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12 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
13 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
14 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
15 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
16 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
17 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
18 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
19 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
20 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
21 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
22 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
24 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
27 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
28 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
29 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
30 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
31 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
32 specified in draft ISO C2X.
34 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
35 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
37 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
38 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
42 * Added libmvec vector math library support to AArch64. It requires
43 GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via --disable-mathvec,
44 however that is not a supported configuration as it changes the ABI.
45 The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI, they are declared
46 in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
48 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
49 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
51 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
53 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
54 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
55 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
56 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
57 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
58 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
60 * The --disable-experimental-malloc is no longer available. The per-thread
61 cache can still be disable per-application using tunables
62 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
64 * The configure option --enable-tunables has been removed. The tunable
65 feature is now always enabled.
67 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
69 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
71 Security related changes:
73 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
74 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
75 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
76 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
77 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
78 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
80 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
82 [The release manager will add the list generated by
83 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
89 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
90 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
91 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
92 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
94 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
96 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
97 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
98 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
99 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
101 Security related changes:
103 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
104 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
105 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
106 portion of the contents of the heap.
108 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
110 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
111 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
112 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
113 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
114 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
115 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
116 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
118 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
119 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
121 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
122 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
123 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
124 gethostbyname and other functions
125 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
126 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
127 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
129 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
130 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
132 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
133 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
135 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
137 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
138 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
139 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
140 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
141 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
142 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
143 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
145 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
146 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
148 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
150 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
152 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
153 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
154 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
155 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
156 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
158 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
159 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
160 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
161 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
163 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
165 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
166 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
167 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
169 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
171 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
173 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
174 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
175 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
176 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
177 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
178 aux.S: No such file or directory)
179 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
180 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
181 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
182 coincides with offset change
183 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
184 length in fortify mode
190 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
191 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
192 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
193 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
194 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
195 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
197 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
198 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
199 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
201 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
202 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
205 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
206 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
207 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
208 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
210 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
211 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
212 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
213 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
214 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
215 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
216 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
217 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
218 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
219 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
220 validation by applications.
222 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
223 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
224 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
225 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
228 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
229 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
230 unpredictable output.
232 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
233 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
234 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
235 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
236 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
237 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
238 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
239 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
241 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
242 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
243 quality randomness from the kernel.
245 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
246 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
249 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
251 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
253 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
255 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
256 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
257 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
259 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
260 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
261 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
262 when libc.so is issued directly.
264 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
266 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
268 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
269 return different result with versioned "foo"
270 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
272 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
273 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
274 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
276 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
277 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
278 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
280 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
282 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
284 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
285 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
286 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
287 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
288 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
289 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
290 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
292 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
294 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
295 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
296 (breaks test isolation)
297 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
298 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
299 __convert_scm_timestamps
300 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
301 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
302 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
304 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
305 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
306 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
307 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
308 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
309 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
310 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
312 [28936] build: nm: No such file
313 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
314 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
316 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
318 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
319 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
320 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
322 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
324 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
325 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
326 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
327 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
328 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
329 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
330 is promoted to global scope
331 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
332 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
333 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
335 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
337 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
339 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
340 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
341 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
342 before '__fortified_attr_access'
343 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
344 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
345 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
346 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
347 value for filling after \0
348 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
349 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
350 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
352 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
353 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
354 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
355 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
356 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
357 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
358 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
360 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
361 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
362 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
363 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
364 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
365 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
366 missing on microblaze with largefile
372 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
373 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
374 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
376 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
377 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
379 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
380 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
381 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
382 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
383 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
384 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
385 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
386 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
387 glibc, and must be installed.
389 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
390 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
391 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
393 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
394 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
396 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
399 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
400 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
401 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
402 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
403 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
404 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
406 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
407 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
408 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
411 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
412 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
414 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
417 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
419 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
420 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
421 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
423 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
424 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
425 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
426 object dependency cases.
428 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
429 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
430 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
431 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
433 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
434 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
435 return value is only used for its boolean status.
437 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
438 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
439 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
440 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
441 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
442 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
443 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
444 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
445 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
446 Restartable Sequences.
448 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
449 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
451 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
452 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
453 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
454 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
455 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
456 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
457 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
460 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
461 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
462 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
463 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
464 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
467 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
468 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
470 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
471 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
474 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
475 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
480 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
481 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
483 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
484 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
485 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
486 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
487 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
489 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
490 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
492 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
493 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
494 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
496 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
497 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
498 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
499 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
502 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
503 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
505 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
507 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
508 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
509 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
511 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
512 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
514 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
515 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
517 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
519 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
521 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
522 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
523 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
525 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
526 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
527 catching coredumps and backtraces.
529 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
530 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
531 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
533 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
534 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
535 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
537 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
538 support prelink PIE binaries.
540 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
542 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
543 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
544 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
545 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
546 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
548 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
549 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
550 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
551 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
553 Security related changes:
555 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
556 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
557 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
559 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
560 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
562 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
563 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
564 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
566 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
567 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
568 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
569 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
570 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
572 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
574 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
575 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
576 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
577 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
579 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
580 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
582 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
584 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
585 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
586 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
587 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
588 ID whose lifetime has not ended
589 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
591 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
593 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
594 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
595 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
596 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
597 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
598 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
599 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
600 --enable-initfini-array
601 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
602 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
603 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
604 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
605 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
606 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
608 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
609 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
610 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
612 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
613 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
614 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
616 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
617 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
619 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
620 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
621 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
623 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
624 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
625 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
626 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
627 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
628 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
629 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
631 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
633 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
634 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
636 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
637 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
638 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
639 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
640 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
641 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
642 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
644 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
646 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
647 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
648 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
649 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
651 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
652 systems with TIMESIZE=64
653 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
654 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
655 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
656 spurious NUL character on state reset
657 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
659 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
660 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
662 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
663 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
665 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
666 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
667 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
668 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
669 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
670 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
672 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
674 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
675 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
676 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
677 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
679 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
680 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
681 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
682 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
683 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
684 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
685 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
686 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
687 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
688 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
689 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
690 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
691 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
692 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
694 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
696 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
697 results (CVE-2021-3998)
698 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
700 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
701 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
703 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
705 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
706 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
707 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
714 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
715 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
716 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
717 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
718 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
719 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
720 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
721 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
722 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
723 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
724 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
725 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
726 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
727 potentially exposing application bugs.
729 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
730 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
731 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
732 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
734 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
735 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
736 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
737 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
738 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
741 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
742 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
743 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
745 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
746 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
747 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
748 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
750 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
752 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
753 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
754 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
755 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
756 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
758 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
759 --disable-scv configure option.
761 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
762 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
763 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
764 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
765 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
766 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
769 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
770 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
771 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
772 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
773 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
774 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
777 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
778 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
780 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
781 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
782 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
783 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
784 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
785 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
786 is currently a GNU extension.
788 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
789 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
791 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
792 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
793 although it is also present in other systems.
795 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
796 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
797 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
798 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
800 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
801 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
802 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
804 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
806 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
807 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
810 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
811 programs should use the equivalent standard function
812 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
814 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
815 programs should use the equivalent standard function
816 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
818 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
819 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
821 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
823 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
824 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
825 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
826 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
827 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
828 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
829 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
830 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
831 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
832 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
833 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
835 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
836 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
837 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
838 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
839 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
840 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
841 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
842 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
844 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
845 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
846 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
847 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
848 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
849 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
850 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
852 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
853 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
854 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
855 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
856 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
857 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
858 upgrade or downgrade process.
