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12 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
13 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
14 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
15 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
17 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
18 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
19 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
20 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
21 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
23 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
24 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
25 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
26 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
27 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
28 posix_spawn interface.
30 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
31 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
32 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
34 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
35 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
36 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
37 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
38 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
39 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
41 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
43 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
44 ".tmp", to avoid examining temporary files created by the RPM and dpkg
47 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
48 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
49 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
50 installed, and <unistd.h> will not declare the crypt function.
52 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
53 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
54 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
55 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
57 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
58 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
59 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
60 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
63 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
65 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
68 Security related changes:
70 CVE-2023-4527: If the system is configured in no-aaaa mode via
71 /etc/resolv.conf, getaddrinfo is called for the AF_UNSPEC address
72 family, and a DNS response is received over TCP that is larger than
73 2048 bytes, getaddrinfo may potentially disclose stack contents via
74 the returned address data, or crash.
76 CVE-2023-4806: When an NSS plugin only implements the
77 _gethostbyname2_r and _getcanonname_r callbacks, getaddrinfo could use
78 memory that was freed during buffer resizing, potentially causing a
79 crash or read or write to arbitrary memory.
81 CVE-2023-5156: The fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced a memory leak when
82 an application calls getaddrinfo for AF_INET6 with AI_CANONNAME,
83 AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED flags set.
85 CVE-2023-4911: If a tunable of the form NAME=NAME=VAL is passed in the
86 environment of a setuid program and NAME is valid, it may result in a
87 buffer overflow, which could be exploited to achieve escalated
88 privileges. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.34.
90 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
92 [The release manager will add the list generated by
93 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
99 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
100 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
101 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
102 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
103 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
104 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
105 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
106 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
107 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
108 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
109 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
111 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
114 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
115 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
116 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
117 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
118 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
119 specified in draft ISO C2X.
121 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
122 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
124 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
125 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
129 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
130 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
131 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
132 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
133 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
135 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
136 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
138 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
139 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
140 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
141 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
142 original behavior unchanged.
144 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
146 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
147 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
148 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
149 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
151 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
152 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
153 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
154 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
155 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
156 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
158 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
159 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
160 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
162 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
163 feature is now always enabled.
165 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
167 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
170 Security related changes:
172 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
173 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
174 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
175 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
176 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
177 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
179 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
181 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
182 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
184 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
185 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
186 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
187 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
189 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
190 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
192 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
193 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
194 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
195 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
196 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
197 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
199 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
200 symlink for libraries without soname
201 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
203 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
204 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
205 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
206 profiling data correctly
207 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
208 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
209 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
210 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
212 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
213 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
214 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
216 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
217 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
219 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
220 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
221 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
227 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
228 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
229 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
230 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
232 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
234 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
235 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
236 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
237 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
239 Security related changes:
241 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
242 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
243 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
244 portion of the contents of the heap.
246 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
248 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
249 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
250 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
251 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
252 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
253 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
254 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
256 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
257 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
259 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
260 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
261 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
262 gethostbyname and other functions
263 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
264 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
265 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
267 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
268 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
270 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
271 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
273 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
275 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
276 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
277 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
278 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
279 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
280 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
281 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
283 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
284 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
286 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
288 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
290 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
291 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
292 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
293 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
294 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
296 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
297 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
298 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
299 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
301 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
303 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
304 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
305 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
307 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
309 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
311 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
312 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
313 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
314 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
315 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
316 aux.S: No such file or directory)
317 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
318 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
319 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
320 coincides with offset change
321 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
322 length in fortify mode
328 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
329 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
330 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
331 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
332 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
333 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
335 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
336 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
337 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
339 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
340 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
343 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
344 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
345 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
346 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
348 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
349 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
350 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
351 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
352 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
353 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
354 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
355 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
356 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
357 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
358 validation by applications.
360 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
361 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
362 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
363 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
366 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
367 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
368 unpredictable output.
370 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
371 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
372 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
373 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
374 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
375 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
376 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
377 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
379 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
380 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
381 quality randomness from the kernel.
383 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
384 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
387 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
389 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
391 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
393 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
394 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
395 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
397 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
398 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
399 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
400 when libc.so is issued directly.
402 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
404 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
406 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
407 return different result with versioned "foo"
408 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
410 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
411 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
412 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
414 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
415 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
416 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
418 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
420 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
422 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
423 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
424 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
425 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
426 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
427 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
428 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
430 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
432 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
433 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
434 (breaks test isolation)
435 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
436 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
437 __convert_scm_timestamps
438 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
439 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
440 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
442 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
443 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
444 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
445 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
446 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
447 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
448 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
450 [28936] build: nm: No such file
451 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
452 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
454 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
456 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
457 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
458 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
460 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
462 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
463 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
464 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
465 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
466 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
467 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
468 is promoted to global scope
469 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
470 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
471 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
473 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
475 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
477 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
478 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
479 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
480 before '__fortified_attr_access'
481 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
482 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
483 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
484 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
485 value for filling after \0
486 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
487 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
488 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
490 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
491 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
492 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
493 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
494 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
495 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
496 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
498 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
499 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
500 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
501 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
502 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
503 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
504 missing on microblaze with largefile
510 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
511 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
512 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
514 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
515 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
517 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
518 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
519 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
520 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
521 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
522 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
523 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
524 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
525 glibc, and must be installed.
527 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
528 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
529 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
531 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
532 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
534 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
537 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
538 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
539 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
540 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
541 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
542 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
544 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
545 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
546 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
549 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
550 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
552 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
555 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
557 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
558 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
559 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
561 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
562 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
563 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
564 object dependency cases.
566 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
567 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
568 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
569 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
571 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
572 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
573 return value is only used for its boolean status.
575 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
576 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
577 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
578 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
579 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
580 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
581 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
582 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
583 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
584 Restartable Sequences.
586 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
587 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
589 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
590 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
591 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
592 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
593 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
594 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
595 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
598 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
599 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
600 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
601 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
602 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
605 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
606 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
608 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
609 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
612 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
613 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
618 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
619 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
621 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
622 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
623 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
624 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
625 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
627 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
628 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
630 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
631 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
632 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
634 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
635 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
636 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
637 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
640 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
641 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
643 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
645 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
646 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
647 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
649 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
650 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
652 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
653 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
655 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
657 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
659 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
660 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
661 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
663 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
664 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
665 catching coredumps and backtraces.
667 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
668 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
669 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
671 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
672 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
673 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
675 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
676 support prelink PIE binaries.
678 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
680 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
681 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
682 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
683 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
684 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
686 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
687 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
688 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
689 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
691 Security related changes:
693 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
694 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
695 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
697 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
698 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
700 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
701 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
702 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
704 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
705 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
706 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
707 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
708 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
710 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
712 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
713 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
714 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
715 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
717 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
718 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
720 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
722 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
723 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
724 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
725 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
726 ID whose lifetime has not ended
727 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
729 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
731 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
732 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
733 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
734 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
735 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
736 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
737 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
738 --enable-initfini-array
739 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
740 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
741 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
742 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
743 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
744 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
746 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
747 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
748 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
750 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
751 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
752 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
754 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
755 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
757 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
758 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
759 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
761 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
762 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
763 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
764 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
765 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
766 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
767 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
769 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
771 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
772 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
774 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
775 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
776 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
777 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
778 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
779 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
780 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
782 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
784 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
785 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
786 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
787 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
789 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
790 systems with TIMESIZE=64
791 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
792 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
793 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
794 spurious NUL character on state reset
795 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
797 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
798 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
800 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
801 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
803 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
804 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
805 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
806 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
807 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
808 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
810 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
812 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
813 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
814 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
815 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
817 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
818 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
819 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
820 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
821 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
822 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
823 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
824 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
825 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
826 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
827 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
828 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
829 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
830 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
832 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
834 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
835 results (CVE-2021-3998)
836 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
838 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
839 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
841 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
843 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
844 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
845 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
852 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
853 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
854 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
855 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
856 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
857 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
858 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
859 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
860 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
861 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
862 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
863 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
864 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
865 potentially exposing application bugs.
