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12 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
13 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
14 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
16 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
17 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
19 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
20 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
21 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
22 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
23 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
24 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
25 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
26 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
27 glibc, and must be installed.
29 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
30 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
31 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
33 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
34 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
36 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
39 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
40 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
41 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
42 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
43 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
44 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
46 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
47 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
48 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
51 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
52 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
54 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
57 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
59 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
60 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
61 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
63 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
64 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
65 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
66 object dependency cases.
68 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
69 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
70 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
71 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
73 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
74 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
75 return value is only used for its boolean status.
77 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
78 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
79 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
80 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
81 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
82 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
83 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
84 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
85 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
86 Restartable Sequences.
88 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
89 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
91 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
92 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
93 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
94 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
95 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
96 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
97 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
100 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
101 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
102 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
103 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
104 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
107 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
108 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
110 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
111 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
114 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
115 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
120 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
121 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
123 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
125 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
126 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
127 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
129 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
130 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
132 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
133 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
135 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
137 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
139 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
140 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
141 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
143 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
144 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
145 catching coredumps and backtraces.
147 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
149 [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here]
151 Security related changes:
153 [Add security related changes here]
155 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
157 [The release manager will add the list generated by
158 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
165 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
166 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
167 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
168 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
169 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
170 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
171 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
172 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
173 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
174 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
175 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
176 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
177 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
178 potentially exposing application bugs.
180 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
181 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
182 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
183 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
185 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
186 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
187 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
188 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
189 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
192 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
193 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
194 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
196 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
197 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
198 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
199 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
201 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
203 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
204 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
205 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
206 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
207 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
209 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
210 --disable-scv configure option.
212 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
213 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
214 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
215 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
216 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
217 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
220 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
221 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
222 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
223 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
224 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
225 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
228 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
229 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
231 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
232 since Austin Group issue 62 droped the async-signal-safe requirement for
233 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
234 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
235 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
236 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
237 is currently a GNU extension.
239 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
240 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
242 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
243 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
244 although it is also present in other systems.
246 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
247 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
248 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
249 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
251 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
252 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
253 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
255 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
256 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
258 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
260 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
261 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
264 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
265 programs should use the equivalent standard function
266 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
268 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
269 programs should use the equivalent standard function
270 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
272 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
273 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
275 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
277 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
278 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
279 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
280 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
281 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
282 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
283 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
284 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
285 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
286 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
287 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
289 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
290 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
291 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
292 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
293 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
294 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
295 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
296 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
298 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
299 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
300 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
301 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
302 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
303 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
304 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
306 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
307 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
308 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
309 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
310 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
311 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
312 upgrade or downgrade process.
314 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
315 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
316 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
318 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
319 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
320 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
321 no longer have any effect on malloc.
323 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
324 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
325 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
326 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
327 this functionality back.
329 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
330 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
331 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
332 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
334 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
335 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
336 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
337 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
338 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
339 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
340 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
341 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
342 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
344 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
346 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
347 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
348 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
349 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
351 Security related changes:
353 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
354 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
355 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
356 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
358 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
359 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
360 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
362 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
363 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
364 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
366 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
368 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
369 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
370 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
371 given integer (closefrom)
372 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
373 name containing multi-byte character(s)
374 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
375 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
376 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
377 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
378 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
380 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
381 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
382 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
383 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
384 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
385 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
386 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
388 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
389 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
390 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
391 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
392 pthread_create and dlopen
393 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
394 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
395 when non-root user changes priority
396 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
398 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
399 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
400 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
402 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
403 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
405 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
406 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
407 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
408 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
410 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
411 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
412 the right free implementation
413 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
414 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
415 shm_open to pick wrong directory
416 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
417 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
419 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
420 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
421 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
422 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
423 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
424 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
425 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
427 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
428 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
430 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
431 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
432 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
433 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
434 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
435 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
437 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
438 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
439 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
440 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
441 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
442 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
443 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
444 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
446 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
447 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
449 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
450 information for the current directory
451 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
452 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
454 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
455 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
457 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
458 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
459 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
460 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
462 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
463 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
464 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
465 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
466 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
467 tries resolving them lazily
468 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
470 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
471 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
473 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
474 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
475 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
477 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
479 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
480 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
481 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
483 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
484 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
485 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
486 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
487 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
488 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
489 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
490 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
491 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
493 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
494 thread never allocated anything
495 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
496 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
497 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
498 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
499 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
501 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
502 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
503 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
505 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
513 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
514 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
515 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
517 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
518 to change argv[0] string.
520 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
521 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
522 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
523 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
524 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
525 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
526 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
527 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
528 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
530 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
531 information and library search path diagnostics.
533 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
534 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
535 larger than fit in an integer.
537 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
539 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
540 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
546 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
549 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
550 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
551 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
552 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
555 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
557 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
560 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
561 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
562 Instead, the default implementation is used.
564 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
565 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
566 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
569 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
570 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
571 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
573 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
574 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
575 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
576 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
577 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
578 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
580 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
581 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
582 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
583 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
584 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
585 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
588 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
590 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
591 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
592 attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
593 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
594 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
595 perform any adjustments.
597 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
598 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
599 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
600 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
602 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
604 Security related changes:
606 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
607 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
608 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
609 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
610 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
612 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
613 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
614 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
616 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
617 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
619 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
620 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
622 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
624 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
625 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
626 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
627 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
629 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
630 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
631 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
632 "haswell" platform subdirectory
633 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
635 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
637 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
639 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
640 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
641 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
642 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
643 changing gnuc version
644 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
646 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
648 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
649 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
650 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
651 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
652 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
653 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be intialized
654 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
655 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
656 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
658 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
659 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
660 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
662 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
664 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
665 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
667 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
668 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
669 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
670 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
671 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
673 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
674 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
675 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
677 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
678 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
679 at the end of a memory mapping
680 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
681 by the caller to the kernel
682 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
683 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
684 declarations for __sigsetjmp
685 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
687 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
688 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
689 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
690 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
691 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
692 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
693 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
695 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
696 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
697 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
698 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
700 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
702 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
704 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
705 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
706 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
707 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
709 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
711 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
712 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
713 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
715 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
717 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
719 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
721 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
722 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
723 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
724 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
726 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
728 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
730 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
731 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
732 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
734 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
735 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
736 [27177] dynamic-link:
737 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
739 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
740 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
741 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
742 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
749 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
750 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
751 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
753 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
755 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
756 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
757 Three ABIs are supported:
763 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
764 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
766 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
767 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
769 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
770 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
771 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
774 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
775 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
776 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
778 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
779 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
780 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
782 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
783 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
784 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
785 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
788 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
789 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
790 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
791 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
792 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
793 NULL for an invalid signal number.
795 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
796 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
798 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
799 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
800 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
801 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
802 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
803 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
805 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
806 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
808 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
809 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
810 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
811 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
812 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
813 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
814 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
815 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
816 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
817 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
818 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
821 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
823 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
824 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
825 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
826 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
827 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
828 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
829 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
831 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
832 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
833 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
834 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
835 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
836 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
837 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
838 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
839 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
841 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
842 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
843 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
844 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
845 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
847 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
848 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
849 was not declared in any header file.
851 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
852 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
853 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
854 sigaction functions instead.
856 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
857 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
859 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
860 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
861 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
862 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
865 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
866 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
867 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
868 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
869 strerror or strerror_r instead.
871 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
872 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
873 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
874 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
876 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
877 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
878 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
879 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
880 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
881 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
882 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
884 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
885 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
886 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
887 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
888 flavor of secure RPC.)
890 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
891 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
892 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
893 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
894 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
895 object, to enable the hooks.
897 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
898 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
899 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
902 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
904 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
905 long double redirects.
907 Security related changes:
909 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
910 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
911 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
913 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
914 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
915 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
917 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
918 expanding ~user has been fixed.