860 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
861 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
862 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
864 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
865 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
866 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
867 no longer have any effect on malloc.
869 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
870 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
871 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
872 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
873 this functionality back.
875 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
876 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
877 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
878 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
880 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
881 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
882 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
883 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
884 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
885 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
886 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
887 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
888 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
890 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
892 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
893 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
894 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
895 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
897 Security related changes:
899 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
900 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
901 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
902 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
904 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
905 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
906 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
908 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
909 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
910 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
912 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
914 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
915 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
916 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
917 given integer (closefrom)
918 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
919 name containing multi-byte character(s)
920 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
921 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
922 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
923 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
924 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
926 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
927 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
928 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
929 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
930 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
931 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
932 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
934 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
935 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
936 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
937 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
938 pthread_create and dlopen
939 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
940 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
941 when non-root user changes priority
942 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
944 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
945 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
946 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
948 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
949 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
951 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
952 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
953 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
954 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
956 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
957 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
958 the right free implementation
959 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
960 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
961 shm_open to pick wrong directory
962 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
963 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
965 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
966 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
967 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
968 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
969 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
970 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
971 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
973 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
974 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
976 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
977 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
978 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
979 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
980 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
981 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
983 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
984 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
985 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
986 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
987 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
988 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
989 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
990 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
992 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
993 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
995 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
996 information for the current directory
997 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
998 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1000 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1001 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1003 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1004 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1005 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1006 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1008 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1009 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1010 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1011 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1012 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1013 tries resolving them lazily
1014 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1016 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1017 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1019 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1020 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1021 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1023 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1025 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1026 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1027 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1029 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1030 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1031 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1032 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1033 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1034 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1035 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1036 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1037 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1038 with n >= 0x80000000
1039 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1040 thread never allocated anything
1041 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1042 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1043 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1044 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1045 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1047 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1048 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1049 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1051 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1059 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1060 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1061 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1063 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1064 to change argv[0] string.
1066 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1067 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1068 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1069 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1070 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1071 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1072 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1073 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1074 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1076 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1077 information and library search path diagnostics.
1079 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1080 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1081 larger than fit in an integer.
1083 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1085 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1086 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1092 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1095 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1096 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1097 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1098 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1101 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1103 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1106 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1107 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1108 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1110 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1111 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1112 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1115 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1116 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1117 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1119 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1120 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1121 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1122 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1123 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1124 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1126 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1127 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1128 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1129 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1130 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1131 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1134 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1136 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1137 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1138 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1139 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1140 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1141 perform any adjustments.
1143 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1144 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1145 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1146 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1148 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1150 Security related changes:
1152 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1153 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1154 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1155 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1156 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1158 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1159 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1160 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1162 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1163 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1165 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1166 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1168 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1170 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1171 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1172 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1173 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1175 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1176 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1177 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1178 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1179 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1181 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1183 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1185 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1186 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1187 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1188 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1189 changing gnuc version
1190 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1192 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1194 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1195 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1196 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1197 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1198 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1199 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1200 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1201 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1202 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1203 too much stack space
1204 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1205 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1206 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1208 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1210 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1211 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1213 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1214 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1215 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1216 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1217 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1219 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1220 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1221 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1223 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1224 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1225 at the end of a memory mapping
1226 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1227 by the caller to the kernel
1228 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1229 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1230 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1231 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1233 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1234 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1235 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1236 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1237 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1238 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1239 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1241 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1242 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1243 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1244 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1246 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1248 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1250 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1251 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1252 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1253 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1255 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1257 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1258 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1259 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1261 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1263 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1265 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1267 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1268 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1269 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1270 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1272 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1274 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1276 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1277 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1278 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1280 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1281 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1282 [27177] dynamic-link:
1283 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1285 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1286 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1287 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1288 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1295 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1296 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1297 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1299 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1301 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1302 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1303 Three ABIs are supported:
1309 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1310 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1312 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1313 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1315 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1316 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1317 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1320 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1321 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1322 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1324 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1325 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1326 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1328 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1329 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1330 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1331 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1334 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1335 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1336 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1337 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1338 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1339 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1341 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1342 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1344 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1345 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1346 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1347 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1348 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1349 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1351 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1352 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1354 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1355 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1356 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1357 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1358 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1359 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1360 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1361 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1362 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1363 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1364 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1367 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1369 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1370 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1371 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1372 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1373 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1374 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1375 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1377 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1378 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1379 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1380 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1381 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1382 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1383 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1384 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1385 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1387 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1388 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1389 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1390 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1391 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1393 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1394 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1395 was not declared in any header file.
1397 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1398 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1399 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1400 sigaction functions instead.
1402 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1403 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1405 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1406 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1407 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1408 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1411 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1412 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1413 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1414 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1415 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1417 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1418 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1419 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1420 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1422 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1423 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1424 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1425 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1426 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1427 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1428 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1430 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1431 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1432 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1433 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1434 flavor of secure RPC.)
1436 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1437 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1438 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1439 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1440 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1441 object, to enable the hooks.
1443 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1444 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1445 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1448 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1450 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1451 long double redirects.
1453 Security related changes:
1455 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1456 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1457 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1459 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1460 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1461 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1463 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1464 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1466 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1467 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1468 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1471 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1473 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1474 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1475 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1476 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1477 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1478 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1479 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1480 filtee has constructor
1481 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1482 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1483 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1484 character entities for infinity & pi
1485 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1486 segfaults in applications
1487 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1488 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
1489 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1490 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1491 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1492 function with -mlong-double-64
1493 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1495 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1497 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1498 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1499 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1500 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1501 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1502 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1504 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1505 dynamically loaded dsos
1506 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1507 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1509 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1510 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1511 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1512 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1513 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1514 stale configuration forever
1515 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1517 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1519 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1520 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1522 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1523 on 32 bit and old kernel
1524 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1525 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1527 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1528 amount of sigset_t bytes
1529 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1531 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1532 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1533 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1534 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1535 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1536 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1537 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1538 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1539 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1540 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1542 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1543 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1544 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1545 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1546 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1547 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1548 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1550 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1551 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1553 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1554 exiting detached thread
1555 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1557 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1559 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1560 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1561 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1562 dependencies in audit mode
1563 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1564 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1565 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1566 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1567 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1569 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1570 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1572 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1573 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1575 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1576 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1577 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1578 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1579 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1580 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1581 corruption in memset
1588 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1589 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1590 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1591 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1592 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1593 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1595 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1596 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1597 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1598 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1600 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1601 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1602 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1604 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1606 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1607 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1608 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1609 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1610 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1611 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1612 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1613 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1615 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1617 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1618 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1619 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1620 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1621 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1622 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1624 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1625 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1626 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1628 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1629 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1630 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1631 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1633 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1634 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1635 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1636 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1637 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1638 made this no longer practical.
1640 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1641 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1642 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1643 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1646 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1647 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1648 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1650 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1651 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1652 using clock_gettime instead.