867 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
868 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
869 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
870 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
872 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
873 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
874 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
875 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
876 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
879 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
880 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
881 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
883 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
884 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
885 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
886 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
888 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
890 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
891 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
892 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
893 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
894 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
896 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
897 --disable-scv configure option.
899 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
900 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
901 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
902 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
903 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
904 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
907 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
908 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
909 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
910 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
911 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
912 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
915 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
916 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
918 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
919 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
920 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
921 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
922 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
923 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
924 is currently a GNU extension.
926 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
927 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
929 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
930 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
931 although it is also present in other systems.
933 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
934 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
935 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
936 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
938 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
939 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
940 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
942 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
944 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
945 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
948 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
949 programs should use the equivalent standard function
950 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
952 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
953 programs should use the equivalent standard function
954 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
956 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
957 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
959 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
961 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
962 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
963 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
964 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
965 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
966 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
967 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
968 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
969 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
970 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
971 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
973 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
974 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
975 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
976 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
977 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
978 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
979 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
980 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
982 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
983 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
984 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
985 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
986 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
987 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
988 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
990 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
991 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
992 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
993 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
994 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
995 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
996 upgrade or downgrade process.
998 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
999 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1000 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1002 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1003 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1004 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1005 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1007 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1008 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1009 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1010 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1011 this functionality back.
1013 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1014 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1015 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1016 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1018 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1019 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1020 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1021 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1022 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1023 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1024 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1025 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1026 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1028 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1030 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1031 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1032 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1033 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1035 Security related changes:
1037 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1038 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1039 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1040 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1042 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1043 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1044 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1046 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1047 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1048 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1050 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1052 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1053 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1054 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1055 given integer (closefrom)
1056 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1057 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1058 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1059 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1060 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1061 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1062 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1064 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1065 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1066 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1067 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1068 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1069 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1070 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1072 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1073 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1074 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1075 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1076 pthread_create and dlopen
1077 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1078 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1079 when non-root user changes priority
1080 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1082 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1083 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1084 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1086 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1087 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1089 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1090 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1091 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1092 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1094 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1095 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1096 the right free implementation
1097 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1098 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1099 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1100 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1101 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1103 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1104 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1105 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1106 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1107 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1108 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1109 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1111 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1112 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1114 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1115 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1116 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1117 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1118 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1119 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1121 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1122 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1123 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1124 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1125 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1126 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1127 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1128 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1130 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1131 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1133 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1134 information for the current directory
1135 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1136 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1137 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1138 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1139 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1141 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1142 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1143 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1144 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1146 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1147 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1148 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1149 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1150 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1151 tries resolving them lazily
1152 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1154 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1155 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1157 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1158 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1159 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1161 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1163 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1164 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1165 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1167 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1168 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1169 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1170 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1171 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1172 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1173 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1174 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1175 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1176 with n >= 0x80000000
1177 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1178 thread never allocated anything
1179 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1180 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1181 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1182 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1183 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1185 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1186 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1187 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1189 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1197 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1198 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1199 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1201 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1202 to change argv[0] string.
1204 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1205 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1206 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1207 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1208 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1209 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1210 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1211 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1212 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1214 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1215 information and library search path diagnostics.
1217 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1218 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1219 larger than fit in an integer.
1221 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1223 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1224 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1230 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1233 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1234 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1235 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1236 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1239 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1241 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1244 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1245 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1246 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1248 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1249 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1250 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1253 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1254 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1255 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1257 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1258 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1259 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1260 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1261 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1262 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1264 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1265 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1266 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1267 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1268 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1269 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1272 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1274 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1275 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1276 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1277 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1278 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1279 perform any adjustments.
1281 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1282 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1283 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1284 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1286 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1288 Security related changes:
1290 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1291 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1292 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1293 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1294 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1296 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1297 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1298 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1300 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1301 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1303 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1304 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1306 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1308 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1309 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1310 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1311 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1313 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1314 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1315 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1316 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1317 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1319 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1321 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1323 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1324 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1325 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1326 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1327 changing gnuc version
1328 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1330 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1332 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1333 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1334 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1335 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1336 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1337 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1338 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1339 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1340 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1341 too much stack space
1342 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1343 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1344 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1346 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1348 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1349 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1351 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1352 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1353 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1354 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1355 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1357 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1358 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1359 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1361 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1362 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1363 at the end of a memory mapping
1364 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1365 by the caller to the kernel
1366 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1367 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1368 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1369 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1371 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1372 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1373 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1374 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1375 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1376 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1377 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1379 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1380 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1381 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1382 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1384 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1386 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1388 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1389 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1390 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1391 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1393 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1395 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1396 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1397 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1399 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1401 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1403 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1405 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1406 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1407 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1408 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1410 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1412 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1414 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1415 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1416 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1418 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1419 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1420 [27177] dynamic-link:
1421 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1423 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1424 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1425 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1426 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1433 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1434 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1435 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1437 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1439 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1440 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1441 Three ABIs are supported:
1447 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1448 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1450 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1451 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1453 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1454 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1455 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1458 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1459 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1460 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1462 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1463 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1464 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1466 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1467 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1468 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1469 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1472 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1473 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1474 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1475 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1476 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1477 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1479 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1480 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1482 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1483 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1484 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1485 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1486 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1487 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1489 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1490 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1492 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1493 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1494 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1495 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1496 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1497 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1498 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1499 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1500 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1501 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1502 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1505 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1507 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1508 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1509 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1510 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1511 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1512 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1513 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1515 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1516 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1517 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1518 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1519 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1520 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1521 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1522 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1523 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1525 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1526 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1527 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1528 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1529 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1531 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1532 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1533 was not declared in any header file.
1535 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1536 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1537 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1538 sigaction functions instead.
1540 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1541 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1543 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1544 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1545 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1546 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1549 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1550 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1551 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1552 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1553 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1555 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1556 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1557 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1558 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1560 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1561 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1562 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1563 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1564 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1565 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1566 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1568 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1569 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1570 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1571 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1572 flavor of secure RPC.)
1574 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1575 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1576 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1577 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1578 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1579 object, to enable the hooks.
1581 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1582 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1583 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1586 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1588 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1589 long double redirects.
1591 Security related changes:
1593 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1594 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1595 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1597 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1598 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1599 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1601 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1602 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1604 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1605 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1606 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1609 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1611 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1612 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1613 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1614 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1615 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1616 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1617 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1618 filtee has constructor
1619 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1620 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1621 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1622 character entities for infinity & pi
1623 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1624 segfaults in applications
1625 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1626 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1627 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1628 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1629 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1630 function with -mlong-double-64
1631 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1633 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1635 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1636 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1637 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1638 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1639 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1640 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1642 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1643 dynamically loaded dsos
1644 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1645 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1647 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1648 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1649 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1650 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1651 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1652 stale configuration forever
1653 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1655 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1657 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1658 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1660 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1661 on 32 bit and old kernel
1662 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1663 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1665 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1666 amount of sigset_t bytes
1667 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1669 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1670 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1671 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1672 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1673 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1674 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1675 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1676 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1677 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1678 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1680 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1681 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1682 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1683 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1684 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1685 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1686 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1688 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1689 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1691 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1692 exiting detached thread
1693 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1695 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1697 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1698 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1699 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1700 dependencies in audit mode
1701 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1702 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1703 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1704 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1705 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1707 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1708 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1710 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1711 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1713 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1714 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1715 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1716 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1717 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1718 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1719 corruption in memset
1726 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1727 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1728 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1729 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1730 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1731 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1733 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1734 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1735 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1736 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1738 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1739 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1740 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1742 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1744 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1745 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1746 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1747 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1748 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1749 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1750 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1751 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1753 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1755 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1756 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1757 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1758 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1759 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1760 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1762 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1763 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1764 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1766 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1767 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1768 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1769 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1771 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1772 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1773 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1774 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1775 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1776 made this no longer practical.
