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12 * In /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_OPTIONS, option flags can now be
13 prefixed with “-” to clear previously set flags. For example, if
14 /etc/resolv.conf contains “options no-aaaa”, a process running with
15 the RES_OPTIONS=-no-aaaa environment variable performs AAAA DNS
16 queries when the glibc DNS stub resolver is used.
18 * The DNS stub resolver now supports the strict-error option. If
19 activated, getaddrinfo for the AF_UNSPEC address family (with dual
20 A/AAAA DNS lookups) attemps to obtain an A/AAAA response pair from
21 another DNS server if one of the responses indicates failure. Without
22 the strict-error option, getaddrinfo returns the A record data it has
23 obtained even if the AAAA query failed. The new strict error mode is
24 incompatible with some DNS environments which do not follow the RFCs,
25 which is why this mode is not enabled by default. A future version
26 of the library may turn it on by default, however.
28 * On Linux, the sched_setattr and sched_getattr have been added, for
29 supporting parameterized scheduling policies such as SCHED_DEADLINE.
31 * The iconv program now supports converting files in place. The program
32 automatically uses a temporary file if required.
34 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2Y_SOURCE to
35 enable features from the draft ISO C2Y standard. Only some features from
36 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
37 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
38 liable to change. Features from C2Y are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
39 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2y".
41 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
43 * The big-endian ARC port (arceb-linux-gnu) has been removed.
45 * The abort is now async-signal-safe and its implementation makes longjmp
46 from the SIGABRT handler always abort if set up with setjmp. Use sigsetjmp
47 to keep the old behavior, where the handler does not stop the process
50 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
52 * On recent Linux kernels with vDSO getrandom support, getrandom does not
53 act as a "shall occur" cancellation point, in which case it might
54 not issue a syscall or trigger a deferred cancellation event.
56 Security related changes:
58 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
59 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
61 [The release manager will add the list generated by
62 scripts/process-advisories.sh just before the release.]
64 The following bugs were resolved with this release:
66 [The release manager will add the list generated by
67 scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
73 * The <stdbit.h> header type-generic macros have been changed when using
74 GCC 14.1 or later to use __builtin_stdc_bit_ceil etc. built-in functions
75 in order to support unsigned __int128 and/or unsigned _BitInt(N) operands
76 with arbitrary precisions when supported by the target.
78 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC23_SOURCE to
79 enable features from the ISO C23 standard. Only some features from
80 this standard are supported by the GNU C Library. The older name
81 _ISOC2X_SOURCE is still supported. Features from C23 are also enabled
82 by _GNU_SOURCE, or by compiling with the GCC options -std=c23,
83 -std=gnu23, -std=c2x or -std=gnu2x.
85 * The following ISO C23 function families (introduced in TS
86 18661-4:2015) are now supported in <math.h>. Each family includes
87 functions for float, double, long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx, and a
88 type-generic macro in <tgmath.h>.
90 - Exponential functions: exp2m1, exp10m1.
92 - Logarithmic functions: log2p1, log10p1, logp1.
94 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.enable_secure, can be used to run a program
95 as if it were a setuid process. This is currently a testing tool to allow
96 more extensive verification tests for AT_SECURE programs and not meant to
97 be a security feature.
99 * On Linux, the epoll header was updated to include epoll ioctl definitions
100 and the related structure added in Linux kernel 6.9.
102 * The fortify functionality has been significantly enhanced for building
103 programs with clang against the GNU C Library.
105 * Many functions have been added to the vector library for aarch64:
106 acosh, asinh, atanh, cbrt, cosh, erf, erfc, hypot, pow, sinh, tanh
108 * On x86, memset can now use non-temporal stores to improve the performance
109 of large writes. This behaviour is controlled by a new tunable
110 x86_memset_non_temporal_threshold.
112 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
114 * Architectures which use a 32-bit seconds-since-epoch field in struct
115 lastlog, struct utmp, struct utmpx (such as i386, powerpc64le, rv32,
116 rv64, x86-64) switched from a signed to an unsigned type for that
117 field. This allows these fields to store timestamps beyond the year
118 2038, until the year 2106. Please note that applications are still
119 expected to migrate off the interfaces declared in <utmp.h> and
120 <utmpx.h> (except for login_tty) due to locking and session management
123 * __rseq_size now denotes the size of the active rseq area (20 bytes
124 initially), not the size of struct rseq (32 bytes initially).
126 Security related changes:
128 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
129 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
132 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
133 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
136 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
139 nscd: Null pointer crash after notfound response (CVE-2024-33600)
142 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
143 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
146 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
149 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
151 [19622] network: Support aliasing with struct sockaddr
152 [21271] localedata: cv_RU: update translations
153 [23774] localedata: lv_LV collates Y/y incorrectly
154 [23865] string: wcsstr is quadratic-time
155 [25119] localedata: Change Czech weekday names to lowercase
156 [27777] stdio: fclose does a linear search, takes ages when many FILE*
158 [29770] libc: prctl does not match manual page ABI on powerpc64le-
160 [29845] localedata: Update hr_HR locale currency to €
161 [30701] time: getutxent misbehaves on 32-bit x86 when _TIME_BITS=64
162 [31316] build: Fails test misc/tst-dirname "Didn't expect signal from
163 child: got `Illegal instruction'" on non SSE CPUs
164 [31317] dynamic-link: [RISCV] static PIE crashes during self
166 [31325] libc: mips: clone3 is wrong for o32
167 [31335] math: Compile glibc with -march=x86-64-v3 should disable FMA4
169 [31339] libc: arm32 loader crash after cleanup in 2.36
170 [31340] manual: A bad sentence in section 22.3.5 (resource.texi)
171 [31357] dynamic-link: $(objpfx)tst-rtld-list-diagnostics.out rule
172 doesn't work with test wrapper
173 [31370] localedata: wcwidth() does not treat
174 DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINTs as zero-width
175 [31371] dynamic-link: x86-64: APX and Tile registers aren't preserved
177 [31372] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic doesn't preserve all caller-
179 [31383] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 and __fortified_attr_access vs size of
180 0 and zero size types
181 [31385] build: sort-makefile-lines.py doesn't check variable with _
182 nor with "^# variable"
183 [31402] libc: clone (NULL, NULL, ...) clobbers %r7 register on
185 [31405] libc: Improve dl_iterate_phdr using _dl_find_object
186 [31411] localedata: Add Latgalian locale
187 [31412] build: GCC 6 failed to build i386 glibc on Fedora 39
188 [31429] build: Glibc failed to build with -march=x86-64-v3
189 [31468] libc: sigisemptyset returns true when the set contains signals
191 [31476] network: Automatic activation of single-request options break
192 resolv.conf reloading
193 [31479] libc: Missing #include <sys/rseq.h> in sched_getcpu.c may
194 result in a loss of rseq acceleration
195 [31501] dynamic-link: _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic_xsavec may clobber %rbx
196 [31518] manual: documentation: FLT_MAX_10_EXP questionable text, evtl.
198 [31530] localedata: Locale file for Moksha - mdf_RU
199 [31553] malloc: elf/tst-decorate-maps fails on ppc64el
200 [31596] libc: On the llvm-arm32 platform, dlopen("not_exist.so", -1)
201 triggers segmentation fault
202 [31600] math: math: x86 ceill traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
203 [31601] math: math: x86 floor traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
204 [31603] math: math: x86 trunc traps when FE_INEXACT is enabled
205 [31612] libc: arc4random fails to fallback to /dev/urandom if
206 getrandom is not present
207 [31629] build: powerpc64: Configuring with "--with-cpu=power10" and
208 'CFLAGS=-O2 -mcpu=power9' fails to build glibc
209 [31640] dynamic-link: POWER10 ld.so crashes in
210 elf_machine_load_address with GCC 14
211 [31661] libc: NPROCESSORS_CONF and NPROCESSORS_ONLN not available in
213 [31676] dynamic-link: Configuring with CC="gcc -march=x86-64-v3"
214 --with-rtld-early-cflags=-march=x86-64 results in linker failure
215 [31677] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache: invalid memcpy under low
216 memory/storage conditions
217 [31678] nscd: nscd: Null pointer dereferences after failed netgroup
219 [31679] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory
221 [31680] nscd: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer
223 [31682] math: [PowerPC] Floating point exception error for math test
224 test-ceil-except-2 test-floor-except-2 test-trunc-except-2
225 [31686] dynamic-link: Stack-based buffer overflow in
226 parse_tunables_string
227 [31695] libc: pidfd_spawn/pidfd_spawnp leak an fd if clone3 succeeds
229 [31719] dynamic-link: --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests doesn't work
230 with -Wl,--enable-new-dtags
231 [31730] libc: backtrace_symbols_fd prints different strings than
232 backtrace_symbols returns
233 [31753] build: FAIL: link-static-libc with GCC 6/7/8
234 [31755] libc: procutils_read_file doesn't start with a leading
236 [31756] libc: write_profiling is only in libc.a
237 [31757] build: Should XXXf128_do_not_use functions be excluded?
238 [31759] math: Extra nearbyint symbols in libm.a
239 [31760] math: Missing math functions
240 [31764] build: _res_opcodes should be a compat symbol only
241 [31765] dynamic-link: _dl_mcount_wrapper is exported without prototype
242 [31766] stdio: _IO_stderr_ _IO_stdin_ _IO_stdout should be compat
244 [31768] string: Extra stpncpy symbol in libc.a
245 [31770] libc: clone3 is in libc.a
246 [31774] libc: Missing __isnanf128 in libc.a
247 [31775] math: Missing exp10 exp10f32x exp10f64 fmod fmodf fmodf32
248 fmodf32x fmodf64 in libm.a
249 [31777] string: Extra memchr strlen symbols in libc.a
250 [31781] math: Missing math functions in libm.a
251 [31782] build: Test build failure with recent GCC trunk (x86/tst-cpu-
252 features-supports.c:69:3: error: parameter to builtin not valid:
254 [31785] string: loongarch: Extra strnlen symbols in libc.a
255 [31786] string: powerpc: Extra strchrnul and strncasecmp_l symbols in
257 [31787] math: powerpc: Extra llrintf, llrintf, llrintf32, and
258 llrintf32 symbols in libc.a
259 [31788] libc: microblaze: Extra cacheflush symbol in libc.a
260 [31789] libc: powerpc: Extra versionsort symbol in libc.a
261 [31790] libc: s390: Extra getutent32, getutent32_r, getutid32,
262 getutid32_r, getutline32, getutline32_r, getutmp32, getutmpx32,
263 getutxent32, getutxid32, getutxline32, pututline32, pututxline32,
264 updwtmp32, updwtmpx32 in libc.a
265 [31797] build: g++ -static requirement should be able to opt-out
266 [31798] libc: pidfd_getpid.c is miscompiled by GCC 6.4
267 [31802] time: difftime is pure not const
268 [31808] time: The supported time_t range is not documented.
269 [31840] stdio: Memory leak in _IO_new_fdopen (fdopen) on seek failure
270 [31867] build: "CPU ISA level is lower than required" on SSE2-free
272 [31876] time: "Date and time" documentation fixes for POSIX.1-2024 etc
273 [31883] build: ISA level support configure check relies on bashism /
274 is otherwise broken for arithmetic
275 [31892] build: Always install mtrace.
276 [31917] libc: clang mq_open fortify wrapper does not handle 4 argument
278 [31927] libc: clang open fortify wrapper does not handle argument
280 [31931] time: tzset may fault on very short TZ string
281 [31934] string: wcsncmp crash on s390x on vlbb instruction
282 [31963] stdio: Crash in _IO_link_in within __gcov_exit
283 [31965] dynamic-link: rseq extension mechanism does not work as
285 [31980] build: elf/tst-tunables-enable_secure-env fails on ppc
291 * A new tunable, glibc.cpu.plt_rewrite, can be used to enable PLT
292 rewrite on x86-64. When enabled with non-lazy binding, the dynamic
293 linker will rewrite indirect branches in PLT with direct branches.
295 * Sync with Linux kernel 6.6 shadow stack interface. The --enable-cet
296 configure option is only supported on x86-64.
298 * struct statvfs now has an f_type member, equal to the f_type statfs member;
299 on the Hurd this was always available under a reserved name,
300 and under Linux a spare has been allocated: it was always zero
301 in previous versions of glibc, and zero is not a valid result.
303 * On Linux, the functions posix_spawnattr_getcgroup_np and
304 posix_spawnattr_setcgroup_np have been added, along with the
305 POSIX_SPAWN_SETCGROUP flag. They allow posix_spawn and posix_spawnp
306 to set the cgroupv2 in the new process in a race-free manner. These
307 functions are GNU extensions and require a kernel with clone3 support.
309 * On Linux, the pidfd_spawn and pidfd_spawp functions have been added.
310 They have a similar prototype and semantic as posix_spawn, but instead of
311 returning a process ID, they return a file descriptor that can be used
312 along other pidfd functions (like pidfd_send_signal, poll, or waitid).
313 The pidfd functionality avoids the issue of PID reuse with the traditional
314 posix_spawn interface.
316 * On Linux, the pidfd_getpid function has been added. It allows retrieving
317 the process ID associated with the process file descriptor created by
318 pid_spawn, fork_np, or pidfd_open.
320 * scanf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
321 arguments pointing to types intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or
322 uint_leastN_t (for example, %w32d to read int32_t or int_least32_t in
323 decimal, or %w32x to read uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal)
324 and the wfN format length modifiers for arguments pointing to types
325 int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as specified in draft ISO C2X.
327 * A new tunable, glibc.mem.decorate_maps, can be used to add additional
328 information on underlying memory allocated by the glibc (for instance,
329 on thread stack created by pthread_create or memory allocated by
332 * The <stdbit.h> header has been added from ISO C2X, with
333 stdc_leading_zeros, stdc_leading_ones, stdc_trailing_zeros,
334 stdc_trailing_ones, stdc_first_leading_zero, stdc_first_leading_one,
335 stdc_first_trailing_zero, stdc_first_trailing_one, stdc_count_zeros,
336 stdc_count_ones, stdc_has_single_bit, stdc_bit_width, stdc_bit_floor
337 and stdc_bit_ceil function families, each having functions for
338 unsigned char, unsigned short, unsigned int, unsigned long int and
339 unsigned long long int, and a type-generic macro.
341 * On AArch64 new symbols were added to libmvec and now math.h has
342 annotations to allow GCC 9 or newer to auto-vectorize calls to the
343 following scalar math functions when -ffast-math is specified:
344 acos, acosf, asin, asinf, atan, atanf, atan2, atan2f, cos, cosf,
345 exp, expf, exp10, exp10f, exp2, exp2f, expm1, expm1f, log, logf,
346 log10, log10f, log1p, log1pf, log2, log2f, sin, sinf, tan, tanf.
348 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
350 * The ldconfig program now skips file names containing ';' or ending in
351 ".dpkg.tmp" or ".dpkg.new", to avoid examining temporary files created
352 by the RPM and dpkg package managers.
354 * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure
355 options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer
356 available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be
357 installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt
358 function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into
359 existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration
360 is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release.
362 The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from
363 GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing
364 binary backward compatibility with the former libcrypt. It is currently
365 distributed from <https://github.com/besser82/libxcrypt/>.
367 As a consequence of this removal, GNU libc no longer makes any use of
368 the NSS cryptography library (Network Security Services; not to be
369 confused with Name Service Switch). Distributors of binary packages
370 of GNU libc are advised to check whether their build processes can be
373 * The dynamic linker calls the malloc and free functions in more cases
374 during TLS access if a shared object with dynamic TLS is loaded and
375 unloaded. This can result in an infinite recursion if a malloc
376 replacement library or its dependencies use dynamic TLS instead of
379 * The ia64*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
381 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
383 * Building on LoongArch requires at a minimum binutils 2.41 for vector
386 Security related changes:
388 The following CVEs were fixed in this release, details of which can be
389 found in the advisories directory of the release tarball:
392 getaddrinfo: Stack read overflow in no-aaaa mode (CVE-2023-4527)
395 getaddrinfo: Potential use-after-free (CVE-2023-4806)
398 tunables: local privilege escalation through buffer overflow
402 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6246)
405 syslog: Heap buffer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6779)
408 syslog: Integer overflow in __vsyslog_internal (CVE-2023-6780)
411 ISO-2022-CN-EXT: fix out-of-bound writes when writing escape
412 sequence (CVE-2024-2961)
415 nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache (CVE-2024-33599)
418 nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response
422 nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation
423 failure (CVE-2024-33601)
426 nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings
429 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
431 [14522] localedata: fy_DE: LC_IDENTIFICATION data looks weird
432 [19305] libc: qsort() should return early if (nmemb <= 1)
433 [19479] localedata: gbm_IN: new Garhwali Locale
434 [19924] dynamic-link: TLS performance degradation after dlopen
435 [19956] localedata: ssy_ER: rename from aa_ER@saaho
436 [21719] libc: stdlib/msort : optimizing merge sort
437 [22526] localedata: th_TH LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
438 [23012] localedata: el_GR: Greece now uses the 24h format for time
439 [23172] localedata: miq_NI: Provide actually abbreviated month names
440 [24006] localedata: Cyclic dependencies via copy in locales
441 [24013] localedata: am_pm definitions for es_ES
442 [24386] localedata: crh_RU: new locale
443 [24877] localedata: [Redundant Data] Remove redundant data between
445 [25868] localedata: Incorrect trailing spaces in weekday names for
447 [26752] localedata: Please add the new locale zgh_MA
448 [27069] dynamic-link: Need a way to tell if a tunable is set by user
449 [27163] localedata: Error on test glk_IR with localedef
450 [27312] localedata: su_ID: new Sundanese locale
451 [27547] manual: "Summary of malloc-Related Functions" shows wrong
452 argument order for `aligned_alloc` and `memalign`
453 [27574] libc: glibc should probably not define __WORDSIZE=64 for
455 [27601] localedata: License information update in
456 localedata/locales/ast_ES
457 [28558] localedata: it_IT LC_MONETARY outdated p_cs_precedes and
459 [28787] localedata: Add information for Occitan
460 [29039] dynamic-link: Corrupt DTV after reuse of a TLS module ID
461 following dlclose with unused TLS
462 [29486] localedata: New Zealand locales (en_NZ & mi_NZ) first day of
463 week should be Monday
464 [29504] localedata: Incorrect/misleading Time Format For ms_MY (AM/PM)
465 [29506] localedata: UTF-8 HANGUL SYLLABLE bugs
466 [30349] libc: Support returning a pidfd from posix_spawn()
467 [30412] localedata: d_t_fmt in id_ID uses %r placeholder but am_pm and
468 t_fmt_ampm are undefined
469 [30605] localedata: New locale for Komi language
470 [30649] localedata: [PATCH] Add transliteration of common emojis to
472 [30694] locale: The iconv program no longer tells the user which given
473 encoding name was wrong
474 [30709] nscd: nscd fails to build with cleanup handler if built with
476 [30737] libc: fdopendir() is not robust - returns bogus DIR* instead
478 [30740] build: [m68k] undefined reference to
479 `_wordcopy_fwd_dest_aligned'
480 [30745] libc: Slight bug in cache info codes for x86
481 [30750] network: Unaligned accesses in resolver
482 [30773] math: [m68k] busybox awk is broken (lshift.S related)
483 [30789] libc: [2.38 Regression] sem_open will fail on multithreaded
484 scenarios when semaphore file doesn't exist (O_CREAT)
485 [30800] nscd: Improper assert in prune_cache triggers if clock jumps
487 [30804] libc: F_GETLK, F_SETLK, and F_SETLKW value change for
488 powerpc64 with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64
489 [30842] network: Stack read overflow in getaddrinfo in no-aaaa mode
491 [30843] network: potential use-after-free in getcanonname
493 [30854] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.1.0
494 [30884] network: Memory leak in getaddrinfo after fix for bug 30843
496 [30932] libc: Fortify Source has false-positives when too many files
498 [30945] malloc: Core affinity setting incurs lock contentions between
500 [30960] math: signed integer overflow in
501 glibc/sysdeps/s390/fpu/feenablxcpt.c
502 [30964] locale: Number grouping check mishandles multibyte thousands
504 [30981] dynamic-link: dlclose does not properly implement force-first
506 [30988] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
508 [30989] math: fesetexcept raises floating-point exception traps on
510 [30990] libc: fesetexceptflag raises floating-point exception traps on
512 [30998] math: fesetexceptflag clears too many floating-point exception
514 [31019] manual: The documentation of feenableexcept is incomplete
515 [31022] math: feupdateenv (FE_DFL_ENV) crashes on riscv
516 [31035] libc: Library search path terminates on relative non-directory
518 [31042] libc: [s390x] .init and .fini padding
519 [31068] libc: sysdeps: sparc: invalid data access in memset due to
521 [31078] manual: Code example in "Noncanonical Mode Example" has unused
523 [31086] localedata: Errors in Tibetan, Dzongkha data
524 [31113] string: Wrong unwind information for rawmemchr on aarch64
525 [31151] libc: [RISC-V] missing support for profile/audit PLT setup
526 [31163] nss: getaddrinfo returns EAI_NONAME in oom situation
527 [31183] stdio: Wide stream buffer size reduced MB_LEN_MAX bytes after
529 [31184] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-tlsgap
530 [31185] dynamic-link: Incorrect thread point access in
531 _dl_tlsdesc_undefweak and _dl_tlsdesc_dynamic
532 [31187] dynamic-link: Some CET tests fail with GCC 14
533 [31204] localedata: Fix decimal point and thousands separator for
535 [31205] localedata: Inconsistent (mon_)grouping formats
536 [31218] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite overflows large displacement on x32
537 [31221] localedata: Add localedata for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
538 [31230] dynamic-link: PLT rewrite failed without SELinux
539 [31239] localedata: anp_IN locale: abbreviated month names are the
540 same as the full month names
541 [31244] nptl: pthread_cancel hangs on sparc32
542 [31257] localedata: Sync with CLDR: “Turkey” -> “Türkiye”
543 [31266] string: sparc: string/tst-memmove-overflow fails on 32-bit
545 [31276] libc: Wrong condition for heap allocation in qsort_r
551 * When C2X features are enabled and the base argument is 0 or 2, the
552 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
553 input: strtol, strtoll, strtoul, strtoull, strtol_l, strtoll_l,
554 strtoul_l, strtoull_l, strtoimax, strtoumax, strtoq, strtouq, wcstol,
555 wcstoll, wcstoul, wcstoull, wcstol_l, wcstoll_l, wcstoul_l,
556 wcstoull_l, wcstoimax, wcstoumax, wcstoq, wcstouq. Similarly, the
557 following functions support binary integers prefixed by 0b or 0B as
558 input to the %i format: fscanf, scanf, sscanf, vscanf, vsscanf,
559 vfscanf, fwscanf, wscanf, swscanf, vfwscanf, vwscanf, vswscanf; those
560 functions also support the %b format for binary integers, with or
561 without such a prefix and independent of standards mode.