1654 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1655 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1656 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1657 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1658 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1660 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1661 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1662 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1663 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1665 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1666 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1667 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1668 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1669 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1670 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1672 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1673 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1674 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1675 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1678 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1679 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1680 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1682 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1685 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1686 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1687 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1688 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1689 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1691 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1692 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1693 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1694 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1695 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1696 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1697 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1698 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1700 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1701 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1703 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1704 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1705 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1706 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1707 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1708 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1710 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1712 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1713 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1714 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1716 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1717 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1718 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1720 Security related changes:
1722 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1723 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1725 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1726 environment variable during program execution after a security
1727 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1728 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1729 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1731 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1733 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1734 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1735 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1736 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1737 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1738 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1739 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1740 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1742 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1743 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1744 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1745 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1746 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1747 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1748 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1749 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1750 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1751 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1753 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1755 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1756 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1757 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1758 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1759 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1760 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1761 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1763 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1765 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1766 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1767 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1768 (stringop-overflow error)
1769 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1770 functions other can lead to crashes
1771 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1772 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1774 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1775 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1776 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1777 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1778 still can fail with an error
1779 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1780 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1781 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1782 initialized correctly
1783 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1785 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1786 value to an unsigned
1787 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1788 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1789 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1791 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1793 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1795 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1797 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1798 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1799 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1801 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1802 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1804 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1805 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1806 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1807 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1808 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1809 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1816 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1817 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1818 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1820 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1821 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1823 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1824 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1825 to the callback function.
1827 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1829 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1830 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1833 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1835 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1836 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1837 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1838 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1839 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1841 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1842 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1843 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1844 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1845 link time reference, is gone.
1847 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1848 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1849 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1850 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1851 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1852 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1853 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1854 the clock choice at initialization time).
1856 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1857 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1858 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1860 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1862 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1863 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1864 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1865 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1866 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1867 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1868 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1869 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1870 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1872 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1873 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1874 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1875 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1878 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1879 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1881 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1882 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1884 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1885 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1887 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1890 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1891 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1892 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1894 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1895 header have been removed.
1897 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1898 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1899 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1900 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1902 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1904 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1906 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1907 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1909 Security related changes:
1911 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1912 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1913 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1914 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1915 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1916 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1917 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1919 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1920 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1921 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1923 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1925 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1926 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1927 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1928 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1929 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1930 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1931 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1932 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1933 invalid input drops valid char
1934 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1935 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1936 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1937 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1938 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1940 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1941 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1942 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1943 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1945 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1946 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1947 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1948 for long double = double
1949 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1950 long double = double
1951 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1952 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1953 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1955 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1956 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1958 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1959 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1960 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1961 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1962 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1963 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1964 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1965 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1966 not the default "nor"
1967 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1968 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1969 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1970 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1972 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1973 unnecessary librt dependencies
1974 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1975 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1976 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1977 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1979 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1980 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1982 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1983 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1984 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1985 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1986 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1987 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1988 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1989 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1990 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1991 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1992 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1993 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1995 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1997 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1998 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2000 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2001 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2002 kernels and break testing
2003 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2004 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2005 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2006 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2007 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2008 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2009 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2011 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2012 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2014 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2016 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2017 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2018 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2019 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2020 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2021 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2022 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2023 always implemented in the same library
2024 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2025 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2026 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2034 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2035 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2037 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2038 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2039 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2040 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2041 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2042 configured location.
2044 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2046 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2047 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2049 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2050 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2051 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2052 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2053 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2054 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2055 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2056 process actually does not use HTM).
2058 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2059 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2060 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2061 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2062 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2065 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2066 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2067 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2068 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2069 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2071 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2072 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2074 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2075 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2077 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2078 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2079 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2080 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2081 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2082 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2083 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2085 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2086 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2087 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2089 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2091 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2092 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2094 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2095 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2096 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2097 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2099 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2100 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2101 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2102 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2105 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2106 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2107 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2108 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2109 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2110 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2112 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2113 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2114 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2115 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2116 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2118 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2119 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2120 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2122 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2124 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2126 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2127 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2129 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2130 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2132 Security related changes:
2134 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2135 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2136 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2138 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2139 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2140 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2141 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2142 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2144 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2145 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2146 or command injection issues in applications.
2148 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2150 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2151 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2152 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2154 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2155 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2156 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2158 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2159 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2160 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2161 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2162 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2163 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2164 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2165 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2166 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2167 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2168 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2169 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2170 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2171 pointer argument is non-NULL
2172 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2173 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2174 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2175 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2176 multithreads call popen
2177 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2178 and pthread_create fails.
2179 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2180 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2182 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2183 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2184 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2186 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2188 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2190 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2191 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2193 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2194 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2195 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2196 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2197 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2198 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2199 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2201 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2202 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2203 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2205 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2206 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2207 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2208 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2210 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2212 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2213 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2214 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2215 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2217 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2219 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2220 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2221 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2223 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2224 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2225 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2226 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2227 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2228 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2230 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2231 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2232 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2233 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2234 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2235 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2236 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2237 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2238 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2239 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2240 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2241 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2242 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2243 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2245 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2246 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2247 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2248 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2249 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2251 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2252 nearest rounding mode
2253 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2254 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2255 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2256 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2257 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2258 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2259 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2260 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2261 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2263 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2264 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2266 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2267 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2268 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2269 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2271 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2273 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2275 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2277 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2278 answers will be rejected)
2279 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2286 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2287 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2288 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2289 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2290 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2291 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2292 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2293 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2294 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2295 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2296 archive or binary locales.
2298 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2299 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2300 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2301 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2302 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2303 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2304 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2305 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2306 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2307 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2308 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2311 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2312 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2313 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2314 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2315 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2316 field) to indicate such support is required.
2318 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2319 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2320 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2322 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2323 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2325 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2326 fMxaddfNx functions.
2328 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2329 fMxsubfNx functions.
2331 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2332 fMxmulfNx functions.
2334 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2335 fMxdivfNx functions.
2337 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2338 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2339 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2340 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2343 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2344 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2346 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2349 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2350 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2351 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2352 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2353 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2354 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2355 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2356 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2358 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2359 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2360 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2361 the fstatat64 function.
2363 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2364 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2365 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2366 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2367 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2368 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2369 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2370 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2371 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2373 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2374 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2375 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2376 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2377 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2378 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2379 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2380 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2381 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2382 results in a load failure now.
2384 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2385 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2388 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2389 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2391 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2392 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2394 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2396 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2397 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2399 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2401 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2403 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2405 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2406 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2407 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2409 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2410 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2411 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2412 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2413 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2414 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2416 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2417 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2418 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2419 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2420 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2421 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2424 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2425 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2426 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2427 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2428 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2429 further explanation.
2431 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2432 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2433 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2435 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2437 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2438 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2439 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2441 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2442 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2443 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2444 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2446 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2447 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2448 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2449 for this function instead.
2451 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2452 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2453 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2455 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2456 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2457 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2458 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2460 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2461 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2462 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2463 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2464 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2466 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2467 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2468 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2469 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2470 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2471 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2474 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2475 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2476 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2479 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2480 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2481 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2483 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2484 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2485 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2486 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2487 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2488 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2490 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2491 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2492 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2493 behavior in a future release.