1778 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1779 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1780 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1781 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1784 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1785 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1786 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1788 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1789 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1790 using clock_gettime instead.
1792 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1793 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1794 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1795 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1796 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1798 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1799 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1800 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1801 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1803 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1804 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1805 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1806 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1807 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1808 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1810 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1811 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1812 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1813 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1816 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1817 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1818 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1820 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1823 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1824 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1825 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1826 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1827 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1829 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1830 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1831 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1832 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1833 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1834 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1835 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1836 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1838 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1839 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1841 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1842 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1843 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1844 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1845 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1846 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1848 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1850 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1851 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1852 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1854 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1855 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1856 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1858 Security related changes:
1860 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1861 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1863 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1864 environment variable during program execution after a security
1865 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1866 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1867 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1869 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1871 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1872 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1873 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1874 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1875 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1876 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1877 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1878 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1880 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1881 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1882 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1883 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1884 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1885 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1886 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1887 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1888 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1889 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1891 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1893 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1894 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1895 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1896 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1897 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1898 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1899 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1901 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1903 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1904 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1905 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1906 (stringop-overflow error)
1907 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1908 functions other can lead to crashes
1909 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1910 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1912 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1913 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1914 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1915 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1916 still can fail with an error
1917 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1918 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1919 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1920 initialized correctly
1921 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1923 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1924 value to an unsigned
1925 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1926 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1927 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1929 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1931 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1933 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1935 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1936 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1937 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1939 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1940 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1942 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1943 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1944 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1945 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1946 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1947 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1954 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1955 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1956 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1958 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1959 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1961 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1962 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1963 to the callback function.
1965 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1967 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1968 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1971 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1973 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1974 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1975 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1976 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1977 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1979 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1980 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1981 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1982 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1983 link time reference, is gone.
1985 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1986 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1987 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1988 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1989 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1990 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1991 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1992 the clock choice at initialization time).
1994 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1995 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1996 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1998 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2000 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2001 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2002 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2003 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2004 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2005 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2006 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2007 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2008 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2010 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2011 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2012 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2013 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2016 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2017 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2019 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2020 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2022 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2023 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2025 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2028 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2029 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2030 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2032 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2033 header have been removed.
2035 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2036 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2037 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2038 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2040 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2042 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2044 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2045 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2047 Security related changes:
2049 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2050 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2051 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2052 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2053 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2054 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2055 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2057 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2058 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2059 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2061 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2063 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2064 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2065 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2066 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2067 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2068 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2069 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2070 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2071 invalid input drops valid char
2072 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2073 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2074 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2075 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2076 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2078 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2079 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2080 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2081 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2083 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2084 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2085 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2086 for long double = double
2087 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2088 long double = double
2089 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2090 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2091 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2093 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2094 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2096 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2097 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2098 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2099 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2100 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2101 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2102 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2103 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2104 not the default "nor"
2105 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2106 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2107 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2108 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2110 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2111 unnecessary librt dependencies
2112 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2113 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2114 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2115 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2117 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2118 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2120 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2121 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2122 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2123 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2124 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2125 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2126 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2127 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2128 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2129 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2130 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2131 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2133 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2135 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2136 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2138 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2139 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2140 kernels and break testing
2141 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2142 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2143 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2144 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2145 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2146 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2147 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2149 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2150 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2152 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2154 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2155 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2156 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2157 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2158 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2159 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2160 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2161 always implemented in the same library
2162 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2163 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2164 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2172 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2173 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2175 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2176 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2177 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2178 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2179 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2180 configured location.
2182 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2184 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2185 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2187 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2188 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2189 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2190 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2191 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2192 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2193 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2194 process actually does not use HTM).
2196 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2197 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2198 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2199 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2200 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2203 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2204 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2205 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2206 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2207 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2209 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2210 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2212 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2213 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2215 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2216 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2217 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2218 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2219 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2220 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2221 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2223 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2224 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2225 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2227 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2229 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2230 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2232 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2233 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2234 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2235 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2237 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2238 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2239 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2240 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2243 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2244 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2245 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2246 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2247 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2248 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2250 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2251 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2252 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2253 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2254 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2256 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2257 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2258 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2260 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2262 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2264 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2265 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2267 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2268 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2270 Security related changes:
2272 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2273 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2274 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2276 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2277 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2278 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2279 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2280 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2282 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2283 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2284 or command injection issues in applications.
2286 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2288 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2289 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2290 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2292 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2293 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2294 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2296 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2297 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2298 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2299 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2300 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2301 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2302 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2303 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2304 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2305 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2306 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2307 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2308 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2309 pointer argument is non-NULL
2310 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2311 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2312 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2313 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2314 multithreads call popen
2315 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2316 and pthread_create fails.
2317 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2318 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2320 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2321 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2322 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2324 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2326 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2328 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2329 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2331 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2332 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2333 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2334 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2335 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2336 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2337 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2339 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2340 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2341 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2343 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2344 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2345 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2346 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2348 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2350 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2351 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2352 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2353 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2355 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2357 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2358 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2359 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2361 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2362 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2363 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2364 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2365 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2366 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2368 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2369 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2370 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2371 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2372 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2373 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2374 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2375 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2376 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2377 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2378 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2379 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2380 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2381 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2383 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2384 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2385 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2386 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2387 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2389 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2390 nearest rounding mode
2391 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2392 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2393 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2394 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2395 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2396 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2397 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2398 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2399 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2401 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2402 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2404 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2405 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2406 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2407 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2409 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2411 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2413 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2415 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2416 answers will be rejected)
2417 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2424 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2425 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2426 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2427 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2428 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2429 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2430 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2431 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2432 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2433 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2434 archive or binary locales.
2436 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2437 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2438 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2439 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2440 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2441 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2442 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2443 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2444 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2445 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2446 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2449 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2450 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2451 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2452 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2453 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2454 field) to indicate such support is required.
2456 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2457 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2458 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2460 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2461 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2463 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2464 fMxaddfNx functions.
2466 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2467 fMxsubfNx functions.
2469 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2470 fMxmulfNx functions.
2472 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2473 fMxdivfNx functions.
2475 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2476 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2477 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2478 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2481 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2482 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2484 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2487 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2488 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2489 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2490 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2491 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2492 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2493 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2494 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2496 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2497 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2498 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2499 the fstatat64 function.
2501 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2502 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2503 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2504 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2505 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2506 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2507 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2508 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2509 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2511 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2512 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2513 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2514 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2515 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2516 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2517 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2518 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2519 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2520 results in a load failure now.
2522 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2523 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2526 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2527 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2529 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2530 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2532 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2534 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2535 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2537 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2539 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2541 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2543 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2544 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2545 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2547 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2548 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2549 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2550 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2551 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2552 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2554 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2555 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2556 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2557 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2558 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2559 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2562 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2563 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2564 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2565 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2566 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2567 further explanation.
2569 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2570 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2571 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2573 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2575 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2576 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2577 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2579 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2580 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2581 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2582 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2584 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2585 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2586 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2587 for this function instead.
2589 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2590 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2591 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2593 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2594 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2595 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2596 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2598 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2599 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2600 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2601 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2602 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2604 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2605 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2606 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2607 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2608 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2609 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2612 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2613 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2614 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2617 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2618 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2619 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2621 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2622 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2623 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2624 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2625 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2626 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2628 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2629 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2630 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2631 behavior in a future release.
