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12 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
13 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
14 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
15 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
17 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
19 [Add deprecations, removals and changes affecting compatibility here]
21 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
23 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
25 Security related changes:
27 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
28 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
29 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
30 portion of the contents of the heap.
32 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
34 [The release manager will add the list generated by
35 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
41 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
42 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
43 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
44 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
45 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
46 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
48 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
49 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
50 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on tranditional Unix systems.
52 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
53 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
56 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
57 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
58 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
59 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
61 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
62 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
63 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
64 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
65 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
66 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
67 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
68 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
69 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
70 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
71 validation by applications.
73 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
74 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
75 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
76 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
79 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
80 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
83 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
84 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
85 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
86 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
87 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
88 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
89 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
90 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
92 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
93 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
94 quality randomness from the kernel.
96 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
97 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
100 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
102 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
104 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
106 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
107 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
108 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
110 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
111 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
112 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
113 when libc.so is issued directly.
115 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
117 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
119 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
120 return different result with versioned "foo"
121 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
123 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
124 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
125 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
127 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
128 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
129 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
131 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
133 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
135 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
136 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
137 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
138 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
139 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
140 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
141 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
143 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
145 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
146 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
147 (breaks test isolation)
148 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
149 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
150 __convert_scm_timestamps
151 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
152 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
153 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
155 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyone 2038
156 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
157 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
158 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
159 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
160 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
161 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
163 [28936] build: nm: No such file
164 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
165 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
167 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
169 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
170 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
171 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
173 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
175 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
176 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
177 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
178 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
179 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
180 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
181 is promoted to global scope
182 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
183 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
184 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
186 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
188 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
190 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
191 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
192 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
193 before '__fortified_attr_access'
194 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
195 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
196 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
197 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
198 value for filling after \0
199 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
200 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
201 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
203 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
204 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
205 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
206 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
207 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
208 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
209 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
211 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
212 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
213 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
214 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
215 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
216 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
217 missing on microblaze with largefile
223 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
224 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
225 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
227 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
228 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
230 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
231 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
232 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
233 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
234 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
235 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
236 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
237 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
238 glibc, and must be installed.
240 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
241 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
242 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
244 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
245 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
247 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
250 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
251 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
252 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
253 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
254 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
255 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
257 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
258 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
259 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
262 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
263 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
265 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
268 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
270 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
271 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
272 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
274 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
275 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
276 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
277 object dependency cases.
279 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
280 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
281 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
282 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
284 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
285 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
286 return value is only used for its boolean status.
288 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
289 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
290 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
291 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
292 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
293 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
294 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
295 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
296 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
297 Restartable Sequences.
299 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
300 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
302 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
303 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
304 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
305 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
306 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
307 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
308 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
311 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
312 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
313 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
314 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
315 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
318 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
319 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
321 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
322 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
325 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
326 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
331 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
332 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
334 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
335 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
336 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
337 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
338 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
340 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
341 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
343 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
344 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
345 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
347 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
348 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
349 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
350 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
353 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
354 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
356 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
358 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
359 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
360 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
362 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
363 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
365 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
366 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
368 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
370 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
372 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
373 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
374 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
376 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
377 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
378 catching coredumps and backtraces.
380 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
381 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
382 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
384 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
385 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
386 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
388 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
389 support prelink PIE binaries.
391 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
393 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
394 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
395 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
396 new dynamic loader supporing the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
397 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
399 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
400 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
401 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
402 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
404 Security related changes:
406 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
407 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
408 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
410 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
411 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
413 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
414 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
415 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
417 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
418 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
419 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
420 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
421 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
423 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
425 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
426 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
427 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
428 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
430 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
431 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
433 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
435 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
436 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
437 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
438 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
439 ID whose lifetime has not ended
440 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
442 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
444 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
445 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
446 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
447 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
448 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
449 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
450 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
451 --enable-initfini-array
452 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
453 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
454 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
455 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
456 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
457 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
459 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
460 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
461 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
463 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
464 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
465 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
467 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
468 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
470 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
471 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
472 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
474 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
475 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
476 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
477 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
478 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
479 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
480 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
482 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
484 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
485 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
487 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
488 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
489 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
490 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
491 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
492 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
493 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
495 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
497 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
498 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
499 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
500 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
502 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
503 systems with TIMESIZE=64
504 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
505 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
506 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
507 spurious NUL character on state reset
508 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
510 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
511 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
513 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
514 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
516 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
517 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
518 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
519 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
520 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
521 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
523 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
525 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
526 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
527 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
528 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
530 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
531 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
532 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
533 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
534 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
535 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
536 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
537 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
538 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
539 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
540 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
541 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
542 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
543 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
545 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
547 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
548 results (CVE-2021-3998)
549 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
551 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
552 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
554 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
556 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
557 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
558 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
565 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
566 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
567 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
568 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
569 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
570 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
571 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
572 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
573 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
574 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
575 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
576 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
577 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
578 potentially exposing application bugs.
580 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
581 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
582 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
583 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
585 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
586 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
587 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
588 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
589 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
592 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
593 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
594 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
596 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
597 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
598 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
599 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
601 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
603 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
604 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
605 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
606 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
607 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
609 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
610 --disable-scv configure option.
612 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
613 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
614 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
615 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
616 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
617 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
620 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
621 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
622 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
623 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
624 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
625 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
628 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
629 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
631 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
632 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
633 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
634 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
635 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
636 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
637 is currently a GNU extension.
639 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
640 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
642 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
643 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
644 although it is also present in other systems.
646 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
647 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
648 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
649 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
651 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
652 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
653 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
655 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
657 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
658 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
661 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
662 programs should use the equivalent standard function
663 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
665 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
666 programs should use the equivalent standard function
667 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
669 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
670 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
672 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
674 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
675 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
676 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
677 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
678 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
679 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
680 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
681 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
682 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
683 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
684 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
686 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
687 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
688 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
689 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
690 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
691 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
692 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
693 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
695 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
696 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
697 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
698 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
699 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
700 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
701 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
703 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
704 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
705 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
706 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
707 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
708 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
709 upgrade or downgrade process.
711 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
712 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
713 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
715 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
716 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
717 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
718 no longer have any effect on malloc.
720 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
721 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
722 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
723 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
724 this functionality back.
726 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
727 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
728 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
729 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
731 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
732 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
733 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
734 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
735 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
736 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
737 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
738 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
739 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
741 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
743 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
744 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
745 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
746 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
748 Security related changes:
750 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
751 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
752 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
753 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
755 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
756 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
757 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
759 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
760 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
761 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
763 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
765 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
766 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
767 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
768 given integer (closefrom)
769 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
770 name containing multi-byte character(s)
771 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
772 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
773 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
774 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
775 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
777 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
778 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
779 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
780 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
781 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
782 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
783 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
785 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
786 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
787 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
788 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
789 pthread_create and dlopen
790 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
791 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
792 when non-root user changes priority
793 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
795 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
796 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
797 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
799 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
800 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
802 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
803 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
804 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
805 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
807 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
808 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
809 the right free implementation
810 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
811 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
812 shm_open to pick wrong directory
813 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
814 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
816 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
817 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
818 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
819 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
820 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
821 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
822 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
824 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
825 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
827 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
828 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
829 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
830 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
831 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
832 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
834 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
835 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
836 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
837 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
838 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
839 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
840 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
841 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
843 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
844 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
846 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
847 information for the current directory
848 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
849 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
851 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
852 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
854 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
855 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
856 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
857 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
859 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
860 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
861 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
862 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
863 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
864 tries resolving them lazily
865 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
867 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
868 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
870 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
871 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
872 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
874 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
876 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
877 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
878 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
880 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
881 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
882 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
883 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
884 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
885 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
886 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
887 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
888 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
890 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
891 thread never allocated anything
892 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
893 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
894 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
895 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
896 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
898 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
899 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
900 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
902 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
910 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
911 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
912 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
914 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
915 to change argv[0] string.