2495 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2497 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2499 Security related changes:
2501 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2502 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2503 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2504 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2506 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2507 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2509 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2510 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2513 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2514 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2515 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2517 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2519 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2520 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2521 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2522 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2523 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2524 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2525 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2526 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2527 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2529 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2530 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2531 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2532 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2533 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2535 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2537 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2538 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2539 scope with -O1 and higher
2540 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2541 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2542 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2543 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2544 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2545 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2546 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2547 horrible machine code)
2548 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2550 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2551 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2553 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2554 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2556 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2557 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2558 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2559 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2560 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2562 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2563 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2564 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2565 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2566 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2568 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2569 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2570 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2572 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2573 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2574 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2575 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2576 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2577 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2578 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2579 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2580 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2581 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2582 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2583 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2584 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2586 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2588 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2589 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2590 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2591 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2592 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2593 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2594 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2595 for Spanish with CLDR
2596 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2597 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2598 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2599 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2600 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2601 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2603 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2605 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2606 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2607 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2608 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2610 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2611 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2612 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2613 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2614 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2615 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2616 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2617 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2618 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2619 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2620 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2621 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2622 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2623 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2624 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2625 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2626 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2628 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2629 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2631 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2632 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2633 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2634 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2635 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2636 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2638 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2640 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2641 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2642 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2643 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2644 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2645 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2646 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2647 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2648 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2649 and libc build with -Os)
2650 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2651 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2652 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2653 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2654 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2655 that changes /etc/passwd
2656 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2658 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2659 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2660 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2662 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2663 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2664 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2665 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2666 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2668 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2669 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2671 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2672 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2673 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2674 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2676 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2677 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2678 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2679 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2681 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2683 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2685 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2687 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2689 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2690 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2691 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2692 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2693 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2694 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2695 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2696 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2698 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2705 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2706 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2707 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2708 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2709 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2710 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2711 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2712 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2713 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2715 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2716 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2719 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2721 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2723 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2724 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2725 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2726 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2727 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2728 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2729 from a security and performance perspective.
2731 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2732 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2733 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2734 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2736 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2737 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2738 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2739 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2740 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2742 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2743 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2744 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2745 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2748 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2749 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2750 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2752 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2754 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2755 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2758 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2760 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2762 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2763 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2764 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2766 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2767 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2768 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2769 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2770 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2771 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2772 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2774 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2775 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2776 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2777 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2778 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2779 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2780 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2782 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2783 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2784 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2785 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2788 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2789 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2790 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2791 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2793 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2794 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2795 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2797 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2798 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2799 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2801 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2802 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2803 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2809 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2811 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2812 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2813 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2814 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2815 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2816 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2817 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2818 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2819 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2822 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2823 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2824 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2826 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2827 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2828 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2829 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2830 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2831 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2832 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2833 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2834 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2835 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2836 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2837 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2838 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2839 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2840 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2841 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2842 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2843 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2844 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2845 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2846 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2847 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2848 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2849 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2850 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2851 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2853 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2854 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2856 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2857 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2858 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2859 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2860 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2861 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2862 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2864 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2865 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2866 exp10l for these functions instead.
2868 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2869 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2870 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2872 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2873 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2876 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2877 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2878 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2879 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2881 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2882 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2884 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2885 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2887 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2890 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2892 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2893 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2894 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2897 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2898 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2899 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2900 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2901 use, but predates the bits convention.
2903 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2905 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2908 Security related changes:
2910 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2911 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2912 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2913 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2916 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2917 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2918 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2919 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2921 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2922 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2923 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2926 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2927 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2928 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2930 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2931 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2932 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2933 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2935 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2936 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2937 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2940 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2941 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2942 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2943 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2944 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2946 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2947 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2950 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2951 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2952 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2954 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2955 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2956 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2958 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2959 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2960 small, instead of NULL.
2962 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2964 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2965 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2966 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2968 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2969 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2970 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2972 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2973 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2974 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2975 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2976 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2977 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2978 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2979 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2980 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2982 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2983 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2984 width Latin characters
2985 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2986 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2987 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2989 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2990 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2992 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2993 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2994 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2995 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2996 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2998 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2999 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3000 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3001 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3002 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3003 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3004 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3005 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3006 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3007 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3009 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3010 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3011 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3012 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3013 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3014 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3015 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3016 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3018 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3019 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3021 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3022 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3024 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3025 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3026 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3027 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3028 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3029 __regcall calling convention
3030 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3031 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3032 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3033 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3034 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3035 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3036 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3037 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3038 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3039 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3040 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3041 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3042 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3044 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3046 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3048 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3049 consistency check failures
3050 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3051 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3052 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3053 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3055 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3057 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3058 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3059 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3060 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3061 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3062 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3063 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3064 on memory allocation failure
3065 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3066 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3068 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3070 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3071 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3072 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3073 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3074 instead of EAI_NODATA
3075 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3076 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3077 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3078 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3080 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3081 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3082 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3083 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3084 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3085 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3086 allocation in syscall loops)
3087 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3088 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3089 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3090 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3091 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3092 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3093 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3094 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3095 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3097 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3098 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3099 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3101 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3102 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3104 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3106 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3107 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3108 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3109 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3110 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3111 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3112 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3113 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3114 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3115 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3116 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3117 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3118 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3119 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3120 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3121 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3122 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3123 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3125 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3127 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3128 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3130 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3131 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3132 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3133 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3135 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3136 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3137 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3138 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3139 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3140 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3141 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3142 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3143 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3144 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3145 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3147 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3148 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3149 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3150 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3151 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3152 the svid compat wrapper
3153 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3154 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3155 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3156 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3157 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3158 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3160 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3161 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3163 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3164 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3165 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3166 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3167 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3168 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3170 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3171 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3172 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3173 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3175 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3176 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3178 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3179 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3180 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3181 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3182 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3183 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3184 inside the ASCII printable range
3185 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3187 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3188 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3189 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3191 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3192 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3194 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3195 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3196 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3198 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3199 networking interface
3200 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3201 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3202 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3203 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3204 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3205 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3206 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3207 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3208 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3210 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3211 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3212 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3213 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3214 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3215 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3216 same as for Croatian
3217 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3218 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3219 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3221 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3223 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3224 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3225 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3226 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3227 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3229 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3230 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3231 modified in case of success
3232 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3233 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3235 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3237 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3238 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3239 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3240 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3241 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3242 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3243 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3244 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3246 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3247 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3248 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3249 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3250 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3251 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3252 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3253 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3254 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3256 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3257 elision and tunables
3258 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3260 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3261 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3262 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3264 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3265 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3267 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3268 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3269 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3270 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3271 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3272 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3273 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3274 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3275 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3282 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3283 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3284 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3285 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3286 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3287 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3288 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3290 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3291 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3292 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3293 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3294 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3295 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3296 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3298 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3299 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3302 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3304 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3305 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3306 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3308 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3309 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3310 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3311 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3312 object are still limited to six search domains.
3314 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3315 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3316 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3318 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3319 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3321 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3322 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3323 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3324 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3326 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3327 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3328 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3329 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3331 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3332 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3333 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3334 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3336 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3337 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3338 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3340 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3341 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3342 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3343 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3345 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3346 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3347 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3348 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3349 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3351 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3352 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3353 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3354 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3355 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3356 interfaces should be used instead.
3358 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3360 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3361 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3362 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3363 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3364 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3365 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3366 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3367 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3369 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3372 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3373 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3374 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3375 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3377 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3378 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3381 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3382 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3383 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3384 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3385 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3387 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3388 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3389 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3390 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3392 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3393 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3394 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3395 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3397 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3398 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3400 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3401 exported by accident.