2633 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2635 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2637 Security related changes:
2639 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2640 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2641 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2642 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2644 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2645 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2647 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2648 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2651 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2652 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2653 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2655 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2657 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2658 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2659 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2660 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2661 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2662 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2663 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2664 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2665 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2667 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2668 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2669 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2670 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2671 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2673 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2675 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2676 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2677 scope with -O1 and higher
2678 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2679 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2680 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2681 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2682 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2683 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2684 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2685 horrible machine code)
2686 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2688 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2689 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2691 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2692 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2694 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2695 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2696 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2697 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2698 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2700 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2701 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2702 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2703 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2704 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2706 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2707 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2708 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2710 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2711 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2712 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2713 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2714 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2715 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2716 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2717 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2718 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2719 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2720 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2721 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2722 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2724 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2726 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2727 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2728 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2729 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2730 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2731 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2732 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2733 for Spanish with CLDR
2734 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2735 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2736 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2737 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2738 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2739 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2741 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2743 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2744 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2745 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2746 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2748 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2749 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2750 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2751 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2752 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2753 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2754 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2755 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2756 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2757 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2758 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2759 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2760 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2761 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2762 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2763 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2764 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2766 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2767 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2769 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2770 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2771 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2772 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2773 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2774 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2776 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2778 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2779 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2780 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2781 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2782 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2783 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2784 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2785 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2786 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2787 and libc build with -Os)
2788 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2789 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2790 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2791 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2792 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2793 that changes /etc/passwd
2794 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2796 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2797 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2798 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2800 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2801 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2802 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2803 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2804 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2806 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2807 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2809 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2810 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2811 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2812 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2814 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2815 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2816 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2817 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2819 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2821 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2823 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2825 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2827 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2828 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2829 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2830 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2831 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2832 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2833 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2834 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2836 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2843 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2844 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2845 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2846 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2847 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2848 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2849 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2850 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2851 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2853 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2854 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2857 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2859 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2861 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2862 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2863 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2864 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2865 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2866 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2867 from a security and performance perspective.
2869 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2870 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2871 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2872 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2874 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2875 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2876 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2877 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2878 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2880 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2881 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2882 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2883 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2886 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2887 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2888 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2890 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2892 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2893 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2896 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2898 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2900 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2901 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2902 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2904 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2905 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2906 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2907 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2908 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2909 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2910 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2912 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2913 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2914 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2915 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2916 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2917 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2918 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2920 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2921 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2922 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2923 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2926 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2927 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2928 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2929 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2931 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2932 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2933 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2935 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2936 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2937 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2939 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2940 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2941 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2947 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2949 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2950 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2951 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2952 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2953 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2954 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2955 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2956 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2957 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2960 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2961 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2962 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2964 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2965 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2966 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2967 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2968 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2969 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2970 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2971 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2972 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2973 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2974 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2975 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2976 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2977 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2978 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2979 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2980 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2981 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2982 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2983 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2984 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2985 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2986 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2987 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2988 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2989 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2991 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2992 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2994 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2995 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2996 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2997 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2998 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2999 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3000 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3002 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3003 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3004 exp10l for these functions instead.
3006 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3007 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3008 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3010 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3011 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3014 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3015 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3016 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3017 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3019 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3020 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3022 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3023 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3025 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3028 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3030 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3031 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3032 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3035 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3036 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3037 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3038 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3039 use, but predates the bits convention.
3041 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3043 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3046 Security related changes:
3048 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3049 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3050 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3051 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3054 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3055 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3056 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3057 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3059 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3060 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3061 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3064 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3065 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3066 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3068 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3069 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3070 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3071 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3073 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3074 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3075 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3078 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3079 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3080 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3081 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3082 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3084 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3085 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3088 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3089 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3090 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3092 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3093 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3094 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3096 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3097 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3098 small, instead of NULL.
3100 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3102 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3103 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3104 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3106 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3107 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3108 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3110 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3111 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3112 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3113 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3114 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3115 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3116 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3117 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3118 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3120 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3121 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3122 width Latin characters
3123 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3124 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3125 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3127 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3128 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3130 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3131 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3132 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3133 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3134 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3136 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3137 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3138 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3139 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3140 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3141 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3142 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3143 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3144 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3145 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3147 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3148 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3149 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3150 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3151 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3152 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3153 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3154 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3156 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3157 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3159 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3160 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3162 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3163 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3164 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3165 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3166 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3167 __regcall calling convention
3168 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3169 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3170 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3171 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3172 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3173 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3174 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3175 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3176 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3177 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3178 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3179 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3180 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3182 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3184 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3186 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3187 consistency check failures
3188 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3189 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3190 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3191 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3193 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3195 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3196 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3197 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3198 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3199 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3200 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3201 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3202 on memory allocation failure
3203 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3204 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3206 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3208 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3209 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3210 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3211 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3212 instead of EAI_NODATA
3213 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3214 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3215 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3216 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3218 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3219 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3220 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3221 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3222 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3223 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3224 allocation in syscall loops)
3225 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3226 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3227 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3228 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3229 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3230 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3231 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3232 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3233 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3235 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3236 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3237 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3239 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3240 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3242 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3244 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3245 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3246 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3247 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3248 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3249 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3250 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3251 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3252 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3253 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3254 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3255 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3256 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3257 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3258 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3259 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3260 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3261 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3263 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3265 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3266 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3268 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3269 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3270 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3271 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3273 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3274 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3275 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3276 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3277 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3278 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3279 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3280 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3281 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3282 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3283 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3285 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3286 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3287 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3288 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3289 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3290 the svid compat wrapper
3291 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3292 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3293 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3294 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3295 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3296 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3298 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3299 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3301 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3302 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3303 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3304 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3305 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3306 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3308 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3309 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3310 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3311 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3313 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3314 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3316 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3317 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3318 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3319 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3320 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3321 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3322 inside the ASCII printable range
3323 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3325 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3326 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3327 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3329 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3330 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3332 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3333 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3334 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3336 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3337 networking interface
3338 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3339 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3340 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3341 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3342 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3343 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3344 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3345 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3346 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3348 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3349 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3350 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3351 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3352 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3353 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3354 same as for Croatian
3355 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3356 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3357 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3359 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3361 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3362 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3363 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3364 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3365 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3367 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3368 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3369 modified in case of success
3370 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3371 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3373 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3375 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3376 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3377 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3378 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3379 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3380 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3381 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3382 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3384 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3385 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3386 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3387 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3388 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3389 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3390 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3391 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3392 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3394 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3395 elision and tunables
3396 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3398 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3399 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3400 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3402 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3403 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3405 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3406 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3407 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3408 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3409 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3410 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3411 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3412 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3413 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3420 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3421 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3422 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3423 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3424 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3425 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3426 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3428 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3429 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3430 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3431 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3432 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3433 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3434 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3436 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3437 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3440 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3442 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3443 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3444 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3446 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3447 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3448 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3449 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3450 object are still limited to six search domains.
3452 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3453 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3454 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3456 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3457 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3459 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3460 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3461 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3462 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3464 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3465 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3466 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3467 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3469 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3470 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3471 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3472 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3474 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3475 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3476 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3478 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3479 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3480 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3481 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3483 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3484 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3485 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3486 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3487 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3489 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3490 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3491 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3492 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3493 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3494 interfaces should be used instead.
3496 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3498 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3499 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3500 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3501 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3502 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3503 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3504 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3505 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3507 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3510 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3511 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3512 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3513 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3515 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3516 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3519 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3520 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3521 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3522 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3523 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3525 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3526 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3527 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3528 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3530 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3531 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3532 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3533 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3535 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3536 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3538 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3539 exported by accident.