917 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
918 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
919 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
920 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
921 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
922 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
923 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
924 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
925 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
927 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
928 information and library search path diagnostics.
930 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
931 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
932 larger than fit in an integer.
934 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
936 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
937 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
943 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
946 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
947 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
948 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
949 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
952 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
954 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
957 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
958 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
959 Instead, the default implementation is used.
961 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
962 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
963 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
966 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
967 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
968 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
970 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
971 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
972 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
973 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
974 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
975 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
977 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
978 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
979 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
980 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
981 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
982 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
985 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
987 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
988 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
989 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
990 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
991 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
992 perform any adjustments.
994 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
995 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
996 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
997 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
999 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1001 Security related changes:
1003 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1004 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1005 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1006 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1007 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1009 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1010 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1011 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1013 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1014 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1016 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1017 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1019 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1021 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1022 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1023 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1024 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1026 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1027 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1028 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1029 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1030 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1032 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1034 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1036 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1037 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1038 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1039 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1040 changing gnuc version
1041 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1043 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1045 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1046 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1047 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1048 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1049 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1050 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
1051 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1052 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1053 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1054 too much stack space
1055 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1056 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1057 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1059 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1061 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1062 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1064 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1065 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1066 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1067 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1068 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1070 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1071 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1072 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1074 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1075 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1076 at the end of a memory mapping
1077 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1078 by the caller to the kernel
1079 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1080 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1081 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1082 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1084 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1085 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1086 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1087 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1088 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1089 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1090 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1092 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1093 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1094 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1095 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1097 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1099 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1101 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1102 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1103 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1104 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1106 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1108 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1109 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1110 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1112 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1114 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1116 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1118 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1119 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1120 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1121 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1123 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1125 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1127 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1128 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1129 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1131 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1132 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1133 [27177] dynamic-link:
1134 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1136 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1137 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1138 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1139 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1146 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1147 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1148 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1150 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1152 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1153 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1154 Three ABIs are supported:
1160 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1161 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1163 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1164 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1166 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1167 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1168 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1171 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1172 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1173 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1175 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1176 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1177 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1179 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1180 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1181 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1182 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1185 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1186 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1187 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1188 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1189 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1190 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1192 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1193 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1195 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1196 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1197 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1198 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1199 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1200 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1202 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1203 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1205 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1206 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1207 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1208 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1209 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1210 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1211 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1212 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1213 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1214 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1215 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1218 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1220 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1221 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1222 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1223 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1224 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1225 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1226 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1228 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1229 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1230 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1231 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1232 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1233 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1234 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1235 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1236 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1238 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1239 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1240 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1241 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1242 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1244 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1245 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1246 was not declared in any header file.
1248 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1249 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1250 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1251 sigaction functions instead.
1253 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1254 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1256 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1257 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1258 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1259 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1262 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
1263 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1264 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
1265 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
1266 strerror or strerror_r instead.
1268 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
1269 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
1270 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
1271 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
1273 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
1274 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
1275 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
1276 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
1277 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
1278 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
1279 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
1281 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
1282 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
1283 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
1284 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
1285 flavor of secure RPC.)
1287 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1288 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
1289 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
1290 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
1291 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
1292 object, to enable the hooks.
1294 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
1295 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
1296 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
1299 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1301 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
1302 long double redirects.
1304 Security related changes:
1306 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1307 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
1308 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
1310 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
1311 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
1312 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
1314 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
1315 expanding ~user has been fixed.
1317 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
1318 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
1319 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
1322 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1324 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
1325 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
1326 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
1327 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
1328 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
1329 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
1330 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
1331 filtee has constructor
1332 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
1333 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
1334 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
1335 character entities for infinity & pi
1336 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
1337 segfaults in applications
1338 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
1339 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
1340 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
1341 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
1342 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
1343 function with -mlong-double-64
1344 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
1346 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
1348 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
1349 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
1350 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
1351 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
1352 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
1353 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
1355 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
1356 dynamically loaded dsos
1357 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
1358 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
1360 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
1361 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
1362 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
1363 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
1364 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
1365 stale configuration forever
1366 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
1368 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
1370 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
1371 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
1373 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
1374 on 32 bit and old kernel
1375 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
1376 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
1378 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
1379 amount of sigset_t bytes
1380 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
1382 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
1383 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
1384 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
1385 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
1386 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
1387 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
1388 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
1389 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
1390 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
1391 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
1393 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
1394 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
1395 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
1396 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1397 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1398 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1399 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1401 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1402 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1404 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1405 exiting detached thread
1406 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1408 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1410 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1411 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1412 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1413 dependencies in audit mode
1414 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1415 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1416 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1417 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1418 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1420 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1421 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1423 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1424 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1426 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1427 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1428 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1429 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1430 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1431 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1432 corruption in memset
1439 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1440 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1441 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1442 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1443 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1444 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1446 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1447 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1448 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1449 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1451 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1452 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1453 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1455 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1457 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1458 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1459 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1460 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1461 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1462 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1463 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1464 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1466 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1468 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1469 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1470 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1471 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1472 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1473 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1475 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1476 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1477 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1479 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1480 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1481 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1482 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1484 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1485 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1486 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1487 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1488 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1489 made this no longer practical.
1491 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1492 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1493 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1494 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1497 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1498 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1499 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1501 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1502 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1503 using clock_gettime instead.
1505 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1506 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1507 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1508 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1509 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1511 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1512 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1513 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1514 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1516 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1517 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1518 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1519 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1520 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1521 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1523 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1524 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1525 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1526 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1529 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1530 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1531 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1533 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1536 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1537 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1538 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1539 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1540 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1542 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1543 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1544 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1545 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1546 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1547 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1548 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1549 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1551 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1552 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1554 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1555 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1556 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1557 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1558 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1559 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1561 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1563 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1564 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1565 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1567 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1568 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1569 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1571 Security related changes:
1573 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1574 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1576 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1577 environment variable during program execution after a security
1578 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1579 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1580 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1582 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1584 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1585 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1586 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1587 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1588 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1589 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1590 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1591 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1593 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1594 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1595 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1596 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1597 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1598 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1599 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1600 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1601 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1602 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1604 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1606 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1607 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1608 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1609 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1610 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1611 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1612 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1614 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1616 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1617 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1618 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1619 (stringop-overflow error)
1620 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1621 functions other can lead to crashes
1622 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1623 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1625 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1626 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1627 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1628 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1629 still can fail with an error
1630 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1631 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1632 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1633 initialized correctly
1634 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1636 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1637 value to an unsigned
1638 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1639 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1640 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1642 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1644 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1646 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1648 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1649 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1650 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1652 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1653 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1655 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1656 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1657 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1658 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1659 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1660 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1667 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1668 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1669 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1671 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1672 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1674 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1675 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1676 to the callback function.
1678 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1680 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1681 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1684 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1686 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1687 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1688 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1689 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1690 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1692 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1693 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1694 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1695 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1696 link time reference, is gone.
1698 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1699 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1700 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1701 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1702 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1703 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1704 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1705 the clock choice at initialization time).
1707 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1708 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1709 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1711 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1713 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1714 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1715 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1716 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1717 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1718 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1719 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1720 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1721 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1723 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1724 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1725 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1726 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1729 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1730 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1732 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1733 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1735 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1736 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1738 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1741 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1742 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1743 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1745 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1746 header have been removed.