3403 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3404 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3405 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3407 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3408 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3409 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3410 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3412 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3414 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3416 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3419 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3420 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3422 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3423 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3425 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3426 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3427 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3428 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3429 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3430 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3431 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3432 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3434 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3435 synced with the kernel:
3437 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3438 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3440 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3441 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3442 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3444 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3445 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3447 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3449 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3450 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3453 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3455 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3456 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3458 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3459 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3460 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3461 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3462 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3464 Security related changes:
3466 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3467 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3469 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3470 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3472 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3473 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3476 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3477 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3479 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3481 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3482 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3483 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3485 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3487 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3488 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3489 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3491 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3492 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3493 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3494 x86 and other generic code
3495 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3496 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3498 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3499 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3500 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3501 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3502 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3503 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3504 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3506 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3507 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3508 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3509 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3511 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3512 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3514 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3516 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3517 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3518 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3520 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3521 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3522 failures consistently
3523 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3524 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3525 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3526 frame-pointer on i386
3527 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3529 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3530 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3531 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3532 generic c code is used
3533 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3534 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3536 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3538 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3539 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3541 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3542 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3543 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3544 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3545 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3546 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3547 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3548 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3549 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3550 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3552 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3554 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3555 new posix_spawn implementation
3556 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3557 leads to lower CPU frequency
3558 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3559 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3560 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3561 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3562 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3563 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3564 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3565 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3566 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3567 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3568 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3569 not support gethostbyname4_r
3570 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3572 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3574 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3575 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3576 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3577 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3578 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3579 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3580 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3582 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3583 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3584 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3585 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3586 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3587 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3588 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3589 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3590 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3591 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3592 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3593 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3595 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3596 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3597 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3598 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3599 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3600 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3601 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3602 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3604 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3605 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3606 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3607 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3608 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3609 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3610 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3611 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3612 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3613 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3614 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3615 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3616 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3617 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3618 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3619 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3620 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3621 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3622 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3623 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3624 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3626 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3627 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3628 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3629 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3630 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3632 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3633 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3635 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3636 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3638 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3639 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3641 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3642 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3643 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3644 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3646 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3647 leading to relocation crash
3648 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3649 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3650 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3651 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3652 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3653 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3654 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3655 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3656 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3658 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3660 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3661 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3662 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3663 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3664 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3665 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3666 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3667 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3669 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3671 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3673 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3674 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3675 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3676 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3677 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3678 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3679 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3680 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3681 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3682 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3683 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3684 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3685 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3686 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3687 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3688 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3689 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3690 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3691 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3692 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3693 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3694 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3695 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3696 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3697 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3698 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3699 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3701 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3702 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3703 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3704 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3705 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3710 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3711 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3712 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3715 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3716 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3717 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3720 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3721 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3722 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3725 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3726 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3727 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3728 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3729 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3730 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3731 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3734 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3735 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3738 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3739 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3740 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3742 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3743 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3744 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3745 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3748 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3749 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3750 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3752 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3753 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3754 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3755 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3756 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3757 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3758 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3759 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3760 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3761 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3762 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3765 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3767 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3769 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3770 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3771 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3773 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3774 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3776 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3779 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3781 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3783 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3784 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3786 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3788 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3789 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3791 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3792 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3794 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3795 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3796 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3798 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3799 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3800 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3801 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3802 effects of the memory clear).
3804 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3805 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3806 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3807 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3809 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3810 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3811 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3812 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3813 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3814 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3816 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3819 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3820 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3821 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3822 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3823 as large as several megabytes.
3825 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3826 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3829 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3830 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3831 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3832 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3833 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3834 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3835 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3837 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3838 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3839 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3840 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3842 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3843 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3844 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3847 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3848 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3849 They were already unimplemented.
3851 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3852 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3853 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3854 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3856 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3857 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3858 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3859 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3860 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3862 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3863 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3864 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3865 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3866 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3868 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3869 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3870 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3871 did not reflect that.
3873 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3874 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3875 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3876 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3877 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3878 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3879 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3882 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3883 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3884 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3885 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3887 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3888 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3889 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3890 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3892 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3893 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3896 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3897 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3900 Security related changes:
3902 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3903 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3904 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3905 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3906 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3908 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3909 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3910 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3911 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3914 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3916 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3917 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3919 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3920 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3921 before it started waiting
3922 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3923 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3924 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3925 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3927 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3928 library linked with pthread
3929 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3930 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3931 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3932 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3933 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3934 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3935 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3937 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3939 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3940 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3941 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3942 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3943 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3944 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3945 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3946 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3947 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3949 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3950 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3951 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3952 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3953 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3954 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3955 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3956 causes a segmentation fault
3957 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3959 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3960 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3962 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3964 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3965 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3966 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3968 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3969 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3971 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3972 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3973 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3974 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3975 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3976 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3977 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3978 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3980 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3981 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3982 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3984 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3986 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3988 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3989 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3990 cause transition penalty
3991 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3992 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3993 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3994 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3995 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3997 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3999 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4000 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4001 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4002 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4003 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4004 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4006 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4008 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4009 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4010 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4011 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4012 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4013 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4014 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4015 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4016 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4017 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4018 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4019 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4020 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4021 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4023 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4024 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4025 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4026 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4027 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4028 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4029 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4030 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4031 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4032 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4033 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4034 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4035 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4036 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4037 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4038 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4039 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4040 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4042 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4043 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4044 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4045 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4046 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4048 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4049 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4050 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4051 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4052 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4053 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4054 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4056 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4057 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4058 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4059 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4060 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4064 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4065 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4066 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4067 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4068 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4071 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4072 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4073 been included in previous releases.
4075 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4076 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4078 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4079 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4080 instead of “union wait”.
4082 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4083 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4084 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4085 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4086 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4087 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4088 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4090 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4093 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4094 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4097 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4098 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4099 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4100 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4101 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4104 Security related changes:
4106 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4107 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4108 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4110 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4111 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4112 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4113 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4115 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4116 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4117 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4119 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4120 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4121 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4123 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4124 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4125 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4126 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4128 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4130 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4131 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4133 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4134 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4135 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4136 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4137 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4138 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4139 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4140 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4142 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4143 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4144 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4145 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4146 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4147 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4149 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4151 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4152 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4153 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4154 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4155 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4156 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4157 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4158 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4159 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4160 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4161 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4163 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4164 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4165 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4166 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4167 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4168 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4170 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4171 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4173 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4174 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4175 Romanian locale data
4176 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4178 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4179 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4181 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4182 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4183 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4184 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4186 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4188 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4189 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4190 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4191 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4192 when using RTLD_NEXT
4193 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4194 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4195 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4196 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4197 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4198 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4199 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4200 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4201 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4203 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4204 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4205 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4206 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4208 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4210 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4212 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4213 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4214 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4215 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4216 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4217 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4219 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4220 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4222 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4223 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4225 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4227 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4229 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4230 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4231 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4232 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4233 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4234 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4235 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4236 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4237 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4238 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4239 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4240 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4241 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4242 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4244 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4246 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4247 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4248 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4249 response to getaddrinfo
4250 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4251 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4252 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4253 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4254 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4255 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4257 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4258 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4259 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4261 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4262 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4263 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4264 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4266 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4267 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4268 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4270 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4271 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4272 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4273 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4274 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4275 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4276 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4277 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4279 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4280 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4281 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4283 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4284 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4285 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4286 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4287 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4288 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4289 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4290 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4291 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4292 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4293 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4294 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4295 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4297 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4298 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4299 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4300 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4302 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4303 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4305 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4306 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4307 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4308 AS not supporting AVX512
4309 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4311 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4312 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4314 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4315 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4316 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4317 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4318 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4320 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4321 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4323 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4324 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4325 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4326 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4327 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4328 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4329 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4330 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4331 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4333 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4334 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4335 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4336 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4337 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4338 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4339 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4340 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4341 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4342 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4343 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4344 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4345 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4347 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4348 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4349 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4350 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4351 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4353 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4354 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4356 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4357 "invalid" exceptions
4358 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4359 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4360 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4361 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4362 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4363 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4364 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4365 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4366 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4370 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4371 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4372 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4373 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4374 89, 16061, and 18568.
4376 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4377 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4378 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4379 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4380 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4381 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4382 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4384 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4385 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4386 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4388 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4389 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4390 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4391 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4392 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4393 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4394 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4396 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4397 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4398 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4399 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4400 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4401 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4402 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4405 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4406 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4407 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4408 independent of the GNU C Library.