563 * PRIb*, PRIB* and SCNb* macros from C2X have been added to
566 * printf-family functions now support the wN format length modifiers for
567 arguments of type intN_t, int_leastN_t, uintN_t or uint_leastN_t (for
568 example, %w32d to print int32_t or int_least32_t in decimal, or %w32x
569 to print uint32_t or uint_least32_t in hexadecimal) and the wfN format
570 length modifiers for arguments of type int_fastN_t or uint_fastN_t, as
571 specified in draft ISO C2X.
573 * A new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb, can be used to disable
574 Transparent Huge Pages (THP) in stack allocation at pthread_create.
576 * Support for x86_64 running on Hurd has been added. This port requires
577 as least binutils 2.40 and GCC 13:
581 * Vector math library libmvec support has been added to AArch64. It
582 requires GCC version >= 10.1.0. It can be disabled via
583 "--disable-mathvec", however that is not a supported configuration as
584 it changes the ABI. The symbol names follow the AArch64 vector ABI,
585 they are declared in math.h and have to be called manually at this point.
587 * The strlcpy and strlcat functions have been added. They are derived
588 from OpenBSD, and are expected to be added to a future POSIX version.
590 * A new configure option, "--enable-fortify-source", can be used to build the
591 GNU C Library with _FORTIFY_SOURCE. The level of fortification can either be
592 provided, or is set to the highest value supported by the compiler. If not
593 explicitly enabled, then fortify source is forcibly disabled so to keep
594 original behavior unchanged.
596 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
598 * libcrypt is no longer built by default; one may use the "--enable-crypt"
599 option to build libcrypt. libcrypt is likely to be removed from the
600 GNU C Library in a future release, so it is recommended that
601 applications port away from it to an alternative such as libxcrypt.
603 * In the Linux kernel for the hppa/parisc architecture some of the
604 MADV_XXX constants were changed to have the same values as the other
605 architectures. New programs compiled with this glibc version and which
606 use the madvise call will require at least Linux kernel version 6.2,
607 alternatively stable kernels from versions 6.1.6, 5.15.87, 5.10.163,
608 5.4.228, 4.19.270 or 4.14.303.
610 * The "--disable-experimental-malloc" option is no longer available. The
611 per-thread cache can still be disabled per-application using tunables
612 (glibc.malloc.tcache_count set to zero).
614 * The configure option "--enable-tunables" has been removed. The tunable
615 feature is now always enabled.
617 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
619 * Building libmvec on AArch64 requires at a minimum GCC 10.1.0 for SVE
622 Security related changes:
624 CVE-2023-25139: When the printf family of functions is called with a
625 format specifier that uses an <apostrophe> (enable grouping) and a
626 minimum width specifier, the resulting output could be larger than
627 reasonably expected by a caller that computed a tight bound on the
628 buffer size. The resulting larger than expected output could result
629 in a buffer overflow in the printf family of functions.
631 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
633 [178] string: Please add strlcpy and strlcat (attached)
634 [14697] nptl: Behavior of exit is nonconformant with respect to
636 [15142] stdio: Missing locking in _IO_cleanup
637 [18096] glob: null deref in wordexp/parse_dollars/parse_arith
638 [18906] stdio: fopen: ccs value may affect open mode
639 [24466] stdio: Feature request: provide special printf formats for
641 [25457] nss: hosts lookup fails for ipv4mapped ipv6 addresses
642 [28519] libc: system and popen should pass "--" between /bin/sh and
644 [29016] stdio: popen() sets errno to ENOMEM when shell does not exist
645 [29591] string: wcsnlen length can overflow in page cross case.
646 [30053] time: strftime %s returns -1 after 2038 on 32 bits systems
647 [30068] stdio: incorrect printf output for integers with thousands
648 separator and width field (CVE-2023-25139)
649 [30111] time: support_descriptors_list fails after 2038 on 32 bits
651 [30125] dynamic-link: [regression, bisected] glibc-2.37 creates new
652 symlink for libraries without soname
653 [30130] math: [s390] The _FPU_SETCW macro yields compile error with
655 [30156] time: Potential ntp_gettime abi break
656 [30235] libc: Missing fallback in getlogin if loginuid is unset
657 [30258] dynamic-link: sprof cannot read and display shared object
658 profiling data correctly
659 [30263] libc: Add test coverage for abs(), labs(), and llabs().
660 [30305] math: Incorrect asm constraint in feraiseexcept on x86-64
661 [30402] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-glibcelf
662 [30425] dynamic-link: Symbol lookup during dlclose may fail
664 [30435] dynamic-link: Root dir wrongly marked as nonexist in open_path
665 [30477] libc: [RISCV]: time64 does not work on riscv32
666 [30515] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object incorrectly returns 1 during
668 [30527] network: resolv_conf lock not unlocked on allocation failure
669 [30550] math: powerpc64le: GCC-specific code for isinf() is being used
671 [30555] string: strerror can incorrectly return NULL
672 [30579] malloc: trim_threshold in realloc lead to high memory usage
673 [30662] nscd: Group and password cache use errno in place of errval
679 * The getent tool now supports the --no-addrconfig option. The output of
680 getent with --no-addrconfig may contain addresses of families not
681 configured on the current host i.e. as-if you had not passed
682 AI_ADDRCONFIG to getaddrinfo calls.
684 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
686 * The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the "tls"
687 subdirectories on the library search path or the subdirectory that
688 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, or employs the legacy AT_HWCAP
689 search mechanism, which was deprecated in version 2.33.
691 Security related changes:
693 CVE-2022-39046: When the syslog function is passed a crafted input
694 string larger than 1024 bytes, it reads uninitialized memory from the
695 heap and prints it to the target log file, potentially revealing a
696 portion of the contents of the heap.
698 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
700 [12154] network: Cannot resolve hosts which have wildcard aliases
701 [12165] libc: readdir: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
702 [19444] build: build failures with -O1 due to -Wmaybe-uninitialized
703 [24774] nptl: pthread_rwlock_timedwrlock stalls on ARM
704 [24816] nss: nss/tst-nss-files-hosts-long fails when no interface has
705 AF_INET6 address (ie docker)
706 [27087] stdio: PowerPC: Redefinition error with Clang from IEEE
708 [28846] network: CMSG_NXTHDR may trigger -Wstrict-overflow warning
709 [28937] dynamic-link: New DSO dependency sorter does not put new map
711 [29249] libc: csu/libc-tls.c:202: undefined reference to
712 `_startup_fatal_not_constant'
713 [29305] network: Inefficient buffer space usage in nss_dns for
714 gethostbyname and other functions
715 [29375] libc: don't hide MAP_ANONYMOUS behind _GNU_SOURCE
716 [29402] nscd: nscd: No such file or directory
717 [29415] nscd: getaddrinfo with AI_ADDRCONFIG returns addresses with
719 [29427] dynamic-link: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dl-printf.c:
720 200: _dl_debug_vdprintf: Assertion `! "invalid format specifier"'
722 [29463] math: math/test-float128-y1 fails on x86_64
723 [29485] build: Make hangs when the test misc/tst-pidfile returns
725 [29490] dynamic-link: [bisected] new __brk_call causes dynamic loader
727 [29499] build: Check failed on misc/tst-glibcsyscalls while building
728 for RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
729 [29501] build: Check failed on stdlib/tst-strfrom while building for
730 RISCV64 on a unmatched hardware
731 [29502] libc: alpha sys/acct.h out of date
732 [29514] build: Need to use -fPIE not -fpie
733 [29528] dynamic-link: __libc_early_init not called after dlmopen that
735 [29536] libc: syslog fail to create large messages (CVE-2022-39046)
736 [29537] libc: [2.34 regression]: Alignment issue on m68k when using
738 [29539] libc: LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS changed how vDSO library are
740 [29544] libc: Regression in syslog(3) calls breaks RFC due to extra
742 [29564] build: Incorrect way to change MAKEFLAGS in Makerules
743 [29576] build: librtld.os: in function `_dl_start_profile':
744 (.text+0x9444): undefined reference to `strcpy'
745 [29578] libc: Definition of SUN_LEN() is wrong
746 [29583] build: iconv failures on 32bit platform due to missing large
748 [29600] dynamic-link: dlmopen hangs after loading certain libraries
749 [29604] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 15.0.0
750 [29605] nscd: Regression in NSCD backend of getaddrinfo
751 [29607] nscd: nscd repeatably crashes calling __strlen_avx2 when hosts
753 [29611] string: Optimized AVX2 string functions unconditionally use
755 [29624] malloc: errno is not cleared when entering main
756 [29638] libc: stdlib: arc4random fallback is never used
757 [29657] libc: Incorrect struct stat for 64-bit time on linux/generic
759 [29698] build: Configuring for AArch32 on ARMv8+ disables
761 [29727] locale: __strtol_internal out-of-bounds read when parsing
763 [29730] libc: broken y2038 support in fstatat on MIPS N64
764 [29746] libc: ppoll() does not switch to __ppoll64 when
765 -D_TIME_BITS=64 and -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 is given on 32bit
766 [29771] libc: Restore IPC_64 support in sysvipc *ctl functions
767 [29780] build: possible parallel make issue in glibc-2.36 (siglist-
768 aux.S: No such file or directory)
769 [29864] libc: __libc_start_main() should obtain program headers
770 address (_dl_phdr) from the auxv, not the ELF header.
771 [29951] time: daylight variable not set correctly if last DST change
772 coincides with offset change
773 [30039] stdio: __vsprintf_internal does not handle unspecified buffer
774 length in fortify mode
780 * Support for DT_RELR relative relocation format has been added to
781 glibc. This is a new ELF dynamic tag that improves the size of
782 relative relocations in shared object files and position independent
783 executables (PIE). DT_RELR generation requires linker support for
784 -z pack-relative-relocs option, which is supported for some targets
785 in recent binutils versions. Lazy binding doesn't apply to DT_RELR.
787 * On Linux, the pidfd_open, pidfd_getfd, and pidfd_send_signal functions
788 have been added. The pidfd functionality provides access to a process
789 while avoiding the issue of PID reuse on traditional Unix systems.
791 * On Linux, the process_madvise function has been added. It has the
792 same functionality as madvise but alters the target process identified
795 * On Linux, the process_mrelease function has been added. It allows a
796 caller to release the memory of a dying process. The release of the
797 memory is carried out in the context of the caller, using the caller's
798 CPU affinity, and priority with CPU usage accounted to the caller.
800 * The “no-aaaa” DNS stub resolver option has been added. System
801 administrators can use it to suppress AAAA queries made by the stub
802 resolver, including AAAA lookups triggered by NSS-based interfaces
803 such as getaddrinfo. Only DNS lookups are affected: IPv6 data in
804 /etc/hosts is still used, getaddrinfo with AI_PASSIVE will still
805 produce IPv6 addresses, and configured IPv6 name servers are still
806 used. To produce correct Name Error (NXDOMAIN) results, AAAA queries
807 are translated to A queries. The new resolver option is intended
808 primarily for diagnostic purposes, to rule out that AAAA DNS queries
809 have adverse impact. It is incompatible with EDNS0 usage and DNSSEC
810 validation by applications.
812 * On Linux, the fsopen, fsmount, move_mount, fsconfig, fspick, open_tree,
813 and mount_setattr have been added. They are part of the new Linux kernel
814 mount APIs that allow applications to more flexibly configure and operate
815 on filesystem mounts. The new mount APIs are specifically designed to work
818 * localedef now accepts locale definition files encoded in UTF-8.
819 Previously, input bytes not within the ASCII range resulted in
820 unpredictable output.
822 * Support for the mbrtoc8 and c8rtomb multibyte/UTF-8 character conversion
823 functions has been added per the ISO C2X N2653 and C++20 P0482R6 proposals.
824 Support for the char8_t typedef has been added per the ISO C2X N2653
825 proposal. The functions are declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
826 _GNU_SOURCE macro or C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro is defined.
827 The char8_t typedef is declared in uchar.h in C2X mode or when the
828 _GNU_SOURCE macro is defined and the C++20 __cpp_char8_t feature test macro
829 is not defined (if __cpp_char8_t is defined, then char8_t is a builtin type).
831 * The functions arc4random, arc4random_buf, and arc4random_uniform have been
832 added. The functions wrap getrandom and/or /dev/urandom to return high-
833 quality randomness from the kernel.
835 * Support for LoongArch running on Linux has been added. This port requires
836 as least binutils 2.38, GCC 12, and Linux 5.19. Currently only hard-float
839 - loongarch64-linux-gnu
841 The LoongArch ABI is 64-bit little-endian.
843 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
845 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
846 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
847 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
849 * The Linux kernel version check has been removed along with the
850 LD_ASSUME_KERNEL environment variable. The minimum kernel used to built
851 glibc is still provided through NT_GNU_ABI_TAG ELF note and also printed
852 when libc.so is issued directly.
854 * On Linux, The LD_LIBRARY_VERSION environment variable has been removed.
856 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
858 [14932] dynamic-link: dlsym(handle, "foo") and dlsym(RTLD_NEXT, "foo")
859 return different result with versioned "foo"
860 [16355] libc: syslog.h's SYSLOG_NAMES namespace violation and utter
862 [23293] dynamic-link: aarch64: getauxval is broken when run as ld.so
863 ./exe and ld.so adjusts argv on the stack
864 [24595] nptl: [2.28 Regression]: Deadlock in atfork handler which
866 [25744] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS returns 2 instead of 1 when
867 consuming the second byte of certain double byte characters
868 [25812] stdio: Libio vtable protection is sometimes only partially
870 [27054] libc: pthread_atfork handlers that call pthread_atfork
872 [27924] dynamic-link: ld.so: Support DT_RELR relative relocation
874 [28128] build: declare_symbol_alias doesn't work for assembly codes
875 [28566] network: getnameinfo with NI_NOFQDN is not thread safe
876 [28752] nss: Segfault in getpwuid when stat fails
877 [28815] libc: realpath should not copy to resolved buffer on error
878 [28828] stdio: fputwc crashes
879 [28838] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-p_align3
880 [28845] locale: ld-monetary.c should be updated to match ISO C and
882 [28850] libc: linux: __get_nprocs_sched reads uninitialized memory
884 [28852] libc: getaddrinfo leaks memory with AI_ALL
885 [28853] libc: tst-spawn6 changes current foreground process group
886 (breaks test isolation)
887 [28857] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-audit24a
888 [28860] build: --enable-kernel=5.1.0 build fails because of missing
889 __convert_scm_timestamps
890 [28865] libc: linux: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF and _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN are
891 inaccurate without /sys and /proc
892 [28868] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader DFS algorithm segfaults on
894 [28880] libc: Program crashes if date beyond 2038
895 [28883] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/select.c: __select64
896 !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS && !__ASSUME_PSELECT fails on Microblaze
897 [28896] string: strncmp-avx2-rtm and wcsncmp-avx2-rtm fallback on non-
898 rtm variants when avoiding overflow
899 [28922] build: The .d dependency files aren't always generated
900 [28931] libc: hosts lookup broken for SUCCESS=CONTINUE and
902 [28936] build: nm: No such file
903 [28950] localedata: Add locale for ISO code "tok" (Toki Pona)
904 [28953] nss: NSS lookup result can be incorrect if function lookup
906 [28970] math: benchtest: libmvec benchmark doesn't build with make
908 [28991] libc: sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF) should read
909 /sys/devices/system/cpu/possible
910 [28993] libc: closefrom() iterates until max int if no access to
912 [28996] libc: realpath fails to copy partial result to resolved buffer
914 [29027] math: [ia64] fabs fails with sNAN input
915 [29029] nptl: poll() spuriously returns EINTR during thread
916 cancellation and with cancellation disabled
917 [29030] string: GLIBC 2.35 regression - Fortify crash on certain valid
918 uses of mbsrtowcs (*** buffer overflow detected ***: terminated)
919 [29062] dynamic-link: Memory leak in _dl_find_object_update if object
920 is promoted to global scope
921 [29069] libc: fstatat64_time64_statx wrapper broken on MIPS N32 with
922 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 and -D_TIME_BITS=64
923 [29071] dynamic-link: m68k: Removal of ELF_DURING_STARTUP optimization
925 [29097] time: fchmodat does not handle 64 bit time_t for
927 [29109] libc: posix_spawn() always returns 1 (EPERM) on clone()
929 [29141] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 fail for gcc 12/glibc 2.35
930 [29162] string: [PATCH] string.h syntactic error:
931 include/bits/string_fortified.h:110: error: expected ',' or ';'
932 before '__fortified_attr_access'
933 [29165] libc: [Regression] broken argv adjustment
934 [29187] dynamic-link: [regression] broken argv adjustment for nios2
935 [29193] math: sincos produces a different output than sin/cos
936 [29197] string: __strncpy_power9() uses uninitialised register vs18
937 value for filling after \0
938 [29203] libc: daemon is not y2038 aware
939 [29204] libc: getusershell is not 2038 aware
940 [29207] libc: posix_fallocate fallback implementation is not y2038
942 [29208] libc: fpathconf(_PC_ASYNC_IO) is not y2038 aware
943 [29209] libc: isfdtype is not y2038 aware
944 [29210] network: ruserpass is not y2038 aware
945 [29211] libc: __open_catalog is not y2038 aware
946 [29213] libc: gconv_parseconfdir is not y2038 aware
947 [29214] nptl: pthread_setcanceltype fails to set type
948 [29225] network: Mistyped define statement in socket/sys/socket.h in
950 [29274] nptl: __read_chk is not a cancellation point
951 [29279] libc: undefined reference to `mbstowcs_chk' after
952 464d189b9622932a75302290625de84931656ec0
953 [29304] libc: mq_timedreceive does not handle 64 bit syscall return
954 correct for !__ASSUME_TIME64_SYSCALLS
955 [29403] libc: st_atim, st_mtim, st_ctim stat struct members are
956 missing on microblaze with largefile
962 * Unicode 14.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
963 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 14.0.0, using
964 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
966 * Bump r_version in the debugger interface to 2 and add a new field,
967 r_next, support multiple namespaces.
969 * Support for the C.UTF-8 locale has been added to glibc. The locale
970 supports full code-point sorting for all valid Unicode code points. A
971 limitation in the framework for fnmatch, regexec, and regcomp requires
972 a compromise to save space and only ASCII-based range expressions are
973 supported for now (see bug 28255). The full size of the locale is
974 only ~400KiB, with 346KiB coming from LC_CTYPE information for
975 Unicode. This locale harmonizes downstream C.UTF-8 already shipping
976 in various downstream distributions. The locale is not built into
977 glibc, and must be installed.
979 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type, and
980 corresponding <tgmath.h> macros, are added from TS 18661-1:2014, TS
981 18661-3:2015 and draft ISO C2X:
983 - fsqrt, fsqrtl, dsqrtl and corresponding fMsqrtfN, fMsqrtfNx,
984 fMxsqrtfN and fMxsqrtfNx functions.
986 - ffma, ffmal, dfmal and corresponding fMfmafN, fMfmafNx, fMxfmafN and
989 * <math.h> functions for floating-point maximum and minimum,
990 corresponding to new operations in IEEE 754-2019, and corresponding
991 <tgmath.h> macros, are added from draft ISO C2X: fmaximum,
992 fmaximum_num, fmaximum_mag, fmaximum_mag_num, fminimum, fminimum_num,
993 fminimum_mag, fminimum_mag_num and corresponding functions for float,
994 long double, _FloatN and _FloatNx.
996 * <math.h> macros for single-precision float constants are added as a
997 GNU extension: M_Ef, M_LOG2Ef, M_LOG10Ef, M_LN2f, M_LN10f, M_PIf,
998 M_PI_2f, M_PI_4f, M_1_PIf, M_2_PIf, M_2_SQRTPIf, M_SQRT2f and
1001 * The __STDC_IEC_60559_BFP__ and __STDC_IEC_60559_COMPLEX__ macros are
1002 predefined as specified in TS 18661-1:2014.
1004 * The exp10 functions in <math.h> now have a corresponding type-generic
1005 macro in <tgmath.h>.
1007 * The ISO C2X macro _PRINTF_NAN_LEN_MAX has been added to <stdio.h>.
1009 * printf-family functions now support the %b format for output of
1010 integers in binary, as specified in draft ISO C2X, and the %B variant
1011 of that format recommended by draft ISO C2X.
1013 * A new DSO sorting algorithm has been added in the dynamic linker that uses
1014 topological sorting by depth-first search (DFS), solving performance issues
1015 of the existing sorting algorithm when encountering particular circular
1016 object dependency cases.
1018 * A new tunable, glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort, can be used to select between
1019 the two DSO sorting algorithms. The default setting of '2' uses the
1020 new DFS-based algorithm. The setting '1' switches to the old
1021 algorithm used in glibc 2.33 and earlier.
1023 * ABI support for a new function '__memcmpeq'. '__memcmpeq' is meant
1024 to be used by compilers for optimizing usage of 'memcmp' when its
1025 return value is only used for its boolean status.
1027 * Support for automatically registering threads with the Linux rseq
1028 system call has been added. This system call is implemented starting
1029 from Linux 4.18. The Restartable Sequences ABI accelerates user-space
1030 operations on per-cpu data. It allows user-space to perform updates
1031 on per-cpu data without requiring heavy-weight atomic operations.
1032 Automatically registering threads allows all libraries, including
1033 libc, to make immediate use of the rseq support by using the
1034 documented ABI, via the __rseq_flags, __rseq_offset, and __rseq_size
1035 variables. The GNU C Library manual has details on integration of
1036 Restartable Sequences.
1038 * A symbolic link to the dynamic linker is now installed under
1039 /usr/bin/ld.so (or more precisely, '${bindir}/ld.so').
1041 * All programs and the testsuite in glibc are now built as position independent
1042 executables (PIE) by default on toolchains and architectures that support it.
1043 Further, if the toolchain and architecture supports it, even static programs
1044 are built as PIE and the resultant glibc can be used to build static PIE
1045 executables. A new option --disable-default-pie has been added to disable
1046 this behavior and get a non-PIE build. This option replaces
1047 --enable-static-pie, which no longer has any effect on the build
1050 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.malloc.hugetlb, can be used to
1051 either make malloc issue madvise plus MADV_HUGEPAGE on mmap and sbrk
1052 or to use huge pages directly with mmap calls with the MAP_HUGETLB
1053 flags). The former can improve performance when Transparent Huge Pages
1054 is set to 'madvise' mode while the latter uses the system reserved
1057 * The printf family of functions now handles the flagged %#m conversion
1058 specifier, printing errno as an error constant (similar to strerrorname_np).