1748 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1749 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1750 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1751 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1753 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1755 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1757 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1758 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1760 Security related changes:
1762 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1763 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1764 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1765 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1766 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1767 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1768 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1770 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1771 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1772 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1774 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1776 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1777 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1778 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1779 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1780 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1781 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1782 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1783 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1784 invalid input drops valid char
1785 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1786 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1787 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1788 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1789 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1791 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1792 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1793 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1794 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1796 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1797 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1798 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1799 for long double = double
1800 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1801 long double = double
1802 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1803 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1804 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1806 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1807 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1809 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1810 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1811 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1812 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1813 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1814 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1815 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1816 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1817 not the default "nor"
1818 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1819 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1820 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1821 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1823 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1824 unnecessary librt dependencies
1825 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1826 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1827 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1828 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1830 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1831 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1833 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1834 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1835 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1836 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1837 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1838 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1839 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1840 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1841 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1842 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1843 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1844 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1846 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1848 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1849 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1851 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1852 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1853 kernels and break testing
1854 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1855 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1856 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1857 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1858 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1859 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1860 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1862 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1863 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1865 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1867 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1868 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1869 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1870 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1871 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1872 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1873 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1874 always implemented in the same library
1875 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1876 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1877 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1885 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1886 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1888 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1889 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1890 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1891 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1892 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1893 configured location.
1895 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1897 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1898 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1900 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1901 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1902 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1903 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1904 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1905 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1906 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1907 process actually does not use HTM).
1909 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1910 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1911 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1912 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1913 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1916 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1917 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1918 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1919 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1920 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1922 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1923 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1925 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1926 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1928 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1929 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1930 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1931 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1932 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1933 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1934 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1936 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1937 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1938 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1940 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1942 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1943 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1945 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1946 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1947 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1948 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1950 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1951 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1952 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1953 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1956 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1957 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1958 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1959 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1960 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1961 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1963 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1964 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1965 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1966 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1967 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1969 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1970 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1971 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1973 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1975 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1977 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1978 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1980 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1981 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1983 Security related changes:
1985 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1986 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1987 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1989 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1990 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1991 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1992 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1993 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1995 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1996 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1997 or command injection issues in applications.
1999 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2001 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2002 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2003 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2005 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2006 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2007 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2009 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2010 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2011 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2012 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2013 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2014 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2015 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2016 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2017 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2018 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2019 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2020 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2021 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2022 pointer argument is non-NULL
2023 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2024 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2025 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2026 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2027 multithreads call popen
2028 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2029 and pthread_create fails.
2030 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2031 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2033 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2034 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2035 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2037 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2039 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2041 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2042 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2044 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2045 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2046 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2047 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2048 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2049 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2050 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2052 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2053 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2054 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2056 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2057 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2058 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2059 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2061 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2063 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2064 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2065 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2066 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2068 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2070 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2071 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2072 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2074 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2075 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2076 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2077 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2078 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2079 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2081 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2082 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2083 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2084 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2085 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2086 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2087 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2088 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2089 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2090 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2091 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2092 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2093 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2094 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2096 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2097 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2098 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2099 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2100 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2102 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2103 nearest rounding mode
2104 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2105 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2106 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2107 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2108 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2109 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2110 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2111 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2112 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2114 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2115 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2117 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2118 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2119 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2120 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2122 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2124 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2126 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2128 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2129 answers will be rejected)
2130 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2137 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2138 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2139 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2140 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2141 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2142 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2143 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2144 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2145 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2146 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2147 archive or binary locales.
2149 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2150 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2151 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2152 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2153 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2154 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2155 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2156 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2157 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2158 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2159 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2162 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2163 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2164 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2165 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2166 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2167 field) to indicate such support is required.
2169 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2170 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2171 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2173 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2174 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2176 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2177 fMxaddfNx functions.
2179 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2180 fMxsubfNx functions.
2182 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2183 fMxmulfNx functions.
2185 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2186 fMxdivfNx functions.
2188 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2189 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2190 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2191 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2194 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2195 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2197 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2200 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2201 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2202 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2203 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2204 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2205 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2206 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2207 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2209 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2210 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2211 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2212 the fstatat64 function.
2214 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2215 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2216 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2217 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2218 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2219 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2220 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2221 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2222 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2224 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2225 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2226 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2227 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2228 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2229 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2230 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2231 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2232 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2233 results in a load failure now.
2235 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2236 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2239 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2240 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2242 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2243 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2245 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2247 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2248 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2250 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2252 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2254 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2256 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2257 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2258 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2260 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
2261 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
2262 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
2263 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
2264 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
2265 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
2267 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
2268 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
2269 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
2270 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
2271 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
2272 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
2275 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
2276 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
2277 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
2278 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
2279 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
2280 further explanation.
2282 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
2283 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
2284 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
2286 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
2288 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
2289 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
2290 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
2292 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
2293 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2294 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
2295 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
2297 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
2298 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
2299 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
2300 for this function instead.
2302 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
2303 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
2304 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
2306 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
2307 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
2308 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
2309 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
2311 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
2312 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
2313 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
2314 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
2315 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
2317 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
2318 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
2319 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
2320 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
2321 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
2322 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
2325 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
2326 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
2327 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
2330 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
2331 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
2332 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
2334 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
2335 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
2336 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
2337 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
2338 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
2339 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
2341 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
2342 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
2343 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
2344 behavior in a future release.
2346 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2348 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
2350 Security related changes:
2352 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
2353 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
2354 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
2355 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
2357 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
2358 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
2360 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
2361 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
2364 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
2365 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
2366 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
2368 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2370 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
2371 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
2372 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
2373 when __WORDSIZE != 64
2374 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
2375 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
2376 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
2377 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
2378 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
2380 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
2381 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
2382 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
2383 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
2384 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
2386 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
2388 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
2389 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
2390 scope with -O1 and higher
2391 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
2392 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
2393 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
2394 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
2395 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
2396 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2397 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2398 horrible machine code)
2399 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2401 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2402 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2404 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2405 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2407 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2408 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2409 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2410 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2411 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2413 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2414 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2415 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2416 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2417 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2419 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2420 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2421 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2423 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2424 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2425 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2426 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2427 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2428 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2429 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2430 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2431 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2432 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2433 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2434 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2435 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2437 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2439 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2440 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2441 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2442 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2443 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2444 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2445 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2446 for Spanish with CLDR
2447 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2448 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2449 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2450 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2451 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2452 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2454 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2456 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2457 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2458 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2459 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2461 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2462 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2463 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2464 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2465 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2466 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2467 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2468 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2469 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2470 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2471 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2472 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2473 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2474 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2475 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2476 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2477 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2479 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2480 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2482 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2483 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2484 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2485 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2486 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2487 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2489 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2491 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2492 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2493 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2494 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2495 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2496 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2497 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2498 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2499 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2500 and libc build with -Os)
2501 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2502 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2503 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2504 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2505 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2506 that changes /etc/passwd
2507 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2509 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2510 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2511 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2513 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2514 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2515 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2516 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2517 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2519 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2520 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2522 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2523 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2524 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2525 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2527 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2528 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2529 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2530 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2532 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2534 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2536 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2538 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2540 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2541 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2542 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2543 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2544 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2545 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2546 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2547 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2549 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2556 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2557 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2558 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2559 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2560 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2561 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2562 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2563 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2564 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2566 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2567 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2570 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2572 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2574 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2575 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2576 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2577 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2578 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2579 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2580 from a security and performance perspective.