4410 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4411 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4413 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4414 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4415 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4416 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4417 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4420 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4421 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4423 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4424 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4425 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4426 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4427 defining their own copy.
4429 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4430 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4431 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4433 Security related changes:
4435 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4436 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4438 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4439 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4440 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4441 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4444 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4445 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4447 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4448 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4450 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4451 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4452 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4454 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4455 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4456 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4457 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4458 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4459 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4460 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4461 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4462 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4463 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4464 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4465 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4466 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4468 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4470 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4471 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4472 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4473 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4474 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4475 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4477 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4478 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
4479 overflow/underflow errors
4480 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4482 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4483 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4484 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4485 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4486 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4487 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4489 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4490 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4491 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4492 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4493 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4494 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4495 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4496 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4497 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4499 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4501 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4502 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4503 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4505 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4506 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4507 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4508 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4509 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4511 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4512 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4514 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4515 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4516 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4517 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4518 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4519 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4520 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4521 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4523 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4524 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4525 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4526 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4527 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4529 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4530 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4532 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4533 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4534 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4535 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4536 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4538 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4539 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4540 (related to lock elision)
4541 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4542 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4543 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4544 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4546 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4547 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4548 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4549 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4550 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4551 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4552 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4553 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4554 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4555 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4556 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4557 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4558 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4559 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4560 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4561 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4562 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4563 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4564 contains a vector instruction exception.
4565 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4566 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4568 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4569 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4570 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4571 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4572 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4574 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4576 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4577 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4579 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4580 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4581 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4582 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4583 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4585 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4586 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4587 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4588 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4589 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4590 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4591 statically too large
4592 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4593 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4594 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4595 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4596 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4597 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4598 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4599 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4600 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4602 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4603 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4604 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4605 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4606 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4607 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4608 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4610 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4611 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4612 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4613 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4615 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4616 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4617 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4618 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4619 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4620 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4622 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4623 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4624 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4625 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4626 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4627 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4629 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4630 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4631 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4632 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4633 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4634 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4635 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4636 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4638 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4639 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4640 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4641 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4642 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4643 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4644 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4645 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4646 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4648 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4650 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4651 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4652 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4654 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4655 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4656 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4657 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
4658 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4659 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4660 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4661 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4662 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4663 pthread_setaffinity_np
4664 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4665 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4666 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4667 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4668 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4670 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4671 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4672 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4673 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4674 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4675 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4676 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4678 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4679 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4680 for C99-based standards
4681 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4682 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4684 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4685 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4686 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4688 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4689 "inexact" exceptions
4690 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4692 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4693 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4694 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4695 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4697 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4698 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4699 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4700 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4701 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4702 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4703 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4704 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4705 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4706 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4708 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4709 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4710 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4711 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4713 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4714 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4715 error on 32-bit architectures
4716 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4717 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4718 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4719 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4720 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4721 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4722 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4723 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4724 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4726 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4728 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4729 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4730 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4731 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4733 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4737 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4739 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4740 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4741 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4742 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4743 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4744 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4745 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4746 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4747 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4748 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4749 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4750 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4751 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4752 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4753 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4754 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4755 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4756 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4757 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4758 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4760 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4761 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4763 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4764 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4765 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4766 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4767 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4768 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4770 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4771 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4772 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4773 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4774 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4776 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4777 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4778 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4780 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4781 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4782 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4785 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4786 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4787 condition in some applications.
4789 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4790 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4792 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4793 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4794 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4795 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4796 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4798 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4799 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4800 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4801 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4803 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4804 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4805 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4807 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4808 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4810 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4811 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4812 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4814 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4815 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4816 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4820 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4822 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4823 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4824 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4825 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4826 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4827 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4828 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4829 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4830 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4831 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4834 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4835 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4836 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4837 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4840 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4841 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4842 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4843 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4844 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4845 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4847 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4849 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4850 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4851 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4853 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4854 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4855 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4856 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4857 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4858 effects being visible outside transactions.
4860 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4861 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4863 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4865 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4866 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4867 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4868 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4869 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4871 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4872 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4874 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4875 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4878 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4879 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4880 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4882 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4883 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4885 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4887 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4888 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4889 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4890 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4892 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4893 with newer versions of bison.
4895 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4896 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4897 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4898 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4899 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4900 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4901 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4902 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4903 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4904 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4905 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4906 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4907 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4909 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4910 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4911 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4912 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4913 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4917 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4919 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4920 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4921 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4922 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4923 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4924 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4925 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4926 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4927 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4928 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4929 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4930 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4931 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4932 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4933 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4935 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4936 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4937 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4938 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4939 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4940 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4941 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4942 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4943 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4944 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4946 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4947 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4948 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4949 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4950 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4952 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4954 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4955 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4957 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4958 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4959 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4960 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4961 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4962 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4964 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4967 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4968 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4969 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4970 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4971 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4972 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4973 test macros defined.
4975 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4977 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4978 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4979 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4980 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4981 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4982 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4985 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4986 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4987 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4988 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4991 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4992 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4993 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4995 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4996 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4997 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4998 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5000 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5001 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5002 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5003 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5004 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5005 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5006 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5009 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5010 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5011 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5012 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5013 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5014 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5015 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5016 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5017 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5019 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5020 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5021 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5022 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5023 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5024 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5026 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5027 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5028 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5029 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5033 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5035 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5036 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5037 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5038 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5039 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5040 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5041 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5042 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5043 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5044 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5045 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5046 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5047 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5048 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5049 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5050 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5051 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5052 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5054 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5055 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5057 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5058 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5059 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5060 extension which uses __block.
5062 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5063 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5064 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5065 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5066 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5068 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5069 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5070 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5071 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5074 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5075 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5076 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5077 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5078 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5080 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5081 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5082 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5084 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5085 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5086 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5089 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5090 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5092 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5093 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5095 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5097 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5100 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5102 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5104 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5105 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5106 for which the C library was built.
5108 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5109 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5110 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5111 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5112 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5113 in the following circumstances:
5115 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5117 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5118 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5120 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5121 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5123 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5124 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5126 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5128 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5129 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5131 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5133 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5135 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5137 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5138 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5139 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5140 disable some of those declarations.
5142 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5143 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5144 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5146 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5147 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5149 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5150 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5151 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5152 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5153 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5154 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5155 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5156 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5157 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5158 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5159 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5160 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5161 require recompilation.
5165 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5167 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5168 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5169 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5170 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5171 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5172 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5173 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5174 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5175 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5176 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5177 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5178 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5179 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5182 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5183 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5184 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5185 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5186 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5187 understands and accepts the risks.
5189 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5192 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5193 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5195 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5196 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5197 destructor calls to glibc.
5199 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5202 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5203 non-x86 architectures.
5205 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5207 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5209 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5212 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5214 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5217 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5218 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5220 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5222 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5223 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5225 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5226 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5228 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5229 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5230 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5232 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5233 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5234 attributes of a process.
5236 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5237 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5238 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5239 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5242 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5243 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5245 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5249 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5251 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5252 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5253 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5254 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5255 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5256 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5257 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5258 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5259 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5260 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5261 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5262 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5263 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5264 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5265 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5267 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5269 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5270 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5272 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5273 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5275 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5277 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5278 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5280 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5282 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5283 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5284 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5286 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5287 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5289 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5290 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5292 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5293 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5295 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5296 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5298 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5299 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5300 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5301 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5303 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5304 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5306 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5307 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5310 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5311 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5312 information in --help and --version output.