1060 * The function _dl_find_object has been added. In-process unwinders
1061 can use it to efficiently locate unwinding information for a code
1064 * Support for OpenRISC running on Linux has been added. This port requires
1065 as least binutils 2.35, GCC 11, and Linux 5.4. Currently only soft-float
1070 The OpenRISC ABI is 32-bit big-endian and uses 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and
1071 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1073 * A new configure option, --with-rtld-early-cflags, can be used to
1074 specify additional compiler flags for building the early startup code
1075 of the dynamic linker. On targets which have CPU compatibility
1076 checks, this can help to ensure that proper diagnostics are printed if
1077 the dynamic loader runs on an incompatible CPU.
1079 * On Linux, the epoll_pwait2 function has been added. It is similar to
1080 epoll_wait with the difference the timeout has nanoseconds resolution.
1082 * The function posix_spawn_file_actions_addtcsetpgrp_np has been added,
1083 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to set the controlling terminal in
1084 the new process in a race free manner. This function is a GNU extension.
1086 * Source fortification (_FORTIFY_SOURCE) level 3 is now available for
1087 applications compiling with glibc and gcc 12 and later. Level 3 leverages
1088 the __builtin_dynamic_object_size function to deliver additional
1089 fortification balanced against additional runtime cost (checking non-constant
1092 * The audit libraries will avoid unnecessary slowdown if it is not required
1093 PLT tracking (by not implementing the la_pltenter or la_pltexit callbacks).
1095 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1097 * On x86-64, the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC environment variable support
1098 has been removed since the first PT_LOAD segment is no longer executable
1099 due to defaulting to -z separate-code.
1101 * The r_version update in the debugger interface makes the glibc binary
1102 incompatible with GDB binaries built without the following commits:
1104 c0154a4a21a gdb: Don't assume r_ldsomap when r_version > 1 on Linux
1105 4eb629d50d4 gdbserver: Check r_version < 1 for Linux debugger interface
1107 when audit modules or dlmopen are used.
1109 * Intel MPX support (lazy PLT, ld.so profile, and LD_AUDIT) has been removed.
1111 * The --enable-static-pie option is no longer available. The glibc build
1112 configuration script now automatically detects static-pie support in the
1113 toolchain and architecture and enables it if available.
1115 * The catchsegv script and associated libSegFault.so shared object have
1116 been removed. There are widely-deployed out-of-process alternatives for
1117 catching coredumps and backtraces.
1119 * Support for prelink will be removed in the next release; this includes
1120 removal of the LD_TRACE_PRELINKING, and LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS, environment
1121 variables and their functionality in the dynamic loader.
1123 * The LD_TRACE_PRELINKING environment variable has been removed. Similar
1124 functionality to obtain the program mapping address can be achieved by
1125 using LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS to value of 2.
1127 * The LD_USE_LOAD_BIAS has been removed. The variable was mainly used to
1128 support prelink PIE binaries.
1130 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1132 * The audit module interface version LAV_CURRENT is increased to enable
1133 proper bind-now support. The loader now advertises via the la_symbind
1134 flags that PLT trace is not possible. New audit modules require the
1135 new dynamic loader supporting the latest LAV_CURRENT version. Old audit
1136 modules are still loaded for all targets except aarch64.
1138 * The audit interface on aarch64 is extended to support both the indirect
1139 result location register (x8) and NEON Q register. Old audit modules are
1140 rejected by the loader. Audit modules must be rebuilt to use the newer
1141 structure sizes and the latest module interface version for LAV_CURRENT.
1143 Security related changes:
1145 CVE-2022-23219: Passing an overlong file name to the clnt_create
1146 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow when
1147 using the "unix" protocol. Reported by Martin Sebor.
1149 CVE-2022-23218: Passing an overlong file name to the svcunix_create
1150 legacy function could result in a stack-based buffer overflow.
1152 CVE-2021-3998: Passing a path longer than PATH_MAX to the realpath
1153 function could result in a memory leak and potential access of
1154 uninitialized memory. Reported by Qualys.
1156 CVE-2021-3999: Passing a buffer of size exactly 1 byte to the getcwd
1157 function may result in an off-by-one buffer underflow and overflow
1158 when the current working directory is longer than PATH_MAX and also
1159 corresponds to the / directory through an unprivileged mount
1160 namespace. Reported by Qualys.
1162 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1164 [12889] nptl: Race condition in pthread_kill
1165 [14232] nptl: tst-cancel7 and tst-cancelx7 race condition
1166 [14913] libc: [mips] Clean up MIPS 64-bit register-dump.h output
1167 [15310] dynamic-link: _dl_sort_fini is O(n^3) causing slow exit when
1169 [15333] libc: Use 64-bit stat functions in installed programs
1170 [15533] dynamic-link: LD_AUDIT introduces an avoidable performance
1172 [15971] dynamic-link: No interface for debugger access to libraries
1174 [17318] locale: [RFE] Provide a C.UTF-8 locale by default
1175 [17645] dynamic-link: RFE: Improve performance of dynamic loader for
1176 deeply nested DSO dependencies.
1177 [19193] nptl: pthread_kill, pthread_cancel return ESRCH for a thread
1178 ID whose lifetime has not ended
1179 [22542] network: buffer overflow in sunrpc clnt_create
1181 [22716] malloc: [PATCH] mtrace.pl: use TRACE_PRELINKING instead of
1182 TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS
1183 [25947] malloc: memory leak in muntrace
1184 [26045] math: fmaxf(inf, nan) does not always work
1185 [26108] math: exp10() has problems with <tgmath.h>
1186 [26779] build: benign use after realloc at localealias.c:329
1187 [27609] dynamic-link: [2.32/2.33/2.34 Regression] In elf/dl-open.c
1188 (_dl_open) we might use __LM_ID_CALLER to index GL(dl_ns)[]
1189 [27945] build: build-many-glibcs.py doesn't configure GCC with
1190 --enable-initfini-array
1191 [27991] build: x86: sysdeps/x86/configure.ac breaks when
1192 libc_cv_include_x86_isa_level is loaded from cache
1193 [28036] nptl: Incorrect types for pthread_mutexattr_set/getrobust_np
1194 in __REDIRECT_NTH macro
1195 [28061] dynamic-link: A failing dlmopen called by an auditor crashed
1196 [28062] dynamic-link: Suppress audit calls when a (new) namespace is
1198 [28126] libc: nftw aborts for paths longer than PATH_MAX
1199 [28129] dynamic-link: Unnecessary check DT_DEBUG in ld.so
1200 [28153] libc: [test] gmon/tst-gmon-gprof* may have a f3 line when
1202 [28182] libc: _TIME_BITS=64 in C++ has issues with fcntl, ioctl, prctl
1203 [28185] math: Inaccurate j0f function (again)
1204 [28199] locale: iconvconfig prefix flag behaves differently in glibc
1206 [28203] dynamic-link: aarch64: elf_machine_{load_address,dynamic}
1207 should drop _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_[0] in favor of __ehdr_start for
1209 [28213] librt: NULL pointer dereference in mq_notify (CVE-2021-38604)
1210 [28223] libc: mips: clone does not align stack
1211 [28253] dynamic-link: Missing colon in LD_SHOW_AUXV output after
1213 [28256] malloc: Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised
1214 value(s) in __GI___tunables_init
1215 [28260] build: io/tst-closefrom, misc/tst-close_range, posix/tst-
1216 spawn5 fail if stray fds are open
1217 [28310] libc: Do not use affinity mask for sysconf
1218 (_SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF)
1219 [28338] time: undefined behavior in __tzfile_compute with oddball TZif
1221 [28340] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes while loading a DSO with a read-
1222 only dynamic section
1223 [28349] libc: Segfault for ping -R on qemux86 caused by recvmsg()
1224 [28350] libc: ping receives SIGABRT on lib32-qemux86-64 caused by
1226 [28353] network: Race condition on __opensock
1227 [28357] dynamic-link: deadlock between pthread_create and ctors
1228 [28358] math: f64xdivf128 and f64xmulf128 spurious underflows
1229 [28361] nptl: Fix for bug 12889 causes setxid deadlock
1230 [28368] build: -Waddress instances in stdio-common/vfprintf-internal.c
1231 [28390] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 14.0.0
1232 [28397] math: tgmath.h should not define fmaxmag, fminmag macros for
1234 [28400] libc: [2.35 Regression] string/test-strncasecmp: cannot set
1235 locale "en_US.UTF-8"
1236 [28407] nptl: pthread_kill assumes that kill (getpid ()) is equivalent
1237 to tgkill (getpid (), gettid())
1238 [28455] dynamic-link: -Wl,--enable-new-dtags doesn't work
1239 [28457] dynamic-link: Missing reldepmod4.so dependency for
1241 [28469] time: linux: struct timex is not correctly set for 32-bit
1242 systems with TIMESIZE=64
1243 [28470] regex: Buffer read overrun in regular expression searching
1244 [28475] string: Incorrect access attribute on memfrob
1245 [28524] libc: Conversion from ISO-2022-JP-3 with iconv may emit
1246 spurious NUL character on state reset
1247 [28532] libc: powerpc64[le]: CFI for assembly templated syscalls is
1249 [28550] dynamic-link: FAIL: tst-dso-
1250 ordering9_112-ecbda(GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.rtld.dynamic_sort=1)
1252 [28554] build: Undefined generate-md5
1253 [28572] libc: Misaligned accesses in test-memcpy and test-mempcpy on
1255 [28607] nptl: Masked signals are delivered on thread exit
1256 [28624] libc: openjdk 8/9 assume uni processor and gets stuck due to
1257 lack of cpu counting /proc fallback with glibc 2.34
1258 [28646] string: [2.35 Regression] mock -r fedora-36-x86_64
1259 /tmp/java-1.8.0-openjdk-1.8.0.312.b07-2.fc36.src.rpm& fails to build
1260 [28648] dynamic-link: Running ld.so on statically linked binaries
1262 [28656] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC no longer works due to
1264 [28676] dynamic-link: p_align on PT_LOAD segment in DSO isn't honored
1265 [28678] nptl: nptl/tst-create1 hangs sporadically
1266 [28688] dynamic-link: PT_LOAD p_align check is too strict
1267 [28700] nss: "dns [!UNAVAIL=return] files" default for hosts database
1269 [28707] time: assert in tzfile.c __tzfile_read striking with truncated
1270 timezones generated by tzcode-2021d and later
1271 [28713] math: GCC 12 miscompiles libm
1272 [28732] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-dl_find_object
1273 [28738] build: LIBC_LINKER_FEATURE doesn't work on linker -z option
1274 [28745] dynamic-link: _dl_find_object miscompilation on powerpc64le
1275 [28746] libc: _FORTIFY_SOURCE does not work for stpcpy
1276 [28749] libc: Inconsistency detected by ld.so: rtld.c: 1632: dl_main:
1277 Assertion `GL(dl_rtld_map).l_libname' failed!
1278 [28755] string: overflow bug in wcsncmp_avx2 and wcsncmp_evex
1279 [28757] nptl: GDB printer tests failed with new GDB
1280 [28765] math: x86_64 libmvec atan2 accuracy
1281 [28766] manual: Document libmvec accuracy
1282 [28768] network: Buffer overflow in svcunix_create with long pathnames
1284 [28769] libc: Off-by-one buffer overflow/underflow in getcwd()
1286 [28770] libc: Unexpected return value from realpath() for too long
1287 results (CVE-2021-3998)
1288 [28771] libc: %ebx optimization macros are incompatible with .altmacro
1290 [28780] build: --disable-default-pie doesn't work on static programs
1291 [28782] libc: x86-64 ISA level for glibc itself is always
1293 [28792] glob: possible wrong behaviour with patterns with double [
1295 [28837] libc: FAIL: socket/tst-socket-timestamp-compat
1296 [28847] locale: Empty mon_decimal_point in LC_MONETARY results in non-
1297 empty mon_decimal_point_wc
1304 * In order to support smoother in-place-upgrades and to simplify
1305 the implementation of the runtime all functionality formerly
1306 implemented in the libraries libpthread, libdl, libutil, libanl has
1307 been integrated into libc. New applications do not need to link with
1308 -lpthread, -ldl, -lutil, -lanl anymore. For backwards compatibility,
1309 empty static archives libpthread.a, libdl.a, libutil.a, libanl.a are
1310 provided, so that the linker options keep working. Applications which
1311 have been linked against glibc 2.33 or earlier continue to load the
1312 corresponding shared objects (which are now empty). The integration
1313 of those libraries into libc means that additional symbols become
1314 available by default. This can cause applications that contain weak
1315 references to take unexpected code paths that would only have been
1316 used in previous glibc versions when e.g. preloading libpthread.so.0,
1317 potentially exposing application bugs.
1319 * When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE are defined,
1320 PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is no longer constant and is redefined to
1321 sysconf(_SC_THREAD_STACK_MIN). This supports dynamic sized register
1322 sets for modern architectural features like Arm SVE.
1324 * Add _SC_MINSIGSTKSZ and _SC_SIGSTKSZ. When _DYNAMIC_STACK_SIZE_SOURCE
1325 or _GNU_SOURCE are defined, MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ are no longer
1326 constant on Linux. MINSIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf(_SC_MINSIGSTKSZ)
1327 and SIGSTKSZ is redefined to sysconf (_SC_SIGSTKSZ). This supports
1328 dynamic sized register sets for modern architectural features like
1331 * The dynamic linker implements the --list-diagnostics option, printing
1332 a dump of information related to IFUNC resolver operation and
1333 glibc-hwcaps subdirectory selection.
1335 * On Linux, the function execveat has been added. It operates similar to
1336 execve and it is is already used to implement fexecve without requiring
1337 /proc to be mounted. However, different than fexecve, if the syscall is not
1338 supported by the kernel an error is returned instead of trying a fallback.
1340 * The ISO C2X function timespec_getres has been added.
1342 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_EXT__, from draft ISO
1343 C2X, is supported to enable declarations of functions defined in Annex F
1344 of C2X. Those declarations are also enabled when
1345 __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, as specified in TS 18661-1, is
1346 defined, and when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
1348 * On powerpc64*, glibc can now be compiled without scv support using the
1349 --disable-scv configure option.
1351 * Add support for 64-bit time_t on configurations like x86 where time_t
1352 is traditionally 32-bit. Although time_t still defaults to 32-bit on
1353 these configurations, this default may change in future versions.
1354 This is enabled with the _TIME_BITS preprocessor macro set to 64 and is
1355 only supported when LFS (_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64) is also enabled. It is
1356 only enabled for Linux and the full support requires a minimum kernel
1359 * The main gconv-modules file in glibc now contains only a small set of
1360 essential converter modules and the rest have been moved into a supplementary
1361 configuration file gconv-modules-extra.conf in the gconv-modules.d directory
1362 in the same GCONV_PATH. Similarly, external converter modules directories
1363 may have supplementary configuration files in a gconv-modules.d directory
1364 with names ending with .conf to logically classify the converter modules in
1367 * On Linux, a new tunable, glibc.pthread.stack_cache_size, can be used
1368 to configure the size of the thread stack cache.
1370 * The function _Fork has been added as an async-signal-safe fork replacement
1371 since Austin Group issue 62 dropped the async-signal-safe requirement for
1372 fork (and it will be included in the future POSIX standard). The new _Fork
1373 function does not run any atfork function neither resets any internal state
1374 or lock (such as the malloc one), and only sets up a minimal state required
1375 to call async-signal-safe functions (such as raise or execve). This function
1376 is currently a GNU extension.
1378 * On Linux, the close_range function has been added. It allows efficiently
1379 closing a range of file descriptors on recent kernels (version 5.9).
1381 * The function closefrom has been added. It closes all file descriptors
1382 greater than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1383 although it is also present in other systems.
1385 * The posix_spawn_file_actions_addclosefrom_np function has been added,
1386 enabling posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to close all file descriptors greater
1387 than or equal to a given integer. This function is a GNU extension,
1388 although Solaris also provides a similar function.
1390 * When invoked explicitly, the dynamic linker now uses the kernel to
1391 execute programs that do not have any dynamic dependency (that is,
1392 they are statically linked). This feature is Linux-specific.
1394 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1396 * The function pthread_mutex_consistent_np has been deprecated; programs
1397 should use the equivalent standard function pthread_mutex_consistent
1400 * The function pthread_mutexattr_getrobust_np has been deprecated;
1401 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1402 pthread_mutexattr_getrobust instead.
1404 * The function pthread_mutexattr_setrobust_np has been deprecated;
1405 programs should use the equivalent standard function
1406 pthread_mutexattr_setrobust instead.
1408 * The function pthread_yield has been deprecated; programs should use
1409 the equivalent standard function sched_yield instead.
1411 * The function inet_neta declared in <arpa/inet.h> has been deprecated.
1413 * Various rarely-used functions declared in <resolv.h> and
1414 <arpa/nameser.h> have been deprecated. Applications are encouraged to
1415 use dedicated DNS processing libraries if applicable. For <resolv.h>,
1416 this affects the functions dn_count_labels, fp_nquery, fp_query,
1417 fp_resstat, hostalias, loc_aton, loc_ntoa, p_cdname, p_cdnname,
1418 p_class, p_fqname, p_fqnname, p_option, p_query, p_rcode, p_time,
1419 p_type, putlong, putshort, res_hostalias, res_isourserver,
1420 res_nameinquery, res_queriesmatch, res_randomid, sym_ntop, sym_ntos,
1421 sym_ston. For <arpa/nameser.h>, the functions ns_datetosecs,
1422 ns_format_ttl, ns_makecanon, ns_parse_ttl, ns_samedomain, ns_samename,
1423 ns_sprintrr, ns_sprintrrf, ns_subdomain have been deprecated.
1425 * Various symbols previously defined in libresolv have been moved to libc
1426 in order to prepare for libresolv moving entirely into libc (see earlier
1427 entry for merging libraries into libc). The symbols __dn_comp,
1428 __dn_expand, __dn_skipname, __res_dnok, __res_hnok, __res_mailok,
1429 __res_mkquery, __res_nmkquery, __res_nquery, __res_nquerydomain,
1430 __res_nsearch, __res_nsend, __res_ownok, __res_query, __res_querydomain,
1431 __res_search, __res_send formerly in libresolv have been renamed and no
1432 longer have a __ prefix. They are now available in libc.
1434 * The pthread cancellation handler is now installed with SA_RESTART and
1435 pthread_cancel will always send the internal SIGCANCEL on a cancellation
1436 request. It should not be visible to applications since the cancellation
1437 handler should either act upon cancellation (if asynchronous cancellation
1438 is enabled) or ignore the cancellation internal signal. However there are
1439 buggy kernel interfaces (for instance some CIFS versions) that could still
1440 see a spurious EINTR error when cancellation interrupts a blocking syscall.
1442 * Previously, glibc installed its various shared objects under versioned
1443 file names such as libc-2.33.so. The ABI sonames (e.g., libc.so.6)
1444 were provided as symbolic links. Starting with glibc 2.34, the shared
1445 objects are installed under their ABI sonames directly, without
1446 symbolic links. This increases compatibility with distribution
1447 package managers that delete removed files late during the package
1448 upgrade or downgrade process.
1450 * The symbols mallwatch and tr_break are now deprecated and no longer used in
1451 mtrace. Similar functionality can be achieved by using conditional
1452 breakpoints within mtrace functions from within gdb.
1454 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
1455 implementation __default_morecore have been removed from the API. Existing
1456 applications will continue to link against these symbols but the interfaces
1457 no longer have any effect on malloc.
1459 * Debugging features in malloc such as the MALLOC_CHECK_ environment variable
1460 (or the glibc.malloc.check tunable), mtrace() and mcheck() have now been
1461 disabled by default in the main C library. Users looking to use these
1462 features now need to preload a new debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so to get
1463 this functionality back.
1465 * The deprecated functions malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state have been
1466 moved from the core C library into libc_malloc_debug.so. Legacy applications
1467 that still use these functions will now need to preload libc_malloc_debug.so
1468 in their environment using the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
1470 * The deprecated memory allocation hooks __malloc_hook, __realloc_hook,
1471 __memalign_hook and __free_hook are now removed from the API. Compatibility
1472 symbols are present to support legacy programs but new applications can no
1473 longer link to these symbols. These hooks no longer have any effect on glibc
1474 functionality. The malloc debugging DSO libc_malloc_debug.so currently
1475 supports hooks and can be preloaded to get this functionality back for older
1476 programs. However this is a transitional measure and may be removed in a
1477 future release of the GNU C Library. Users may port away from these hooks by
1478 writing and preloading their own malloc interposition library.
1480 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1482 * On Linux, the shm_open, sem_open, and related functions now expect the
1483 file shared memory file system to be mounted at /dev/shm. These functions
1484 no longer search among the system's mount points for a suitable
1485 replacement if /dev/shm is not available.
1487 Security related changes:
1489 CVE-2021-27645: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing
1490 a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free,
1491 potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the
1492 local system. Reported by Chris Schanzle.
1494 CVE-2021-33574: The mq_notify function has a potential use-after-free
1495 issue when using a notification type of SIGEV_THREAD and a thread
1496 attribute with a non-default affinity mask.
1498 CVE-2021-35942: The wordexp function may overflow the positional
1499 parameter number when processing the expansion resulting in a crash.
1500 Reported by Philippe Antoine.
1502 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1504 [4737] libc: fork is not async-signal-safe
1505 [5781] math: Slow dbl-64 sin/cos/sincos for special values
1506 [10353] libc: Methods for deleting all file descriptors greater than
1507 given integer (closefrom)
1508 [14185] glob: fnmatch() fails when '*' wildcard is applied on the file
1509 name containing multi-byte character(s)
1510 [14469] math: Inaccurate j0f function
1511 [14470] math: Inaccurate j1f function
1512 [14471] math: Inaccurate y0f function
1513 [14472] math: Inaccurate y1f function
1514 [14744] nptl: kill -32 $pid or kill -33 $pid on a process cancels a
1516 [15271] dynamic-link: dlmopen()ed shared library with LM_ID_NEWLM
1517 crashes if it fails dlsym() twice
1518 [15648] nptl: multiple definition of `__lll_lock_wait_private'
1519 [16063] nptl: Provide a pthread_once variant in libc directly
1520 [17144] libc: syslog is not thread-safe if NO_SIGPIPE is not defined
1521 [17145] libc: syslog with LOG_CONS leaks console file descriptor
1522 [17183] manual: description of ENTRY struct in <search.h> in glibc
1524 [18435] nptl: pthread_once hangs when init routine throws an exception
1525 [18524] nptl: Missing calloc error checking in
1526 __cxa_thread_atexit_impl
1527 [19329] dynamic-link: dl-tls.c assert failure at concurrent
1528 pthread_create and dlopen
1529 [19366] nptl: returning from a thread should disable cancellation
1530 [19511] nptl: 8MB memory leak in pthread_create in case of failure
1531 when non-root user changes priority
1532 [20802] dynamic-link: getauxval NULL pointer dereference after static
1534 [20813] nptl: pthread_exit is inconsistent between libc and libpthread
1535 [22057] malloc: malloc_usable_size is broken with mcheck
1536 [22668] locale: LC_COLLATE: the last character of ellipsis is not
1538 [23323] libc: [RFE] CSU startup hardening.