2582 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2583 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2584 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2585 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2587 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2588 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2589 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2590 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2591 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2593 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2594 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2595 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2596 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2599 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2600 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2601 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2603 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2605 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2606 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2609 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2611 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2613 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2614 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2615 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2617 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2618 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2619 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2620 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2621 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2622 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2623 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2625 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2626 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2627 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2628 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2629 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2630 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2631 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2633 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2634 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2635 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2636 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2639 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2640 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2641 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2642 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2644 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2645 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2646 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2648 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2649 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2650 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2652 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2653 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2654 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2660 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2662 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2663 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2664 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2665 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2666 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2667 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2668 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2669 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2670 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2673 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2674 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2675 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2677 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2678 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2679 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2680 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2681 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2682 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2683 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2684 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2685 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2686 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2687 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2688 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2689 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2690 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2691 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2692 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2693 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2694 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2695 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2696 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2697 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2698 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2699 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2700 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2701 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2702 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2704 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2705 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2707 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2708 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2709 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2710 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2711 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2712 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2713 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2715 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2716 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2717 exp10l for these functions instead.
2719 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2720 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2721 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2723 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2724 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2727 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2728 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2729 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2730 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2732 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2733 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2735 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2736 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2738 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2741 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2743 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2744 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2745 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2748 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2749 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2750 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2751 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2752 use, but predates the bits convention.
2754 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2756 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2759 Security related changes:
2761 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2762 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2763 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2764 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2767 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2768 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2769 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2770 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2772 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2773 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2774 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2777 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2778 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2779 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2781 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2782 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2783 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2784 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2786 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2787 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2788 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2791 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2792 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2793 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2794 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2795 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2797 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2798 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2801 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2802 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2803 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2805 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2806 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2807 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2809 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2810 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2811 small, instead of NULL.
2813 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2815 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2816 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2817 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2819 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2820 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2821 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2823 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2824 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2825 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2826 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2827 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2828 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2829 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2830 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2831 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2833 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2834 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2835 width Latin characters
2836 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2837 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2838 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2840 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2841 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2843 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2844 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2845 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2846 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2847 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2849 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2850 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2851 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2852 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2853 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2854 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2855 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2856 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2857 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2858 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2860 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2861 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2862 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2863 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2864 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2865 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2866 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2867 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2869 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2870 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2872 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2873 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2875 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2876 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2877 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2878 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2879 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2880 __regcall calling convention
2881 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2882 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2883 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2884 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2885 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2886 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2887 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2888 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2889 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2890 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2891 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2892 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2893 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2895 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2897 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2899 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2900 consistency check failures
2901 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2902 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2903 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2904 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2906 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2908 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2909 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2910 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2911 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2912 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2913 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2914 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2915 on memory allocation failure
2916 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2917 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2919 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2921 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2922 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2923 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2924 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2925 instead of EAI_NODATA
2926 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2927 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2928 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2929 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2931 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2932 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2933 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2934 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2935 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2936 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2937 allocation in syscall loops)
2938 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2939 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2940 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2941 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2942 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2943 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2944 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2945 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2946 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2948 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2949 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2950 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2952 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2953 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2955 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2957 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2958 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2959 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2960 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2961 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2962 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2963 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2964 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2965 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2966 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2967 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2968 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2969 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2970 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2971 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2972 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2973 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2974 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2976 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2978 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2979 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2981 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2982 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2983 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2984 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2986 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2987 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2988 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2989 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2990 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2991 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2992 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2993 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2994 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2995 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2996 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2998 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2999 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3000 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3001 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3002 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3003 the svid compat wrapper
3004 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3005 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3006 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3007 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3008 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3009 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3011 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3012 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3014 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3015 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3016 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3017 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3018 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3019 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3021 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3022 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3023 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3024 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3026 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3027 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3029 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3030 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3031 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3032 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3033 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3034 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3035 inside the ASCII printable range
3036 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3038 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3039 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3040 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3042 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3043 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3045 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3046 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3047 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3049 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3050 networking interface
3051 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3052 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3053 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3054 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3055 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3056 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3057 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3058 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3059 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3061 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3062 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3063 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3064 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3065 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3066 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3067 same as for Croatian
3068 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3069 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3070 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3072 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3074 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3075 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3076 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3077 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3078 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3080 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3081 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3082 modified in case of success
3083 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3084 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3086 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3088 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3089 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3090 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3091 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3092 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3093 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3094 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3095 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3097 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3098 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3099 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3100 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3101 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3102 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3103 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3104 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3105 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3107 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3108 elision and tunables
3109 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3111 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3112 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3113 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3115 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3116 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3118 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3119 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3120 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3121 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3122 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3123 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3124 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3125 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3126 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3133 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3134 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3135 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3136 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3137 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3138 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3139 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3141 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3142 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3143 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3144 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3145 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3146 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3147 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3149 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3150 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3153 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3155 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3156 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3157 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3159 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3160 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3161 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3162 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3163 object are still limited to six search domains.
3165 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3166 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3167 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3169 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3170 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3172 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3173 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3174 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3175 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3177 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3178 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3179 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3180 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3182 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3183 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3184 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3185 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3187 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3188 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3189 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3191 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3192 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3193 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3194 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3196 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3197 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3198 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3199 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3200 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3202 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3203 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3204 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3205 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3206 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3207 interfaces should be used instead.
3209 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3211 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3212 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3213 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3214 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3215 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3216 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3217 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3218 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3220 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3223 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3224 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3225 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3226 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3228 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3229 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3232 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3233 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3234 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3235 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3236 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3238 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3239 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3240 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3241 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3243 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3244 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3245 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3246 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3248 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3249 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3251 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3252 exported by accident.
3254 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3255 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3256 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3258 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3259 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3260 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
3261 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
3263 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
3265 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
3267 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
3270 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
3271 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3273 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
3274 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3276 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
3277 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
3278 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
3279 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
3280 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
3281 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
3282 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
3283 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
3285 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
3286 synced with the kernel:
3288 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
3289 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
3291 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
3292 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
3293 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
3295 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
3296 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
3298 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3300 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
3301 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
3304 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
3306 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
3307 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
3309 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
3310 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
3311 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
3312 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
3313 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
3315 Security related changes:
3317 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
3318 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
3320 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
3321 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
3323 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
3324 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
3327 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
3328 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
3330 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3332 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
3333 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
3334 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
3336 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
3338 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
3339 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
3340 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
3342 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
3343 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
3344 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
3345 x86 and other generic code
3346 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
3347 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
3349 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
3350 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
3351 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
3352 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
3353 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
3354 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
3355 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
3357 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
3358 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
3359 order of 0D36 and 0D37
3360 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
3362 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
3363 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
3365 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
3367 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
3368 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
3369 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
3371 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
3372 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
3373 failures consistently
3374 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
3375 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
3376 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
3377 frame-pointer on i386
3378 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
3380 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
3381 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
3382 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
3383 generic c code is used
3384 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
3385 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
3387 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
3389 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
3390 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
3392 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
3393 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
3394 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
3395 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
3396 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3397 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3398 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3399 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3400 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3401 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3403 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3405 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3406 new posix_spawn implementation
3407 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3408 leads to lower CPU frequency
3409 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3410 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3411 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3412 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3413 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3414 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3415 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3416 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3417 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3418 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3419 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3420 not support gethostbyname4_r
3421 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3423 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3425 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3426 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3427 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3428 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3429 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3430 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3431 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3433 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3434 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3435 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3436 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3437 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3438 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3439 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3440 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3441 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3442 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3443 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3444 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3446 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3447 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3448 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3449 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3450 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3451 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3452 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3453 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3455 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3456 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3457 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3458 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3459 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3460 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3461 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3462 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3463 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3464 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3465 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3466 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3467 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3468 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3469 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3470 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3471 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3472 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3473 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3474 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3475 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3477 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3478 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3479 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3480 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3481 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3483 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3484 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3486 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3487 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3489 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3490 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3492 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3493 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3494 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3495 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3497 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3498 leading to relocation crash
3499 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3500 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3501 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3502 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3503 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3504 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3505 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3506 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3507 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3509 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3511 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3512 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3513 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3514 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3515 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3516 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3517 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3518 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3520 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3522 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3524 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3525 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3526 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3527 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3528 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3529 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3530 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3531 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3532 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3533 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3534 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3535 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3536 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3537 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3538 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3539 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3540 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3541 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3542 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3543 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3544 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3545 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3546 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3547 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3548 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3549 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3550 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3552 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3553 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3554 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3555 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3556 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3561 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3562 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3563 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3566 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3567 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3568 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3571 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3572 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3573 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3576 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3577 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3578 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3579 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3580 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3581 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3582 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3585 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3586 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3589 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3590 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3591 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3593 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3594 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3595 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3596 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3599 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3600 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3601 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3603 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3604 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3605 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3606 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3607 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3608 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3609 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3610 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3611 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3612 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3613 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3616 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3618 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3620 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3621 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3622 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3624 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3625 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3627 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3630 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3632 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3634 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3635 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3637 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3639 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3640 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3642 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3643 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3645 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3646 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3647 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3649 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3650 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3651 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3652 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3653 effects of the memory clear).