920 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
921 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
922 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
925 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
927 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
928 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
929 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
930 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
931 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
932 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
933 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
934 filtee has constructor
935 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
936 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
937 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
938 character entities for infinity & pi
939 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
940 segfaults in applications
941 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
942 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit convertion in
943 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
944 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
945 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
946 function with -mlong-double-64
947 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
949 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
951 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
952 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
953 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
954 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
955 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
956 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
958 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
959 dynamically loaded dsos
960 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
961 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
963 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
964 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
965 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
966 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
967 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
968 stale configuration forever
969 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
971 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
973 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
974 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
976 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
977 on 32 bit and old kernel
978 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
979 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
981 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
982 amount of sigset_t bytes
983 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
985 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
986 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
987 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
988 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
989 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
990 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
991 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
992 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
993 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
994 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
996 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
997 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
998 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
999 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
1000 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
1001 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
1002 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
1004 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
1005 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
1007 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
1008 exiting detached thread
1009 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
1011 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
1013 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
1014 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
1015 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
1016 dependencies in audit mode
1017 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
1018 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
1019 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
1020 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
1021 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
1023 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
1024 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
1026 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
1027 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
1029 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
1030 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
1031 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
1032 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
1033 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
1034 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
1035 corruption in memset
1042 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
1043 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
1044 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
1045 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
1046 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
1047 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
1049 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
1050 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
1051 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
1052 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
1054 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
1055 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
1056 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
1058 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
1060 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
1061 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
1062 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
1063 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
1064 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
1065 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
1066 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
1067 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
1069 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1071 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
1072 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
1073 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
1074 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
1075 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
1076 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
1078 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
1079 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
1080 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
1082 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
1083 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
1084 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
1085 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
1087 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
1088 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
1089 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
1090 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
1091 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
1092 made this no longer practical.
1094 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
1095 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
1096 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
1097 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
1100 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
1101 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
1102 with the current time, use the localtime function.
1104 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
1105 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
1106 using clock_gettime instead.
1108 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
1109 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
1110 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
1111 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
1112 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
1114 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
1115 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
1116 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
1117 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
1119 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
1120 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
1121 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
1122 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
1123 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
1124 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
1126 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
1127 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
1128 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
1129 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
1132 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
1133 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
1134 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
1136 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
1139 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
1140 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
1141 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
1142 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
1143 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
1145 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
1146 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
1147 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
1148 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
1149 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
1150 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
1151 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
1152 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
1154 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
1155 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
1157 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
1158 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
1159 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
1160 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
1161 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
1162 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
1164 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1166 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
1167 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
1168 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
1170 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
1171 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
1172 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
1174 Security related changes:
1176 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
1177 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
1179 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
1180 environment variable during program execution after a security
1181 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
1182 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
1183 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
1185 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1187 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
1188 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
1189 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
1190 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
1191 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
1192 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
1193 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
1194 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
1196 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
1197 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
1198 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
1199 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
1200 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
1201 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
1202 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
1203 constructors/destructors is not fatal
1204 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
1205 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
1207 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
1209 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
1210 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
1211 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
1212 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
1213 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
1214 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
1215 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
1217 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
1219 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
1220 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
1221 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
1222 (stringop-overflow error)
1223 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
1224 functions other can lead to crashes
1225 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
1226 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
1228 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
1229 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
1230 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
1231 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
1232 still can fail with an error
1233 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
1234 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
1235 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
1236 initialized correctly
1237 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
1239 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
1240 value to an unsigned
1241 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
1242 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
1243 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
1245 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
1247 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
1249 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
1251 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
1252 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
1253 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
1255 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
1256 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
1258 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
1259 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
1260 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
1261 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
1262 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
1263 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
1270 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1271 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
1272 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1274 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
1275 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1277 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
1278 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
1279 to the callback function.
1281 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
1283 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
1284 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
1287 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
1289 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
1290 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
1291 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
1292 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
1293 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
1295 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
1296 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
1297 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
1298 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
1299 link time reference, is gone.
1301 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
1302 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
1303 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
1304 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
1305 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
1306 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
1307 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
1308 the clock choice at initialization time).
1310 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
1311 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
1312 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
1314 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1316 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
1317 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
1318 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
1319 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
1320 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
1321 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
1322 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
1323 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
1324 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
1326 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
1327 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
1328 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
1329 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
1332 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
1333 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
1335 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
1336 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
1338 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
1339 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
1341 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
1344 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
1345 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
1346 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
1348 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
1349 header have been removed.
1351 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1352 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
1353 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
1354 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
1356 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1358 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1360 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1361 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1363 Security related changes:
1365 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
1366 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
1367 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
1368 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
1369 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
1370 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
1371 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
1373 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
1374 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
1375 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
1377 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1379 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
1380 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
1381 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
1382 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
1383 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
1384 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
1385 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
1386 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
1387 invalid input drops valid char
1388 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
1389 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
1390 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
1391 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
1392 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
1394 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
1395 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
1396 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
1397 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
1399 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
1400 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
1401 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
1402 for long double = double
1403 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
1404 long double = double
1405 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
1406 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
1407 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
1409 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
1410 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
1412 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
1413 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
1414 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
1415 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
1416 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
1417 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
1418 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
1419 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
1420 not the default "nor"
1421 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
1422 false positives, change to modern flexible array
1423 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
1424 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
1426 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
1427 unnecessary librt dependencies
1428 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
1429 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
1430 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
1431 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
1433 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
1434 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
1436 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
1437 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
1438 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1439 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
1440 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
1441 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
1442 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
1443 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
1444 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
1445 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
1446 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
1447 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
1449 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
1451 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
1452 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
1454 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
1455 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
1456 kernels and break testing
1457 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
1458 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
1459 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
1460 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
1461 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
1462 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
1463 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
1465 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
1466 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
1468 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
1470 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
1471 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
1472 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
1473 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
1474 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
1475 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
1476 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
1477 always implemented in the same library
1478 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
1479 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
1480 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
1488 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
1489 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
1491 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
1492 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
1493 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
1494 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
1495 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
1496 configured location.
1498 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
1500 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
1501 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
1503 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
1504 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
1505 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
1506 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
1507 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
1508 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
1509 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
1510 process actually does not use HTM).
1512 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
1513 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
1514 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
1515 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
1516 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
1519 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
1520 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
1521 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
1522 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
1523 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
1525 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
1526 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
1528 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
1529 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
1531 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
1532 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
1533 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
1534 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
1535 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
1536 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
1537 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
1539 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
1540 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
1541 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
1543 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1545 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
1546 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
1548 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
1549 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
1550 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
1551 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
1553 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
1554 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
1555 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
1556 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
1559 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
1560 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
1561 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
1562 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
1563 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
1564 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
1566 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
1567 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
1568 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
1569 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
1570 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
1572 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
1573 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
1574 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
1576 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1578 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
1580 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
1581 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
1583 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
1584 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
1586 Security related changes:
1588 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
1589 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
1590 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
1592 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
1593 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
1594 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
1595 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
1596 Reported by H.J. Lu.
1598 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
1599 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
1600 or command injection issues in applications.
1602 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1604 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
1605 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
1606 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
1608 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
1609 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
1610 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
1612 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
1613 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
1614 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
1615 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
1616 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
1617 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
1618 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
1619 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
1620 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
1621 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
1622 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
1623 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
1624 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
1625 pointer argument is non-NULL
1626 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
1627 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
1628 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
1629 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
1630 multithreads call popen
1631 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
1632 and pthread_create fails.
1633 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
1634 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
1636 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
1637 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
1638 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
1640 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
1642 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
1644 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
1645 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
1647 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
1648 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
1649 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
1650 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
1651 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
1652 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
1653 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
1655 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
1656 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
1657 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
1659 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
1660 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
1661 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
1662 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
1664 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
1666 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
1667 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
1668 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
1669 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
1671 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
1673 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
1674 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
1675 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
1677 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
1678 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
1679 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
1680 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
1681 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
1682 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
1684 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
1685 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
1686 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
1687 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
1688 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
1689 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
1690 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
1691 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
1692 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
1693 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
1694 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1695 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
1696 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
1697 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
1699 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
1700 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
1701 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
1702 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
1703 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
1705 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
1706 nearest rounding mode
1707 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
1708 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
1709 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
1710 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
1711 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
1712 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
1713 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
1714 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
1715 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
1717 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
1718 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
1720 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
1721 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
1722 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
1723 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
1725 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
1727 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
1729 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
1731 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
1732 answers will be rejected)
1733 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
1740 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
1741 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
1742 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
1743 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
1744 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
1745 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
1746 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
1747 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
1748 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
1749 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
1750 archive or binary locales.
1752 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
1753 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
1754 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
1755 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
1756 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
1757 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
1758 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
1759 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
1760 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
1761 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
1762 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
1765 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
1766 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
1767 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
1768 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
1769 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
1770 field) to indicate such support is required.