1539 [23328] malloc: Remove malloc hooks and ensure related APIs return no
1541 [23462] dynamic-link: Static binary with dynamic string tokens ($LIB,
1542 $PLATFORM, $ORIGIN) crashes
1543 [23489] libc: "gcc -lmcheck" aborts on free when using posix_memalign
1544 [23554] nptl: pthread_getattr_np reports wrong stack size with
1546 [24106] libc: Bash interpreter in ldd script is taken from host
1547 [24773] dynamic-link: dlerror in an secondary namespace does not use
1548 the right free implementation
1549 [25036] localedata: Update collation order for Swedish
1550 [25383] libc: where_is_shmfs/__shm_directory/SHM_GET_NAME may cause
1551 shm_open to pick wrong directory
1552 [25680] dynamic-link: ifuncmain9picstatic and ifuncmain9picstatic
1553 crash in IFUNC resolver due to stack canary (--enable-stack-
1555 [26874] build: -Warray-bounds in _IO_wdefault_doallocate
1556 [26983] math: [x86_64] x86_64 tgamma has too large ULP error
1557 [27111] dynamic-link: pthread_create and tls access use link_map
1558 objects that may be concurrently freed by dlclose
1559 [27132] malloc: memusagestat is linked to system librt, leading to
1560 undefined symbols on major version upgrade
1561 [27136] dynamic-link: dtv setup at thread creation may leave an entry
1563 [27249] libc: libSegFault.so does not output signal number properly
1564 [27304] nptl: pthread_cond_destroy does not pass private flag to futex
1566 [27318] dynamic-link: glibc fails to load binaries when built with
1567 -march=sandybridge: CPU ISA level is lower than required
1568 [27343] nss: initgroups() SIGSEGVs when called on a system without
1569 nsswich.conf (in a chroot)
1570 [27346] dynamic-link: x86: PTWRITE feature check is missing
1571 [27389] network: NSS chroot hardening causes regressions in chroot
1573 [27403] dynamic-link: aarch64: tlsdesc htab is not freed on dlclose
1574 [27444] libc: sysconf reports unsupported option (-1) for
1575 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_LINESIZE on X86 since v2.33
1576 [27462] nscd: double-free in nscd (CVE-2021-27645)
1577 [27468] malloc: aarch64: realloc crash with heap tagging: FAIL:
1578 malloc/tst-malloc-thread-fail
1579 [27498] dynamic-link: __dl_iterate_phdr lacks unwinding information
1580 [27511] libc: S390 memmove assumes Vector Facility when MIE Facility 3
1582 [27522] glob: glob, glob64 incorrectly marked as __THROW
1583 [27555] dynamic-link: Static tests fail with --enable-stack-
1585 [27559] libc: fstat(AT_FDCWD) succeeds (it shouldn't) and returns
1586 information for the current directory
1587 [27577] dynamic-link: elf/ld.so --help doesn't work
1588 [27605] libc: tunables can't control xsave/xsavec selection in
1589 dl_runtime_resolve_*
1590 [27623] libc: powerpc: Missing registers in sc[v] clobbers list
1591 [27645] libc: [linux] sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSOR...) breaks down on
1593 [27646] dynamic-link: Linker error for non-existing NSS symbols (e.g.
1594 _nss_files_getcanonname_r) from within a dlmopen namespace.
1595 [27648] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-select
1596 [27650] stdio: vfscanf returns too early if a match is longer than
1598 [27651] libc: Performance regression after updating to 2.33
1599 [27655] string: Wrong size calculation in string/test-strnlen.c
1600 [27706] libc: select fails to update timeout on error
1601 [27709] libc: arm: FAIL: debug/tst-longjmp_chk2
1602 [27721] dynamic-link: x86: ld_audit ignores bind now for TLSDESC and
1603 tries resolving them lazily
1604 [27744] nptl: Support different libpthread/ld.so load orders in
1606 [27749] libc: Data race __run_exit_handlers
1607 [27761] libc: getconf: Segmentation fault when passing '-vq' as
1609 [27832] nss: makedb.c:797:7: error: 'writev' specified size 4294967295
1610 exceeds maximum object size 2147483647
1611 [27870] malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ causes realloc(valid_ptr, TOO_LARGE) to
1613 [27872] build: Obsolete configure option --enable-stackguard-
1615 [27873] build: tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo fail when building on AMD cpu
1616 [27882] localedata: Use U+00AF MACRON in more EBCDIC charsets
1617 [27892] libc: powerpc: scv ABI error handling fails to check
1619 [27896] nptl: mq_notify does not handle separately allocated thread
1620 attributes (CVE-2021-33574)
1621 [27901] libc: TEST_STACK_ALIGN doesn't work
1622 [27902] libc: The x86-64 clone wrapper fails to align child stack
1623 [27914] nptl: Install SIGSETXID handler with SA_ONSTACK
1624 [27939] libc: aarch64: clone does not align the stack
1625 [27968] libc: s390x: clone does not align the stack
1626 [28011] libc: Wild read in wordexp (parse_param) (CVE-2021-35942)
1627 [28024] string: s390(31bit): Wrong result of memchr (MEMCHR_Z900_G5)
1628 with n >= 0x80000000
1629 [28028] malloc: malloc: tcache shutdown sequence does not work if the
1630 thread never allocated anything
1631 [28033] libc: Need to check RTM_ALWAYS_ABORT for RTM
1632 [28064] string: x86_64:wcslen implementation list has wcsnlen
1633 [28067] libc: FAIL: posix/tst-spawn5
1634 [28068] malloc: FAIL: malloc/tst-mallocalign1-mcheck
1635 [28071] time: clock_gettime, gettimeofday, time lost vDSO acceleration
1637 [28075] nis: Out-of-bounds static buffer read in nis_local_domain
1638 [28089] build: tst-tls20 fails when linker defaults to --as-needed
1639 [28090] build: elf/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo-static fails on certain
1641 [28091] network: ns_name_skip may return 0 for domain names without
1649 * The dynamic linker accepts the --list-tunables argument which prints
1650 all the supported tunables. This option is disable if glibc is
1651 configured with tunables disabled (--enable-tunables=no).
1653 * The dynamic linker accepts the --argv0 argument and provides opportunity
1654 to change argv[0] string.
1656 * The dynamic linker loads optimized implementations of shared objects
1657 from subdirectories under the glibc-hwcaps directory on the library
1658 search path if the system's capabilities meet the requirements for
1659 that subdirectory. Initially supported subdirectories include
1660 "power9" and "power10" for the powerpc64le-linux-gnu architecture,
1661 "z13", "z14", "z15" for s390x-linux-gnu, and "x86-64-v2", "x86-64-v3",
1662 "x86-64-v4" for x86_64-linux-gnu. In the x86_64-linux-gnu case, the
1663 subdirectory names correspond to the vendor-independent x86-64
1664 microarchitecture levels defined in the x86-64 psABI supplement.
1666 * The new --help option of the dynamic linker provides usage and
1667 information and library search path diagnostics.
1669 * The mallinfo2 function is added to report statistics as per mallinfo,
1670 but with larger field widths to accurately report values that are
1671 larger than fit in an integer.
1673 * Add <sys/platform/x86.h> to provide query macros for x86 CPU features.
1675 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been expanded to run on
1676 32-bit hardware. This is supported for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
1682 The 32-bit RISC-V port requires at least Linux 5.4, GCC 7.1 and binutils
1685 * A new fortification level _FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 is available. At this level,
1686 glibc may use additional checks that may have an additional performance
1687 overhead. At present these checks are available only on LLVM 9 and later.
1688 The latest GCC available at this time (10.2) does not support this level of
1691 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1693 * The mallinfo function is marked deprecated. Callers should call
1696 * When dlopen is used in statically linked programs, alternative library
1697 implementations from HWCAP subdirectories are no longer loaded.
1698 Instead, the default implementation is used.
1700 * The deprecated <sys/vtimes.h> header and the function vtimes have been
1701 removed. To support old binaries, the vtimes function continues to exist
1702 as a compatibility symbol. Applications should use the getrlimit or
1705 * Following a change in the tzdata 2018a release upstream, the zdump
1706 program is now installed in the /usr/bin subdirectory. Previously,
1707 the /usr/sbin subdirectory was used.
1709 * On s390(x), the type float_t is now derived from the macro
1710 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ that is defined by the compiler, instead of being
1711 hardcoded to double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
1712 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
1713 libraries that use this type in their interfaces. The new definition
1714 improves consistency with compiler behavior in many scenarios.
1716 * A future version of glibc will stop loading shared objects from the
1717 "tls" subdirectories on the library search path, the subdirectory that
1718 corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name, and also stop employing
1719 the legacy AT_HWCAP search mechanism. Applications should switch to
1720 the new glibc-hwcaps mechanism instead; if they do not do that, only
1721 the baseline version (directly from the search path directory) will be
1724 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
1726 * On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with
1727 the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer
1728 attempts to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc
1729 defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already
1730 corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not
1731 perform any adjustments.
1733 * On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to
1734 use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists
1735 (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted
1736 on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements.
1738 * s390x requires GCC 7.1 or newer. See gcc Bug 98269.
1740 Security related changes:
1742 CVE-2021-3326: An assertion failure during conversion from the
1743 ISO-20220-JP-3 character set using the iconv function has been fixed.
1744 This assertion was triggered by certain valid inputs in which the
1745 converted output contains a combined sequence of two wide characters
1746 crossing a buffer boundary. Reported by Tavis Ormandy.
1748 CVE-2020-27618: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
1749 invoked with input containing redundant shift sequences in the IBM1364,
1750 IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, or IBM1399 character sets.
1752 CVE-2020-29562: An assertion failure has been fixed in the iconv function
1753 when invoked with UCS4 input containing an invalid character.
1755 CVE-2019-25013: A buffer overflow has been fixed in the iconv function when
1756 invoked with EUC-KR input containing invalid multibyte input sequences.
1758 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
1760 [10635] libc: realpath portability patches
1761 [16124] dynamic-link: ld.so should allow to change argv[0]
1762 [17924] malloc: 'free' should not set errno
1763 [18683] libc: Linux faccessat implementation can incorrectly ignore
1765 [22899] libc: Use 64-bit readdir() in generic POSIX getcwd()
1766 [23091] hurd: missing waitid support
1767 [23249] libc: Epyc and other current AMD CPUs do not select the
1768 "haswell" platform subdirectory
1769 [24080] dynamic-link: Definition of "haswell" platform is inconsistent
1771 [24202] libc: m68k setjmp() saves incorrect 'a5' register in --enable-
1773 [24941] libc: Make grantpt usable after multi-threaded fork in more
1775 [24970] libc: realpath mishandles EOVERFLOW; stat not needed anyway
1776 [24973] locale: iconv encounters segmentation fault when converting
1777 0x00 0xfe in EUC-KR to UTF-8 (CVE-2019-25013)
1778 [25399] string: undefined reference to `__warn_memset_zero_len' when
1779 changing gnuc version
1780 [25859] libc: glibc parser for /sys/devices/system/cpu/online is
1782 [25938] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should store meaning of hwcap mask
1784 [25971] libc: s390 bits/hwcap.h out of sync with kernel
1785 [26053] libc: unlockpt fails with ENOTTY for non-ptmx descriptors
1786 [26100] libc: Race in syslog(3) with regards to tag printing.
1787 [26124] libc: Export <cpu-features.h>
1788 [26130] nscd: Inconsistent nscd cache during pruning
1789 [26203] libc: GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features) may not be initialized
1790 [26224] locale: iconv hangs when converting some invalid inputs from
1791 several IBM character sets (CVE-2020-27618)
1792 [26341] libc: realpath cyclically call __alloca(path_max) to consume
1793 too much stack space
1794 [26343] manual: invalid documented return type for strerrorname_np(),
1795 strerrordesc_np(), sigdescr_np(), sigabbrev_np()
1796 [26376] libc: Namespace violation in stdio.h and sys/stat.h if build
1798 [26383] locale: bind_textdomain_codeset doesn't accept //TRANSLIT
1800 [26394] time: [2.33 Regression] FAIL: nptl/tst-join14
1801 [26534] math: libm.so 2.32 SIGILL in pow() due to FMA4 instruction on
1803 [26552] dynamic-link: CPU_FEATURE_USABLE_P should be more conservative
1804 [26553] libc: mtx_init allows type set to "mtx_recursive" only
1805 [26555] string: strerrorname_np does not return the documented value
1806 [26592] libc: pointer arithmetic overflows in realpath
1807 [26600] network: Transaction ID collisions cause slow DNS lookups in
1809 [26606] libc: [2.33 Regression] pselect is broken on x32
1810 [26615] libc: powerpc: libc segfaults when LD_PRELOADed with libgcc
1811 [26620] glob: fnmatch with collating symbols results in segmentation
1813 [26625] libc: [2.33 Regression] CET is disabled
1814 [26636] libc: 32-bit shmctl(IPC_INFO) crashes when shminfo struct is
1815 at the end of a memory mapping
1816 [26637] libc: semctl SEM_STAT_ANY fails to pass the buffer specified
1817 by the caller to the kernel
1818 [26639] libc: msgctl IPC_INFO and MSG_INFO return garbage
1819 [26647] build: [-Werror=array-parameter=] due to different
1820 declarations for __sigsetjmp
1821 [26648] libc: mkstemp is likely to fail on systems with non-stricly-
1823 [26649] stdio: printf should handle non-normal x86 long double numbers
1824 gracefully (CVE-2020-29573)
1825 [26686] build: -Warray-parameter instances building with GCC 11
1826 [26687] build: -Warray-bounds instances building with GCC 11
1827 [26690] stdio: Aliasing violation in __vfscanf_internal
1828 [26691] nptl: Use a minimum guard size of 64 KiB on aarch64
1829 [26726] build: GCC warning calling new_composite_name with an array of
1831 [26736] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-sysvshm-linux
1832 [26737] libc: Random FAIL: rt/tst-shm
1833 [26791] libc: Missing O_CLOEXEC in sysconf.c
1834 [26798] dynamic-link: aarch64: variant PCS symbols may be incorrectly
1836 [26801] nptl: pthread_mutex_clocklock with CLOCK_MONOTONIC can fail on
1838 [26818] string: aarch64: string tests may run ifunc variants that are
1840 [26821] libc: Memory leak test failures on Fedora 33
1841 [26824] libc: FAIL: elf/tst-cpu-features-supports with recent trunk:
1842 FSGSBASE/LM/RDRAND check failure
1843 [26833] time: adjtime() with delta == NULL segfaults on armv7 32bit
1845 [26853] libc: aarch64: Missing unwind information in statically linked
1847 [26923] locale: Assertion failure in iconv when converting invalid
1848 UCS4 (CVE-2020-29562)
1849 [26926] dynamic-link: aarch64: library dependencies are not bti
1851 [26932] libc: sh: Multiple floating point functions defined as stubs
1853 [26964] nptl: pthread_mutex_timedlock returning EAGAIN after futex is
1855 [26988] dynamic-link: aarch64: BTI mprotect address is not page
1857 [27002] build: libc_freeres_fn build failure with GCC 11
1858 [27004] dynamic-link: ld.so is miscompiled by GCC 11
1859 [27008] dynamic-link: ld.so.cache should have endianness markup
1860 [27042] libc: [alpha] anonymous union in struct stat confuses
1862 [27053] libc: Conformance regression in system(3) (and probably also
1864 [27072] dynamic-link: static pie ifunc resolvers run before hwcap is
1866 [27077] network: Do not reload /etc/nsswitch.conf from chroot
1867 [27083] libc: Unsafe unbounded alloca in addmntent
1868 [27104] dynamic-link: The COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_MAX handshake does not
1870 [27130] string: "rep movsb" performance issue
1871 [27150] libc: alpha: wait4() is unavailable in static linking
1872 [27177] dynamic-link:
1873 GLIBC_TUNABLES=glibc.cpu.x86_ibt=on:glibc.cpu.x86_shstk=on doesn't
1875 [27222] dynamic-link: Incorrect sysdeps/x86/tst-cpu-features-cpuinfo.c
1876 [27237] malloc: deadlock in malloc/tst-malloc-stats-cancellation
1877 [27256] locale: Assertion failure in ISO-2022-JP-3 gconv module
1878 related to combining characters (CVE-2021-3326)
1885 * Unicode 13.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
1886 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 13.0.0, using
1887 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
1889 * New locale added: ckb_IQ (Kurdish/Sorani spoken in Iraq)
1891 * Support for Synopsys ARC HS cores (ARCv2 ISA) running Linux has been
1892 added. This port requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-8.3 and Linux-5.1.
1893 Three ABIs are supported:
1899 The arc* ABIs are little-endian while arceb is big-endian. All ABIs use
1900 64-bit time (y2038 safe) and 64-bit file offsets (LFS default).
1902 * The GNU C Library now loads audit modules listed in the DT_AUDIT and
1903 DT_DEPAUDIT dynamic section entries of the main executable.
1905 * powerpc64le supports IEEE128 long double libm/libc redirects when
1906 using -mabi=ieeelongdouble to compile C code on supported GCC
1907 toolchains. It is recommended to use GCC 8 or newer when testing
1910 * To help detect buffer overflows and other out-of-bounds accesses
1911 several APIs have been annotated with GCC 'access' attribute. This
1912 should help GCC 10 issue better warnings.
1914 * On Linux, functions pthread_attr_setsigmask_np and
1915 pthread_attr_getsigmask_np have been added. They allow applications
1916 to specify the signal mask of a thread created with pthread_create.
1918 * The GNU C Library now provides the header file <sys/single_threaded.h>
1919 which declares the variable __libc_single_threaded. Applications are
1920 encouraged to use this variable for single-thread optimizations,
1921 instead of weak references to symbols historically defined in
1924 * The functions sigabbrev_np and sigdescr_np have been added. The
1925 sigabbrev_np function returns the abbreviated signal name (e.g. "HUP" for
1926 SIGHUP) while sigdescr_np returns a string describing the signal number
1927 (e.g "Hangup" for SIGHUP). Different than strsignal, sigdescr_np does not
1928 attempt to translate the return description, both functions return
1929 NULL for an invalid signal number.
1931 They should be used instead of sys_siglist or sys_sigabbrev and they
1932 are both thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1934 * The functions strerrorname_np and strerrordesc_np have been added. The
1935 strerroname_np function returns error number name (e.g. "EINVAL" for EINVAL)
1936 while strerrordesc_np returns a string describing the error number
1937 (e.g "Invalid argument" for EINVAL). Different than strerror,
1938 strerrordesc_np does not attempt to translate the return description, both
1939 functions return NULL for an invalid error number.
1941 They should be used instead of sys_errlist and sys_nerr, both are
1942 thread and async-signal safe. These functions are GNU extensions.
1944 * AArch64 now supports standard branch protection security hardening
1945 in glibc when it is built with a GCC that is configured with
1946 --enable-standard-branch-protection (or if -mbranch-protection=standard
1947 flag is passed when building both GCC target libraries and glibc,
1948 in either case a custom GCC is needed). This includes branch target
1949 identification (BTI) and pointer authentication for return addresses
1950 (PAC-RET). They require armv8.5-a and armv8.3-a architecture
1951 extensions respectively for the protection to be effective,
1952 otherwise the used instructions are nops. User code can use PAC-RET
1953 without libc support, but BTI requires a libc that is built with BTI
1954 support, otherwise runtime objects linked into user code will not be
1957 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
1959 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc. Sun RPC is removed
1960 from glibc. This includes the rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and the Sun
1961 RPC header files. Backward compatibility for old programs is kept
1962 only for architectures and ABIs that have been added in or before
1963 glibc 2.31. New programs need to use TI-RPC
1964 <http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=summary> and
1965 rpcsvc-proto <https://github.com/thkukuk/rpcsvc-proto>.
1967 * Remove configure option --enable-obsolete-nsl. libnsl is only built
1968 as shared library for backward compatibility and the NSS modules "nis"
1969 and "nisplus" are not built at all and libnsl's headers aren't
1970 installed. This compatibility is kept only for architectures and ABIs
1971 that have been added in or before version 2.28. Replacement
1972 implementations based on TI-RPC, which additionally support IPv6, are
1973 available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. This change does not
1974 affect the "compat" NSS module, which does not depend on libnsl
1975 since 2.27 and thus can be used without NIS.
1977 * The deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
1978 removed. To support old binaries, the sysctl function continues to
1979 exist as a compatibility symbol (on those architectures which had it),
1980 but always fails with ENOSYS. This reflects the removal of the system
1981 call from all architectures, starting with Linux 5.5.
1983 * The sstk function is no longer available to newly linked binaries.
1984 Its implementation always returned with a failure, and the function
1985 was not declared in any header file.
1987 * The legacy signal handling functions siginterrupt, sigpause, sighold,
1988 sigrelse, sigignore and sigset, and the sigmask macro have been
1989 deprecated. Applications should use the sigsuspend, sigprocmask and
1990 sigaction functions instead.
1992 * ldconfig now defaults to the new format for ld.so.cache. glibc has
1993 already supported this format for almost 20 years.
1995 * The deprecated arrays sys_siglist, _sys_siglist, and sys_sigabbrev
1996 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
1997 have been removed from <string.h>. They are exported solely as
1998 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2001 * The deprecated symbols sys_errlist, _sys_errlist, sys_nerr, and _sys_nerr
2002 are no longer available to newly linked binaries, and their declarations
2003 have been removed from <stdio.h>. They are exported solely as
2004 compatibility symbols to support old binaries. All programs should use
2005 strerror or strerror_r instead.
2007 * Both strerror and strerror_l now share the same internal buffer in the
2008 calling thread, meaning that the returned string pointer may be invalided
2009 or contents might be overwritten on subsequent calls in the same thread or
2010 if the thread is terminated. It makes strerror MT-safe.
2012 * Using weak references to libpthread functions such as pthread_create
2013 or pthread_key_create to detect the singled-threaded nature of a
2014 program is an obsolescent feature. Future versions of glibc will
2015 define pthread_create within libc.so.6 itself, so such checks will
2016 always flag the program as multi-threaded. Applications should check
2017 the __libc_single_threaded variable declared in
2018 <sys/single_threaded.h> instead.