3655 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3656 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3657 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3658 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3660 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3661 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3662 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3663 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3664 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3665 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3667 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3670 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3671 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3672 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3673 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3674 as large as several megabytes.
3676 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3677 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3680 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3681 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3682 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3683 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3684 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3685 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3686 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3688 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3689 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3690 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3691 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3693 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3694 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3695 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3698 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3699 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3700 They were already unimplemented.
3702 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3703 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3704 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3705 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3707 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3708 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3709 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3710 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3711 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3713 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3714 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3715 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3716 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3717 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3719 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3720 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3721 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3722 did not reflect that.
3724 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3725 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3726 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3727 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3728 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3729 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3730 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3733 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3734 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3735 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3736 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3738 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3739 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3740 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3741 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3743 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3744 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3747 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3748 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3751 Security related changes:
3753 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3754 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3755 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3756 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3757 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3759 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3760 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3761 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3762 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3765 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3767 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3768 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3770 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3771 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3772 before it started waiting
3773 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3774 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3775 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3776 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3778 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3779 library linked with pthread
3780 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3781 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3782 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3783 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3784 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3785 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3786 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3788 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3790 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3791 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3792 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3793 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3794 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3795 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3796 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3797 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3798 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3800 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3801 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3802 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3803 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3804 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3805 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3806 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3807 causes a segmentation fault
3808 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3810 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3811 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3813 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3815 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3816 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3817 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3819 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3820 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3822 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3823 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3824 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3825 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3826 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3827 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3828 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3829 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3831 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3832 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3833 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3835 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3837 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3839 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3840 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3841 cause transition penalty
3842 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3843 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3844 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3845 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3846 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3848 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3850 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3851 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3852 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3853 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3854 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3855 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3857 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3859 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3860 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3861 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3862 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3863 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3864 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3865 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3866 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3867 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3868 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3869 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3870 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3871 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3872 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3874 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3875 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3876 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3877 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3878 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3879 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3880 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3881 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3882 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3883 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3884 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3885 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3886 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3887 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3888 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3889 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3890 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3891 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3893 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3894 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3895 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3896 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3897 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3899 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3900 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3901 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3902 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3903 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3904 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3905 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3907 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3908 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3909 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3910 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3911 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3915 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3916 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3917 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3918 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3919 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3922 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3923 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3924 been included in previous releases.
3926 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3927 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3929 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3930 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3931 instead of “union wait”.
3933 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3934 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3935 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3936 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3937 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3938 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3939 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3941 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3944 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3945 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3948 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3949 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3950 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3951 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3952 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3955 Security related changes:
3957 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3958 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3959 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3961 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3962 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3963 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3964 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3966 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3967 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3968 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3970 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3971 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3972 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3974 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3975 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3976 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3977 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3979 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3981 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3982 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3984 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3985 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3986 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3987 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3988 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3989 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3990 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3991 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3993 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3994 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3995 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3996 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3997 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3998 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4000 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4002 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4003 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4004 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4005 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4006 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4007 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4008 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4009 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4010 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4011 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4012 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4014 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4015 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4016 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4017 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4018 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4019 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4021 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4022 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4024 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4025 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4026 Romanian locale data
4027 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4029 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4030 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4032 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4033 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4034 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4035 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4037 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4039 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4040 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4041 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4042 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4043 when using RTLD_NEXT
4044 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4045 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4046 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4047 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4048 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4049 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4050 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4051 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4052 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4054 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4055 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4056 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4057 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4059 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4061 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4063 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4064 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4065 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4066 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4067 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4068 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4070 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4071 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4073 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4074 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4076 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4078 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4080 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4081 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4082 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4083 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4084 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4085 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4086 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4087 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4088 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4089 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4090 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4091 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4092 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4093 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4095 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4097 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4098 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4099 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4100 response to getaddrinfo
4101 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4102 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4103 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4104 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4105 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4106 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4108 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4109 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4110 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4112 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4113 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4114 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4115 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4117 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4118 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4119 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4121 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4122 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4123 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4124 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4125 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4126 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4127 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4128 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4130 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4131 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4132 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4134 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4135 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4136 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4137 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4138 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4139 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4140 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4141 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4142 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4143 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4144 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4145 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4146 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4148 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4149 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4150 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4151 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4153 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4154 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4156 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4157 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4158 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4159 AS not supporting AVX512
4160 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4162 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4163 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4165 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4166 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4167 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4168 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4169 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4171 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4172 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4174 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4175 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4176 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4177 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4178 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4179 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4180 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4181 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4182 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4184 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4185 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4186 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4187 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4188 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4189 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4190 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4191 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4192 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4193 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4194 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4195 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4196 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4198 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4199 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4200 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4201 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4202 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4204 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4205 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4207 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4208 "invalid" exceptions
4209 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4210 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4211 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4212 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4213 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4214 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4215 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4216 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4217 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4221 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4222 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4223 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4224 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4225 89, 16061, and 18568.
4227 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4228 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4229 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4230 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4231 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4232 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4233 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4235 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4236 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4237 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4239 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4240 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4241 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4242 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4243 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4244 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4245 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4247 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4248 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4249 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4250 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4251 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4252 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4253 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4256 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4257 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4258 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4259 independent of the GNU C Library.
4261 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
4262 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
4264 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
4265 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
4266 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
4267 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
4268 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
4271 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
4272 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
4274 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
4275 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
4276 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
4277 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
4278 defining their own copy.
