5567 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
5568 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5572 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5573 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5579 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
5580 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
5581 clearerr_locked REMOVED
5582 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5584 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
5585 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5586 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5596 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
5597 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
5599 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
5600 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
5605 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5606 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5609 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
5610 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
5614 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
5615 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
5617 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
5618 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
5619 endutxent NEW: Unix98
5621 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
5622 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
5626 fattach NEW: STREAMS
5627 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
5631 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5632 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5633 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5634 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5635 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5637 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5638 ferror_locked REMOVED
5639 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5640 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
5641 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
5642 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
5643 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
5644 fflush_locked REMOVED
5648 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5649 fileno_locked REMOVED
5661 fputc_locked REMOVED
5662 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5663 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5668 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
5672 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
5674 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
5675 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
5679 getchar_locked REMOVED
5681 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
5682 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
5684 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
5685 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
5686 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5687 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5688 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5689 getutxent NEW: Unix98
5690 getutxid NEW: Unix98
5691 getutxline NEW: Unix98
5692 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
5693 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
5694 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
5695 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
5696 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5697 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5699 iconv_close NEW: iconv
5700 iconv_open NEW: iconv
5701 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
5702 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
5703 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
5704 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
5705 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
5706 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
5707 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
5708 isastream NEW: STREAMS
5709 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
5710 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5711 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5712 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
5713 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
5714 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
5715 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
5716 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
5717 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
5718 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
5719 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
5720 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5721 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5722 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
5723 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5724 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5729 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5730 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5731 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
5732 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5733 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5735 makecontext NEW: Unix98
5736 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
5739 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
5743 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
5744 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
5745 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
5746 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
5747 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
5748 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
5749 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
5750 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
5754 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
5756 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
5757 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
5760 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
5761 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
5762 profil_counter REMOVED
5763 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
5764 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
5765 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
5766 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
5768 putchar_locked REMOVED
5769 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
5771 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
5772 pututxline NEW: Unix98
5776 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
5777 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
5778 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
5779 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
5781 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
5782 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
5784 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
5785 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
5786 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
5788 sendfile NEW: kernel
5789 setcontext NEW: Unix98
5790 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
5791 setutxent NEW: Unix98
5793 sigignore NEW: Unix98
5794 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
5795 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
5796 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
5797 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
5798 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
5799 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
5800 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
5801 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
5805 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
5806 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5807 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5808 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
5809 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
5810 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
5811 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
5812 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
5813 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
5814 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
5815 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
5816 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
5817 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
5821 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
5822 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
5824 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
5825 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
5826 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
5827 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
5828 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
5829 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
5831 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5832 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
5833 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
5834 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
5835 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
5836 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
5837 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
5839 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
5840 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
5841 write_profiling REMOVED
5842 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5843 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
5844 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
5845 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
5846 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
5847 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
5848 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
5849 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
5850 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
5851 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
5852 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
5853 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
5854 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
5855 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
5856 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
5857 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5868 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
5870 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
5872 * rewrite of cbrt function
5874 * update of timezone data
5888 * add atoll function
5890 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
5892 * fix math functions
5896 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
5898 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
5900 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
5901 the ELF dynamic loader.
5903 * support for parallel builds is improved
5907 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
5908 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
5911 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
5912 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
5913 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
5914 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
5915 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
5916 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
5917 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
5918 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
5919 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
5920 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
5921 files in the ELF format.
5923 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
5924 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
5926 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
5927 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
5928 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
5929 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
5930 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
5931 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
5932 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
5933 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
5934 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
5935 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
5936 about dynamically linked binaries.
5938 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
5939 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
5940 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
5941 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
5942 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
5944 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
5945 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
5946 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
5947 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
5948 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
5950 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
5952 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
5953 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
5954 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
5955 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
5956 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
5957 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
5958 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
5959 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
5960 NSS services available.
5962 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
5963 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
5964 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
5966 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
5967 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
5968 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
5970 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
5971 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
5972 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
5973 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
5975 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
5976 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
5977 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
5979 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
5980 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
5981 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
5983 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
5984 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
5986 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
5987 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
5988 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
5989 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
5991 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
5992 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
5993 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
5995 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
5996 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
5997 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
5998 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
5999 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6000 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6001 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6002 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6004 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6005 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6006 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6007 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6008 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6009 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6010 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6012 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6013 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6014 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6015 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6016 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6017 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6019 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6020 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6022 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6023 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6024 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6026 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6028 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6029 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6030 their use is discouraged.
6032 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6033 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6035 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6036 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6038 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6039 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6041 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6044 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6045 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6046 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6047 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6048 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6050 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6051 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6052 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6053 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6055 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6056 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6058 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6059 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6060 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6061 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6064 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6065 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6067 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6068 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6070 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6071 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6072 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6073 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6075 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6077 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6078 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6079 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6081 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6082 for arithmetic and string handling.
6084 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6085 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6086 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6087 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6089 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6090 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6091 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6092 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6093 programs already written to use it.)
6095 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6098 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6101 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6102 a given effective group ID.
6104 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6105 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6106 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6107 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6109 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6110 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6111 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6112 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6113 doing the same thing.
6115 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6116 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6118 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6119 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6121 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6123 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6124 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6125 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6126 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6127 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6129 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6130 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6132 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6133 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6134 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6137 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6139 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6140 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6143 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6144 and writing the utmp file.
6146 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6149 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6150 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6151 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6153 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6154 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6156 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6157 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6160 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6161 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6162 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6163 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6165 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6166 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6167 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6169 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6170 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6171 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6174 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6177 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6180 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6182 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6183 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6184 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6188 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6190 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6191 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6193 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6194 want to put themselves in the background.
6196 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6197 run without an operating system.
6199 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6200 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6202 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6203 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6205 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6207 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6208 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6211 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6214 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6215 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6219 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6220 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6221 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6223 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6224 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6226 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6227 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6229 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6231 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6233 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6236 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6237 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6238 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6240 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6242 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6243 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6244 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6246 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6247 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6248 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6249 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6250 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6253 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6254 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6255 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6256 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6257 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6260 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6261 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6265 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6266 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6268 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6269 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6270 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6272 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6273 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6274 address of the last character written.
6276 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6277 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6279 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6280 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6282 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6283 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6284 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6285 you dereference this pointer.
6287 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6288 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6290 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6291 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6292 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6293 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6295 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6296 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6297 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6298 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6302 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6303 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6304 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6305 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6306 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6308 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6310 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6312 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6313 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6315 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6316 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6318 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6319 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6321 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6322 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6323 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6324 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6325 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6327 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6328 to the error code in `errno'.
6330 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6331 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6332 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6335 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6336 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6337 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6339 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6340 uniquely-named temporary file.
6344 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6345 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6346 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6348 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6351 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6352 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6354 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6358 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6359 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6360 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6361 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6363 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6364 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6365 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6367 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6368 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6370 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6371 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6372 made itself into a shared library.
6374 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6375 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6377 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6378 with limited length.
6380 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6382 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6384 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6386 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6387 function for traversing a directory tree.
6389 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6390 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6391 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6392 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6394 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6395 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6397 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6399 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6400 things to your strings.
6402 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6404 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6405 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6406 supporting those systems.
6408 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6409 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6410 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6411 configuration files.
6413 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6414 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6416 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6417 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6420 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6421 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6422 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6423 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6424 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6425 required storage is not available.
6427 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6428 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6430 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6431 latest files released from Berkeley.
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