2020 * The "files" NSS module no longer supports the "key" database (used for
2021 secure RPC). The contents of the /etc/publickey file will be ignored,
2022 regardless of the settings in /etc/nsswitch.conf. (This method of
2023 storing RPC keys only supported the obsolete and insecure AUTH_DES
2024 flavor of secure RPC.)
2026 * The __morecore and __after_morecore_hook malloc hooks and the default
2027 implementation __default_morecore have been deprecated. Applications
2028 should use malloc interposition to change malloc behavior, and mmap to
2029 allocate anonymous memory. A future version of glibc may require that
2030 applications which use the malloc hooks must preload a special shared
2031 object, to enable the hooks.
2033 * The hesiod NSS module has been deprecated and will be removed in a
2034 future version of glibc. System administrators are encouraged to
2035 switch to other approaches for networked account databases, such as
2038 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2040 * powerpc64le requires GCC 7.4 or newer. This is required for supporting
2041 long double redirects.
2043 Security related changes:
2045 CVE-2016-10228: An infinite loop has been fixed in the iconv program when
2046 invoked with the -c option and when processing invalid multi-byte input
2047 sequences. Reported by Jan Engelhardt.
2049 CVE-2020-10029: Trigonometric functions on x86 targets suffered from stack
2050 corruption when they were passed a pseudo-zero argument. Reported by Guido
2051 Vranken / ForAllSecure Mayhem.
2053 CVE-2020-1752: A use-after-free vulnerability in the glob function when
2054 expanding ~user has been fixed.
2056 CVE-2020-6096: A signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy and
2057 memmove functions has been fixed. Discovered by Jason Royes and Samual
2058 Dytrych of the Cisco Security Assessment and Penetration Team (See
2061 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2063 [9809] localedata: ckb_IQ: new Kurdish Sorani locale
2064 [10441] manual: Backtraces code example lacks error checking
2065 [10815] librt: [timer_create / SIGEV_THREAD] signalmask of
2066 timer_sigev_thread dangerous
2067 [14231] stdio: stdio-common tests memory requirements
2068 [14578] libc: /proc-based emulation for lchmod, fchmodat
2069 [16272] dynamic-link: dlopen()ing a DT_FILTER library crashes if
2070 filtee has constructor
2071 [19519] locale: iconv(1) with -c option hangs on illegal multi-byte
2072 sequences (CVE-2016-10228)
2073 [19737] admin: Doc page “20.5.2 Infinity and NaN” has incorrect HTML
2074 character entities for infinity & pi
2075 [20338] libc: Parsing of /etc/gshadow can return bad pointers causing
2076 segfaults in applications
2077 [20543] libc: Please move from .gnu.linkonce to comdat
2078 [22489] network: gcc warns about implicit conversion in
2079 ICMP6_FILTER_SETPASS with -Wsign-conversion
2080 [22525] localedata: or_IN LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
2081 [23294] math: Complex _FloatN functions are redirected to the wrong
2082 function with -mlong-double-64
2083 [23296] libc: Data race in setting function descriptor during lazy
2085 [23668] dynamic-link: ldconfig: Default to the new format for
2087 [23819] hurd: hurd: Add C11 thread support
2088 [23990] build: test-container error out on failure to exec child.
2089 [23991] build: shell-container typo in run_command_array
2090 [24638] manual: Error in example of parsing a template string
2091 [24654] manual: Wrong declaration of wcschr in libc manual
2092 [24943] dynamic-link: Support DT_AUDIT, DT_DEPAUDIT in the dynamic
2094 [25051] dynamic-link: aarch64, powerpc64 uses surplus static tls for
2095 dynamically loaded dsos
2096 [25098] nptl: nptl: ctype classification functions are not AS-Safe
2097 [25219] libc: improve out-of-bounds checking with GCC 10 attribute
2099 [25262] libc: getcontext/setcontext/swapcontext unnecessarily save and
2100 restore EAX, ECX and EDX
2101 [25397] dynamic-link: Legacy bitmap doesn't cover jitted code
2102 [25414] glob: 'glob' use-after-free bug (CVE-2020-1752)
2103 [25420] network: Race condition in resolv_conf.c can result in caching
2104 stale configuration forever
2105 [25487] math: sinl() stack corruption from crafted input
2107 [25506] build: configure: broken detection of STT_GNU_IFUNC when GCC
2109 [25523] libc: MIPS/Linux inline syscall template is miscompiled
2110 [25620] libc: Signed comparison vulnerability in the ARMv7 memcpy()
2112 [25623] libc: test-sysvmsg, test-sysvsem, test-sysvshm fail with 2.31
2113 on 32 bit and old kernel
2114 [25635] libc: arm: Wrong sysdep order selection for soft-fp
2115 [25639] localedata: Some names of days and months wrongly spelt in
2117 [25657] libc: sigprocmask() and sigisemptyset() manipulate different
2118 amount of sigset_t bytes
2119 [25691] stdio: printf: memory leak when printing long multibyte
2121 [25715] libc: system() returns wrong errors when posix_spawn fails
2122 [25733] malloc: mallopt(M_MXFAST) can set global_max_fast to 0
2123 [25734] locale: mbrtowc with Big5-HKSCS fails to reset conversion
2124 state for conversions that produce two Unicode code points
2125 [25765] nptl: Incorrect futex syscall in __pthread_disable_asynccancel
2126 for linux x86_64 leads to livelock
2127 [25788] dynamic-link: [i386] -fno-omit-frame-pointer in CFLAGS causes
2128 test failures, invalid instruction in ld.so
2129 [25790] glob: Typo in tst-fnmatch.input
2130 [25810] libc: x32: Incorrect syscall entries with pointer, off_t and
2132 [25819] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 13.0.0
2133 [25824] libc: Abnormal function of strnlen in aarch64
2134 [25887] dynamic-link: Wasted space in _dl_x86_feature_1[1]
2135 [25896] libc: Incorrect prctl
2136 [25902] libc: Bad LOADARGS_N
2137 [25905] dynamic-link: VSX registers are corrupted during PLT
2138 resolution when glibc is built with --disable-multi-arch and --with-
2140 [25933] string: Off by one error in __strncmp_avx2 when
2141 length=VEC_SIZE*4 and strings are at page boundaries can cause a
2143 [25942] nptl: Deadlock on stack_cache_lock between __nptl_setxid and
2144 exiting detached thread
2145 [25966] libc: Incorrect access of __x86_shared_non_temporal_threshold
2147 [25976] nss: internal_end*ent in nss_compat may clobber errno, hiding
2149 [25999] nptl: Use-after-free issue in pthread_getaddr_default_np
2150 [26073] math: getpayload() has wrong return value
2151 [26076] dynamic-link: dlmopen crashes after failing to load
2152 dependencies in audit mode
2153 [26120] localedata: column width of of some Korean
2154 JUNGSEONG/JONGSEONG characters wrong (should be 0)
2155 [26128] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFLUSHOPT
2156 [26133] libc: Incorrect need_arch_feature_F16C
2157 [26137] libc: strtod() triggers exception FE_INEXACT on reasonable
2159 [26149] libc: PKU is usable only if OSPKE is set
2160 [26173] libc: powerpc64*: Add @notoc to calls to functions that do not
2162 [26208] libc: Incorrect bit_cpu_CLFSH
2163 [26210] network: Incorrect use of hidden symbols for global sunrpc
2165 [26211] stdio: printf integer overflow calculating allocation size
2166 [26214] stdio: printf_fp double free
2167 [26215] stdio: printf_fp memory leak
2168 [26232] time: FAIL: support/tst-timespec for 32-bit targets
2169 [26258] nss: nss_compat should not read input files with mmap
2170 [26332] string: Incorrect cache line size load causes memory
2171 corruption in memset
2178 * The GNU C Library now supports a feature test macro _ISOC2X_SOURCE to
2179 enable features from the draft ISO C2X standard. Only some features from
2180 this draft standard are supported by the GNU C Library, and as the draft
2181 is under active development, the set of features enabled by this macro is
2182 liable to change. Features from C2X are also enabled by _GNU_SOURCE, or
2183 by compiling with "gcc -std=gnu2x".
2185 * The <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type now
2186 have corresponding type-generic macros in <tgmath.h>, as defined in TS
2187 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015 as amended by the resolution of
2188 Clarification Request 13 to TS 18661-3.
2190 * The function pthread_clockjoin_np has been added, enabling join with a
2191 terminated thread with a specific clock. It allows waiting against
2192 CLOCK_MONOTONIC and CLOCK_REALTIME. This function is a GNU extension.
2194 * New locale added: mnw_MM (Mon language spoken in Myanmar).
2196 * The DNS stub resolver will optionally send the AD (authenticated data) bit
2197 in queries if the trust-ad option is set via the options directive in
2198 /etc/resolv.conf (or if RES_TRUSTAD is set in _res.options). In this
2199 mode, the AD bit, as provided by the name server, is available to
2200 applications which call res_search and related functions. In the default
2201 mode, the AD bit is not set in queries, and it is automatically cleared in
2202 responses, indicating a lack of DNSSEC validation. (Therefore, the name
2203 servers and the network path to them are treated as untrusted.)
2205 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2207 * The totalorder and totalordermag functions, and the corresponding
2208 functions for other floating-point types, now take pointer arguments to
2209 avoid signaling NaNs possibly being converted to quiet NaNs in argument
2210 passing. This is in accordance with the resolution of Clarification
2211 Request 25 to TS 18661-1, as applied for C2X. Existing binaries that pass
2212 floating-point arguments directly will continue to work.
2214 * The obsolete function stime is no longer available to newly linked
2215 binaries, and its declaration has been removed from <time.h>.
2216 Programs that set the system time should use clock_settime instead.
2218 * We plan to remove the obsolete function ftime, and the header <sys/timeb.h>,
2219 in a future version of glibc. In this release, the header still exists
2220 but calling ftime will cause a compiler warning. All programs should use
2221 gettimeofday or clock_gettime instead.
2223 * The gettimeofday function no longer reports information about a
2224 system-wide time zone. This 4.2-BSD-era feature has been deprecated for
2225 many years, as it cannot handle the full complexity of the world's
2226 timezones, but hitherto we have supported it on a best-effort basis.
2227 Changes required to support 64-bit time_t on 32-bit architectures have
2228 made this no longer practical.
2230 As of this release, callers of gettimeofday with a non-null 'tzp' argument
2231 should expect to receive a 'struct timezone' whose tz_minuteswest and
2232 tz_dsttime fields are zero. (For efficiency reasons, this does not always
2233 happen on a few Linux-based ports. This will be corrected in a future
2236 All callers should supply a null pointer for the 'tzp' argument to
2237 gettimeofday. For accurate information about the time zone associated
2238 with the current time, use the localtime function.
2240 gettimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. We have no plans
2241 to remove access to this function, but portable programs should consider
2242 using clock_gettime instead.
2244 * The settimeofday function can still be used to set a system-wide time
2245 zone when the operating system supports it. This is because the Linux
2246 kernel reused the API, on some architectures, to describe a system-wide
2247 time-zone-like offset between the software clock maintained by the kernel,
2248 and the "RTC" clock that keeps time when the system is shut down.
2250 However, to reduce the odds of this offset being set by accident,
2251 settimeofday can no longer be used to set the time and the offset
2252 simultaneously. If both of its two arguments are non-null, the call
2253 will fail (setting errno to EINVAL).
2255 Callers attempting to set this offset should also be prepared for the call
2256 to fail and set errno to ENOSYS; this already happens on the Hurd and on
2257 some Linux architectures. The Linux kernel maintainers are discussing a
2258 more principled replacement for the reused API. After a replacement
2259 becomes available, we will change settimeofday to fail with ENOSYS on all
2260 platforms when its 'tzp' argument is not a null pointer.
2262 settimeofday itself is obsolescent according to POSIX. Programs that set
2263 the system time should use clock_settime and/or the adjtime family of
2264 functions instead. We may cease to make settimeofday available to newly
2265 linked binaries after there is a replacement for Linux's time-zone-like
2268 * SPARC ISA v7 is no longer supported. v8 is still supported, but only if
2269 the optional CAS instruction is implemented (for instance, LEON processors
2270 are still supported, but SuperSPARC processors are not).
2272 As the oldest 64-bit SPARC ISA is v9, this only affects 32-bit
2275 * If a lazy binding failure happens during dlopen, during the execution of
2276 an ELF constructor, the process is now terminated. Previously, the
2277 dynamic loader would return NULL from dlopen, with the lazy binding error
2278 captured in a dlerror message. In general, this is unsafe because
2279 resetting the stack in an arbitrary function call is not possible.
2281 * For MIPS hard-float ABIs, the GNU C Library will be configured to need an
2282 executable stack unless explicitly configured at build time to require
2283 minimum kernel version 4.8 or newer. This is because executing
2284 floating-point branches on a non-executable stack on Linux kernels prior to
2285 4.8 can lead to application crashes for some MIPS configurations. While
2286 currently PT_GNU_STACK is not widely used on MIPS, future releases of GCC are
2287 expected to enable non-executable stack by default with PT_GNU_STACK by
2288 default and is thus likely to trigger a crash on older kernels.
2290 The GNU C Library can be built with --enable-kernel=4.8.0 in order to keep a
2291 non-executable stack while dropping support for older kernels.
2293 * System call wrappers for time system calls now use the new time64 system
2294 calls when available. On 32-bit targets, these wrappers attempt to call
2295 the new system calls first and fall back to the older 32-bit time system
2296 calls if they are not present. This may cause issues in environments
2297 that cannot handle unsupported system calls gracefully by returning
2298 -ENOSYS. Seccomp sandboxes are affected by this issue.
2300 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2302 * It is no longer necessary to have recent Linux kernel headers to build
2303 working (non-stub) system call wrappers on all architectures except 64-bit
2304 RISC-V. 64-bit RISC-V requires a minimum kernel headers version of 5.0.
2306 * The ChangeLog file is no longer present in the toplevel directory of the
2307 source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as
2308 ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries.
2310 Security related changes:
2312 CVE-2020-1751: A defect in the PowerPC backtrace function could cause an
2313 out-of-bounds write when executed in a signal frame context.
2315 CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
2316 environment variable during program execution after a security
2317 transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
2318 addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
2319 program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
2321 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2323 [12031] localedata: iconv -t ascii//translit with Greek characters
2324 [15813] libc: Multiple issues in __gen_tempname
2325 [17726] libc: [arm, sparc] profil_counter should be compat symbol
2326 [18231] libc: ipc_perm struct's mode member has wrong type in sys/ipc.h
2327 [19767] libc: vdso is not used with static linking
2328 [19903] hurd: Shared mappings not being inherited by children processes
2329 [20358] network: RES_USE_DNSSEC sets DO; should also have a way to set AD
2330 [20839] dynamic-link: Incomplete rollback of dynamic linker state on
2332 [23132] localedata: Missing transliterations in Miscellaneous Mathematical
2333 Symbols-A/B Unicode blocks
2334 [23518] libc: Eliminate __libc_utmp_jump_table
2335 [24026] malloc: malloc_info() returns wrong numbers
2336 [24054] localedata: Many locales are missing date_fmt
2337 [24214] dynamic-link: user defined ifunc resolvers may run in ldd mode
2338 [24304] dynamic-link: Lazy binding failure during ELF
2339 constructors/destructors is not fatal
2340 [24376] libc: RISC-V symbol size confusion with _start
2341 [24682] localedata: zh_CN first weekday should be Monday per GB/T
2343 [24824] libc: test-in-container does not install charmap files compatible
2345 [24844] regex: regex bad pointer / leakage if malloc fails
2346 [24867] malloc: Unintended malloc_info formatting changes
2347 [24879] libc: login: utmp alarm timer can arrive after lock acquisition
2348 [24880] libc: login: utmp implementation uses struct flock with fcntl64
2349 [24882] libc: login: pututline uses potentially outdated cache
2350 [24899] libc: Missing nonstring attributes in <utmp.h>, <utmpx.h>
2351 [24902] libc: login: Repeating pututxline on EINTR/EAGAIN causes stale
2353 [24916] dynamic-link: [MIPS] Highest EI_ABIVERSION value not raised to
2355 [24930] dynamic-link: dlopen of PIE executable can result in
2356 _dl_allocate_tls_init assertion failure
2357 [24950] localedata: Top-of-tree glibc does not build with top-of-tree GCC
2358 (stringop-overflow error)
2359 [24959] time: librt IFUNC resolvers for clock_gettime and clock_*
2360 functions other can lead to crashes
2361 [24967] libc: jemalloc static linking causes runtime failure
2362 [24986] libc: alpha: new getegid, geteuid and getppid syscalls used
2364 [25035] libc: sbrk() failure handled poorly in tunables_strdup
2365 [25087] dynamic-link: ldconfig mishandles unusual .dynstr placement
2366 [25097] libc: new -Warray-bounds with GCC 10
2367 [25112] dynamic-link: dlopen must not make new objects accessible when it
2368 still can fail with an error
2369 [25139] localedata: Please add the new mnw_MM locale
2370 [25149] regex: Array bounds violation in proceed_next_node
2371 [25157] dynamic-link: Audit cookie for the dynamic loader is not
2372 initialized correctly
2373 [25189] libc: glibc's __glibc_has_include causes issues with clang
2375 [25194] malloc: malloc.c: do_set_mxfast incorrectly casts the mallopt
2376 value to an unsigned
2377 [25204] dynamic-link: LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC not ignored in setuid
2378 binaries (CVE-2019-19126)
2379 [25225] libc: ld.so fails to link on x86 if GCC defaults to -fcf-
2381 [25226] string: strstr: Invalid result if needle crosses page on s390-z15
2383 [25232] string: <string.h> does not enable const correctness for strchr et
2385 [25233] localedata: Consider "." as the thousands separator for sl_SI
2387 [25241] nptl: __SIZEOF_PTHREAD_MUTEX_T defined twice for x86
2388 [25251] build: Failure to run tests when CFLAGS contains -DNDEBUG.
2389 [25271] libc: undeclared identifier PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT when compiling
2391 [25323] localedata: km_KH: d_t_fmt contains "m" instead of "%M"
2392 [25324] localedata: lv_LV: d_t_fmt contains suspicious words in the time
2394 [25396] dynamic-link: Failing dlopen can leave behind dangling GL
2395 (dl_initfirst) link map pointer
2396 [25401] malloc: pvalloc must not have __attribute_alloc_size__
2397 [25423] libc: Array overflow in backtrace on powerpc
2398 [25425] network: Missing call to __resolv_context_put in
2399 getaddrinfo.c:gethosts
2406 * Unicode 12.1.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2407 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 12.1.0, using
2408 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2410 * The dynamic linker accepts the --preload argument to preload shared
2411 objects, in addition to the LD_PRELOAD environment variable.
2413 * The twalk_r function has been added. It is similar to the existing
2414 twalk function, but it passes an additional caller-supplied argument
2415 to the callback function.
2417 * On Linux, the getdents64, gettid, and tgkill functions have been added.
2419 * Minguo (Republic of China) calendar support has been added as an
2420 alternative calendar for the following locales: zh_TW, cmn_TW, hak_TW,
2423 * The entry for the new Japanese era has been added for ja_JP locale.
2425 * Memory allocation functions malloc, calloc, realloc, reallocarray, valloc,
2426 pvalloc, memalign, and posix_memalign fail now with total object size
2427 larger than PTRDIFF_MAX. This is to avoid potential undefined behavior with
2428 pointer subtraction within the allocated object, where results might
2429 overflow the ptrdiff_t type.
2431 * The dynamic linker no longer refuses to load objects which reference
2432 versioned symbols whose implementation has moved to a different soname
2433 since the object has been linked. The old error message, symbol
2434 FUNCTION-NAME, version SYMBOL-VERSION not defined in file DSO-NAME with
2435 link time reference, is gone.
2437 * Add new POSIX-proposed pthread_cond_clockwait, pthread_mutex_clocklock,
2438 pthread_rwlock_clockrdlock, pthread_rwlock_clockwrlock and sem_clockwait
2439 functions. These behave similarly to their "timed" equivalents, but also
2440 accept a clockid_t parameter to determine which clock their timeout should
2441 be measured against. All functions allow waiting against CLOCK_MONOTONIC
2442 and CLOCK_REALTIME. The decision of which clock to be used is made at the
2443 time of the wait (unlike with pthread_condattr_setclock, which requires
2444 the clock choice at initialization time).
2446 * On AArch64 the GNU IFUNC resolver call ABI changed: old resolvers still
2447 work, new resolvers can use a second argument which can be extended in
2448 the future, currently it contains the AT_HWCAP2 value.
2450 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2452 * The copy_file_range function fails with ENOSYS if the kernel does not
2453 support the system call of the same name. Previously, user space
2454 emulation was performed, but its behavior did not match the kernel
2455 behavior, which was deemed too confusing. Applications which use the
2456 copy_file_range function can no longer rely on glibc to provide a fallback
2457 on kernels that do not support the copy_file_range system call, and if
2458 this function returns ENOSYS, they will need to use their own fallback.
2459 Support for copy_file_range for most architectures was added in version
2460 4.5 of the mainline Linux kernel.
2462 * The functions clock_gettime, clock_getres, clock_settime,
2463 clock_getcpuclockid, clock_nanosleep were removed from the librt library
2464 for new applications (on architectures which had them). Instead, the
2465 definitions in libc will be used automatically, which have been available
2468 * The obsolete and never-implemented XSI STREAMS header files <stropts.h>
2469 and <sys/stropts.h> have been removed.
2471 * Support for the "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6
2472 resolver flag (deprecated in glibc 2.25) have been removed.
2474 * The obsolete RES_INSECURE1 and RES_INSECURE2 option flags for the DNS stub
2475 resolver have been removed from <resolv.h>.
2477 * With --enable-bind-now, installed programs are now linked with the
2480 * Support for the PowerPC SPE ISA extension (powerpc-*-*gnuspe*
2481 configurations) has been removed, following the deprecation of this
2482 subarchitecture in version 8 of GCC, and its removal in version 9.
2484 * On 32-bit Arm, support for the port-based I/O emulation and the <sys/io.h>
2485 header have been removed.
2487 * The Linux-specific <sys/sysctl.h> header and the sysctl function have been
2488 deprecated and will be removed from a future version of glibc.
2489 Application should directly access /proc instead. For obtaining random
2490 bits, the getentropy function can be used.
2492 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2494 * GCC 6.2 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2496 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2497 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2499 Security related changes:
2501 CVE-2019-7309: x86-64 memcmp used signed Jcc instructions to check
2502 size. For x86-64, memcmp on an object size larger than SSIZE_MAX
2503 has undefined behavior. On x32, the size_t argument may be passed
2504 in the lower 32 bits of the 64-bit RDX register with non-zero upper
2505 32 bits. When it happened with the sign bit of RDX register set,
2506 memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
2507 zero. Reported by H.J. Lu.