1772 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1773 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
1774 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1776 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
1777 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
1779 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
1780 fMxaddfNx functions.
1782 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
1783 fMxsubfNx functions.
1785 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
1786 fMxmulfNx functions.
1788 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
1789 fMxdivfNx functions.
1791 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
1792 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
1793 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
1794 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
1797 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
1798 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
1800 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
1803 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
1804 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
1805 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
1806 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
1807 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
1808 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
1809 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
1810 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
1812 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
1813 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
1814 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
1815 the fstatat64 function.
1817 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
1818 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
1819 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
1820 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
1821 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
1822 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
1823 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
1824 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
1825 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
1827 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
1828 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
1829 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
1830 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
1831 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
1832 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
1833 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
1834 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
1835 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
1836 results in a load failure now.
1838 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
1839 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
1842 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
1843 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
1845 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
1846 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
1848 - call_once for function call synchronization.
1850 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
1851 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
1853 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
1855 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
1857 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1859 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
1860 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
1861 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
1863 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
1864 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
1865 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
1866 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
1867 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
1868 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
1870 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
1871 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
1872 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
1873 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
1874 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
1875 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
1878 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
1879 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
1880 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
1881 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
1882 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
1883 further explanation.
1885 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
1886 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
1887 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
1889 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
1891 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
1892 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
1893 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
1895 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
1896 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1897 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
1898 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
1900 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
1901 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
1902 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
1903 for this function instead.
1905 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
1906 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
1907 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
1909 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
1910 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
1911 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
1912 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
1914 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
1915 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
1916 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
1917 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
1918 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
1920 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
1921 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
1922 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
1923 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
1924 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
1925 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
1928 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
1929 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
1930 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
1933 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
1934 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
1935 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
1937 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
1938 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
1939 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
1940 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
1941 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
1942 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
1944 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
1945 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
1946 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
1947 behavior in a future release.
1949 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1951 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
1953 Security related changes:
1955 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
1956 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
1957 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
1958 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
1960 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
1961 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
1963 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
1964 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
1967 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
1968 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
1969 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
1971 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1973 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
1974 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
1975 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
1976 when __WORDSIZE != 64
1977 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
1978 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
1979 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
1980 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
1981 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
1983 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
1984 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
1985 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
1986 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
1987 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
1989 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
1991 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
1992 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
1993 scope with -O1 and higher
1994 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
1995 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
1996 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
1997 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
1998 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
1999 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
2000 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
2001 horrible machine code)
2002 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
2004 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
2005 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
2007 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
2008 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
2010 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
2011 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
2012 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
2013 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
2014 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
2016 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
2017 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
2018 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
2019 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
2020 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
2022 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
2023 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
2024 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
2026 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
2027 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
2028 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
2029 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
2030 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
2031 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
2032 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
2033 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
2034 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
2035 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
2036 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
2037 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
2038 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
2040 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
2042 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
2043 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
2044 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
2045 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
2046 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
2047 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
2048 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
2049 for Spanish with CLDR
2050 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
2051 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
2052 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
2053 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
2054 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
2055 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
2057 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
2059 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
2060 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
2061 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
2062 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
2064 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
2065 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
2066 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
2067 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
2068 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
2069 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
2070 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
2071 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
2072 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
2073 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
2074 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
2075 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
2076 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
2077 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
2078 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
2079 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
2080 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
2082 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
2083 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
2085 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
2086 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
2087 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
2088 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
2089 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
2090 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
2092 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
2094 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
2095 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
2096 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
2097 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
2098 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
2099 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
2100 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
2101 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
2102 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
2103 and libc build with -Os)
2104 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
2105 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
2106 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
2107 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
2108 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
2109 that changes /etc/passwd
2110 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
2112 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
2113 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
2114 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
2116 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
2117 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
2118 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
2119 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
2120 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
2122 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
2123 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
2125 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
2126 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
2127 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
2128 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
2130 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
2131 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
2132 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
2133 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
2135 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
2137 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
2139 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
2141 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
2143 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
2144 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
2145 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
2146 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
2147 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
2148 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
2149 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
2150 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
2152 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
2159 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
2160 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
2161 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
2162 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
2163 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
2164 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
2165 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
2166 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
2167 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
2169 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
2170 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
2173 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
2175 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
2177 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
2178 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
2179 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
2180 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
2181 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
2182 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
2183 from a security and performance perspective.
2185 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
2186 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
2187 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
2188 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
2190 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
2191 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
2192 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
2193 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
2194 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
2196 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
2197 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
2198 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
2199 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
2202 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
2203 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
2204 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
2206 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
2208 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
2209 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
2212 * The copy_file_range function was added.
2214 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
2216 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
2217 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
2218 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
2220 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
2221 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
2222 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
2223 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
2224 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
2225 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
2226 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
2228 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
2229 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
2230 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
2231 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
2232 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
2233 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
2234 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
2236 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
2237 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
2238 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
2239 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
2242 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
2243 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
2244 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
2245 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
2247 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
2248 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
2249 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
2251 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
2252 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
2253 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
2255 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
2256 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
2257 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
2263 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2265 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
2266 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
2267 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
2268 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
2269 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
2270 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
2271 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
2272 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
2273 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
2276 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
2277 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
2278 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
2280 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
2281 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
2282 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
2283 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
2284 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
2285 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
2286 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
2287 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
2288 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
2289 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
2290 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
2291 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
2292 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
2293 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
2294 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
2295 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
2296 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
2297 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
2298 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
2299 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
2300 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
2301 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
2302 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
2303 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
2304 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
2305 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
2307 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
2308 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
2310 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
2311 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
2312 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
2313 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
2314 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
2315 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
2316 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
2318 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
2319 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
2320 exp10l for these functions instead.
2322 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
2323 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
2324 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2326 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
2327 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
2330 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
2331 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
2332 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
2333 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
2335 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
2336 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
2338 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
2339 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
2341 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
2344 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
2346 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
2347 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
2348 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
2351 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
2352 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
2353 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
2354 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
2355 use, but predates the bits convention.
2357 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2359 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
2362 Security related changes:
2364 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
2365 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
2366 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
2367 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
2370 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2371 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
2372 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
2373 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2375 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
2376 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
2377 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
2380 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
2381 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
2382 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
2384 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2385 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
2386 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
2387 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
2389 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
2390 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
2391 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
2394 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
2395 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
2396 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
2397 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
2398 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
2400 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
2401 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
2404 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
2405 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
2406 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
2408 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
2409 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
2410 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
2412 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
2413 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
2414 small, instead of NULL.