3541 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3542 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3543 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3545 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3546 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3547 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3548 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3550 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3552 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3554 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3557 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3558 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3560 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3561 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3563 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3564 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3565 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3566 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3567 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3568 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3569 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3570 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3572 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3573 synced with the kernel:
3575 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3576 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3578 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3579 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3580 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3582 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3583 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3585 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3587 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3588 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3591 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3593 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3594 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3596 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3597 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3598 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3599 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3600 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3602 Security related changes:
3604 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3605 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3607 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3608 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3610 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3611 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3614 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3615 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3617 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3619 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3620 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3621 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3623 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3625 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3626 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3627 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3629 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3630 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3631 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3632 x86 and other generic code
3633 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3634 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3636 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3637 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3638 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3639 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3640 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3641 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3642 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3644 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3645 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3646 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3647 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3649 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3650 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3652 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3654 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3655 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3656 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3658 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3659 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3660 failures consistently
3661 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3662 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3663 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3664 frame-pointer on i386
3665 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3667 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3668 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3669 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3670 generic c code is used
3671 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3672 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3674 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3676 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3677 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3679 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3680 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3681 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3682 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3683 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3684 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3685 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3686 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3687 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3688 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3690 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3692 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3693 new posix_spawn implementation
3694 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3695 leads to lower CPU frequency
3696 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3697 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3698 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3699 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3700 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3701 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3702 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3703 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3704 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3705 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3706 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3707 not support gethostbyname4_r
3708 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3710 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3712 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3713 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3714 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3715 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3716 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3717 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3718 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3720 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3721 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3722 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3723 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3724 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3725 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3726 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3727 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3728 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3729 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3730 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3731 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3733 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3734 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3735 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3736 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3737 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3738 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3739 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3740 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3742 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3743 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3744 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3745 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3746 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3747 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3748 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3749 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3750 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3751 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3752 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3753 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3754 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3755 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3756 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3757 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3758 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3759 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3760 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3761 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3762 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3764 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3765 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3766 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3767 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3768 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3770 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3771 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3773 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3774 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3776 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3777 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3779 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3780 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3781 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3782 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3784 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3785 leading to relocation crash
3786 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3787 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3788 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3789 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3790 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3791 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3792 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3793 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3794 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3796 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3798 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3799 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3800 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3801 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3802 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3803 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3804 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3805 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3807 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3809 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3811 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3812 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3813 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3814 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3815 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3816 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3817 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3818 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3819 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3820 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3821 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3822 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3823 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3824 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3825 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3826 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3827 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3828 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3829 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3830 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3831 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3832 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3833 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3834 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3835 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3836 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3837 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3839 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3840 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3841 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3842 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3843 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3848 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3849 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3850 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3853 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3854 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3855 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3858 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3859 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3860 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3863 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3864 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3865 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3866 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3867 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3868 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3869 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3872 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3873 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3876 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3877 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3878 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3880 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3881 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3882 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3883 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3886 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3887 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3888 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3890 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3891 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3892 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3893 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3894 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3895 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3896 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3897 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3898 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3899 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3900 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3903 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3905 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3907 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3908 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3909 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3911 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3912 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3914 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3917 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3919 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3921 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3922 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3924 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3926 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3927 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3929 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3930 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3932 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3933 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3934 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3936 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3937 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3938 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3939 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3940 effects of the memory clear).
3942 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3943 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3944 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3945 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3947 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3948 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3949 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3950 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3951 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3952 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3954 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3957 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3958 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3959 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3960 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3961 as large as several megabytes.
3963 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3964 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3967 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3968 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3969 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3970 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3971 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3972 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3973 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3975 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3976 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3977 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3978 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3980 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3981 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3982 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3985 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3986 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3987 They were already unimplemented.
3989 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3990 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3991 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3992 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3994 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3995 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3996 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3997 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3998 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4000 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4001 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4002 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4003 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4004 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4006 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4007 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4008 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4009 did not reflect that.
4011 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4012 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4013 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4014 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4015 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4016 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4017 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4020 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4021 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4022 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4023 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4025 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4026 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4027 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4028 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4030 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4031 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4034 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4035 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4038 Security related changes:
4040 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4041 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4042 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4043 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4044 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4046 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4047 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4048 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4049 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4052 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4054 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4055 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4057 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4058 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4059 before it started waiting
4060 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4061 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4062 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4063 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4065 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4066 library linked with pthread
4067 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4068 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4069 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4070 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4071 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4072 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4073 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4075 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4077 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4078 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4079 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4080 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4081 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4082 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4083 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4084 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4085 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4087 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4088 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4089 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4090 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4091 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4092 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4093 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4094 causes a segmentation fault
4095 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4097 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4098 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4100 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4102 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4103 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4104 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4106 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4107 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4109 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4110 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4111 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4112 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4113 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4114 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4115 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4116 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4118 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4119 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4120 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4122 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4124 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4126 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4127 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4128 cause transition penalty
4129 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4130 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4131 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4132 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4133 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4135 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4137 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4138 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4139 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4140 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4141 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4142 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4144 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4146 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4147 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4148 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4149 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4150 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4151 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4152 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4153 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4154 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4155 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4156 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4157 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4158 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4159 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4161 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4162 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4163 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4164 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4165 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4166 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4167 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4168 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4169 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4170 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4171 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4172 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4173 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4174 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4175 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4176 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4177 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4178 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4180 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4181 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4182 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4183 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4184 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4186 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4187 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4188 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4189 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4190 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4191 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4192 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4194 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4195 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4196 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4197 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4198 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4202 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4203 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4204 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4205 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4206 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4209 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4210 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4211 been included in previous releases.
4213 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4214 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4216 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4217 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4218 instead of “union wait”.
4220 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4221 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4222 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4223 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4224 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4225 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4226 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4228 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4231 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4232 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4235 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4236 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4237 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4238 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4239 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4242 Security related changes:
4244 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4245 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4246 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4248 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4249 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4250 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4251 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4253 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4254 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4255 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4257 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4258 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4259 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4261 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4262 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4263 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4264 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4266 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4268 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4269 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4271 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4272 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4273 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4274 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4275 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4276 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4277 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4278 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4280 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4281 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4282 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4283 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4284 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4285 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4287 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4289 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4290 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4291 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4292 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4293 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4294 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4295 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4296 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4297 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4298 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4299 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4301 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4302 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4303 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4304 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4305 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4306 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4308 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4309 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4311 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4312 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4313 Romanian locale data
4314 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4316 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4317 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4319 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4320 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4321 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4322 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4324 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4326 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4327 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4328 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4329 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4330 when using RTLD_NEXT
4331 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4332 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4333 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4334 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4335 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4336 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4337 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4338 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4339 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4341 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4342 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4343 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4344 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4346 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4348 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4350 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4351 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4352 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4353 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4354 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4355 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4357 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4358 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4360 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4361 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4363 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4365 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4367 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4368 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4369 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4370 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4371 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4372 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4373 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4374 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4375 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4376 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4377 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4378 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4379 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4380 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4382 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4384 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4385 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4386 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4387 response to getaddrinfo
4388 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4389 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4390 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4391 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4392 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4393 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4395 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4396 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4397 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4399 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4400 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4401 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4402 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4404 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4405 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4406 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4408 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4409 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4410 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4411 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4412 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4413 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4414 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4415 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4417 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4418 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4419 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4421 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4422 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4423 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4424 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4425 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4426 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4427 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4428 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4429 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4430 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4431 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4432 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4433 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4435 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4436 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4437 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4438 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4440 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4441 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4443 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4444 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4445 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4446 AS not supporting AVX512
4447 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4449 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4450 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4452 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4453 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4454 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4455 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4456 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4458 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4459 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4461 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4462 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4463 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4464 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4465 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4466 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4467 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4468 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4469 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4471 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4472 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4473 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4474 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4475 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4476 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4477 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4478 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4479 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4480 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4481 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4482 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4483 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4485 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4486 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4487 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4488 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4489 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4491 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4492 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4494 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4495 "invalid" exceptions
4496 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4497 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4498 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4499 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4500 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4501 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4502 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4503 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4504 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4508 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4509 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4510 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4511 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4512 89, 16061, and 18568.