4280 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4281 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4282 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4284 Security related changes:
4286 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
4287 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
4289 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
4290 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
4291 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
4292 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
4295 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
4296 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
4298 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
4299 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
4301 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
4302 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
4303 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
4305 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
4306 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
4307 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
4308 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
4309 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
4310 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
4311 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
4312 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
4313 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
4314 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
4315 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
4316 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
4317 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
4319 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4321 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
4322 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
4323 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4324 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
4325 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
4326 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
4328 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
4329 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
4330 overflow/underflow errors
4331 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
4333 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
4334 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
4335 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
4336 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
4337 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
4338 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
4340 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
4341 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
4342 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
4343 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
4344 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
4345 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
4346 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
4347 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
4348 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
4350 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
4352 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
4353 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
4354 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
4356 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
4357 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
4358 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
4359 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
4360 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
4362 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
4363 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
4365 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
4366 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
4367 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
4368 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
4369 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
4370 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
4371 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
4372 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
4374 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
4375 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
4376 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
4377 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
4378 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
4380 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
4381 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
4383 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
4384 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
4385 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
4386 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
4387 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
4389 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
4390 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
4391 (related to lock elision)
4392 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
4393 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
4394 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
4395 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4397 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4398 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4399 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4400 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4401 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4402 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4403 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4404 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4405 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4406 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4407 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4408 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4409 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4410 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4411 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4412 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4413 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4414 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4415 contains a vector instruction exception.
4416 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4417 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4419 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4420 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4421 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4422 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4423 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4425 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4427 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4428 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4430 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4431 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4432 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4433 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4434 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4436 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4437 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4438 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4439 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4440 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4441 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4442 statically too large
4443 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4444 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4445 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4446 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4447 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4448 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4449 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4450 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4451 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4453 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4454 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4455 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4456 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4457 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4458 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4459 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4461 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4462 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4463 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4464 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4466 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4467 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4468 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4469 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4470 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4471 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4473 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4474 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4475 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4476 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4477 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4478 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4480 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4481 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4482 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4483 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4484 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4485 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4486 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4487 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4489 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4490 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4491 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4492 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4493 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4494 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4495 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4496 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4497 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4499 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4501 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4502 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4503 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4505 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4506 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4507 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4508 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4509 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4510 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4511 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4512 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4513 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4514 pthread_setaffinity_np
4515 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4516 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4517 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4518 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4519 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4521 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4522 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4523 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4524 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4525 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4526 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4527 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4529 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4530 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4531 for C99-based standards
4532 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4533 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4535 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4536 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4537 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4539 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4540 "inexact" exceptions
4541 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4543 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4544 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4545 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4546 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4548 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4549 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4550 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4551 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4552 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4553 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4554 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4555 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4556 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4557 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4559 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4560 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4561 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4562 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4564 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4565 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4566 error on 32-bit architectures
4567 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4568 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4569 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4570 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4571 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4572 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4573 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4574 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4575 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4577 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4579 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4580 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4581 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4582 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4584 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4588 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4590 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4591 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4592 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4593 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4594 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4595 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4596 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4597 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4598 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4599 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4600 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4601 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4602 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4603 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4604 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4605 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4606 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4607 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4608 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4609 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4611 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4612 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4614 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4615 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4616 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4617 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4618 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4619 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4621 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4622 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4623 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4624 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4625 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4627 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4628 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4629 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4631 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4632 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4633 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4636 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4637 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4638 condition in some applications.
4640 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4641 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4643 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4644 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4645 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4646 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4647 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4649 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4650 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4651 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4652 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4654 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4655 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4656 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4658 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4659 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4661 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4662 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4663 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4665 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4666 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4667 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4671 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4673 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4674 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4675 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4676 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4677 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4678 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4679 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4680 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4681 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4682 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4685 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4686 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4687 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4688 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4691 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4692 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4693 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4694 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4695 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4696 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4698 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4700 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4701 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4702 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4704 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4705 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4706 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4707 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4708 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4709 effects being visible outside transactions.
4711 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4712 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4714 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4716 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4717 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4718 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4719 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4720 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4722 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4723 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4725 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4726 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4729 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4730 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4731 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4733 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4734 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4736 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4738 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4739 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4740 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4741 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4743 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4744 with newer versions of bison.
4746 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4747 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4748 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4749 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4750 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4751 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4752 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4753 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4754 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4755 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4756 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4757 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4758 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4760 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4761 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4762 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4763 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4764 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4768 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4770 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4771 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4772 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4773 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4774 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4775 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4776 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4777 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4778 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4779 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4780 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4781 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4782 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4783 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4784 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4786 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4787 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4788 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4789 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4790 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4791 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4792 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4793 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4794 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4795 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4797 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4798 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4799 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4800 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4801 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4803 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4805 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4806 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4808 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4809 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4810 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4811 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4812 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4813 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4815 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4818 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4819 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4820 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4821 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4822 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4823 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4824 test macros defined.
4826 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4828 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4829 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4830 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4831 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4832 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4833 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4836 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4837 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4838 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4839 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4842 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4843 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4844 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4846 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4847 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4848 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4849 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4851 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4852 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4853 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4854 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4855 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4856 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4857 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4860 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4861 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4862 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4863 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4864 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4865 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4866 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4867 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4868 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4870 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4871 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4872 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4873 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4874 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4875 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4877 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4878 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4879 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4880 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4884 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4886 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4887 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4888 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4889 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4890 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4891 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4892 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4893 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4894 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4895 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4896 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4897 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4898 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4899 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4900 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4901 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4902 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4903 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4905 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4906 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4908 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4909 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4910 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4911 extension which uses __block.
4913 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4914 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4915 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4916 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4917 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4919 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4920 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4921 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4922 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4925 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4926 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4927 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4928 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4929 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4931 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4932 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4933 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4935 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4936 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4937 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4940 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4941 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4943 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4944 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4946 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4948 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4951 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4953 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4955 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4956 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4957 for which the C library was built.
4959 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4960 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4961 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4962 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4963 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4964 in the following circumstances:
4966 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4968 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4969 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4971 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4972 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4974 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4975 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4977 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4979 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4980 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4982 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4984 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4986 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4988 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4989 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4990 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4991 disable some of those declarations.
4993 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4994 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4995 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4997 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4998 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5000 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5001 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5002 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5003 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5004 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5005 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5006 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5007 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5008 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5009 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5010 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5011 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5012 require recompilation.
5016 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5018 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5019 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5020 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5021 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5022 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5023 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5024 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5025 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5026 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5027 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5028 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5029 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5030 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5033 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5034 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5035 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5036 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5037 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5038 understands and accepts the risks.
5040 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5043 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5044 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5046 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5047 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5048 destructor calls to glibc.
5050 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5053 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5054 non-x86 architectures.
5056 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5058 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5060 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5063 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5065 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5068 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5069 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5071 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5073 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5074 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5076 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5077 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5079 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5080 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5081 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5083 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5084 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5085 attributes of a process.
5087 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5088 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5089 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5090 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5093 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5094 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5096 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5100 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5102 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5103 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5104 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5105 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5106 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5107 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5108 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5109 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5110 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5111 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5112 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5113 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5114 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5115 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5116 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5118 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5120 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5121 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5123 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5124 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5126 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5128 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5129 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5131 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5133 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5134 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5135 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5137 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5138 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5140 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5141 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5143 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5144 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5146 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5147 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5149 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5150 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5151 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5152 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5154 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5155 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5157 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5158 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5161 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5162 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5163 information in --help and --version output.
5165 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5166 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5167 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5169 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5170 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5171 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5172 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5173 when the mode is enabled.
5175 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5176 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5177 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5178 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5179 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5180 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5181 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5183 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5188 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5190 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5191 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5192 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5193 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5194 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5195 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5196 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5197 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5198 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5199 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5200 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5201 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5202 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5203 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5204 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5205 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5206 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5207 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5208 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5209 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5210 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5211 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5214 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5215 configuring glibc with:
5216 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5217 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5218 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5222 + define static_assert
5224 + do not declare gets
5226 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5228 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5229 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5230 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5233 + timespec_get added
5235 + uchar.h support added
5237 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5239 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5241 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5243 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5245 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5246 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5248 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5249 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5251 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5252 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5253 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5254 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5255 existing applications.