2416 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2418 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
2419 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
2420 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
2422 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
2423 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
2424 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
2426 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2427 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
2428 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
2429 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
2430 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
2431 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
2432 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
2433 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
2434 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
2436 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
2437 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
2438 width Latin characters
2439 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
2440 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
2441 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
2443 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
2444 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
2446 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
2447 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
2448 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
2449 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
2450 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
2452 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
2453 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
2454 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
2455 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
2456 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
2457 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
2458 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
2459 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
2460 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
2461 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
2463 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
2464 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
2465 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
2466 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
2467 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
2468 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
2469 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
2470 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
2472 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
2473 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
2475 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
2476 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
2478 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
2479 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
2480 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
2481 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
2482 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
2483 __regcall calling convention
2484 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
2485 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
2486 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
2487 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
2488 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
2489 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
2490 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
2491 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
2492 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
2493 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
2494 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
2495 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
2496 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
2498 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
2500 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
2502 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
2503 consistency check failures
2504 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
2505 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
2506 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
2507 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
2509 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
2511 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
2512 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
2513 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
2514 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
2515 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
2516 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
2517 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
2518 on memory allocation failure
2519 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
2520 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
2522 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
2524 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
2525 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
2526 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
2527 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
2528 instead of EAI_NODATA
2529 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
2530 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
2531 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
2532 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
2534 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
2535 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
2536 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
2537 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
2538 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
2539 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
2540 allocation in syscall loops)
2541 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
2542 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
2543 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
2544 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
2545 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
2546 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
2547 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
2548 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
2549 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
2551 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
2552 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2553 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
2555 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
2556 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
2558 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
2560 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
2561 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
2562 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
2563 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
2564 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
2565 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
2566 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
2567 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
2568 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
2569 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
2570 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
2571 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
2572 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
2573 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
2574 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
2575 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
2576 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
2577 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
2579 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
2581 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
2582 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
2584 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
2585 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
2586 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
2587 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
2589 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
2590 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
2591 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
2592 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
2593 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
2594 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
2595 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
2596 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
2597 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
2598 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
2599 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
2601 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
2602 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
2603 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
2604 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
2605 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
2606 the svid compat wrapper
2607 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
2608 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
2609 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
2610 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
2611 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
2612 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
2614 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
2615 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
2617 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
2618 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
2619 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
2620 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
2621 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
2622 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
2624 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2625 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
2626 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
2627 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
2629 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
2630 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
2632 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
2633 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
2634 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
2635 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
2636 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
2637 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
2638 inside the ASCII printable range
2639 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
2641 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
2642 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
2643 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
2645 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
2646 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
2648 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
2649 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
2650 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
2652 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
2653 networking interface
2654 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
2655 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
2656 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
2657 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
2658 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
2659 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
2660 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
2661 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
2662 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
2664 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2665 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2666 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2667 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2668 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2669 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
2670 same as for Croatian
2671 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
2672 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
2673 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
2675 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
2677 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
2678 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
2679 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
2680 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
2681 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
2683 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
2684 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
2685 modified in case of success
2686 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
2687 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
2689 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
2691 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
2692 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
2693 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
2694 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
2695 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
2696 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
2697 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
2698 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
2700 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
2701 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
2702 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
2703 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
2704 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
2705 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
2706 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
2707 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
2708 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
2710 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
2711 elision and tunables
2712 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
2714 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
2715 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
2716 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
2718 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
2719 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
2721 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
2722 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
2723 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
2724 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
2725 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
2726 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
2727 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
2728 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
2729 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
2736 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
2737 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
2738 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
2739 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
2740 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
2741 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
2742 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
2744 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2745 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
2746 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2747 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
2748 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
2749 are rendered with pango, see for example:
2750 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
2752 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
2753 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
2756 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
2758 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
2759 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
2760 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
2762 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
2763 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
2764 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
2765 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
2766 object are still limited to six search domains.
2768 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
2769 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
2770 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
2772 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
2773 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
2775 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
2776 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
2777 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
2778 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
2780 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
2781 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
2782 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
2783 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
2785 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
2786 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
2787 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
2788 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
2790 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
2791 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
2792 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
2794 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
2795 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
2796 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
2797 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
2799 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
2800 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
2801 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
2802 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
2803 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
2805 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
2806 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
2807 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
2808 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
2809 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
2810 interfaces should be used instead.
2812 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2814 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
2815 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
2816 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
2817 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
2818 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
2819 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
2820 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
2821 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
2823 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
2826 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
2827 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
2828 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
2829 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
2831 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
2832 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
2835 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
2836 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
2837 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
2838 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
2839 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
2841 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
2842 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
2843 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
2844 name service modules, to be built and installed.
2846 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
2847 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
2848 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
2849 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
2851 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
2852 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
2854 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
2855 exported by accident.
2857 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
2858 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
2859 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
2861 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
2862 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
2863 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
2864 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
2866 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
2868 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
2870 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
2873 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
2874 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2876 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
2877 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
2879 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
2880 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
2881 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
2882 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
2883 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
2884 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
2885 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
2886 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
2888 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
2889 synced with the kernel:
2891 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
2892 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
2894 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
2895 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
2896 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
2898 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
2899 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
2901 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2903 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
2904 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
2907 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
2909 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
2910 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
2912 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2913 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
2914 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
2915 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
2916 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
2918 Security related changes:
2920 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
2921 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
2923 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
2924 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
2926 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
2927 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
2930 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
2931 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
2933 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2935 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
2936 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
2937 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
2939 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
2941 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
2942 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
2943 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
2945 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
2946 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
2947 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
2948 x86 and other generic code
2949 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
2950 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
2952 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
2953 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
2954 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
2955 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
2956 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
2957 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
2958 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
2960 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
2961 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
2962 order of 0D36 and 0D37
2963 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
2965 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
2966 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
2968 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
2970 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
2971 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
2972 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
2974 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
2975 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
2976 failures consistently
2977 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
2978 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
2979 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
2980 frame-pointer on i386
2981 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
2983 [21075] libc: unused assigment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
2984 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
2985 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
2986 generic c code is used
2987 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
2988 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
2990 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
2992 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
2993 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
2995 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
2996 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
2997 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
2998 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
2999 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
3000 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
3001 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
3002 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
3003 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
3004 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
3006 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
3008 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
3009 new posix_spawn implementation
3010 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
3011 leads to lower CPU frequency
3012 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
3013 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
3014 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
3015 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
3016 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
3017 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
3018 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
3019 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
3020 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
3021 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
3022 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
3023 not support gethostbyname4_r
3024 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
3026 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
3028 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
3029 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
3030 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
3031 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
3032 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
3033 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
3034 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
3036 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
3037 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
3038 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
3039 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
3040 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
3041 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
3042 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
3043 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
3044 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
3045 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
3046 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
3047 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
3049 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
3050 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
3051 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
3052 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
3053 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
3054 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
3055 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
3056 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
3058 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
3059 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
3060 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
3061 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
3062 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
3063 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
3064 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
3065 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
3066 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
3067 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
3068 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
3069 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
3070 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
3071 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
3072 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
3073 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
3074 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
3075 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
3076 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
3077 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
3078 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
3080 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
3081 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
3082 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
3083 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
3084 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
3086 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
3087 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
3089 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
3090 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
3092 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
3093 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
3095 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
3096 posix/sched_cpucount.c
3097 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
3098 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3100 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
3101 leading to relocation crash
3102 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
3103 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
3104 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
3105 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
3106 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
3107 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
3108 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
3109 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
3110 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
3112 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
3114 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
3115 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
3116 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
3117 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
3118 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
3119 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
3120 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
3121 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
3123 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
3125 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
3127 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
3128 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
3129 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
3130 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
3131 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
3132 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
3133 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
3134 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
3135 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
3136 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
3137 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
3138 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
3139 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
3140 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
3141 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
3142 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
3143 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
3144 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3145 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
3146 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
3147 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
3148 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
3149 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
3150 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
3151 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
3152 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
3153 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
3155 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
3156 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
3157 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
3158 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
3159 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
3164 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
3165 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
3166 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
3169 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3170 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3171 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
3174 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
3175 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
3176 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
3179 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
3180 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
3181 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
3182 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
3183 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
3184 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
3185 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
3188 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
3189 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
3192 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
3193 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
3194 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
3196 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
3197 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
3198 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
3199 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
3202 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
3203 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
3204 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
3206 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
3207 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
3208 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
3209 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
3210 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
3211 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
3212 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
3213 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
3214 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
3215 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
3216 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
3219 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
3221 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
3223 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
3224 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
3225 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
3227 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
3228 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
3230 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
3233 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
3235 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
3237 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
3238 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
3240 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
3242 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
3243 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
3245 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
3246 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
3248 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
3249 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
3250 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
3252 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
3253 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
3254 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
3255 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
3256 effects of the memory clear).
3258 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
3259 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
3260 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
3261 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
3263 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
3264 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
3265 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
3266 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
3267 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
3268 if they are compiled or used with those options.
3270 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
3273 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
3274 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
3275 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
3276 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
3277 as large as several megabytes.
3279 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
3280 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
3283 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
3284 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
3285 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
3286 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
3287 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
3288 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
3289 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
3291 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
3292 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
3293 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
3294 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
3296 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
3297 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
3298 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
3301 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
3302 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
3303 They were already unimplemented.
3305 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
3306 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
3307 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
3308 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
3310 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
3311 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
3312 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
3313 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
3314 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
3316 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
3317 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
3318 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
3319 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
3320 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
3322 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
3323 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
3324 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
3325 did not reflect that.