4514 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4515 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4516 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4517 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4518 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4519 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4520 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4522 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4523 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4524 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4526 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4527 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4528 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4529 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4530 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4531 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4532 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4534 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4535 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4536 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4537 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4538 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4539 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4540 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4543 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4544 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4545 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4546 independent of the GNU C Library.
4548 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4549 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4551 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4552 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4553 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4554 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4555 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4558 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4559 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4561 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4562 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4563 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4564 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4565 defining their own copy.
4567 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4568 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4569 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4571 Security related changes:
4573 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4574 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4576 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4577 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4578 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4579 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4582 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4583 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4585 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4586 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4588 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4589 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4590 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4592 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4593 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4594 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4595 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4596 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4597 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4598 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4599 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4600 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4601 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4602 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4603 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4604 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4606 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4608 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4609 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4610 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4611 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4612 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4613 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4615 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4616 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4617 overflow/underflow errors
4618 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4620 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4621 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4622 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4623 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4624 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4625 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4627 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4628 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4629 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4630 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4631 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4632 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4633 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4634 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4635 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4637 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4639 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4640 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4641 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4643 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4644 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4645 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4646 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4647 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4649 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4650 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4652 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4653 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4654 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4655 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4656 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4657 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4658 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4659 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4661 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4662 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4663 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4664 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4665 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4667 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4668 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4670 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4671 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4672 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4673 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4674 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4676 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4677 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4678 (related to lock elision)
4679 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4680 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4681 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4682 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4684 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4685 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4686 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4687 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4688 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4689 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4690 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4691 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4692 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4693 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4694 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4695 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4696 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4697 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4698 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4699 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4700 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4701 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4702 contains a vector instruction exception.
4703 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4704 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4706 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4707 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4708 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4709 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4710 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4712 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4714 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4715 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4717 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4718 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4719 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4720 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4721 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4723 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4724 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4725 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4726 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4727 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4728 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4729 statically too large
4730 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4731 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4732 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4733 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4734 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4735 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4736 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4737 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4738 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4740 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4741 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4742 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4743 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4744 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4745 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4746 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4748 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4749 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4750 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4751 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4753 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4754 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4755 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4756 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4757 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4758 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4760 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4761 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4762 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4763 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4764 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4765 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4767 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4768 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4769 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4770 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4771 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4772 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4773 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4774 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4776 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4777 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4778 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4779 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4780 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4781 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4782 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4783 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4784 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4786 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4788 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4789 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4790 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4792 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4793 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4794 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4795 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4796 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4797 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4798 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4799 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4800 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4801 pthread_setaffinity_np
4802 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4803 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4804 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4805 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4806 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4808 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4809 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4810 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4811 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4812 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4813 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4814 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4816 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4817 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4818 for C99-based standards
4819 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4820 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4822 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4823 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4824 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4826 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4827 "inexact" exceptions
4828 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4830 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4831 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4832 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4833 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4835 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4836 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4837 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4838 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4839 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4840 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4841 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4842 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4843 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4844 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4846 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4847 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4848 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4849 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4851 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4852 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4853 error on 32-bit architectures
4854 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4855 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4856 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4857 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4858 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4859 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4860 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4861 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4862 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4864 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4866 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4867 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4868 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4869 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4871 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4875 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4877 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4878 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4879 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4880 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4881 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4882 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4883 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4884 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4885 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4886 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4887 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4888 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4889 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4890 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4891 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4892 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4893 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4894 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4895 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4896 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4898 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4899 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4901 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4902 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4903 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4904 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4905 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4906 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4908 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4909 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4910 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4911 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4912 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4914 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4915 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4916 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4918 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4919 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4920 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4923 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4924 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4925 condition in some applications.
4927 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4928 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4930 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4931 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4932 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4933 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4934 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4936 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4937 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4938 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4939 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4941 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4942 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4943 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4945 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4946 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4948 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4949 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4950 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4952 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4953 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4954 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4958 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4960 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4961 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4962 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4963 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4964 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4965 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4966 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4967 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4968 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4969 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4972 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4973 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4974 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4975 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4978 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4979 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4980 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4981 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4982 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4983 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4985 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4987 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4988 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4989 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4991 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4992 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4993 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4994 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4995 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4996 effects being visible outside transactions.
4998 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4999 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5001 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5003 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5004 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5005 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5006 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5007 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5009 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5010 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5012 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5013 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5016 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5017 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5018 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5020 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5021 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5023 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5025 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5026 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5027 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5028 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5030 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5031 with newer versions of bison.
5033 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5034 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5035 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5036 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5037 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5038 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5039 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5040 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5041 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5042 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5043 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5044 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5045 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5047 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5048 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5049 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5050 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5051 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5055 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5057 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5058 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5059 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5060 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5061 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5062 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5063 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5064 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5065 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5066 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5067 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5068 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5069 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5070 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5071 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5073 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5074 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5075 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5076 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5077 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5078 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5079 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5080 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5081 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5082 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5084 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5085 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5086 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5087 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5088 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5090 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5092 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5093 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5095 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5096 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5097 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5098 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5099 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5100 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5102 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5105 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5106 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5107 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5108 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5109 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5110 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5111 test macros defined.
5113 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5115 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5116 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5117 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5118 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5119 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5120 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5123 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5124 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5125 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5126 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5129 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5130 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5131 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5133 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5134 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5135 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5136 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5138 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5139 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5140 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5141 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5142 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5143 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5144 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5147 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5148 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5149 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5150 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5151 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5152 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5153 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5154 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5155 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5157 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5158 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5159 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5160 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5161 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5162 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5164 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5165 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5166 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5167 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5171 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5173 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5174 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5175 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5176 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5177 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5178 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5179 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5180 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5181 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5182 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5183 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5184 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5185 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5186 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5187 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5188 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5189 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5190 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5192 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5193 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5195 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5196 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5197 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5198 extension which uses __block.
5200 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5201 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5202 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5203 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5204 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5206 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5207 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5208 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5209 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5212 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5213 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5214 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5215 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5216 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5218 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5219 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5220 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5222 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5223 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5224 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5227 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5228 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5230 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5231 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5233 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5235 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5238 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5240 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5242 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5243 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5244 for which the C library was built.
5246 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5247 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5248 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5249 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5250 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5251 in the following circumstances:
5253 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5255 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5256 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5258 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5259 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5261 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5262 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5264 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5266 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5267 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5269 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5271 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5273 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5275 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5276 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5277 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5278 disable some of those declarations.
5280 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5281 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5282 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5284 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5285 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5287 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5288 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5289 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5290 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5291 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5292 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5293 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5294 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5295 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5296 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5297 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5298 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5299 require recompilation.
5303 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5305 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5306 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5307 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5308 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5309 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5310 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5311 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5312 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5313 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5314 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5315 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5316 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5317 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5320 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5321 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5322 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5323 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5324 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5325 understands and accepts the risks.
5327 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5330 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5331 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5333 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5334 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5335 destructor calls to glibc.
5337 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5340 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5341 non-x86 architectures.
5343 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5345 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5347 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5350 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5352 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5355 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5356 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5358 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5360 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5361 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5363 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5364 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5366 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5367 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5368 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5370 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5371 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5372 attributes of a process.