5257 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5258 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
5261 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
5262 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
5263 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
5265 * New locales: mag_IN
5267 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
5268 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
5269 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
5270 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
5271 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
5273 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5275 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
5278 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5280 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
5281 without a previously built glibc.
5283 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
5284 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
5286 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
5287 now supported for ARM processors.
5289 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
5290 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
5291 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
5293 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
5295 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
5296 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
5297 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
5298 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
5300 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
5301 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
5302 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
5303 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5305 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
5306 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
5307 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
5308 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
5309 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
5311 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
5312 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
5313 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
5314 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
5318 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5320 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
5321 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
5322 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
5323 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
5324 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
5325 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
5326 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
5328 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
5329 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5331 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
5332 and support for initgroups lookups.
5333 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5335 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
5336 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5338 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
5339 Contributed by HJ Lu.
5341 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
5342 on x86-32 and x86-64.
5343 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5345 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
5346 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5348 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
5349 for x86-64 and x86-32.
5350 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
5352 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
5353 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5355 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
5356 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5358 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
5359 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5361 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
5362 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5364 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
5365 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5367 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
5368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5370 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
5372 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
5373 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5375 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
5376 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
5378 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
5382 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5384 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
5385 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
5386 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
5387 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
5388 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
5389 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
5390 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
5391 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
5392 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
5393 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
5395 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
5396 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5397 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5398 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5400 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5401 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5402 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5403 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5405 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5406 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5408 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5409 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5411 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5413 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5414 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5416 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5417 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5418 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5419 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5423 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5425 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5426 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5427 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5428 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5431 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5433 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5435 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5436 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5437 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5441 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5443 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5444 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5445 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5446 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5447 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5448 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5449 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5450 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5452 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5454 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5456 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5458 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5459 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5460 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5462 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5463 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5464 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5465 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5466 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5468 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5472 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5474 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5475 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5476 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5477 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5478 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5479 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5481 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5483 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5485 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5486 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5488 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5489 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5491 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5493 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5494 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5495 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5496 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5498 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5499 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5501 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5503 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5505 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5506 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5508 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5509 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5511 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5512 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5514 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5515 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5516 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5517 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5518 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5519 necessity is every process again.
5520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5522 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5523 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5525 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5526 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5528 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5529 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5530 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5532 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5536 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5538 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5539 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5540 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5541 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5542 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5544 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5545 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5547 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5548 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5550 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5551 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5553 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5556 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5557 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5559 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5560 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5562 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5563 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5565 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5566 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5568 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5569 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5570 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5572 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5574 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5575 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5577 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5578 and extend existing format specifiers.
5579 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5581 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5582 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5584 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5585 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5586 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5587 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5588 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5589 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5593 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5595 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5596 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5597 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5598 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5599 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5601 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5602 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5604 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5605 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5607 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5608 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5610 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5611 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5612 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5614 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5615 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5617 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5619 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5620 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5622 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5623 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5624 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5625 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5627 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5628 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5630 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5632 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5634 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5638 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5640 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5641 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5642 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5643 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5644 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5645 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5646 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5648 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5650 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5652 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5653 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5655 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5657 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5658 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5660 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5661 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5663 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5664 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5665 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5667 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5668 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5670 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5671 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5673 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5674 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5676 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5677 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5681 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5683 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5684 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5685 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5686 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5687 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5689 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5690 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5692 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5694 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5695 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5696 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5698 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5699 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5701 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5702 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5704 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5706 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5707 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5709 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5710 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5712 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5713 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5715 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5717 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5718 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5720 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5721 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5724 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5725 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5729 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5731 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5732 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5733 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5734 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5735 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5736 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5737 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5740 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5742 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5744 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5748 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5750 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5751 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5752 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5753 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5754 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5755 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5756 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5757 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5758 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5760 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5761 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5762 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5764 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5765 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5767 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5769 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5771 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5772 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5773 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5774 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5775 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5777 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5778 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5779 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5780 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5785 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5787 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5790 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5792 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5793 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5797 * More overflow detection functions.
5799 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5800 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5802 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5803 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5804 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5805 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5806 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5807 by Masahide Washizawa.
5809 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5810 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5812 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5813 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5814 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5815 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5817 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5818 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5820 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5822 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5823 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5824 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5826 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5827 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5829 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5830 for compatibility with some other systems.
5832 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5836 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5838 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5839 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5840 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5841 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5842 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5843 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5845 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5847 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5849 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5853 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5855 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5856 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5857 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5858 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5860 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5864 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5865 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5867 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5868 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5869 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5871 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5872 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5874 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5876 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5878 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5879 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5882 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5883 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5884 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5886 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5887 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5889 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5890 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5891 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5892 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5894 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5895 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5896 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5897 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5899 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5900 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5901 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5902 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5903 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5907 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5908 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5910 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5911 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5913 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5914 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5916 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5917 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5919 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5922 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5925 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5930 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5931 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5932 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5933 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5934 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5935 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5936 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5937 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5938 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5940 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5941 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5942 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5944 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5946 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5947 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5949 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5950 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5952 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5954 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5955 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5957 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5958 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5959 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5960 of weak definition in ld.so.
5962 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5963 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5965 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5966 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5970 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5973 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5974 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5976 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5977 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5979 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5980 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5982 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5983 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5984 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5986 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5987 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5989 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5990 implementation of regex.
5992 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5995 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5996 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5998 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5999 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6000 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6002 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6003 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6005 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6006 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6007 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6009 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6010 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6012 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6013 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6016 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6020 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6021 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6023 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6024 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6028 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6029 128-bit long double format.
6031 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6032 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6034 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6036 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6038 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6041 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6042 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6044 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6048 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6049 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6051 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6052 support Unicode 3.1.
6054 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6055 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6057 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6059 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6060 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6061 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6063 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6064 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6066 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6067 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6069 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6073 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6074 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6075 in float, double, and long double format.
6077 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6078 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6079 128-bit long double format.
6081 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6082 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6083 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6084 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6086 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6087 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6088 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6090 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6091 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6093 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6094 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6096 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6097 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6098 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6100 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6101 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6103 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6104 of functions for Linux/x86.
6106 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6110 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6111 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6112 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6113 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6114 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6115 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6118 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6119 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6121 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6122 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6123 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6124 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6126 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6131 only lists the names of the supported locales
6135 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6136 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6140 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6141 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6142 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6143 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6144 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6146 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6148 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6150 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6152 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6153 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6154 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6156 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6157 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6159 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6160 changed from the default "C" locale.
6162 * The usual bug fixes.
6166 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6167 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6170 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6172 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6174 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6175 obviously requires a database library being available.
6177 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6179 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6181 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6182 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6184 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6186 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6187 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6190 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6191 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6192 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6194 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6195 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6197 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6198 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6199 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6201 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6202 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6203 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6204 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6206 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6207 structures for the wide character tables.
6209 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6211 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6213 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6215 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6218 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6220 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6222 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6224 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6226 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6228 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6229 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6230 implemented for Linux.
6232 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6233 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6234 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6237 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6240 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6254 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6256 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6258 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6260 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
6262 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
6264 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
6266 * Update timezone data files.
6268 * lots of charmaps corrections
6270 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
6275 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
6276 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
6277 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
6278 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
6279 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
6280 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
6282 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
6283 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6285 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
6288 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
6289 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
6291 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
6293 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
6296 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
6298 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
6299 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
6301 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
6304 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
6305 functions from ISO C 9X.