3327 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
3328 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
3329 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
3330 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
3331 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
3332 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
3333 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
3336 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
3337 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
3338 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
3339 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
3341 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
3342 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
3343 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
3344 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
3346 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
3347 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
3350 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
3351 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
3354 Security related changes:
3356 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
3357 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
3358 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
3359 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
3360 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
3362 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
3363 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
3364 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
3365 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
3368 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3370 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
3371 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
3373 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
3374 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
3375 before it started waiting
3376 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
3377 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
3378 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
3379 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
3381 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
3382 library linked with pthread
3383 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
3384 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
3385 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
3386 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
3387 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
3388 after being __libc_memalign()'d
3389 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
3391 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
3393 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
3394 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
3395 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
3396 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
3397 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
3398 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
3399 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
3400 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
3401 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
3403 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
3404 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
3405 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
3406 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
3407 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
3408 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
3409 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
3410 causes a segmentation fault
3411 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
3413 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
3414 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
3416 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
3418 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
3419 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
3420 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
3422 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
3423 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
3425 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
3426 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
3427 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
3428 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
3429 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
3430 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
3431 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
3432 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
3434 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
3435 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
3436 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
3438 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
3440 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
3442 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
3443 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
3444 cause transition penalty
3445 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
3446 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
3447 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
3448 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
3449 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
3451 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
3453 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
3454 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
3455 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
3456 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
3457 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
3458 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
3460 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
3462 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
3463 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
3464 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
3465 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
3466 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
3467 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
3468 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
3469 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
3470 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
3471 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
3472 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
3473 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
3474 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
3475 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
3477 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
3478 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
3479 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
3480 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
3481 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
3482 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
3483 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
3484 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
3485 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
3486 U+20AC), not same as GBK
3487 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
3488 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
3489 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
3490 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
3491 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
3492 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
3493 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
3494 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
3496 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3497 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
3498 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
3499 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
3500 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
3502 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3503 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
3504 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
3505 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
3506 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
3507 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
3508 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
3510 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
3511 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
3512 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
3513 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
3514 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3518 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
3519 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
3520 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
3521 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
3522 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
3525 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
3526 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
3527 been included in previous releases.
3529 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
3530 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
3532 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
3533 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
3534 instead of “union wait”.
3536 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
3537 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
3538 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
3539 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
3540 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
3541 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
3542 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
3544 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
3547 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
3548 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
3551 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
3552 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
3553 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
3554 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
3555 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
3558 Security related changes:
3560 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
3561 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
3562 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
3564 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
3565 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
3566 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
3567 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
3569 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
3570 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
3571 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
3573 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
3574 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
3575 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
3577 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
3578 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
3579 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
3580 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
3582 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3584 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
3585 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
3587 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
3588 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
3589 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
3590 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
3591 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
3592 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
3593 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
3594 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
3596 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
3597 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
3598 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
3599 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
3600 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
3601 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
3603 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
3605 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
3606 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
3607 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
3608 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
3609 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
3610 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
3611 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
3612 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
3613 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
3614 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
3615 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
3617 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
3618 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
3619 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
3620 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
3621 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
3622 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
3624 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
3625 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
3627 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
3628 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
3629 Romanian locale data
3630 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
3632 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
3633 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
3635 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
3636 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
3637 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
3638 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
3640 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
3642 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
3643 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
3644 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
3645 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
3646 when using RTLD_NEXT
3647 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
3648 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
3649 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
3650 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
3651 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
3652 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
3653 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
3654 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
3655 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
3657 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3658 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3659 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
3660 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
3662 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
3664 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
3666 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
3667 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
3668 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
3669 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
3670 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
3671 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
3673 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
3674 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
3676 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
3677 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
3679 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
3681 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
3683 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
3684 pointers and lengths in error-case.
3685 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
3686 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
3687 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
3688 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
3689 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
3690 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
3691 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
3692 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
3693 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
3694 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
3695 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
3696 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
3698 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
3700 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
3701 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
3702 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
3703 response to getaddrinfo
3704 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
3705 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
3706 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
3707 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
3708 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
3709 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
3711 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
3712 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
3713 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
3715 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
3716 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
3717 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
3718 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
3720 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
3721 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
3722 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
3724 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
3725 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
3726 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
3727 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
3728 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
3729 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
3730 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
3731 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
3733 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
3734 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
3735 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
3737 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
3738 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
3739 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
3740 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
3741 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
3742 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
3743 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
3744 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
3745 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
3746 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
3747 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
3748 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
3749 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
3751 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
3752 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
3753 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
3754 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
3756 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
3757 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
3759 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
3760 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
3761 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
3762 AS not supporting AVX512
3763 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
3765 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3766 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
3768 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
3769 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
3770 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
3771 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
3772 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
3774 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
3775 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
3777 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
3778 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
3779 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
3780 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3781 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3782 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
3783 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3784 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
3785 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
3787 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3788 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3789 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3790 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3791 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3792 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
3793 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
3794 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
3795 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
3796 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
3797 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
3798 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
3799 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
3801 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
3802 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
3803 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
3804 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
3805 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
3807 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
3808 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
3810 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
3811 "invalid" exceptions
3812 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
3813 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
3814 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
3815 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
3816 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
3817 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
3818 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
3819 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
3820 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
3824 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3825 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
3826 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3827 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
3828 89, 16061, and 18568.
3830 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
3831 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
3832 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
3833 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
3834 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
3835 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
3836 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
3838 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
3839 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
3840 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
3842 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
3843 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
3844 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
3845 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
3846 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
3847 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
3848 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
3850 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
3851 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
3852 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
3853 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
3854 the concurent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
3855 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
3856 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
3859 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
3860 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
3861 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
3862 independent of the GNU C Library.
3864 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
3865 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
3867 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
3868 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
3869 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
3870 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
3871 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
3874 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
3875 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
3877 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
3878 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
3879 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
3880 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
3881 defining their own copy.
3883 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
3884 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
3885 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
3887 Security related changes:
3889 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
3890 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
3892 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
3893 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
3894 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
3895 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
3898 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
3899 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
3901 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
3902 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
3904 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
3905 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
3906 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
3908 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
3909 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
3910 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
3911 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
3912 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
3913 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
3914 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
3915 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
3916 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
3917 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
3918 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
3919 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
3920 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
3922 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3924 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
3925 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
3926 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3927 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
3928 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
3929 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
3931 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
3932 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
3933 overflow/underflow errors
3934 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
3936 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
3937 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
3938 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
3939 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
3940 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
3941 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
3943 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
3944 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
3945 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
3946 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
3947 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
3948 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
3949 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
3950 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
3951 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
3953 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
3955 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
3956 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
3957 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
3959 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
3960 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
3961 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
3962 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
3963 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
3965 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
3966 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
3968 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
3969 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
3970 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
3971 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
3972 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
3973 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
3974 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
3975 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
3977 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
3978 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
3979 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
3980 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
3981 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
3983 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
3984 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
3986 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
3987 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
3988 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
3989 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
3990 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
3992 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
3993 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
3994 (related to lock elision)
3995 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
3996 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
3997 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
3998 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
4000 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
4001 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
4002 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
4003 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
4004 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
4005 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
4006 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
4007 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
4008 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
4009 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
4010 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
4011 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
4012 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
4013 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
4014 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
4015 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
4016 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
4017 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
4018 contains a vector instruction exception.
4019 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
4020 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
4022 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
4023 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
4024 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
4025 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
4026 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
4028 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
4030 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
4031 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
4033 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
4034 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
4035 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
4036 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
4037 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
4039 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
4040 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
4041 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
4042 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
4043 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
4044 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
4045 statically too large
4046 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
4047 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
4048 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
4049 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
4050 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
4051 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
4052 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
4053 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
4054 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
4056 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
4057 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
4058 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
4059 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
4060 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
4061 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
4062 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
4064 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
4065 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
4066 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
4067 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
4069 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
4070 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
4071 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
4072 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
4073 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
4074 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
4076 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
4077 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
4078 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
4079 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
4080 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
4081 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
4083 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
4084 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
4085 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
4086 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
4087 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
4088 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4089 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
4090 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
4092 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
4093 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
4094 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
4095 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4096 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
4097 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
4098 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
4099 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
4100 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
4102 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
4104 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
4105 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
4106 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
4108 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
4109 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
4110 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
4111 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
4112 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
4113 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
4114 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
4115 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
4116 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
4117 pthread_setaffinity_np
4118 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
4119 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
4120 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
4121 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
4122 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
4124 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
4125 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
4126 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
4127 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
4128 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
4129 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
4130 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
4132 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
4133 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
4134 for C99-based standards
4135 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
4136 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
4138 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
4139 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
4140 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
4142 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
4143 "inexact" exceptions
4144 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
4146 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
4147 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
4148 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
4149 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
4151 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
4152 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
4153 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
4154 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
4155 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
4156 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
4157 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
4158 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
4159 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
4160 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
4162 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
4163 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
4164 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
4165 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
4167 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
4168 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
4169 error on 32-bit architectures
4170 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
4171 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
4172 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
4173 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
4174 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
4175 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
4176 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
4177 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
4178 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
4180 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
4182 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
4183 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
4184 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
4185 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
4187 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
4191 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4193 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
4194 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
4195 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
4196 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
4197 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
4198 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
4199 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
4200 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
4201 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
4202 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
4203 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
4204 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
4205 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
4206 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
4207 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
4208 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
4209 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
4210 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
4211 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
4212 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
4214 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
4215 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
4217 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
4218 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
4219 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
4220 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
4221 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
4222 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
4224 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
4225 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
4226 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
4227 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
4228 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
4230 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
4231 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
4232 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
4234 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
4235 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
4236 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
4239 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
4240 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
4241 condition in some applications.