2509 CVE-2019-9169: Attempted case-insensitive regular-expression match
2510 via proceed_next_node in posix/regexec.c leads to heap-based buffer
2511 over-read. Reported by Hongxu Chen.
2513 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2515 [2872] locale: Transliteration Cyrillic -> ASCII fails
2516 [6399] libc: gettid() should have a wrapper
2517 [16573] malloc: mtrace hangs when MALLOC_TRACE is defined
2518 [16976] glob: fnmatch unbounded stack VLA for collating symbols
2519 [17396] localedata: globbing for locale by [[.collating-element.]]
2520 [18035] dynamic-link: pldd does no longer work, enters infinite loop
2521 [18465] malloc: memusagestat is built using system C library
2522 [18830] locale: iconv -c -f ascii with >buffer size worth of input before
2523 invalid input drops valid char
2524 [20188] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for vfork can lead to crash
2525 [20568] locale: Segfault with wide characters and setlocale/fgetwc/UTF-8
2526 [21897] localedata: Afar locales: Fix mon, abmon, and abday
2527 [22964] localedata: The Japanese Era name will be changed on May 1, 2019
2528 [23352] malloc: __malloc_check_init still defined in public header
2530 [23403] nptl: Wrong alignment of TLS variables
2531 [23501] libc: nftw() doesn't return dangling symlink's inode
2532 [23733] malloc: Check the count before calling tcache_get()
2533 [23741] malloc: Missing __attribute_alloc_size__ in many allocation
2535 [23831] localedata: nl_NL missing LC_NUMERIC thousands_sep
2536 [23844] nptl: pthread_rwlock_trywrlock results in hang
2537 [23983] argparse: Missing compat versions of argp_failure and argp_error
2538 for long double = double
2539 [23984] libc: Missing compat versions of err.h and error.h functions for
2540 long double = double
2541 [23996] localedata: Dutch salutations
2542 [24040] libc: riscv64: unterminated call chain in __thread_start
2543 [24047] network: libresolv should use IP_RECVERR/IPV6_RECVERR to avoid
2545 [24051] stdio: puts and putchar output to _IO_stdout instead of stdout
2546 [24059] nss: nss_files: get_next_alias calls fgets_unlocked without
2548 [24114] regex: regexec buffer read overrun in "grep -i
2549 '\(\(\)*.\)*\(\)\(\)\1'"
2550 [24122] libc: Segfaults if 0 returned from la_version
2551 [24153] stdio: Some input functions do not react to stdin assignment
2552 [24155] string: x32 memcmp can treat positive length as 0 (if sign bit in
2553 RDX is set) (CVE-2019-7309)
2554 [24161] nptl: __run_fork_handlers self-deadlocks in malloc/tst-mallocfork2
2555 [24164] libc: Systemtap probes need to use "nr" constraint on 32-bit Arm,
2556 not the default "nor"
2557 [24166] dynamic-link: Dl_serinfo.dls_serpath[1] in dlfcn.h causes UBSAN
2558 false positives, change to modern flexible array
2559 [24180] nptl: pthread_mutex_trylock does not use the correct order of
2560 instructions while maintaining the robust mutex list due to missing
2562 [24194] librt: Non-compatibility symbols for clock_gettime etc. cause
2563 unnecessary librt dependencies
2564 [24200] localedata: Revert first_weekday removal in en_IE locale
2565 [24211] nptl: Use-after-free in Systemtap probe in pthread_join
2566 [24215] nptl: pthread_timedjoin_np should be a cancellation point
2567 [24216] malloc: Check for large bin list corruption when inserting
2569 [24228] stdio: old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
2570 [24231] dynamic-link: [sparc64] R_SPARC_H34 implementation falls through
2572 [24293] localedata: Missing Minguo calendar support for TW locales
2573 [24296] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'day' and 'abday' sections in
2574 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2575 [24307] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.0.0
2576 [24323] dynamic-link: dlopen should not be able open PIE objects
2577 [24335] build: "Obsolete types detected" with Linux 5.0 headers
2578 [24369] localedata: Orthographic mistakes in 'mon' and 'abmon' sections in
2579 tt_RU (Tatar) locale
2580 [24370] localedata: Add lang_name for tt_RU locale
2581 [24372] locale: Binary locale files are not architecture independent
2582 [24394] time: strptime %Ey mis-parses final year of era
2583 [24476] dynamic-link: __libc_freeres triggers bad free in libdl if dlerror
2585 [24506] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-pldd with --enable-hardcoded-path-in-
2587 [24531] malloc: Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
2588 [24532] libc: conform/arpa/inet.h failures due to linux kernel 64-bit
2590 [24535] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 12.1.0
2591 [24537] build: nptl/tst-eintr1 test case can hit task limits on some
2592 kernels and break testing
2593 [24544] build: elf/tst-pldd doesn't work if you install with a --prefix
2594 [24556] build: [GCC 9] error: ‘%s’ directive argument is null
2595 [-Werror=format-overflow=]
2596 [24570] libc: alpha: compat msgctl uses __IPC_64
2597 [24584] locale: Data race in __wcsmbs_clone_conv
2598 [24588] stdio: Remove codecvt vtables from libio
2599 [24603] math: sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/branred.c is slow when compiled with
2601 [24614] localedata: nl_NL LC_MONETARY doesn't match CLDR 35
2602 [24632] stdio: Old binaries which use freopen with default stdio handles
2604 [24640] libc: __ppc_get_timebase_freq() always return 0 when using static
2606 [24652] localedata: szl_PL spelling correction
2607 [24695] nss: nss_db: calling getpwent after endpwent crashes
2608 [24696] nss: endgrent() clobbers errno=ERRNO for 'group: db files' entry
2609 in /etc/nsswitch.conf
2610 [24699] libc: mmap64 with very large offset broken on MIPS64 n32
2611 [24740] libc: getdents64 type confusion
2612 [24741] dynamic-link: ld.so should not require that a versioned symbol is
2613 always implemented in the same library
2614 [24744] libc: Remove copy_file_range emulation
2615 [24757] malloc: memusagestat is linked against system libpthread
2616 [24794] libc: Partial test suite run builds corrupt test-in-container
2624 * The getcpu wrapper function has been added, which returns the currently
2625 used CPU and NUMA node. This function is Linux-specific.
2627 * A new convenience target has been added for distribution maintainers
2628 to build and install all locales as directories with files. The new
2629 target is run by issuing the following command in your build tree:
2630 'make localedata/install-locale-files', with an optional DESTDIR
2631 to set the install root if you wish to install into a non-default
2632 configured location.
2634 * Optimized generic exp, exp2, log, log2, pow, sinf, cosf, sincosf and tanf.
2636 * The reallocarray function is now declared under _DEFAULT_SOURCE, not just
2637 for _GNU_SOURCE, to match BSD environments.
2639 * For powercp64le ABI, Transactional Lock Elision is now enabled iff kernel
2640 indicates that it will abort the transaction prior to entering the kernel
2641 (PPC_FEATURE2_HTM_NOSC on hwcap2). On older kernels the transaction is
2642 suspended, and this caused some undefined side-effects issues by aborting
2643 transactions manually. Glibc avoided it by abort transactions manually on
2644 each syscall, but it lead to performance issues on newer kernels where the
2645 HTM state is saved and restore lazily (the state being saved even when the
2646 process actually does not use HTM).
2648 * The functions posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np and
2649 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np have been added, enabling
2650 posix_spawn and posix_spawnp to run the new process in a different
2651 directory. These functions are GNU extensions. The function
2652 posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np is similar to the Solaris function
2655 * The popen and system do not run atfork handlers anymore (BZ#17490).
2656 Although it is a possible POSIX violation, the POSIX rationale in
2657 pthread_atfork documentation regarding atfork handlers is to handle
2658 inconsistent mutex state after a fork call in a multi-threaded process.
2659 In both popen and system there is no direct access to user-defined mutexes.
2661 * Support for the C-SKY ABIV2 running on Linux has been added. This port
2662 requires at least binutils-2.32, gcc-9.0, and linux-4.20. Two ABIs are
2664 - C-SKY ABIV2 soft-float little-endian
2665 - C-SKY ABIV2 hard-float little-endian
2667 * strftime's default formatting of a locale's alternative year (%Ey)
2668 has been changed to zero-pad the year to a minimum of two digits,
2669 like "%y". This improves the display of Japanese era years during
2670 the first nine years of a new era, and is expected to be harmless
2671 for all other locales (only Japanese locales regularly have
2672 alternative year numbers less than 10). Zero-padding can be
2673 overridden with the '_' or '-' flags (which are GNU extensions).
2675 * As a GNU extension, the '_' and '-' flags can now be applied to
2676 "%EY" to control how the year number is formatted; they have the
2677 same effect that they would on "%Ey".
2679 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2681 * The glibc.tune tunable namespace has been renamed to glibc.cpu and the
2682 tunable glibc.tune.cpu has been renamed to glibc.cpu.name.
2684 * The type of the pr_uid and pr_gid members of struct elf_prpsinfo, defined
2685 in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually used by
2686 the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of that structure on
2687 MicroBlaze, MIPS (n64 ABI only), Nios II and RISC-V.
2689 * For the MIPS n32 ABI, the type of the pr_sigpend and pr_sighold members of
2690 struct elf_prstatus, and the pr_flag member of struct elf_prpsinfo,
2691 defined in <sys/procfs.h>, has been corrected to match the type actually
2692 used by the Linux kernel. This affects the size and layout of those
2695 * An archaic GNU extension to scanf, under which '%as', '%aS', and '%a[...]'
2696 meant to scan a string and allocate space for it with malloc, is now
2697 restricted to programs compiled in C89 or C++98 mode with _GNU_SOURCE
2698 defined. This extension conflicts with C99's use of '%a' to scan a
2699 hexadecimal floating-point number, which is now available to programs
2700 compiled as C99 or C++11 or higher, regardless of _GNU_SOURCE.
2702 POSIX.1-2008 includes the feature of allocating a buffer for string input
2703 with malloc, using the modifier letter 'm' instead. Programs using
2704 '%as', '%aS', or '%a[...]' with the old GNU meaning should change to
2705 '%ms', '%mS', or '%m[...]' respectively. Programs that wish to use the
2706 C99 '%a' no longer need to avoid _GNU_SOURCE.
2708 GCC's -Wformat warnings can detect most uses of this extension, as long
2709 as all functions that call vscanf, vfscanf, or vsscanf are annotated with
2710 __attribute__ ((format (scanf, ...))).
2712 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
2714 * Python 3.4 or later is required to build the GNU C Library.
2716 * On most architectures, GCC 5 or later is required to build the GNU C
2717 Library. (On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is still required, as before.)
2719 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
2720 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library.
2722 Security related changes:
2724 CVE-2018-19591: A file descriptor leak in if_nametoindex can lead to a
2725 denial of service due to resource exhaustion when processing getaddrinfo
2726 calls with crafted host names. Reported by Guido Vranken.
2728 CVE-2019-6488: On x32, the size_t parameter may be passed in the lower
2729 32 bits of a 64-bit register with with non-zero upper 32 bit. When it
2730 happened, accessing the 32-bit size_t value as the full 64-bit register
2731 in the assembly string/memory functions would cause a buffer overflow.
2732 Reported by H.J. Lu.
2734 CVE-2016-10739: The getaddrinfo function could successfully parse IPv4
2735 addresses with arbitrary trailing characters, potentially leading to data
2736 or command injection issues in applications.
2738 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2740 [10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
2741 [10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
2742 [10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
2744 [11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
2745 [16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
2746 [17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
2748 [17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
2749 posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
2750 [17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
2751 [17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
2752 [17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
2753 [18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
2754 [18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
2755 [20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
2756 characters (CVE-2016-10739)
2757 [20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
2758 [20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
2759 [20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
2760 [20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
2761 pointer argument is non-NULL
2762 [21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
2763 [21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
2764 [21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
2765 [22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
2766 multithreads call popen
2767 [22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
2768 and pthread_create fails.
2769 [23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
2770 [23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
2772 [23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
2773 PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
2774 [23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
2776 [23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
2778 [23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
2780 [23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
2781 [23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
2783 [23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
2784 [23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
2785 [23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
2786 [23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
2787 [23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
2788 [23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
2789 [23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
2791 [23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
2792 [23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
2793 [23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
2795 [23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
2796 [23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
2797 posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
2798 [23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
2800 [23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
2802 [23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
2803 [23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
2804 bits/types/struct_rusage.h
2805 [23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
2807 [23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
2809 [23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
2810 [23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
2811 [23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
2813 [23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
2814 [23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
2815 [23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
2816 [23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
2817 [23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
2818 [23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
2820 [23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
2821 [23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
2822 [23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
2823 [23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
2824 [23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
2825 [23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
2826 [23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
2827 [23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
2828 [23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
2829 [23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
2830 [23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2831 [23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
2832 [23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
2833 [23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
2835 [23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
2836 sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
2837 [23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
2838 [23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
2839 [23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
2841 [23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
2842 nearest rounding mode
2843 [23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
2844 [23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
2845 [23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
2846 [23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
2847 [24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
2848 [24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
2849 [24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
2850 [24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
2851 [24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
2853 [24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
2854 [24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
2856 [24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
2857 [24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
2858 [24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
2859 [24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
2861 [24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
2863 [24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
2865 [24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
2867 [24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
2868 answers will be rejected)
2869 [24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
2876 * The localization data for ISO 14651 is updated to match the 2016
2877 Edition 4 release of the standard, this matches data provided by
2878 Unicode 9.0.0. This update introduces significant improvements to the
2879 collation of Unicode characters. This release deviates slightly from
2880 the standard in that the collation element ordering for lowercase and
2881 uppercase LATIN script characters is adjusted to ensure that regular
2882 expressions with ranges like [a-z] and [A-Z] don't interleave e.g. A
2883 is not matched by [a-z]. With the update many locales have been
2884 updated to take advantage of the new collation information. The new
2885 collation information has increased the size of the compiled locale
2886 archive or binary locales.
2888 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for Intel CET, AKA
2889 Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology. When the library is built
2890 with --enable-cet, the resulting glibc is protected with indirect
2891 branch tracking (IBT) and shadow stack (SHSTK). CET-enabled glibc is
2892 compatible with all existing executables and shared libraries. This
2893 feature is currently supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with GCC 8 and
2894 binutils 2.29 or later. Note that CET-enabled glibc requires CPUs
2895 capable of multi-byte NOPs, like x86-64 processors as well as Intel
2896 Pentium Pro or newer. NOTE: --enable-cet has been tested for i686,
2897 x86_64 and x32 on non-CET processors. --enable-cet has been tested
2898 for x86_64 and x32 on CET SDVs, but Intel CET support hasn't been
2901 * The GNU C Library now has correct support for ABSOLUTE symbols
2902 (SHN_ABS-relative symbols). Previously such ABSOLUTE symbols were
2903 relocated incorrectly or in some cases discarded. The GNU linker can
2904 make use of the newer semantics, but it must communicate it to the
2905 dynamic loader by setting the ELF file's identification (EI_ABIVERSION
2906 field) to indicate such support is required.
2908 * Unicode 11.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
2909 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 11.0.0, using
2910 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
2912 * <math.h> functions that round their results to a narrower type are added
2913 from TS 18661-1:2014 and TS 18661-3:2015:
2915 - fadd, faddl, daddl and corresponding fMaddfN, fMaddfNx, fMxaddfN and
2916 fMxaddfNx functions.
2918 - fsub, fsubl, dsubl and corresponding fMsubfN, fMsubfNx, fMxsubfN and
2919 fMxsubfNx functions.
2921 - fmul, fmull, dmull and corresponding fMmulfN, fMmulfNx, fMxmulfN and
2922 fMxmulfNx functions.
2924 - fdiv, fdivl, ddivl and corresponding fMdivfN, fMdivfNx, fMxdivfN and
2925 fMxdivfNx functions.
2927 * Two grammatical forms of month names are now supported for the following
2928 languages: Armenian, Asturian, Catalan, Czech, Kashubian, Occitan, Ossetian,
2929 Scottish Gaelic, Upper Sorbian, and Walloon. The following languages now
2930 support two grammatical forms in abbreviated month names: Catalan, Greek,
2933 * Newly added locales: Lower Sorbian (dsb_DE) and Yakut (sah_RU) also
2934 include the support for two grammatical forms of month names.
2936 * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree
2939 * The renameat2 function has been added, a variant of the renameat function
2940 which has a flags argument. If the flags are zero, the renameat2 function
2941 acts like renameat. If the flag is not zero and there is no kernel
2942 support for renameat2, the function will fail with an errno value of
2943 EINVAL. This is different from the existing gnulib function renameatu,
2944 which performs a plain rename operation in case of a RENAME_NOREPLACE
2945 flags and a non-existing destination (and therefore has a race condition
2946 that can clobber the destination inadvertently).
2948 * The statx function has been added, a variant of the fstatat64
2949 function with an additional flags argument. If there is no direct
2950 kernel support for statx, glibc provides basic stat support based on
2951 the fstatat64 function.
2953 * IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2
2954 library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If
2955 libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded
2956 or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or
2957 getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail
2958 with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and
2959 decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES,
2960 NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been
2961 deprecated. They no longer have any effect.
2963 * Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED,
2964 DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full
2965 range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as
2966 '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules
2967 have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string
2968 token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will
2969 now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered
2970 unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and
2971 for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED
2972 results in a load failure now.
2974 * Support for ISO C threads (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has been added. The
2975 implementation includes all the standard functions provided by
2978 - thrd_current, thrd_equal, thrd_sleep, thrd_yield, thrd_create,
2979 thrd_detach, thrd_exit, and thrd_join for thread management.
2981 - mtx_init, mtx_lock, mtx_timedlock, mtx_trylock, mtx_unlock, and
2982 mtx_destroy for mutual exclusion.
2984 - call_once for function call synchronization.
2986 - cnd_broadcast, cnd_destroy, cnd_init, cnd_signal, cnd_timedwait, and
2987 cnd_wait for conditional variables.
2989 - tss_create, tss_delete, tss_get, and tss_set for thread-local storage.
2991 Application developers must link against libpthread to use ISO C threads.
2993 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
2995 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer
2996 installed. Software that was using either header should be updated to
2997 use standard <stdio.h> interfaces instead.
2999 * The stdio functions 'getc' and 'putc' are no longer defined as macros.
3000 This was never required by the C standard, and the macros just expanded
3001 to call alternative names for the same functions. If you hoped getc and
3002 putc would provide performance improvements over fgetc and fputc, instead
3003 investigate using (f)getc_unlocked and (f)putc_unlocked, and, if
3004 necessary, flockfile and funlockfile.
3006 * All stdio functions now treat end-of-file as a sticky condition. If you
3007 read from a file until EOF, and then the file is enlarged by another
3008 process, you must call clearerr or another function with the same effect
3009 (e.g. fseek, rewind) before you can read the additional data. This
3010 corrects a longstanding C99 conformance bug. It is most likely to affect
3011 programs that use stdio to read interactive input from a terminal.
3014 * The macros 'major', 'minor', and 'makedev' are now only available from
3015 the header <sys/sysmacros.h>; not from <sys/types.h> or various other
3016 headers that happen to include <sys/types.h>. These macros are rarely
3017 used, not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with
3018 user code; see https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19239 for
3019 further explanation.
3021 <sys/sysmacros.h> is a GNU extension. Portable programs that require
3022 these macros should first include <sys/types.h>, and then include
3023 <sys/sysmacros.h> if __GNU_LIBRARY__ is defined.
3025 * The tilegx*-*-linux-gnu configurations are no longer supported.
3027 * The obsolete function ustat is no longer available to newly linked
3028 binaries; the headers <ustat.h> and <sys/ustat.h> have been removed. This
3029 function has been deprecated in favor of fstatfs and statfs.
3031 * The obsolete function nfsservctl is no longer available to newly linked
3032 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3033 and could not usefully be used with the GNU C Library on systems with
3034 version 3.1 or later of the Linux kernel.
3036 * The obsolete function name llseek is no longer available to newly linked
3037 binaries. This function was specific to systems using the Linux kernel
3038 and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name
3039 for this function instead.
3041 * The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the
3042 getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior
3043 previously selected by them is now always enabled.
3045 * The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for
3046 the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3
3047 restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been
3048 removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution.
3050 * The fcntl function now have a Long File Support variant named fcntl64. It
3051 is added to fix some Linux Open File Description (OFD) locks usage on non
3052 LFS mode. As for others *64 functions, fcntl64 semantics are analogous with
3053 fcntl and LFS support is handled transparently. Also for Linux, the OFD
3054 locks act as a cancellation entrypoint.
3056 * The obsolete functions encrypt, encrypt_r, setkey, setkey_r, cbc_crypt,
3057 ecb_crypt, and des_setparity are no longer available to newly linked
3058 binaries, and the headers <rpc/des_crypt.h> and <rpc/rpc_des.h> are no
3059 longer installed. These functions encrypted and decrypted data with the
3060 DES block cipher, which is no longer considered secure. Software that
3061 still uses these functions should switch to a modern cryptography library,
3064 * Reflecting the removal of the encrypt and setkey functions above, the
3065 macro _XOPEN_CRYPT is no longer defined. As a consequence, the crypt
3066 function is no longer declared unless _DEFAULT_SOURCE or _GNU_SOURCE is
3069 * The obsolete function fcrypt is no longer available to newly linked
3070 binaries. It was just another name for the standard function crypt,
3071 and it has not appeared in any header file in many years.
3073 * We have tentative plans to hand off maintenance of the passphrase-hashing
3074 library, libcrypt, to a separate development project that will, we hope,
3075 keep up better with new passphrase-hashing algorithms. We will continue
3076 to declare 'crypt' in <unistd.h>, and programs that use 'crypt' or
3077 'crypt_r' should not need to change at all; however, distributions will
3078 need to install <crypt.h> and libcrypt from a separate project.
3080 In this release, if the configure option --disable-crypt is used, glibc
3081 will not install <crypt.h> or libcrypt, making room for the separate
3082 project's versions of these files. The plan is to make this the default
3083 behavior in a future release.
3085 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3087 GNU make 4.0 or later is now required to build glibc.
3089 Security related changes:
3091 CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have
3092 been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using
3093 the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno
3094 Böck and Christian Weisgerber.
3096 CVE-2017-18269: An SSE2-based memmove implementation for the i386
3097 architecture could corrupt memory. Reported by Max Horn.
3099 CVE-2018-11236: Very long pathname arguments to realpath function could
3100 result in an integer overflow and buffer overflow. Reported by Alexey
3103 CVE-2018-11237: The mempcpy implementation for the Intel Xeon Phi
3104 architecture could write beyond the target buffer, resulting in a buffer
3105 overflow. Reported by Andreas Schwab.