5314 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5315 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5316 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5318 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5319 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5320 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5321 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5322 when the mode is enabled.
5324 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5325 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5326 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5327 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5328 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5329 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5330 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5332 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5337 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5339 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5340 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5341 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5342 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5343 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5344 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5345 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5346 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5347 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5348 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5349 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5350 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5351 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5352 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5353 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5354 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5355 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5356 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5357 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5358 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5359 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5360 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5363 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5364 configuring glibc with:
5365 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5366 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5367 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5371 + define static_assert
5373 + do not declare gets
5375 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5377 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5378 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5379 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5382 + timespec_get added
5384 + uchar.h support added
5386 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5388 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5390 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5392 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5394 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5395 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5397 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5398 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5400 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5401 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5402 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5403 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5404 existing applications.
5406 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5407 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5410 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5411 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5412 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5414 * New locales: mag_IN
5416 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5417 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5418 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5419 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5420 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5422 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5424 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5427 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5429 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5430 without a previously built glibc.
5432 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5433 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5435 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5436 now supported for ARM processors.
5438 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5439 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5440 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5442 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5444 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5445 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5446 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5447 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5449 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5450 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5451 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5452 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5454 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5455 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5456 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5457 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5458 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5460 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5461 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5462 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5463 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5467 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5469 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5470 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5471 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5472 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5473 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5474 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5475 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5477 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5478 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5480 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5481 and support for initgroups lookups.
5482 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5484 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5485 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5487 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5488 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5490 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5491 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5492 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5494 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5495 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5497 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5498 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5499 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5501 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5502 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5504 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5505 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5507 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5508 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5510 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5511 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5513 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5514 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5516 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5517 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5519 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5521 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5522 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5524 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5525 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5527 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5531 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5533 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5534 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5535 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5536 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5537 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5538 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5539 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5540 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5541 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5542 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5544 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5545 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5546 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5547 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5549 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5550 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5551 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5552 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5554 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5555 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5557 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5558 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5560 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5562 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5563 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5565 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5566 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5567 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5568 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5572 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5574 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5575 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5576 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5577 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5580 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5582 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5584 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5585 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5586 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5590 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5592 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5593 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5594 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5595 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5596 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5597 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5598 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5599 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5601 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5603 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5605 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5607 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5608 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5609 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5611 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5612 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5613 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5614 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5617 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5621 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5623 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5624 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5625 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5626 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5627 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5628 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5630 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5632 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5634 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5635 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5637 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5638 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5640 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5642 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5643 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5644 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5645 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5647 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5648 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5650 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5652 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5654 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5655 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5657 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5658 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5660 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5663 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5664 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5665 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5666 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5667 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5668 necessity is every process again.
5669 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5671 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5672 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5674 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5675 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5677 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5678 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5679 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5681 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5685 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5687 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5688 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5689 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5690 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5691 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5693 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5694 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5696 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5697 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5699 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5700 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5702 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5705 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5706 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5708 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5709 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5711 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5712 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5714 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5715 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5717 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5718 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5719 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5721 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5723 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5724 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5726 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5727 and extend existing format specifiers.
5728 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5730 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5731 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5733 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5734 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5735 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5736 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5737 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5738 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5742 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5744 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5745 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5746 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5747 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5748 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5750 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5751 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5753 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5754 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5756 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5757 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5759 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5760 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5761 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5763 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5764 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5766 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5768 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5769 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5771 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5772 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5773 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5774 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5776 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5777 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5779 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5781 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5783 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5787 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5789 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5790 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5791 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5792 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5793 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5794 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5795 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5797 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5799 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5801 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5802 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5804 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5806 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5809 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5810 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5812 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5813 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5814 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5816 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5817 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5819 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5820 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5822 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5823 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5825 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
5826 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5830 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5832 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5833 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5834 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5835 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5836 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5838 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5839 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5841 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5843 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5844 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5845 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5847 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5848 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5850 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5851 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5853 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5855 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5856 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5858 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5859 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5861 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5862 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5864 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5866 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5867 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5869 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5870 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5873 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5874 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5878 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5880 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5881 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5882 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5883 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5884 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5885 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5886 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5889 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5891 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5893 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5897 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5899 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5900 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5901 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5902 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5903 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5904 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5905 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5906 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5907 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5909 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5910 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5911 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5913 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5914 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5916 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5918 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5920 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5921 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5922 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5923 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5924 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5926 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5927 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5928 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5929 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5931 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5934 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5936 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5939 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5941 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5942 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5946 * More overflow detection functions.
5948 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5949 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5951 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5952 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5953 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5954 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5955 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5956 by Masahide Washizawa.
5958 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5959 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5961 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5962 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5963 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5964 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5966 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5967 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5969 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5971 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5972 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5973 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5975 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5976 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5978 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5979 for compatibility with some other systems.
5981 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5985 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5987 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5988 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5989 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5990 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5991 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5992 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5994 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5996 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5998 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6002 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6004 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6005 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6006 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6007 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6009 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6013 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6014 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6016 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6017 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6018 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6020 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6021 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6023 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6025 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6027 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6028 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6031 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6032 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6033 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6035 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6036 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6038 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6039 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6040 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6041 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6043 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6044 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6045 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6046 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6048 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6049 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6050 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6051 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6052 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6056 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6057 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6059 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6060 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6062 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6063 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6065 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6066 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6068 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6071 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6074 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6079 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6080 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6081 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6082 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6083 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6084 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6085 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6086 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6087 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6089 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6090 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6091 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6093 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6095 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6096 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6098 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6099 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6101 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6103 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6104 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6106 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6107 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6108 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6109 of weak definition in ld.so.
6111 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6112 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6114 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6115 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6119 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6122 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6123 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6125 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6126 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6128 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6129 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6131 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6132 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6133 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6135 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6136 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6138 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6139 implementation of regex.
6141 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6144 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6145 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6147 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6148 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6149 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6151 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6152 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6154 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6155 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6156 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6158 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6159 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6161 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6162 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6165 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6169 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6170 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6172 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6173 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6177 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6178 128-bit long double format.
6180 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6181 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6183 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6185 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6187 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6190 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6191 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6193 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6197 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6198 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6200 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6201 support Unicode 3.1.
6203 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6204 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6206 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6208 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6209 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6210 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6212 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6213 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6215 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6216 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6218 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6222 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6223 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6224 in float, double, and long double format.
6226 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6227 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6228 128-bit long double format.
6230 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6231 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6232 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6233 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6235 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6236 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6237 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6239 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6240 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6242 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6243 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6245 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6246 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6247 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6249 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6250 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6252 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6253 of functions for Linux/x86.
6255 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6259 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6260 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6261 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6262 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6263 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6264 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6267 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6268 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6270 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6271 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6272 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6273 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6275 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6280 only lists the names of the supported locales
6284 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6285 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6289 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6290 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6291 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6292 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6293 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6295 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6297 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6299 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6301 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6302 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6303 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6305 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6306 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6308 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6309 changed from the default "C" locale.
6311 * The usual bug fixes.
6315 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6316 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6319 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6321 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6323 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6324 obviously requires a database library being available.
6326 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6328 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6330 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6331 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6333 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6335 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6336 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6339 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6340 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6341 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6343 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6344 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6346 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6347 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6348 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6350 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6351 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6352 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6355 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6356 structures for the wide character tables.
6358 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6360 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6362 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6364 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6367 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6369 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6371 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6373 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6375 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6377 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6378 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6379 implemented for Linux.