4243 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
4244 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
4246 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
4247 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
4248 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
4249 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
4250 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
4252 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
4253 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
4254 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
4255 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
4257 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
4258 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
4259 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
4261 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
4262 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
4264 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
4265 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
4266 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
4268 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
4269 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
4270 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
4274 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4276 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
4277 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
4278 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
4279 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
4280 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
4281 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
4282 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
4283 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
4284 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
4285 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
4288 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
4289 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
4290 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
4291 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
4294 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
4295 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
4296 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
4297 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
4298 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
4299 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
4301 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
4303 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
4304 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
4305 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
4307 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
4308 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
4309 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
4310 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
4311 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
4312 effects being visible outside transactions.
4314 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
4315 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4317 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
4319 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
4320 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
4321 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
4322 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
4323 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
4325 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
4326 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
4328 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
4329 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
4332 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
4333 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
4334 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
4336 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
4337 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
4339 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
4341 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
4342 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
4343 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
4344 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
4346 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
4347 with newer versions of bison.
4349 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
4350 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
4351 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
4352 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
4353 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
4354 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
4355 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
4356 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
4357 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
4358 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
4359 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
4360 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
4361 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
4363 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
4364 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
4365 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
4366 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
4367 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
4371 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4373 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
4374 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
4375 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
4376 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
4377 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
4378 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
4379 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
4380 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
4381 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
4382 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
4383 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
4384 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
4385 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
4386 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
4387 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
4389 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4390 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
4391 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
4392 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
4393 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
4394 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
4395 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
4396 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
4397 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
4398 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
4400 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
4401 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
4402 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
4403 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
4404 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
4406 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4408 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4409 can be used with is 2.6.32.
4411 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
4412 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
4413 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
4414 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
4415 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
4416 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
4418 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
4421 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
4422 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
4423 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
4424 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
4425 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
4426 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
4427 test macros defined.
4429 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
4431 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
4432 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
4433 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
4434 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
4435 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
4436 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
4439 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
4440 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
4441 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
4442 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
4445 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
4446 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
4447 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
4449 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
4450 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
4451 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
4452 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
4454 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
4455 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
4456 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
4457 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
4458 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
4459 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
4460 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
4463 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
4464 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
4465 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
4466 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
4467 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
4468 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
4469 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
4470 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
4471 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
4473 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
4474 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
4475 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
4476 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
4477 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
4478 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
4480 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
4481 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
4482 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
4483 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
4487 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4489 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
4490 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
4491 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
4492 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
4493 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
4494 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
4495 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
4496 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
4497 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
4498 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
4499 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
4500 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
4501 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
4502 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
4503 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
4504 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
4505 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
4506 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
4508 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
4509 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
4511 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
4512 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
4513 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
4514 extension which uses __block.
4516 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
4517 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
4518 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
4519 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
4520 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
4522 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
4523 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
4524 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
4525 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
4528 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
4529 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
4530 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
4531 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
4532 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
4534 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
4535 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
4536 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
4538 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
4539 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
4540 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
4543 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
4544 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
4546 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
4547 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
4549 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
4551 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
4554 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
4556 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
4558 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
4559 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
4560 for which the C library was built.
4562 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
4563 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
4564 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
4565 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
4566 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
4567 in the following circumstances:
4569 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
4571 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
4572 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
4574 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
4575 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
4577 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
4578 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
4580 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
4582 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
4583 transcendental functions have been introduced.
4585 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
4587 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
4589 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
4591 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
4592 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
4593 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
4594 disable some of those declarations.
4596 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
4597 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
4598 that did nothing) has also been removed.
4600 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
4601 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
4603 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
4604 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
4605 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
4606 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
4607 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
4608 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
4609 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
4610 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
4611 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
4612 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
4613 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
4614 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
4615 require recompilation.
4619 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4621 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
4622 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
4623 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
4624 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
4625 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
4626 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
4627 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
4628 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
4629 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
4630 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
4631 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
4632 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
4633 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
4636 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
4637 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
4638 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
4639 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
4640 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
4641 understands and accepts the risks.
4643 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
4646 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
4647 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
4649 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
4650 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
4651 destructor calls to glibc.
4653 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
4656 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
4657 non-x86 architectures.
4659 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
4661 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
4663 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
4666 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4668 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
4671 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
4672 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4674 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
4676 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
4677 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
4679 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
4680 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
4682 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
4683 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
4684 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
4686 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
4687 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
4688 attributes of a process.
4690 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
4691 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
4692 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
4693 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
4696 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
4697 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4699 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
4703 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4705 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
4706 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
4707 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
4708 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
4709 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
4710 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
4711 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
4712 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
4713 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
4714 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
4715 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
4716 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
4717 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
4718 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
4719 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
4721 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
4723 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
4724 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
4726 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
4727 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
4729 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
4731 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
4732 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
4734 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
4736 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
4737 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
4738 the internal function __secure_getenv.
4740 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
4741 Implemented by Gary Benson.
4743 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
4744 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
4746 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4747 can be used with is 2.6.16.
4749 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
4750 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
4752 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
4753 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
4754 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
4755 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
4757 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
4758 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
4760 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
4761 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
4764 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
4765 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
4766 information in --help and --version output.
4768 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
4769 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
4770 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
4772 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
4773 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
4774 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
4775 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
4776 when the mode is enabled.
4778 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
4779 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
4780 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
4781 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
4782 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
4783 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
4784 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
4786 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
4791 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4793 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
4794 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
4795 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
4796 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
4797 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
4798 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
4799 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
4800 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
4801 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
4802 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
4803 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
4804 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
4805 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
4806 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
4807 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
4808 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
4809 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
4810 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
4811 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
4812 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
4813 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
4814 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
4817 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
4818 configuring glibc with:
4819 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
4820 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
4821 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
4825 + define static_assert
4827 + do not declare gets
4829 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
4831 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
4832 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
4833 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
4836 + timespec_get added
4838 + uchar.h support added
4840 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
4842 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4844 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
4846 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
4848 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
4849 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4851 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
4852 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4854 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
4855 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
4856 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
4857 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
4858 existing applications.
4860 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
4861 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
4864 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
4865 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
4866 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
4868 * New locales: mag_IN
4870 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
4871 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
4872 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
4873 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
4874 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
4876 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4878 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
4881 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
4883 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
4884 without a previously built glibc.
4886 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
4887 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
4889 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
4890 now supported for ARM processors.
4892 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
4893 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
4894 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
4896 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
4898 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
4899 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
4900 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
4901 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
4903 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
4904 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
4905 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
4906 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
4908 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
4909 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
4910 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
4911 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
4912 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
4914 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
4915 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
4916 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
4917 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
4921 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4923 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
4924 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
4925 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
4926 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
4927 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
4928 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
4929 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
4931 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
4932 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4934 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
4935 and support for initgroups lookups.
4936 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4938 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
4939 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4941 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
4942 Contributed by HJ Lu.
4944 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
4945 on x86-32 and x86-64.
4946 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4948 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
4949 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4951 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
4952 for x86-64 and x86-32.