5374 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5375 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5376 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5377 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5380 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5381 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5383 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5387 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5389 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5390 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5391 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5392 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5393 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5394 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5395 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5396 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5397 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5398 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5399 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5400 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5401 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5402 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5403 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5405 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5407 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5408 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5410 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5411 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5413 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5415 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5416 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5418 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5420 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5421 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5422 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5424 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5425 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5427 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5428 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5430 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5431 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5433 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5434 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5436 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5437 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5438 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5439 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5441 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5442 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5444 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5445 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5448 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5449 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5450 information in --help and --version output.
5452 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5453 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5454 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5456 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5457 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5458 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5459 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5460 when the mode is enabled.
5462 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5463 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5464 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5465 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5466 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5467 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5468 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5470 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5475 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5477 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5478 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5479 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5480 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5481 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5482 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5483 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5484 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5485 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5486 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5487 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5488 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5489 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5490 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5491 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5492 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5493 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5494 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5495 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5496 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5497 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5498 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5501 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5502 configuring glibc with:
5503 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5504 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5505 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5509 + define static_assert
5511 + do not declare gets
5513 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5515 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5516 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5517 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5520 + timespec_get added
5522 + uchar.h support added
5524 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5526 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5528 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5530 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5532 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5533 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5535 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5536 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5538 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5539 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5540 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5541 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5542 existing applications.
5544 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5545 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5548 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5549 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5550 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5552 * New locales: mag_IN
5554 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5555 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5556 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5557 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5558 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5560 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5562 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5565 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5567 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5568 without a previously built glibc.
5570 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5571 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5573 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5574 now supported for ARM processors.
5576 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5577 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5578 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5580 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5582 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5583 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5584 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5585 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5587 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5588 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5589 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5590 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5592 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5593 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5594 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5595 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5596 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5598 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5599 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5600 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5601 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5605 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5607 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5608 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5609 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5610 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5611 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5612 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5613 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5615 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5616 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5618 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5619 and support for initgroups lookups.
5620 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5622 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5623 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5625 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5626 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5628 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5629 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5630 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5632 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5633 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5635 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5636 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5637 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5639 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5640 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5642 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5643 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5645 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5646 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5648 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5649 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5651 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5652 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5654 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5655 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5657 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5659 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5660 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5662 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5663 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5665 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5669 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5671 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5672 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5673 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5674 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5675 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5676 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5677 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5678 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5679 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5680 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5682 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5683 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5684 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5685 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5687 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5688 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5689 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5690 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5692 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5693 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5695 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5696 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5698 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5700 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5701 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5703 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5704 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5705 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5706 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5710 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5712 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5713 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5714 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5715 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5718 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5720 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5722 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5723 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5728 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5730 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5731 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5732 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5733 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5734 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5735 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5736 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5737 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5739 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5741 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5743 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5745 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5746 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5747 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5749 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5750 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5751 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5752 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5753 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5755 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5759 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5761 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5762 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5763 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5764 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5765 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5766 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5768 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5770 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5772 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5773 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5775 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5776 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5778 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5780 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5781 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5782 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5783 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5785 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5786 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5788 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5790 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5792 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5793 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5795 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5796 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5798 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5799 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5801 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5802 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5803 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5804 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5805 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5806 necessity is every process again.
5807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5809 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5810 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5812 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5813 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5815 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5816 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5817 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5819 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5823 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5825 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5826 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5827 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5828 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5829 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5831 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5832 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5834 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5835 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5837 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5838 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5840 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5843 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5844 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5846 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5847 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5849 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5850 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5852 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5853 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5855 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5856 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5857 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5859 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5861 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5862 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5864 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5865 and extend existing format specifiers.
5866 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5868 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5871 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5872 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5873 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5874 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5875 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5880 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5882 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5883 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5884 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5885 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5886 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5888 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5889 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5891 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5892 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5894 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5895 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5897 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5898 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5899 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5901 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5902 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5904 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5906 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5907 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5909 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5910 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5911 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5912 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5914 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5915 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5917 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5919 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5921 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5925 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5927 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5928 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5929 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5930 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5931 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5932 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5933 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5935 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5937 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5939 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5940 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5942 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5944 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5945 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5947 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5948 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5950 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5951 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5952 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5954 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5955 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5957 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5958 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5960 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5961 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5963 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5964 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5968 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5970 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5971 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5972 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5973 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5974 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5976 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5977 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5979 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5981 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5982 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5983 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5985 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5986 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5988 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5989 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5991 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5993 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5994 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5996 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5997 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5999 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6000 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6002 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6004 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6005 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6007 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6008 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6011 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6012 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6016 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6018 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6019 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6020 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6021 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6022 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6023 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6024 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6027 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6029 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6031 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6035 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6037 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6038 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6039 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6040 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6041 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6042 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6043 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6044 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6045 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6047 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6048 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6049 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6051 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6052 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6054 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6056 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6058 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6059 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6060 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6061 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6062 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6064 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6065 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6066 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6067 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6069 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6072 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6074 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6077 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6079 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6080 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6084 * More overflow detection functions.
6086 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6087 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6089 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6090 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6091 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6092 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6093 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6094 by Masahide Washizawa.
6096 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6097 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6099 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6100 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6101 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6102 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6104 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6105 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6107 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6109 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6110 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6111 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6113 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6114 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6116 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6117 for compatibility with some other systems.
6119 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6123 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6125 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6126 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6127 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6128 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6129 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6130 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6132 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6134 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6136 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6140 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6142 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6143 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6144 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6145 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6147 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6151 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6152 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6154 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6155 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6156 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6158 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6159 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6161 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6163 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6165 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6166 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6169 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6170 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6171 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6173 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6174 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6176 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6177 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6178 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6179 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6181 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6182 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6183 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6184 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6186 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6187 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6188 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6189 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6190 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6194 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6195 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6197 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6198 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6200 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6201 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6203 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6204 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6206 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6209 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6212 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6217 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6218 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6219 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6220 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6221 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6222 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6223 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6224 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6225 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6227 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6228 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6229 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6231 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6233 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6234 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6236 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6237 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6239 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6241 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6242 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6244 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6245 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6246 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6247 of weak definition in ld.so.
6249 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6250 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6252 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6253 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6257 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6260 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6261 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6263 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6264 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6266 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6267 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6269 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6270 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6271 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6273 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6274 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6276 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6277 implementation of regex.
6279 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6282 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6283 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6285 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6286 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6287 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6289 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6290 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6292 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6293 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6294 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6296 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6297 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6299 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6300 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6303 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6307 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6308 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6310 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6311 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6315 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6316 128-bit long double format.
6318 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6319 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6321 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6323 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6325 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6328 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6329 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6331 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6335 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6336 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6338 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6339 support Unicode 3.1.
6341 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6342 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6344 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6346 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6347 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6348 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6350 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6351 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6353 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6354 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6356 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6360 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6361 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6362 in float, double, and long double format.
6364 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6365 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6366 128-bit long double format.
6368 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6369 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6370 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6371 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6373 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6374 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6375 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6377 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6378 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6380 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6381 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6383 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6384 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6385 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6387 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6388 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6390 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6391 of functions for Linux/x86.
6393 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6397 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6398 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6399 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6400 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6401 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6402 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6405 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6406 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6408 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6409 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6410 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6411 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6413 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6418 only lists the names of the supported locales
6422 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6423 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6427 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6428 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6429 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6430 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6431 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6433 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6435 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6437 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6439 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6440 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6441 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6443 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6444 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6446 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6447 changed from the default "C" locale.
6449 * The usual bug fixes.
6453 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6454 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6457 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6459 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6461 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6462 obviously requires a database library being available.
6464 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6466 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6468 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6469 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6471 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6473 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6474 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6477 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6478 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6479 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6481 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6482 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6484 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6485 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6486 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6488 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6489 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6490 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6491 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6493 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6494 structures for the wide character tables.