6381 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6382 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6383 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6386 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6389 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6403 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6405 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6407 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6409 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6411 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6413 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6415 * Update timezone data files.
6417 * lots of charmaps corrections
6419 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6424 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6425 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6426 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6427 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6428 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6429 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6431 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6432 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6434 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6437 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
6438 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6440 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6442 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6445 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6447 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6448 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6450 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6453 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6454 functions from ISO C 9X.
6456 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6457 real valued functions.
6459 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6461 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6463 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6465 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6467 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6469 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6471 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6473 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6474 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6476 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6477 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6481 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6483 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6485 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6487 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6489 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6491 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6493 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6494 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6497 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6498 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6500 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6502 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6504 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6505 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6507 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6509 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6512 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6513 latest draft standards.
6515 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6517 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6518 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6519 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6520 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6521 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6522 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6523 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6524 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6525 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6526 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6527 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6528 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6529 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6530 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6531 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6532 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6533 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6534 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6535 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6536 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6538 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6539 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6540 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6541 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6542 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6549 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6550 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6551 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6552 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6553 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6555 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6556 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6557 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6558 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6559 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6560 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6564 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6565 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6571 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6572 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6573 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6574 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6576 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6577 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6578 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6591 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6592 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6597 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6598 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6601 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6602 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6606 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6607 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6609 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6610 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6611 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6613 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6614 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6618 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6619 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6623 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6624 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6625 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6626 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6627 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6629 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6630 ferror_locked REMOVED
6631 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6632 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6633 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6634 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6635 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6636 fflush_locked REMOVED
6640 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6641 fileno_locked REMOVED
6653 fputc_locked REMOVED
6654 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6655 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6660 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6664 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6666 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6667 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6671 getchar_locked REMOVED
6673 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6674 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6676 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6677 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6678 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6679 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6680 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6681 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6682 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6683 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6684 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6685 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6686 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6687 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6688 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6689 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6691 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6692 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6693 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6694 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6695 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6696 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6697 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6698 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6699 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6700 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6701 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6702 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6703 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6704 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6705 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6706 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6707 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6708 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6709 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6710 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6711 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6712 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6713 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6714 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6715 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6716 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6721 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6722 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6723 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6724 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6725 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6727 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6728 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6731 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6735 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6736 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6737 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6738 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6739 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6740 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6741 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6742 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6746 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6748 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6749 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6752 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6753 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6754 profil_counter REMOVED
6755 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6756 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6757 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6758 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6760 putchar_locked REMOVED
6761 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6763 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6764 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6768 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6769 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6770 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6771 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6773 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6774 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6776 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6777 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6778 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6780 sendfile NEW: kernel
6781 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6782 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6783 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6785 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6786 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6787 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6788 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6789 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6790 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6791 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6792 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6793 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6797 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6798 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6799 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6800 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6801 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6802 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6803 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6804 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6805 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6806 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6807 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6808 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6809 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6813 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6814 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6816 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6817 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6818 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6819 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6820 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6821 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6823 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6824 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6825 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6826 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6827 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6828 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6829 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6831 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6832 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6833 write_profiling REMOVED
6834 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6835 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6836 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6837 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6838 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6839 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6840 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6841 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6842 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6843 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6844 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6845 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6846 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6847 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6848 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6849 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6860 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6862 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6864 * rewrite of cbrt function
6866 * update of timezone data
6880 * add atoll function
6882 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6884 * fix math functions
6888 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6890 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6892 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6893 the ELF dynamic loader.
6895 * support for parallel builds is improved
6899 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6900 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6903 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6904 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6905 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6906 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6907 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6908 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6909 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6910 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6911 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6912 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6913 files in the ELF format.
6915 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6916 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6918 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6919 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6920 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6921 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6922 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6923 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6924 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6925 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6926 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6927 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6928 about dynamically linked binaries.
6930 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6931 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6932 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6933 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6934 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6936 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6937 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6938 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6939 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6940 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6942 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6944 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6945 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6946 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6947 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6948 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6949 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6950 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6951 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6952 NSS services available.
6954 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6955 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6956 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6958 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6959 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6960 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6962 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6963 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6964 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6965 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6967 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6968 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6969 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6971 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6972 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6973 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6975 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6976 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6978 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6979 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6980 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6981 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
6983 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6984 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6985 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6987 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6988 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6989 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6990 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6991 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6992 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6993 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6994 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6996 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6997 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6998 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6999 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7000 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7001 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7002 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7004 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7005 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7006 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7007 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7008 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7009 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7011 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7012 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7014 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7015 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7016 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7018 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7020 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7021 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7022 their use is discouraged.
7024 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7025 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7027 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7028 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7030 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7031 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7033 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7036 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7037 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7038 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7039 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7040 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7042 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7043 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7044 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7045 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7047 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7048 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7050 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7051 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7052 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7053 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7056 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7057 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7059 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7060 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7062 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7063 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7064 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7065 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7067 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7069 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7070 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7071 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7073 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7074 for arithmetic and string handling.
7076 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7077 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7078 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7079 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7081 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7082 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7083 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7084 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7085 programs already written to use it.)
7087 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7090 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7093 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7094 a given effective group ID.
7096 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7097 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7098 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7099 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7101 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7102 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7103 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7104 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7105 doing the same thing.
7107 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7108 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7110 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7111 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7113 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7115 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7116 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7117 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7118 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7119 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7121 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7122 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7124 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7125 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7126 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7129 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7131 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7132 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7135 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7136 and writing the utmp file.
7138 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7141 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7142 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7143 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7145 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7146 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7148 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7149 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7152 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7153 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7154 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7155 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7157 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7158 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7159 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7161 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7162 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7163 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7166 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7169 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7172 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7174 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7175 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7176 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7180 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7182 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7183 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7185 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7186 want to put themselves in the background.
7188 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7189 run without an operating system.
7191 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7192 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7194 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7195 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7197 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7199 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7200 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7203 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7206 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7207 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7211 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7212 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7213 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7215 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7216 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7218 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7219 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7221 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7223 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7225 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7228 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7229 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7230 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7232 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7234 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7235 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7236 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7238 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7239 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7240 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7241 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7242 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7245 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7246 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7247 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7248 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7249 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7252 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7253 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7257 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7258 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7260 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7261 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7262 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7264 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7265 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7266 address of the last character written.
7268 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7269 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7271 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7272 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7274 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7275 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7276 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7277 you dereference this pointer.
7279 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7280 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7282 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7283 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7284 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7285 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7287 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7288 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7289 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7290 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7294 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7295 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7296 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7297 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7298 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7300 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7302 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7304 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7305 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7307 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7308 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7310 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7311 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7313 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7314 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7315 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7316 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7317 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7319 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7320 to the error code in `errno'.
7322 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7323 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7324 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7327 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7328 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7329 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7331 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7332 uniquely-named temporary file.
7336 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7337 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7338 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7340 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7343 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7344 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7346 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7350 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7351 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7352 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7353 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7355 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7356 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7357 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7359 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7360 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7362 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7363 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7364 made itself into a shared library.
7366 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7367 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7369 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7370 with limited length.
7372 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7374 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7376 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7378 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7379 function for traversing a directory tree.
7381 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7382 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7383 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7384 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7386 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7387 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7389 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7391 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7392 things to your strings.
7394 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7396 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7397 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7398 supporting those systems.
7400 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7401 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7402 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7403 configuration files.
7405 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7406 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7408 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7409 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7412 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7413 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7414 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7415 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7416 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7417 required storage is not available.
7419 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7420 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7422 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7423 latest files released from Berkeley.
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