4953 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
4955 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
4956 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4958 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
4959 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4961 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
4962 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4964 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
4965 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4967 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
4968 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4970 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
4971 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4973 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
4975 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
4976 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
4978 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
4979 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
4981 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
4985 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4987 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
4988 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
4989 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
4990 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
4991 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
4992 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
4993 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
4994 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
4995 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
4996 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
4998 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
4999 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
5000 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
5001 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
5003 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
5004 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
5005 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
5006 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5008 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
5009 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
5011 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
5012 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
5014 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
5016 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
5017 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5019 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
5020 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
5021 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
5022 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
5026 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5028 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
5029 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
5030 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
5031 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
5034 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
5036 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
5038 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
5039 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
5040 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5044 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5046 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
5047 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
5048 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
5049 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
5050 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
5051 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
5052 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
5053 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
5055 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
5057 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
5059 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
5061 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
5062 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
5063 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5065 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
5066 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
5067 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
5068 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
5069 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5071 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
5075 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5077 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
5078 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
5079 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
5080 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
5081 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
5082 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
5084 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
5086 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5088 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
5089 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5091 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
5092 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5094 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
5096 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
5097 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
5098 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
5099 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5101 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
5102 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5104 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
5106 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
5108 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
5109 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
5111 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
5112 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5114 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
5115 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5117 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
5118 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
5119 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
5120 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
5121 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
5122 necessity is every process again.
5123 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5125 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
5126 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
5128 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
5129 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5131 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
5132 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
5133 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5135 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
5139 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5141 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
5142 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
5143 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
5144 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
5145 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
5147 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
5148 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5150 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
5151 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5153 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
5154 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
5156 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
5159 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
5160 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5162 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
5163 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5165 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
5166 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5168 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
5169 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5171 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
5172 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
5173 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5175 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
5177 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
5178 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5180 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
5181 and extend existing format specifiers.
5182 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5184 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
5185 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5187 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
5188 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
5189 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
5190 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
5191 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
5192 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5196 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5198 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
5199 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
5200 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
5201 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
5202 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
5204 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
5205 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5207 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
5208 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
5210 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
5211 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5213 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
5214 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
5215 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5217 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
5218 Implemented by Eric Blake.
5220 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
5222 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
5223 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5225 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
5226 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
5227 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
5228 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5230 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
5231 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5233 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
5235 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5237 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
5241 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5243 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5244 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5245 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5246 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5247 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5248 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5249 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
5251 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
5253 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
5255 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
5256 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
5258 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
5260 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
5261 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5263 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
5264 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5266 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
5267 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
5268 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5270 * Faster memset for x86-64.
5271 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
5273 * Faster memcpy on x86.
5274 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5276 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
5277 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5279 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
5280 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5284 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5286 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
5287 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
5288 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
5289 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5290 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
5292 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
5293 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5295 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5297 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
5298 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
5299 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
5301 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
5302 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
5304 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
5305 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5307 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5309 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
5310 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5312 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
5313 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5315 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
5316 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5318 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5320 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
5321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5323 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
5324 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
5327 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
5328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5332 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5334 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
5335 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
5336 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
5337 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
5338 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
5339 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
5340 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
5343 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
5345 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
5347 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5351 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5353 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
5354 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
5355 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
5356 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
5357 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
5358 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
5359 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
5360 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
5361 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
5363 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
5364 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
5365 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5367 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
5368 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5370 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
5372 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
5374 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
5375 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
5376 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
5377 site might have problems with the default behavior.
5378 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5380 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
5381 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
5382 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
5383 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5385 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
5388 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5390 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
5393 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
5395 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
5396 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
5400 * More overflow detection functions.
5402 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
5403 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
5405 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
5406 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
5407 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
5408 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
5409 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
5410 by Masahide Washizawa.
5412 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
5413 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5415 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
5416 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
5417 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
5418 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
5420 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
5421 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
5423 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
5425 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
5426 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
5427 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
5429 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
5430 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
5432 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
5433 for compatibility with some other systems.
5435 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
5439 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5441 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
5442 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
5443 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
5444 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
5445 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
5446 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
5448 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5450 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
5452 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
5456 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5458 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
5459 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
5460 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
5461 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
5463 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
5467 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
5468 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5470 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
5471 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
5472 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5474 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
5475 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
5477 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
5479 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5481 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
5482 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
5485 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
5486 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
5487 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5489 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
5490 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5492 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
5493 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
5494 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
5495 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5497 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
5498 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
5499 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
5500 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
5502 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
5503 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
5504 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
5505 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
5506 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
5510 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
5511 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
5513 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
5514 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
5516 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
5517 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
5519 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
5520 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5522 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
5525 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
5528 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
5533 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
5534 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
5535 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
5536 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
5537 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
5538 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
5539 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
5540 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
5541 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
5543 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
5544 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
5545 and are now also available on the Hurd.
5547 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
5549 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
5550 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
5552 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
5553 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
5555 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
5557 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
5558 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
5560 * With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
5561 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
5562 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
5563 of weak definition in ld.so.
5565 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
5566 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
5568 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
5569 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
5573 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
5576 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
5577 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
5579 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
5580 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
5582 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
5583 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
5585 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
5586 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
5587 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5589 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
5590 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
5592 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
5593 implementation of regex.
5595 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
5598 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
5599 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
5601 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
5602 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
5603 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
5605 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
5606 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
5608 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
5609 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
5610 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
5612 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
5613 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
5615 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
5616 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
5619 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
5623 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
5624 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
5626 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
5627 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
5631 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
5632 128-bit long double format.
5634 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
5635 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
5637 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
5639 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
5641 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
5644 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
5645 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
5647 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
5651 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
5652 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
5654 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
5655 support Unicode 3.1.
5657 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
5658 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
5660 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
5662 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
5663 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
5664 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5666 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
5667 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
5669 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
5670 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
5672 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
5676 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
5677 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
5678 in float, double, and long double format.
5680 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
5681 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
5682 128-bit long double format.
5684 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
5685 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
5686 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
5687 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
5689 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
5690 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
5691 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5693 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
5694 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
5696 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
5697 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
5699 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
5700 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
5701 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
5703 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
5704 family of functions for Linux/S390.
5706 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
5707 of functions for Linux/x86.
5709 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
5713 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
5714 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
5715 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
5716 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
5717 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
5718 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
5721 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
5722 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
5724 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
5725 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
5726 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
5727 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5729 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
5734 only lists the names of the supported locales
5738 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
5739 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
5743 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
5744 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
5745 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
5746 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
5747 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
5749 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
5751 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
5753 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
5755 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
5756 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
5757 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
5759 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
5760 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
5762 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
5763 changed from the default "C" locale.
5765 * The usual bug fixes.
5769 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
5770 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
5773 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
5775 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
5777 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
5778 obviously requires a database library being available.
5780 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5782 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
5784 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
5785 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
5787 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
5789 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
5790 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
5793 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
5794 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
5795 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
5797 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
5798 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
5800 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
5801 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
5802 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
5804 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
5805 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
5806 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
5807 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5809 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
5810 structures for the wide character tables.
5812 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5814 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
5816 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
5818 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
5821 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
5823 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
5825 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5827 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
5829 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
5831 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
5832 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
5833 implemented for Linux.
5835 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
5836 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
5837 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
5840 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
5843 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
5857 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
5859 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
5861 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
5863 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
5865 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
5867 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
5869 * Update timezone data files.
5871 * lots of charmaps corrections
5873 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
5878 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
5879 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
5880 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
5881 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
5882 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
5883 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
5885 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
5886 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5888 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
5891 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierachical
5892 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
5894 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
5896 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
5899 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
5901 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
5902 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
5904 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
5907 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
5908 functions from ISO C 9X.
5910 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
5911 real valued functions.
5913 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
5915 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
5917 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
5919 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
5921 * Optimized string functions have been added.
5923 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
5925 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
5927 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
5928 daemon for NSS (nscd).
5930 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
5931 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
5935 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
5937 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
5939 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
5941 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
5943 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
5945 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
5947 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
5948 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
5951 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
5952 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
5954 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
5956 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
5958 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
5959 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
5961 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
5963 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
5966 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
5967 latest draft standards.