3107 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3109 [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
3110 [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
3111 [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
3112 when __WORDSIZE != 64
3113 [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
3114 [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
3115 [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
3116 [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
3117 [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
3119 [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
3120 [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
3121 [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
3122 [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
3123 [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
3125 [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
3127 [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
3128 [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
3129 scope with -O1 and higher
3130 [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
3131 [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
3132 [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
3133 [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
3134 [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
3135 [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
3136 [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
3137 horrible machine code)
3138 [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
3140 [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
3141 [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
3143 [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
3144 [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
3146 [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
3147 [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
3148 [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
3149 [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
3150 [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
3152 [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
3153 idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
3154 [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
3155 stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
3156 [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
3158 [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
3159 [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
3160 [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
3162 [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
3163 [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
3164 [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
3165 [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
3166 malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
3167 [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
3168 [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
3169 [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
3170 [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
3171 [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
3172 [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
3173 [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
3174 [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
3176 [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
3178 [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
3179 [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
3180 puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
3181 [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
3182 [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
3183 [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
3184 should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
3185 for Spanish with CLDR
3186 [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
3187 by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
3188 [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
3189 [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
3190 crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
3191 [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
3193 [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
3195 [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
3196 [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
3197 `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
3198 [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
3200 [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
3201 to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
3202 [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
3203 through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
3204 [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
3205 [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
3206 [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
3207 [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
3208 [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
3209 [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
3210 [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
3211 [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
3212 [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
3213 [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
3214 [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
3215 [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
3216 [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
3218 [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
3219 [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
3221 [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
3222 [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
3223 [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
3224 [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
3225 [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
3226 [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
3228 [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
3230 [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
3231 [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
3232 [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
3233 [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
3234 [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
3235 [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
3236 [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
3237 patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
3238 [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
3239 and libc build with -Os)
3240 [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
3241 [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
3242 [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
3243 [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
3244 [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
3245 that changes /etc/passwd
3246 [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
3248 [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
3249 [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
3250 [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
3252 [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
3253 [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
3254 [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
3255 -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
3256 [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
3258 [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
3259 [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
3261 [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
3262 [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
3263 [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
3264 [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
3266 [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
3267 [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
3268 '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
3269 [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
3271 [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
3273 [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
3275 [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
3277 [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
3279 [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
3280 [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
3281 [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
3282 [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
3283 [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
3284 [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
3285 [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
3286 [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
3288 [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
3295 * The GNU C Library can now be compiled with support for building static
3296 PIE executables (See --enable-static-pie in INSTALL). These static PIE
3297 executables are like static executables but can be loaded at any address
3298 and provide additional security hardening benefits at the cost of some
3299 memory and performance. When the library is built with --enable-static-pie
3300 the resulting libc.a is usable with GCC 8 and above to create static PIE
3301 executables using the GCC option '-static-pie'. This feature is currently
3302 supported on i386, x86_64 and x32 with binutils 2.29 or later, and on
3303 aarch64 with binutils 2.30 or later.
3305 * Optimized x86-64 asin, atan2, exp, expf, log, pow, atan, sin, cosf,
3306 sinf, sincosf and tan with FMA, contributed by Arjan van de Ven and
3309 * Optimized x86-64 trunc and truncf for processors with SSE4.1.
3311 * Optimized generic expf, exp2f, logf, log2f, powf, sinf, cosf and sincosf.
3313 * In order to support faster and safer process termination the malloc API
3314 family of functions will no longer print a failure address and stack
3315 backtrace after detecting heap corruption. The goal is to minimize the
3316 amount of work done after corruption is detected and to avoid potential
3317 security issues in continued process execution. Reducing shutdown time
3318 leads to lower overall process restart latency, so there is benefit both
3319 from a security and performance perspective.
3321 * The abort function terminates the process immediately, without flushing
3322 stdio streams. Previous glibc versions used to flush streams, resulting
3323 in deadlocks and further data corruption. This change also affects
3324 process aborts as the result of assertion failures.
3326 * On platforms where long double has the IEEE binary128 format (aarch64,
3327 alpha, mips64, riscv, s390 and sparc), the math library now implements
3328 _Float128 interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015.
3329 These are the same interfaces added in version 2.26 for some platforms where
3330 this format is supported but is not the format of long double.
3332 * On platforms with support for _Float64x (aarch64, alpha, i386, ia64,
3333 mips64, powerpc64le, riscv, s390, sparc and x86_64), the math library now
3334 implements interfaces for that type, as defined by ISO/IEC TS
3335 18661-3:2015. These are corresponding interfaces to those supported for
3338 * The math library now implements interfaces for the _Float32, _Float64 and
3339 _Float32x types, as defined by ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. These are
3340 corresponding interfaces to those supported for _Float128.
3342 * glibc now implements the memfd_create and mlock2 functions on Linux.
3344 * Support for memory protection keys was added. The <sys/mman.h> header now
3345 declares the functions pkey_alloc, pkey_free, pkey_mprotect, pkey_set,
3348 * The copy_file_range function was added.
3350 * Optimized memcpy, mempcpy, memmove, and memset for sparc M7.
3352 * The ldconfig utility now processes `include' directives using the C/POSIX
3353 collation ordering. Previous glibc versions used locale-specific
3354 ordering, the change might break systems that relied on that.
3356 * Support for two grammatical forms of month names has been added.
3357 In a call to strftime, the "%B" and "%b" format specifiers will now
3358 produce the grammatical form required when the month is used as part
3359 of a complete date. New "%OB" and "%Ob" specifiers produce the form
3360 required when the month is named by itself. For instance, in Greek
3361 and in many Slavic and Baltic languages, "%B" will produce the month
3362 in genitive case, and "%OB" will produce the month in nominative case.
3364 In a call to strptime, "%B", "%b", "%h", "%OB", "%Ob", and "%Oh"
3365 are all valid and will all accept any known form of month
3366 name---standalone or complete, abbreviated or full. In a call to
3367 nl_langinfo, the query constants MON_1..12 and ABMON_1..12 return
3368 the strings used by "%B" and "%b", respectively. New query
3369 constants ALTMON_1..12 and _NL_ABALTMON_1..12 return the strings
3370 used by "%OB" and "%Ob", respectively.
3372 In a locale definition file, use "alt_mon" and "ab_alt_mon" to
3373 define the strings for %OB and %Ob, respectively; these have the
3374 same syntax as "mon" and "abmon". These arrays are optional; if they
3375 are not provided then they have the same content as "mon" and "abmon",
3378 These features are provided for locales which define "alt_mon" and/or
3379 "ab_alt_mon" in their locale source data. This release includes such
3380 alternative month name data for the following languages: Belarusian,
3381 Croatian, Greek, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian.
3383 This feature is currently a GNU extension, but it is expected to
3384 be added to the next revision of POSIX, and it is also already
3385 available on some BSD-derived operating systems.
3387 This feature will cause existing statically compiled applications
3388 to fail to load locales and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX locales.
3389 See notes below for other changes affecting compatibility.
3391 * Support for the RISC-V ISA running on Linux has been added. This port
3392 requires at least binutils-2.30, gcc-7.3.0, and linux-4.15; and is supported
3393 for the following ISA and ABI pairs:
3399 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3401 * Statically compiled applications attempting to load locales compiled for the
3402 GNU C Library version 2.27 will fail and fall back to the builtin C/POSIX
3403 locale. The reason for this is that the addition of the new "%OB" and "%Ob",
3404 support for two grammatical forms of the month names, also extends the locale
3405 data binary format. Static applications needing locale support must be
3406 recompiled to match the runtime and data they are deployed with. In some
3407 distributions there is an upgrade window where dynamically linked applications
3408 may use a new library but the old locale data and also fall back to the
3409 builtin C/POSIX locales; restarting the application process is sufficient to
3412 * Support for statically linked applications which call dlopen is deprecated
3413 and will be removed in a future version of glibc. Applications which call
3414 dlopen need to be linked dynamically instead.
3416 * Support for old programs which use internal stdio data structures and
3417 functions is deprecated. This includes programs which use the C++ streams
3418 provided by libstdc++ in GCC 2.95. Programs which use the internal
3419 symbols _IO_adjust_wcolumn, _IO_default_doallocate, _IO_default_finish,
3420 _IO_default_pbackfail, _IO_default_uflow, _IO_default_xsgetn,
3421 _IO_default_xsputn, _IO_doallocbuf, _IO_do_write, _IO_file_attach,
3422 _IO_file_close, _IO_file_close_it, _IO_file_doallocate, _IO_file_fopen,
3423 _IO_file_init, _IO_file_jumps, _IO_fileno, _IO_file_open,
3424 _IO_file_overflow, _IO_file_read, _IO_file_seek, _IO_file_seekoff,
3425 _IO_file_setbuf, _IO_file_stat, _IO_file_sync, _IO_file_underflow,
3426 _IO_file_write, _IO_file_xsputn, _IO_flockfile, _IO_flush_all,
3427 _IO_flush_all_linebuffered, _IO_free_backup_area, _IO_free_wbackup_area,
3428 _IO_init, _IO_init_marker, _IO_init_wmarker, _IO_iter_begin, _IO_iter_end,
3429 _IO_iter_file, _IO_iter_next, _IO_least_wmarker, _IO_link_in,
3430 _IO_list_all, _IO_list_lock, _IO_list_resetlock, _IO_list_unlock,
3431 _IO_marker_delta, _IO_marker_difference, _IO_remove_marker, _IO_seekmark,
3432 _IO_seekwmark, _IO_str_init_readonly, _IO_str_init_static,
3433 _IO_str_overflow, _IO_str_pbackfail, _IO_str_seekoff, _IO_str_underflow,
3434 _IO_switch_to_main_wget_area, _IO_switch_to_wget_mode,
3435 _IO_unsave_wmarkers, _IO_wdefault_doallocate, _IO_wdefault_finish,
3436 _IO_wdefault_pbackfail, _IO_wdefault_setbuf, _IO_wdefault_uflow,
3437 _IO_wdefault_xsgetn, _IO_wdefault_xsputn, _IO_wdoallocbuf, _IO_wdo_write,
3438 _IO_wfile_jumps, _IO_wfile_overflow, _IO_wfile_sync, _IO_wfile_underflow,
3439 _IO_wfile_xsputn, _IO_wmarker_delta, or _IO_wsetb may stop working with a
3440 future version of glibc. Unlike other symbol removals, these old
3441 applications will not be supported using compatibility symbols.
3443 * On GNU/Linux, the obsolete Linux constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL is no longer
3444 defined by <sys/ptrace.h>.
3446 * libm no longer supports SVID error handling (calling a user-provided
3447 matherr function on error) or the _LIB_VERSION variable to control error
3448 handling. (SVID error handling and the _LIB_VERSION variable still work
3449 for binaries linked against older versions of the GNU C Library.) The
3450 libieee.a library is no longer provided. math.h no longer defines struct
3451 exception, or the macros X_TLOSS, DOMAIN, SING, OVERFLOW, UNDERFLOW,
3452 TLOSS, PLOSS and HUGE.
3454 * The libm functions pow10, pow10f and pow10l are no longer supported for
3455 new programs. Programs should use the standard names exp10, exp10f and
3456 exp10l for these functions instead.
3458 * The mcontext_t type is no longer the same as struct sigcontext. On
3459 platforms where it was previously the same, this changes the C++ name
3460 mangling for interfaces involving this type.
3462 * The add-ons mechanism for building additional packages at the same time as
3463 glibc has been removed. The --enable-add-ons configure option is now
3466 * The --without-fp configure option is now ignored. Whether hardware
3467 floating-point instructions are used is now configured based on whether
3468 the compiler used at configure time (without any options implied by a
3469 --with-cpu= configure option) uses such instructions.
3471 * The res_hnok, res_dnok, res_mailok and res_ownok functions now check that
3472 the specified string can be parsed as a domain name.
3474 * In the malloc_info output, the <heap> element may contain another <aspace>
3475 element, "subheaps", which contains the number of sub-heaps.
3477 * The libresolv function p_secstodate is no longer supported for new
3480 * The tilepro-*-linux-gnu configuration is no longer supported.
3482 * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are deprecated
3483 and will be removed in a future release. Software that is still using
3484 either header should be updated to use standard <stdio.h> interfaces
3487 libio.h was originally the header for a set of supported GNU extensions,
3488 but they have not been maintained as such in many years, they are now
3489 standing in the way of improvements to stdio, and we don't think there are
3490 any remaining external users. _G_config.h was never intended for public
3491 use, but predates the bits convention.
3493 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
3495 * bison version 2.7 or later is required to generate code in the 'intl'
3498 Security related changes:
3500 CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
3501 examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
3502 dynamic linker. (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
3503 vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
3506 CVE-2017-15670: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3507 suffered from a one-byte overflow during ~ operator processing (either
3508 on the stack or the heap, depending on the length of the user name).
3509 Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3511 CVE-2017-15671: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE,
3512 would sometimes fail to free memory allocated during ~ operator
3513 processing, leading to a memory leak and, potentially, to a denial
3516 CVE-2017-15804: The glob function, when invoked with GLOB_TILDE and
3517 without GLOB_NOESCAPE, could write past the end of a buffer while
3518 unescaping user names. Reported by Tim Rühsen.
3520 CVE-2017-17426: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3521 the value SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too small,
3522 instead of NULL. This was a regression introduced with the new malloc
3523 thread cache in glibc 2.26. Reported by Iain Buclaw.
3525 CVE-2017-1000408: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths leads
3526 to the allocation of too much memory. (This is not a security bug per se,
3527 it is mentioned here only because of the CVE assignment.) Reported by
3530 CVE-2017-1000409: Buffer overflow in _dl_init_paths due to miscomputation
3531 of the number of search path components. (This is not a security
3532 vulnerability per se because no trust boundary is crossed if the fix for
3533 CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
3534 of the CVE assignment.) Reported by Qualys.
3536 CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
3537 for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
3540 CVE-2018-1000001: Buffer underflow in realpath function when getcwd function
3541 succeeds without returning an absolute path due to unexpected behaviour
3542 of the Linux kernel getcwd syscall. Reported by halfdog.
3544 CVE-2018-6485: The posix_memalign and memalign functions, when called with
3545 an object size near the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a
3546 buffer which is too small, instead of NULL. Reported by Jakub Wilk.
3548 CVE-2018-6551: The malloc function, when called with an object size near
3549 the value of SIZE_MAX, would return a pointer to a buffer which is too
3550 small, instead of NULL.
3552 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3554 [866] glob: glob should match dangling symlinks
3555 [1062] glob: sysdeps/generic/glob.c merge from gnulib (part 3 of 3)
3556 [2522] localedata: ca_ES@valencia: new Valencian (meridional Catalan)
3558 [5997] math: Very slow execution of sinf function
3559 [10580] localedata: hr_HR: updated locale
3560 [10871] locale: 'mon' array should contain both nominative and genitive
3562 [12349] localedata: eu_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3563 [13605] localedata: shn_MM: new Shan locale
3564 [13805] localedata: ru_RU: currency should use ',' as radix point
3565 [13953] localedata: km_KH: locale update
3566 [13994] localedata: mjw_IN: new locale
3567 [14121] build: make writes .mo files in po directory
3568 [14333] libc: Fix the race between atexit() and exit()
3569 [14681] dynamic-link: _dl_get_origin leaks memory via executable link map.
3570 [14925] localedata: bn_*: LC_IDENTIFICATION.language key should be
3572 [15260] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.{yes,no}{str,expr}: various errors
3573 [15261] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of full-
3574 width Latin characters
3575 [15332] localedata: es_CU: locale update
3576 [15436] stdio: Don't close or flush stdio streams on abort
3577 [15537] localedata: lv_LV: invalid collation for Latvian diacritical
3579 [16148] localedata: ca_ES: incorrect thousands separator
3580 [16750] dynamic-link: ldd should not try to execute the binaries
3582 [16777] localedata: pl_PL: incorrect thousands separator in locale
3583 [16905] localedata: hanzi: new collation
3584 [17563] localedata: cmn_TW: add hanzi collation
3585 [17750] localedata: wrong collation order of diacritics in most locales
3586 [17804] libc: scandirat fails with ENOMEM because it checks for errno even
3588 [17956] build: Build fails on missing definitions from header file
3589 nss/nss.h when Mozilla NSS is used for cryptography
3590 [18203] libc: realpath() does not handle unreachable paths correctly
3591 [18572] dynamic-link: [arm] Lazy TLSDESC relocation has data race
3592 [18812] localedata: kab_DZ: new Kabyle Algeria locale
3593 [18822] libc: Internal functions are called via PLT
3594 [18858] string: _HAVE_STRING_ARCH_xxx aren't defined for i386 nor x86_64
3595 [19170] libc: __gmon_start__ defined in hppa in crtn.S
3596 [19574] libc: glibc should support building static PIE binaries
3597 [19852] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: incorrect wcwidth for U+3099 and
3599 [19971] glob: glob: Do not skip entries with zero d_ino values
3600 [19982] localedata: fr.po: spelling mistake for error code EXDEV
3601 [20008] localedata: km_KH: convert to translit_neutral
3602 [20009] localedata: tr_TR: convert LC_CTYPE to i18n
3603 [20142] math: [x86_64] Add SSE4.1 trunc, truncf
3604 [20204] dynamic-link: _dl_open_hook and _dlfcn_hook hardening
3605 [20482] localedata: de_CH: abbreviated weekdays should be two letters
3606 [20498] localedata: miq_NI: new Mískitu / Miskito (miq) language locale
3608 [20532] nss: getaddrinfo uses errno and h_errno without guaranteeing
3609 they're set, wrong errors returned by gaih_inet when lookup functions
3611 [20756] localedata: [PATCH] Use Unicode wise thousands separator
3612 [20826] network: posix/tst-getaddrinfo5 fails on hosts without network
3614 [20952] localedata: yuw_PG: new locale
3615 [21084] localedata: charmaps/IBM858: new codepage
3616 [21161] manual: [PATCH] fix typo in manual/arith.texi on strtoul prototype
3617 [21242] libc: assert gives pedantic warning in old gcc versions
3618 [21265] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve isn't compatible with Intel C++
3619 __regcall calling convention
3620 [21309] math: signed integer overflow in sysdeps/ieee754/dbl-64/e_pow.c
3621 [21326] libc: C99 functions are not declared for C++11 and later if
3622 _GNU_SOURCE is not predefined by g++
3623 [21457] libc: sys/ucontext.h namespace
3624 [21530] libc: tmpfile() should be implemented using O_TMPFILE
3625 [21660] math: GCC fails to compile a formula with tgmath.h
3626 [21672] nptl: sys-libs/glibc on ia64 crashes on thread exit: signal
3627 SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault: pthread_create.c:432: __madvise
3628 (pd->stackblock, freesize - PTHREAD_STACK_MIN, MADV_DONTNEED);
3629 [21684] math: tgmath.h handling of complex integers
3630 [21685] math: tgmath.h handling of bit-fields
3631 [21686] math: tgmath.h handling of __int128
3632 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
3634 [21745] libc: [powerpc64le] Extra PLT reference with --enable-stack-
3636 [21750] localedata: column width of characters incompatible with classical
3638 [21754] malloc: malloc: Perform as little work as possible after heap
3639 consistency check failures
3640 [21780] libc: hppa: p{read,write}v2 does not set ENOSUP on invalid flag
3641 [21790] libc: Missing __memset_zero_constant_len_parameter in libc.so
3642 [21791] string: Unused XXX_chk_XXX functions in libc.a
3643 [21815] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-prelink-cmp with GCC is defaulted to
3645 [21836] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_MONETARY) in various Indian
3647 [21845] localedata: Added new Locale bho_NP
3648 [21853] localedata: Fix abday Which looks same as day in zh_SG
3649 [21854] localedata: Added New Locale en_SC
3650 [21864] libc: xmalloc.o is compiled with -DMODULE_NAME=libc
3651 [21871] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_opt is slower than
3652 _dl_runtime_resolve_avx_slow
3653 [21885] network: getaddrinfo: gethosts does not release resolver context
3654 on memory allocation failure
3655 [21899] libc: XPG4.2 sigaction namespace
3656 [21908] dynamic-link: dynamic linker broke on ia64 (mmap2 consolidation is
3658 [21913] libc: static binaries SIGSEGV in __brk when host's gcc is pie-by-
3660 [21915] nss: nss_files can return with NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS and a clobbered
3661 errno value, causing getaddrinfo to fail
3662 [21920] localedata: Fix p_cs_precedes/n_cs_precedes for mt_MT
3663 [21922] network: getaddrinfo with AF_INET/AF_INET6 returns EAI_NONAME
3664 instead of EAI_NODATA
3665 [21928] libc: sys/ptrace.h: remove obsolete temporary development Linux
3666 constant PTRACE_SEIZE_DEVEL
3667 [21930] math: C-only gcc builtins used in <math.h> isinf
3668 [21932] network: Unpaired __resolv_context_get in generic get*_r
3670 [21941] math: powerpc: Wrong register constraint for xssqrtqp in sqrtf128
3671 [21944] libc: sigval namespace
3672 [21951] localedata: Update hanzi collation by stroke
3673 [21955] math: Wrong alignment of L(SP_RANGE)/L(SP_INF_0) in
3674 sysdeps/x86_64/fpu/e_expf.S
3675 [21956] libc: Stack allocation in MIPS syscall impl (ubounded stack
3676 allocation in syscall loops)
3677 [21959] localedata: Fix Country name for xh_ZA
3678 [21960] localedata: Fix abmon for bem_ZM
3679 [21966] math: AVX2 mathvec functions use FMA without checking
3680 [21967] math: When 512-bit AVX2 wrapper functions in mathvec are used?