6496 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6498 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6500 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6502 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6505 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6507 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6509 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6511 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6513 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6515 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6516 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6517 implemented for Linux.
6519 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6520 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6521 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6524 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6527 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6541 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6543 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6545 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6547 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6549 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6551 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6553 * Update timezone data files.
6555 * lots of charmaps corrections
6557 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6562 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6563 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6564 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6565 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6566 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6567 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6569 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6570 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6572 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6575 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6576 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6578 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6580 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6583 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6585 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6586 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6588 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6591 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6592 functions from ISO C 9X.
6594 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6595 real valued functions.
6597 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6599 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6601 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6603 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6605 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6607 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6609 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6611 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6612 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6614 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6615 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6619 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6621 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6623 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6625 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6627 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6629 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6631 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6632 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6635 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6636 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6638 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6640 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6642 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6643 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6645 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6647 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6650 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6651 latest draft standards.
6653 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6655 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6656 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6657 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6658 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6659 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6660 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6661 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6662 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6663 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6664 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6665 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6666 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6667 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6668 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6669 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6670 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6671 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6672 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6673 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6674 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6676 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6677 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6687 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6688 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6689 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6690 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6691 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6693 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6694 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6695 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6696 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6697 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6698 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6702 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6703 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6709 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6710 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6711 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6712 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6714 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6715 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6716 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6726 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6727 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6729 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6730 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6735 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6736 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6739 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6740 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6744 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6745 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6747 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6748 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6749 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6751 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6752 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6756 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6757 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6761 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6762 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6763 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6764 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6765 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6767 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6768 ferror_locked REMOVED
6769 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6770 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6771 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6772 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6773 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6774 fflush_locked REMOVED
6778 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6779 fileno_locked REMOVED
6791 fputc_locked REMOVED
6792 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6793 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6798 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6802 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6804 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6805 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6809 getchar_locked REMOVED
6811 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6812 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6814 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6815 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6816 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6817 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6818 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6819 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6820 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6821 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6822 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6823 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6824 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6825 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6826 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6827 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6829 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6830 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6831 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6832 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6833 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6834 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6835 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6836 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6837 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6838 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6839 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6840 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6841 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6842 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6843 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6844 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6845 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6846 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6847 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6848 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6849 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6850 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6851 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6852 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6853 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6854 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6859 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6860 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6861 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6862 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6863 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6865 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6866 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6869 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6873 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6874 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6875 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6876 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6877 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6878 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6879 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6880 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6884 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6886 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6887 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6890 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6891 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6892 profil_counter REMOVED
6893 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6894 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6895 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6896 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6898 putchar_locked REMOVED
6899 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6901 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6902 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6906 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6907 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6908 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6909 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6911 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6912 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6914 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6915 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6916 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6918 sendfile NEW: kernel
6919 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6920 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6921 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6923 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6924 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6925 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6926 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6927 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6928 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6929 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6930 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6931 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6935 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6936 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6937 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6938 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6939 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6940 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6941 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6942 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6943 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6944 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6945 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6946 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6947 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6951 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6952 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6954 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6955 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6956 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6957 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6958 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6959 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6961 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6962 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6963 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6964 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6965 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6966 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6967 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6969 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6970 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6971 write_profiling REMOVED
6972 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6973 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6974 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6975 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6976 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6977 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6978 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6979 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6980 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6981 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6982 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6983 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6984 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6985 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6986 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6987 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6998 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7000 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7002 * rewrite of cbrt function
7004 * update of timezone data
7018 * add atoll function
7020 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7022 * fix math functions
7026 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7028 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7030 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7031 the ELF dynamic loader.
7033 * support for parallel builds is improved
7037 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7038 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7041 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7042 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7043 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7044 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7045 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7046 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7047 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7048 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7049 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7050 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7051 files in the ELF format.
7053 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7054 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7056 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7057 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7058 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7059 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7060 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7061 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7062 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7063 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7064 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7065 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7066 about dynamically linked binaries.
7068 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7069 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7070 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7071 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7072 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7074 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7075 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7076 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7077 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7078 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7080 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7082 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7083 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7084 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7085 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7086 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7087 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7088 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7089 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7090 NSS services available.
7092 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7093 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7094 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7096 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7097 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7098 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7100 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7101 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7102 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7103 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7105 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7106 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7107 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7109 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7110 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7111 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7113 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7114 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7116 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7117 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7118 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7119 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7121 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7122 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7123 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7125 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7126 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7127 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7128 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7129 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7130 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7131 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7132 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7134 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7135 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7136 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7137 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7138 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7139 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7140 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7142 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7143 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7144 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7145 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7146 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7147 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7149 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7150 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7152 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7153 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7154 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7156 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7158 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7159 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7160 their use is discouraged.
7162 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7163 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7165 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7166 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7168 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7169 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7171 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7174 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7175 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7176 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7177 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7178 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7180 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7181 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7182 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7183 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7185 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7186 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7188 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7189 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7190 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7191 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7194 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7195 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7197 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7198 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7200 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7201 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7202 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7203 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7205 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7207 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7208 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7209 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7211 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7212 for arithmetic and string handling.
7214 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7215 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7216 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7217 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7219 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7220 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7221 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7222 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7223 programs already written to use it.)
7225 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7228 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7231 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7232 a given effective group ID.
7234 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7235 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7236 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7237 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7239 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7240 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7241 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7242 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7243 doing the same thing.
7245 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7246 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7248 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7249 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7251 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7253 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7254 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7255 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7256 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7257 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7259 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7260 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7262 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7263 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7264 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7267 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7269 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7270 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7273 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7274 and writing the utmp file.
7276 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7279 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7280 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7281 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7283 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7284 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7286 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7287 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7290 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7291 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7292 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7293 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7295 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7296 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7297 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7299 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7300 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7301 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7304 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7307 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7310 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7312 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7313 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7314 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7318 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7320 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7321 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7323 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7324 want to put themselves in the background.
7326 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7327 run without an operating system.
7329 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7330 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7332 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7333 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7335 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7337 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7338 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7341 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7344 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7345 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7349 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7350 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7351 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7353 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7354 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7356 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7357 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7359 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7361 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7363 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7366 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7367 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7368 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7370 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7372 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7373 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7374 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7376 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7377 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7378 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7379 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7380 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7383 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7384 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7385 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7386 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7387 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7390 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7391 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7395 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7396 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7398 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7399 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7400 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7402 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7403 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7404 address of the last character written.
7406 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7407 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7409 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7410 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7412 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7413 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7414 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7415 you dereference this pointer.
7417 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7418 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7420 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7421 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7422 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7423 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7425 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7426 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7427 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7428 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7432 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7433 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7434 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7435 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7436 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7438 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7440 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7442 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7443 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7445 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7446 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7448 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7449 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7451 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7452 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7453 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7454 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7455 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7457 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7458 to the error code in `errno'.
7460 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7461 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7462 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7465 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7466 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7467 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7469 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7470 uniquely-named temporary file.
7474 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7475 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7476 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7478 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7481 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7482 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7484 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7488 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7489 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7490 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7491 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7493 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7494 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7495 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7497 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7498 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7500 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7501 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7502 made itself into a shared library.
7504 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7505 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7507 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7508 with limited length.
7510 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7512 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7514 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7516 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7517 function for traversing a directory tree.
7519 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7520 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7521 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7522 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7524 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7525 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7527 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7529 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7530 things to your strings.
7532 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7534 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7535 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7536 supporting those systems.
7538 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7539 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7540 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7541 configuration files.
7543 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7544 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7546 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7547 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7550 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7551 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7552 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7553 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7554 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7555 required storage is not available.
7557 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7558 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7560 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7561 latest files released from Berkeley.
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