5969 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
5971 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
5972 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
5973 addseverity NEW: Unix98
5974 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
5975 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
5976 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
5977 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
5978 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5979 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
5980 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
5981 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
5982 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
5983 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
5984 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
5985 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
5986 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
5987 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
5988 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
5989 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
5990 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
5992 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
5993 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
5994 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
5995 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
5996 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
6003 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
6004 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
6005 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6006 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6007 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
6009 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
6010 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
6011 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6012 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6013 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
6014 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6018 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
6019 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
6025 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
6026 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
6027 clearerr_locked REMOVED
6028 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6030 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
6031 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6032 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6042 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
6043 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
6045 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
6046 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
6051 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6052 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6055 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
6056 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
6060 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
6061 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
6063 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
6064 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
6065 endutxent NEW: Unix98
6067 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
6068 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
6072 fattach NEW: STREAMS
6073 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
6077 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6078 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6079 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6080 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6081 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6083 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6084 ferror_locked REMOVED
6085 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6086 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
6087 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
6088 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
6089 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
6090 fflush_locked REMOVED
6094 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6095 fileno_locked REMOVED
6107 fputc_locked REMOVED
6108 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6109 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6114 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
6118 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
6120 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
6121 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
6125 getchar_locked REMOVED
6127 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
6128 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
6130 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
6131 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
6132 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6133 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6134 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6135 getutxent NEW: Unix98
6136 getutxid NEW: Unix98
6137 getutxline NEW: Unix98
6138 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
6139 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
6140 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
6141 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
6142 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6143 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6145 iconv_close NEW: iconv
6146 iconv_open NEW: iconv
6147 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
6148 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
6149 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
6150 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
6151 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
6152 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
6153 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
6154 isastream NEW: STREAMS
6155 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
6156 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6157 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6158 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
6159 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
6160 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
6161 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
6162 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
6163 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
6164 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
6165 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
6166 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6167 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6168 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
6169 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6170 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6175 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6176 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6177 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
6178 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6179 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6181 makecontext NEW: Unix98
6182 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
6185 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
6189 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
6190 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
6191 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
6192 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
6193 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
6194 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
6195 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
6196 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
6200 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
6202 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
6203 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
6206 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
6207 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
6208 profil_counter REMOVED
6209 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
6210 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
6211 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
6212 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
6214 putchar_locked REMOVED
6215 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
6217 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
6218 pututxline NEW: Unix98
6222 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
6223 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
6224 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
6225 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
6227 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
6228 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
6230 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
6231 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
6232 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
6234 sendfile NEW: kernel
6235 setcontext NEW: Unix98
6236 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
6237 setutxent NEW: Unix98
6239 sigignore NEW: Unix98
6240 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
6241 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
6242 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
6243 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
6244 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
6245 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
6246 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
6247 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
6251 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
6252 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6253 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6254 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
6255 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
6256 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
6257 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
6258 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
6259 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
6260 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
6261 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
6262 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
6263 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
6267 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
6268 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
6270 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
6271 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
6272 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
6273 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
6274 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
6275 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
6277 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6278 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
6279 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
6280 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
6281 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
6282 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
6283 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
6285 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
6286 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
6287 write_profiling REMOVED
6288 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6289 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
6290 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
6291 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
6292 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
6293 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
6294 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
6295 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
6296 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
6297 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
6298 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
6299 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
6300 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
6301 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
6302 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
6303 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
6314 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
6316 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
6318 * rewrite of cbrt function
6320 * update of timezone data
6334 * add atoll function
6336 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
6338 * fix math functions
6342 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
6344 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
6346 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
6347 the ELF dynamic loader.
6349 * support for parallel builds is improved
6353 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
6354 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
6357 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
6358 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
6359 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
6360 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
6361 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
6362 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
6363 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
6364 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
6365 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
6366 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
6367 files in the ELF format.
6369 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
6370 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
6372 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
6373 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
6374 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
6375 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
6376 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
6377 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
6378 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
6379 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
6380 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
6381 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
6382 about dynamically linked binaries.
6384 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
6385 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
6386 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
6387 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
6388 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
6390 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
6391 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
6392 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
6393 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
6394 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
6396 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
6398 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
6399 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
6400 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
6401 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
6402 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
6403 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
6404 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
6405 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
6406 NSS services available.
6408 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
6409 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
6410 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
6412 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
6413 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
6414 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
6416 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
6417 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
6418 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
6419 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
6421 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
6422 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
6423 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
6425 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
6426 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
6427 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
6429 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
6430 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
6432 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
6433 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
6434 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
6435 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendement 1 specification.
6437 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
6438 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
6439 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
6441 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
6442 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
6443 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
6444 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
6445 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
6446 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
6447 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
6448 the header file <printf.h> for details.
6450 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
6451 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
6452 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
6453 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
6454 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
6455 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
6456 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
6458 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
6459 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
6460 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
6461 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
6462 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
6463 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
6465 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
6466 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6468 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
6469 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
6470 NSS scheme used in glibc.
6472 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
6474 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
6475 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
6476 their use is discouraged.
6478 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
6479 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
6481 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
6482 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
6484 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
6485 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
6487 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
6490 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
6491 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
6492 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
6493 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
6494 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
6496 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
6497 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
6498 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
6499 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
6501 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
6502 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
6504 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
6505 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
6506 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
6507 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
6510 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
6511 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
6513 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
6514 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
6516 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
6517 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
6518 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
6519 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
6521 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
6523 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
6524 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
6525 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
6527 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
6528 for arithmetic and string handling.
6530 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
6531 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
6532 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
6533 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
6535 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
6536 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
6537 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
6538 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
6539 programs already written to use it.)
6541 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
6544 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
6547 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
6548 a given effective group ID.
6550 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
6551 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
6552 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
6553 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
6555 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
6556 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
6557 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
6558 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
6559 doing the same thing.
6561 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
6562 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
6564 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
6565 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
6567 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
6569 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
6570 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
6571 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
6572 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
6573 `-ldb' to get these functions.
6575 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
6576 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
6578 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
6579 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
6580 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
6583 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
6585 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
6586 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
6589 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
6590 and writing the utmp file.
6592 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
6595 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
6596 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
6597 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
6599 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
6600 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
6602 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
6603 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
6606 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
6607 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
6608 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
6609 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
6611 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
6612 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
6613 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
6615 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
6616 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
6617 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
6620 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
6623 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
6626 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
6628 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
6629 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
6630 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
6634 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
6636 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
6637 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
6639 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
6640 want to put themselves in the background.
6642 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
6643 run without an operating system.
6645 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
6646 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
6648 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
6649 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
6651 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
6653 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
6654 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
6657 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
6660 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
6661 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
6665 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
6666 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
6667 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
6669 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
6670 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
6672 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
6673 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
6675 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
6677 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
6679 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
6682 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
6683 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
6684 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
6686 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
6688 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
6689 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
6690 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
6692 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
6693 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
6694 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
6695 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
6696 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
6699 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
6700 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
6701 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
6702 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
6703 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
6706 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
6707 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
6711 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
6712 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
6714 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
6715 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
6716 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
6718 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
6719 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
6720 address of the last character written.
6722 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
6723 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
6725 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
6726 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
6728 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
6729 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
6730 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
6731 you dereference this pointer.
6733 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
6734 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
6736 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
6737 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
6738 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
6739 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
6741 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
6742 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
6743 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
6744 EAGAIN in every system call function.
6748 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
6749 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
6750 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
6751 in Emacs or the `info' program.
6752 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
6754 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
6756 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
6758 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
6759 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
6761 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
6762 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
6764 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
6765 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
6767 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
6768 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
6769 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
6770 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
6771 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
6773 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
6774 to the error code in `errno'.
6776 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
6777 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
6778 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
6781 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
6782 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
6783 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
6785 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
6786 uniquely-named temporary file.
6790 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
6791 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
6792 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
6794 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
6797 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
6798 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
6800 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
6804 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
6805 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
6806 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
6807 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
6809 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
6810 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
6811 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
6813 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
6814 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
6816 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
6817 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
6818 made itself into a shared library.
6820 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
6821 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
6823 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
6824 with limited length.
6826 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
6828 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
6830 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
6832 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
6833 function for traversing a directory tree.
6835 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
6836 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
6837 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
6838 formatted output directly to an obstack.
6840 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
6841 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
6843 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
6845 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
6846 things to your strings.
6848 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
6850 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
6851 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
6852 supporting those systems.
6854 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
6855 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
6856 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
6857 configuration files.
6859 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
6860 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
6862 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
6863 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
6866 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
6867 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
6868 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
6869 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
6870 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
6871 required storage is not available.
6873 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
6874 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
6876 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
6877 latest files released from Berkeley.
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