6307 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
6308 real valued functions.
6310 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
6312 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
6314 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
6316 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
6318 * Optimized string functions have been added.
6320 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
6322 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6324 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
6325 daemon for NSS (nscd).
6327 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
6328 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
6332 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
6334 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
6336 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
6338 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
6340 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
6342 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
6344 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
6345 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
6348 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
6349 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
6351 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
6353 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
6355 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
6356 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
6358 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
6360 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
6363 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
6364 latest draft standards.
6366 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
6368 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
6369 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6370 addseverity NEW: Unix98
6371 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
6372 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
6373 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
6374 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
6375 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6376 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
6377 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
6378 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
6379 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
6380 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
6381 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
6382 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
6383 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
6384 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
6385 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
6386 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
6387 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
6389 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
6390 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
6391 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6392 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6393 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6400 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6401 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6402 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6403 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6404 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6406 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6407 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6408 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6409 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6410 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6411 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6415 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6416 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6422 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6423 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6424 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6425 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6427 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6428 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6429 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6439 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6440 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6442 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6443 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6448 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6449 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6452 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6453 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6457 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6458 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6460 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6461 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6462 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6464 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6465 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6469 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6470 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6474 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6475 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6476 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6477 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6478 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6480 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6481 ferror_locked REMOVED
6482 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6483 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6484 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6485 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6486 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6487 fflush_locked REMOVED
6491 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6492 fileno_locked REMOVED
6504 fputc_locked REMOVED
6505 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6506 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6511 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6515 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6517 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6518 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6522 getchar_locked REMOVED
6524 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6525 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6527 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6528 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6529 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6530 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6531 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6532 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6533 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6534 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6535 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6536 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6537 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6538 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6539 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6540 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6542 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6543 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6544 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6545 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6546 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6547 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6548 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6549 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6550 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6551 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6552 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6553 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6554 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6555 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6556 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6557 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6558 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6559 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6560 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6561 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6562 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6563 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6564 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6565 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6566 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6567 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6572 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6573 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6574 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6575 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6576 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6578 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6579 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6582 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6586 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6587 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6588 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6589 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6590 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6591 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6592 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6593 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6597 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6599 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6600 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6603 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6604 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6605 profil_counter REMOVED
6606 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6607 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6608 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6609 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6611 putchar_locked REMOVED
6612 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6614 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6615 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6619 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6620 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6621 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6622 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6624 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6625 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6627 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6628 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6629 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6631 sendfile NEW: kernel
6632 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6633 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6634 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6636 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6637 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6638 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6639 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6640 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6641 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6642 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6643 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6644 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6648 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6649 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6650 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6651 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6652 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6653 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6654 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6655 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6656 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6657 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6658 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6659 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6660 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6664 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6665 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6667 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6668 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6669 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6670 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6671 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6672 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6674 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6675 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6676 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6677 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6678 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6679 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6680 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6682 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6683 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6684 write_profiling REMOVED
6685 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6686 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6687 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6688 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6689 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6690 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6691 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6692 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6693 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6694 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6695 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6696 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6697 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6698 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6699 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6700 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6711 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6713 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6715 * rewrite of cbrt function
6717 * update of timezone data
6731 * add atoll function
6733 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6735 * fix math functions
6739 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6741 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6743 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6744 the ELF dynamic loader.
6746 * support for parallel builds is improved
6750 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6751 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6754 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6755 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6756 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6757 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6758 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6759 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6760 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6761 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6762 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6763 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6764 files in the ELF format.
6766 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6767 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6769 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6770 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6771 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6772 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6773 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6774 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6775 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6776 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6777 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6778 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6779 about dynamically linked binaries.
6781 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6782 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6783 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6784 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6785 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6787 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6788 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6789 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6790 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6791 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6793 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6795 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6796 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6797 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6798 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6799 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6800 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6801 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6802 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6803 NSS services available.
6805 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6806 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6807 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6809 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6810 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6811 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6813 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6814 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6815 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6816 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6818 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6819 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6820 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6822 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6823 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6824 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6826 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6827 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6829 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6830 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6831 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6832 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6834 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6835 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6836 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6838 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6839 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6840 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6841 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6842 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6843 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6844 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6845 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6847 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6848 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6849 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6850 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6851 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6852 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6853 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6855 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6856 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6857 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6858 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6859 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6860 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6862 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6863 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6865 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6866 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6867 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6869 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6871 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6872 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6873 their use is discouraged.
6875 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6876 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6878 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6879 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6881 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6882 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6884 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6887 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6888 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6889 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6890 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6891 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6893 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6894 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6895 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6896 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6898 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6899 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6901 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6902 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6903 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6904 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6907 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6908 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6910 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6911 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6913 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6914 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6915 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6916 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6918 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6920 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6921 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6922 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6924 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6925 for arithmetic and string handling.
6927 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6928 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6929 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6930 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6932 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6933 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6934 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6935 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6936 programs already written to use it.)
6938 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6941 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6944 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6945 a given effective group ID.
6947 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6948 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6949 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6950 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6952 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6953 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6954 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6955 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6956 doing the same thing.
6958 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6959 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6961 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6962 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6964 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6966 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6967 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6968 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6969 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6970 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6972 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6973 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6975 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6976 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6977 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6980 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6982 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6983 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6986 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6987 and writing the utmp file.
6989 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6992 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6993 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6994 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6996 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6997 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6999 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7000 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7003 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7004 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7005 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7006 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7008 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7009 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7010 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7012 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7013 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7014 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7017 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7020 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7023 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7025 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7026 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7027 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7031 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7033 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7034 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7036 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7037 want to put themselves in the background.
7039 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7040 run without an operating system.
7042 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7043 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7045 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7046 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7048 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7050 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7051 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7054 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7057 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7058 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7062 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7063 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7064 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7066 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7067 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7069 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7070 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7072 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7074 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7076 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7079 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7080 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7081 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7083 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7085 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7086 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7087 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7089 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7090 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7091 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7092 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7093 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7096 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7097 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7098 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7099 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7100 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7103 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7104 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7108 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7109 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7111 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7112 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7113 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7115 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7116 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7117 address of the last character written.
7119 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7120 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7122 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7123 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7125 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7126 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7127 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7128 you dereference this pointer.
7130 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7131 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7133 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7134 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7135 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7136 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7138 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7139 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7140 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7141 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7145 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7146 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7147 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7148 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7149 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7151 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7153 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7155 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7156 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7158 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7159 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7161 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7162 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7164 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7165 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7166 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7167 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7168 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7170 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7171 to the error code in `errno'.
7173 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7174 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7175 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7178 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7179 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7180 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7182 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7183 uniquely-named temporary file.
7187 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7188 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7189 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7191 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7194 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7195 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7197 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7201 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7202 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7203 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7204 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7206 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7207 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7208 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7210 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7211 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7213 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7214 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7215 made itself into a shared library.
7217 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7218 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7220 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7221 with limited length.
7223 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7225 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7227 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7229 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7230 function for traversing a directory tree.
7232 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7233 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7234 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7235 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7237 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7238 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7240 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7242 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7243 things to your strings.
7245 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7247 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7248 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7249 supporting those systems.
7251 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7252 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7253 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7254 configuration files.
7256 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7257 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7259 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7260 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
7263 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
7264 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
7265 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
7266 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
7267 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
7268 required storage is not available.
7270 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
7271 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
7273 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
7274 latest files released from Berkeley.
7276 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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7280 of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
7281 copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
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7284 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions
7285 of this document, or of portions of it,
7286 under the above conditions, provided also that they
7287 carry prominent notices stating who last changed them.
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