3681 [21971] localedata: Added New Locale for mfe_MU
3682 [21972] libc: assert macro requires operator== (int) for its argument type
3683 [21973] math: [sparc] libm missing sqrtl compat symbol
3684 [21974] libc: Remove __bb_init_func and __bb_exit_func
3685 [21982] string: stratcliff.c: error: assuming signed overflow does not
3687 [21986] stdio: __guess_grouping is called incorrectly
3688 [21987] math: [sparc32] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3689 [22019] localedata: Wrong placement of monetary symbol in el_GR (negative
3691 [22022] localedata: Missing country_name for mni_IN
3692 [22023] localedata: Removed redundant data (LC_TIME and LC_MESSAGES) for
3694 [22025] locale: iconv: Inconsistency between pointer mangling and NULL
3696 [22026] locale: iconv_open: heap overflow on gconv_init failure
3697 [22028] math: bits/math-finite.h _MSUF_ expansion namespace
3698 [22035] math: [m68k] bits/math-inline.h macro namespace
3699 [22038] localedata: Fix abbreviated weeks and months for Somali
3700 [22044] localedata: Remove redundant data for Limburgish Language
3701 [22050] malloc: Linking with -lmcheck does not hook
3702 __malloc_initialize_hook correctly
3703 [22051] libc: zero terminator in the middle of glibc's .eh_frame
3704 [22052] malloc: malloc failed to compile with GCC 7 and -O3
3705 [22070] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for
3706 Prepended_Concatenation_Mark codepoints set to 0 (should be 1)
3707 [22074] localedata: charmaps/UTF-8: wcwidth for U+1160-U+11FF (Hangul
3708 Jungseong and Jongseong) should be 0
3709 [22078] nss: nss_files performance issue in multi mode
3710 [22082] math: bits/math-finite.h exp10 condition
3711 [22086] libc: pcprofiledump incorrect cross-endian condition
3712 [22093] dynamic-link: ld.so no longer searches in .../x86_64
3713 [22095] network: Name server address allocation memory leak in resolv.conf
3715 [22096] network: __resolv_conf_attach can incorrectly free passed conf
3717 [22100] localedata: om_KE: LC_TIME: copy redundant data from om_ET
3718 [22101] dynamic-link: Dynamic loader must ignore "debug" shared objects
3720 [22111] malloc: malloc: per thread cache is not returned when thread exits
3721 [22112] localedata: Fix LC_TELEPHONE/LC_NAME for az_AZ
3722 [22134] libc: [linux] implement fexecve with execveat
3723 [22142] libc: [powerpc] printf outputs a wrong value of DBL_MAX on ppc64 and
3725 [22145] libc: ttyname() gives up too early in the face of namespaces
3726 [22146] math: C++ build issue with float128 on x86_64
3727 [22153] nptl: nptl: save error code before process termination
3728 [22156] libc: [hppa,ia64,microblaze] Executable stack default
3729 [22159] malloc: malloc: MALLOC_CHECK_ broken with --enable-tunables=no
3730 [22161] nscd: nscd cache prune for netgroups hangs after timeout bump
3731 [22165] libc: [hppa] Text relocations in libc.so
3732 [22180] libc: destructor registered via __cxa_atexit is called twice
3733 [22183] glob: commit 5554304f0ddd ("posix: Allow glob to match dangling
3734 symlinks") cause "make" segfaults
3735 [22189] math: [powerpc] math_private.h definitions of math_opt_barrier and
3737 [22207] libc: FAIL: stdlib/test-atexit-race
3738 [22225] math: nearbyint arithmetic moved before feholdexcept
3739 [22229] math: [sparc32] missing copysignl, fabsl, fmal compat symbols
3740 [22235] math: iscanonical in C++ and float128
3741 [22243] math: log2(0) and log10(0) are wrong in downward rounding without
3742 the svid compat wrapper
3743 [22244] math: ynf and yn are wrong without the svid compat wrapper
3744 [22273] libc: Improper assert in Linux posix_spawn implementation
3745 [22284] libc: -pg -pie doesn't work
3746 [22292] locale: localedef exits with error 4 when it should be error 1
3747 [22294] locale: Allow "" for int_currency_symbol definition in locales.
3748 [22295] locale: Don't warn on non-symbolic characters in locale sources in
3750 [22296] math: glibc 2.26: signbit build issue with Gcc 5.5.0 on x86_64
3751 [22298] nptl: x32: lockups on recursive pthread_mutex_lock after upgrade
3753 [22299] dynamic-link: Problem with $PLATFORM on x86_64 platform
3754 [22320] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15670)
3755 [22321] libc: sysconf(_SC_IOV_MAX) returns -1 on Linux
3756 [22322] libc: [mips64] wrong bits/long-double.h installed
3757 [22325] glob: Memory leak in glob with GLOB_TILDE (CVE-2017-15671)
3758 [22332] glob: Buffer overflow in glob with GLOB_TILDE in unescaping
3760 [22336] localedata: cs_CZ LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3761 [22343] malloc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign
3762 [22347] libc: getrandom() returns the number of bytes that were copied to
3763 the buffer even though the comments say "Return 0 on success and -1 on
3765 [22353] string: sysdeps/i386/i586/strcpy.S isn't maintainable
3766 [22362] libc: Installed crt1.o, crti,.o and crtn.o files are used with
3768 [22370] dynamic-link: Incorrect note padding check
3769 [22375] libc: malloc returns pointer from tcache_get when should return
3770 NULL (CVE-2017-17426)
3771 [22377] math: iseqsig, float128 and C++
3772 [22382] localedata: Error in tpi_PG locale
3773 [22387] localedata: Replace unicode sequences <Uxxxx> for characters
3774 inside the ASCII printable range
3775 [22402] math: [powerpc64le] __MATH_TG does not support _Float128 for
3777 [22403] localedata: Slash needs escaping in some locales
3778 [22408] malloc: malloc_info access heaps without arena lock, ignores heaps
3779 [22409] network: res_hnok does not accept some host names used on the
3781 [22412] network: res_dnok, res_hnok should perform syntax checks
3782 [22413] network: ns_name_pton ignores syntactically invalid trailing
3784 [22415] stdio: setvbuf can lead to invalid free/segfault
3785 [22432] build: Non-deterministic build
3786 [22439] malloc: malloc_info should compute summary statistics for all sub-
3788 [22442] network: if_nametoindex could report index for the wrong
3789 networking interface
3790 [22446] build: aliasing violation calling readlink in handle_request
3791 [22447] build: unsafe call to strlen with a non-string in getlogin_r.c
3792 [22457] libc: Generic preadv/pwritev incorrectly calls __posix_memalign
3793 [22459] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with __stack_chk_fail related to
3794 __nscd_hash/__nss_hash
3795 [22463] network: p_secstodate overflow handling
3796 [22469] localedata: pl_PL LC_COLLATE does not use i18n
3797 [22478] libc: sigwait can fail with EINTR
3798 [22505] libc: ldconfig processes include directive in locale-specific
3800 [22515] localedata: hsb_DE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3801 [22517] localedata: et_EE LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3802 [22519] localedata: is_IS LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3803 [22524] localedata: lt_LT LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3804 [22527] localedata: tr_TR LC_COLLATE does not use copy "iso14651_t1"
3805 [22534] localedata: Collation rules for Serbian and Bosnian should be the
3806 same as for Croatian
3807 [22561] math: [DR#471] cacosh (0 + iNaN) should return NaN +/- i pi/2
3808 [22568] math: [DR#471] ctanh (0 + iNaN), ctanh (0 + i Inf)
3809 [22577] libc: missing newline after "cannot allocate TLS data structures
3811 [22588] manual: manual/conf.texi: missing underscore in front of
3813 [22593] math: nextafter and nexttoward are declared with const attribute
3814 [22596] manual: manual: finite(nan) wrongly described as returning nonzero
3815 [22603] string: ia64 memchr overflows internal pointer check
3816 [22605] libc: SH clone does not set the exit code correctly
3817 [22606] dynamic-link: Incorrect array size computation in _dl_init_paths
3819 [22607] dynamic-link: Buffer Overflow in _dl_init_paths (CVE-2017-1000409)
3820 [22611] malloc: malloc/tst-realloc wrongly assumes that errno must not be
3821 modified in case of success
3822 [22614] build: gcc: error: unrecognized command line option ‘-no-pie’
3823 [22615] manual: manual: ambiguous wording about errno value in case of
3825 [22624] libc: MIPS setjmp() saves incorrect 'o0' register in --enable-
3827 [22625] dynamic-link: RPATH $ORIGIN replaced by PWD for AT_SECURE/SUID
3828 binaries or if /proc is not mounted (CVE-2017-16997)
3829 [22627] dynamic-link: $ORIGIN in $LD_LIBRARY_PATH is substituted twice
3830 [22630] build: $(no-pie-ldflag) is no longer effective
3831 [22631] math: [m68k] Bad const attributes in bits/mathinline.h
3832 [22635] nptl: pthread_self returns NULL before libpthread is loaded
3833 [22636] nptl: PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is too small on x86-64
3834 [22637] nptl: guard size is subtracted from thread stack size instead of
3836 [22648] libc: getrlimit/setrlimit with RLIM_INFINITY broken on alpha
3837 [22657] localedata: hu_HU: Avoid double space in date
3838 [22660] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling on alpha
3839 [22664] libc: New warning of GCC8
3840 [22665] math: alpha: ceil and floor raise inexact exceptions
3841 [22666] math: alpha: trunc raise inexact exceptions
3842 [22667] libc: makecontext lacks stack alignment on i386
3843 [22678] libc: prlimit fails for RLIM_INFINITY values on 32-bit machines
3844 [22679] libc: getcwd(3) can succeed without returning an absolute path
3846 [22685] libc: PowerPC: Static AT_SECURE binaries segfault with lock-
3847 elision and tunables
3848 [22687] math: [powerpc-nofpu] complex long double functions spurious
3850 [22688] math: [powerpc-nofpu] remainderl wrong sign of zero result
3851 [22690] math: [ldbl-128ibm] lrintl, lroundl missing "invalid" exceptions
3852 [22691] math: [powerpc-nofpu] fmaxmagl, fminmagl spurious "invalid"
3854 [22693] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
3855 [22697] math: [powerpc] llround spurious "inexact" exceptions on 32-bit
3857 [22701] nis: Incomplete removal of libnsl
3858 [22702] math: [powerpc-nofpu] nearbyintl traps with trapping "inexact"
3859 [22707] libc: Missing defines in elf.h for DF_1_STUB and DF_1_PIE.
3860 [22715] dynamic-link: FAIL: elf/tst-audit10
3861 [22719] libc: Backtrace tests fail on hppa
3862 [22742] libc: [aarch64] mcontext_t __reserved field got renamed
3863 [22743] nptl: __pthread_register_cancel corrupts stack after f81ddabffd
3864 [22765] crypt: (struct crypt_data *data)->initialized is not set to zero
3865 before the first call to crypt_r () in crypt/badsalttest.c
3872 * A per-thread cache has been added to malloc. Access to the cache requires
3873 no locks and therefore significantly accelerates the fast path to allocate
3874 and free small amounts of memory. Refilling an empty cache requires locking
3875 the underlying arena. Performance measurements show significant gains in a
3876 wide variety of user workloads. Workloads were captured using a special
3877 instrumented malloc and analyzed with a malloc simulator. Contributed by
3878 DJ Delorie with the help of Florian Weimer, and Carlos O'Donell.
3880 * Unicode 10.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
3881 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 10.0.0, using
3882 generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
3883 These updates cause user visible changes, especially the changes in
3884 wcwidth for many emoji characters cause problems when emoji sequences
3885 are rendered with pango, see for example:
3886 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780669#c5
3888 * Collation of Hungarian has been overhauled and is now consistent with "The
3889 Rules of Hungarian Orthography, 12th edition" (Bug 18934). Contributed by
3892 * Improvements to the DNS stub resolver, contributed by Florian Weimer:
3894 - The GNU C Library will now detect when /etc/resolv.conf has been
3895 modified and reload the changed configuration. The new resolver option
3896 “no-reload” (RES_NORELOAD) disables this behavior.
3898 - The GNU C Library now supports an arbitrary number of search domains
3899 (configured using the “search” directive in /etc/resolv.conf);
3900 previously, there was a hard limit of six domains. For backward
3901 compatibility, applications that directly modify the ‘_res’ global
3902 object are still limited to six search domains.
3904 - When the “rotate” (RES_ROTATE) resolver option is active, the GNU C
3905 Library will now randomly pick a name server from the configuration as a
3906 starting point. (Previously, the second name server was always used.)
3908 * The tunables feature is now enabled by default. This allows users to tweak
3909 behavior of the GNU C Library using the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable.
3911 * New function reallocarray, which resizes an allocated block (like realloc)
3912 to the product of two sizes, with a guaranteed clean failure upon integer
3913 overflow in the multiplication. Originally from OpenBSD, contributed by
3914 Dennis Wölfing and Rüdiger Sonderfeld.
3916 * New wrappers for the Linux-specific system calls preadv2 and pwritev2.
3917 These are extended versions of preadv and pwritev, respectively, taking an
3918 additional flags argument. The set of supported flags depends on the
3919 running kernel; full support currently requires kernel 4.7 or later.
3921 * posix_spawnattr_setflags now supports the flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID, to
3922 create a new session ID for the spawned process. This feature is
3923 scheduled to be added to the next major revision of POSIX; for the time
3924 being, it is available under _GNU_SOURCE.
3926 * errno.h is now safe to use from C-preprocessed assembly language on all
3927 supported operating systems. In this context, it will only define the
3928 Exxxx constants, as preprocessor macros expanding to integer literals.
3930 * On ia64, powerpc64le, x86-32, and x86-64, the math library now implements
3931 128-bit floating point as defined by ISO/IEC/IEEE 60559:2011 (IEEE
3932 754-2008) and ISO/IEC TS 18661-3:2015. Contributed by Paul E. Murphy,
3933 Gabriel F. T. Gomes, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho, and Joseph Myers.
3935 To compile programs that use this feature, the compiler must support
3936 128-bit floating point with the type name _Float128 (as defined by TS
3937 18661-3) or __float128 (the nonstandard name used by GCC for C++, and for
3938 C prior to version 7). _GNU_SOURCE or __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_TYPES_EXT__
3939 must be defined to make the new interfaces visible.
3941 The new functions and macros correspond to those present for other
3942 floating-point types (except for a few obsolescent interfaces not
3943 supported for the new type), with F128 or f128 suffixes; for example,
3944 strtof128, HUGE_VAL_F128 and cosf128. Following TS 18661-3, there are no
3945 printf or scanf formats for the new type; the strfromf128 and strtof128
3946 interfaces should be used instead.
3948 Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility:
3950 * The synchronization that pthread_spin_unlock performs has been changed to
3951 now be equivalent to a C11 atomic store with release memory order to the
3952 spin lock's memory location. Previously, several (but not all)
3953 architectures used stronger synchronization (e.g., containing what is
3954 often called a full barrier). This change can improve performance, but
3955 may affect odd fringe uses of spin locks that depend on the previous
3956 behavior (e.g., using spin locks as atomic variables to try to implement
3957 Dekker's mutual exclusion algorithm).
3959 * The port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl) has been
3962 * Sun RPC is deprecated. The rpcgen program, librpcsvc, and Sun RPC headers
3963 will only be built and installed when the GNU C Library is configured with
3964 --enable-obsolete-rpc. This allows alternative RPC implementations, such
3965 as TIRPC or rpcsvc-proto, to be used.
3967 * The NIS(+) name service modules, libnss_nis, libnss_nisplus, and
3968 libnss_compat, are deprecated, and will not be built or installed by
3971 The NIS(+) support library, libnsl, is also deprecated. By default, a
3972 compatibility shared library will be built and installed, but not headers
3973 or development libraries. Only a few NIS-related programs require this
3974 library. (In particular, the GNU C Library has never required programs
3975 that use 'gethostbyname' to be linked with libnsl.)
3977 Replacement implementations based on TIRPC, which additionally support
3978 IPv6, are available from <https://github.com/thkukuk/>. The configure
3979 option --enable-obsolete-nsl will cause libnsl's headers, and the NIS(+)
3980 name service modules, to be built and installed.
3982 * The DNS stub resolver no longer performs EDNS fallback. If EDNS or DNSSEC
3983 support is enabled, the configured recursive resolver must support EDNS.
3984 (Responding to EDNS-enabled queries with responses which are not
3985 EDNS-enabled is fine, but FORMERR responses are not.)
3987 * res_mkquery and res_nmkquery no longer support the IQUERY opcode. DNS
3988 servers have not supported this opcode for a long time.
3990 * The _res_opcodes variable has been removed from libresolv. It had been
3991 exported by accident.
3993 * <string.h> no longer includes inline versions of any string functions,
3994 as this kind of optimization is better done by the compiler. The macros
3995 __USE_STRING_INLINES and __NO_STRING_INLINES no longer have any effect.
3997 * The nonstandard header <xlocale.h> has been removed. Most programs should
3998 use <locale.h> instead. If you have a specific need for the definition of
3999 locale_t with no other declarations, please contact
4000 libc-alpha@sourceware.org and explain.
4002 * The obsolete header <sys/ultrasound.h> has been removed.
4004 * The obsolete signal constant SIGUNUSED is no longer defined by <signal.h>.
4006 * The obsolete function cfree has been removed. Applications should use
4009 * The stack_t type no longer has the name struct sigaltstack. This changes
4010 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4012 * The ucontext_t type no longer has the name struct ucontext. This changes
4013 the C++ name mangling for interfaces involving this type.
4015 * On M68k GNU/Linux and MIPS GNU/Linux, the fpregset_t type no longer has
4016 the name struct fpregset. On Nios II GNU/Linux, the mcontext_t type no
4017 longer has the name struct mcontext. On SPARC GNU/Linux, the struct
4018 mc_fq, struct rwindow, struct fpq and struct fq types are no longer
4019 defined in sys/ucontext.h, the mc_fpu_t type no longer has the name struct
4020 mc_fpu, the gwindows_t type no longer has the name struct gwindows and the
4021 fpregset_t type no longer has the name struct fpu. This changes the C++
4022 name mangling for interfaces involving those types.
4024 * On S/390 GNU/Linux, the constants defined by <sys/ptrace.h> have been
4025 synced with the kernel:
4027 - PTRACE_GETREGS, PTRACE_SETREGS, PTRACE_GETFPREGS and PTRACE_SETFPREGS
4028 are not supported on this architecture and have been removed.
4030 - PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK, PTRACE_SECCOMP_GET_FILTER, PTRACE_PEEKUSR_AREA,
4031 PTRACE_POKEUSR_AREA, PTRACE_GET_LAST_BREAK, PTRACE_ENABLE_TE,
4032 PTRACE_DISABLE_TE and PTRACE_TE_ABORT_RAND have been added.
4034 Programs that assume the GET/SETREGS ptrace requests are universally
4035 available will now fail to build, instead of malfunctioning at runtime.
4037 Changes to build and runtime requirements:
4039 * Linux kernel 3.2 or later is required at runtime, on all architectures
4040 supported by that kernel. (This is a change from version 2.25 only for
4043 * GNU Binutils 2.25 or later is now required to build the GNU C Library.
4045 * On most architectures, GCC 4.9 or later is required to build the GNU C
4046 Library. On powerpc64le, GCC 6.2 or later is required.
4048 Older GCC versions and non-GNU compilers are still supported when
4049 compiling programs that use the GNU C Library. (We do not know exactly
4050 how old, and some GNU extensions to C may be _de facto_ required. If you
4051 are interested in helping us make this statement less vague, please
4052 contact libc-alpha@sourceware.org.)
4054 Security related changes:
4056 * The DNS stub resolver limits the advertised UDP buffer size to 1200 bytes,
4057 to avoid fragmentation-based spoofing attacks (CVE-2017-12132).
4059 * LD_LIBRARY_PATH is now ignored in binaries running in privileged AT_SECURE
4060 mode to guard against local privilege escalation attacks (CVE-2017-1000366).
4062 * Avoid printing a backtrace from the __stack_chk_fail function since it is
4063 called on a corrupt stack and a backtrace is unreliable on a corrupt stack
4066 * A use-after-free vulnerability in clntudp_call in the Sun RPC system has been
4067 fixed (CVE-2017-12133).
4069 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4071 [984] network: Respond to changed resolv.conf in gethostbyname
4072 [5010] network: sunrpc service cleanup causes unwanted port mapper traffic
4073 [12068] localedata: sc_IT: misspelled yesexpr/day/abday/mon/abmon/date_fmt
4075 [12189] libc: __stack_chk_fail should not attempt a backtrace
4077 [14096] time: Race condition on timezone/tst-timezone.out
4078 [14172] localedata: az_IR: new locale
4079 [14995] build: glibc fails to build if gold is the default linker, even if
4081 [15998] build: [powerpc] Set arch_minimum_kernel for powerpc LE
4082 [16637] network: inet_pton function is accepting IPv6 with bad format
4083 [16640] string: string/strtok.c: undefined behaviour inconsistent between
4084 x86 and other generic code
4085 [16875] localedata: ko_KR: fix lang_name
4086 [17225] localedata: ar_SY: localized month names for May and June are
4088 [17297] localedata: da_DK: wrong date_fmt string
4089 [18907] stdio: Incorrect order of __wur __THROW in <printf.h>
4090 [18934] localedata: hu_HU: collate: fix multiple bugs and add tests
4091 [18988] nptl: pthread wastes memory with mlockall(MCL_FUTURE)
4092 [19066] localedata: ar_SA abbreviated day and month names are in English
4093 [19569] network: resolv: Support an arbitrary number of search domains
4094 [19570] network: Implement random DNS server selection in the stub
4096 [19838] locale: localedef fails on PA-RISC
4097 [19919] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Correct the Malayalam sorting
4098 order of 0D36 and 0D37
4099 [19922] localedata: iso14651_t1_common: Define collation for Malayalam
4101 [20098] libc: FAIL: debug/backtrace-tst on hppa
4102 [20257] network: sunrpc: clntudp_call does not enforce timeout when
4104 [20275] localedata: locale day/abday/mon/abmon should not have trailing
4106 [20313] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 9.0
4107 [20424] manual: Document how to provide a malloc replacement
4108 [20496] localedata: agr_PE: new language locale Awajún / Aguaruna (agr)
4110 [20686] locale: Add el_GR@euro to SUPPORTED.
4111 [20831] dynamic-link: _dl_map_segments does not test for __mprotect
4112 failures consistently
4113 [21015] dynamic-link: Document and fix --enable-bind-now
4114 [21016] nptl: pthread_cond support is broken on hppa
4115 [21029] libc: glibc-2.23 (and later) fails to compile with -fno-omit-
4116 frame-pointer on i386
4117 [21049] libc: segfault in longjmp_chk() due to clobbered processor
4119 [21075] libc: unused assignment to %g4 in sparc/sparc{64,32}/clone.S
4120 [21088] libc: Build fails with --enable-static-nss
4121 [21094] math: cosf(1.57079697) has 3 ulp error on targets where the
4122 generic c code is used
4123 [21109] libc: Tunables broken on big-endian
4124 [21112] math: powf has large ulp errors with base close to 1 and exponent
4126 [21115] network: sunrpc: Use-after-free in error path in clntudp_call
4128 [21120] malloc: glibc malloc is incompatible with GCC 7
4129 [21130] math: Incorrect return from y0l (-inf) and y1l (-inf) when linking
4131 [21134] math: Exception (divide by zero) not set for y0/y1 (0.0) and y0/y1
4132 (-0.0) when linking with -lieee
4133 [21171] math: log10, log2 and lgamma return incorrect results
4134 [21179] libc: handle R_SPARC_DISP64 and R_SPARC_REGISTER relocs
4135 [21182] libc: __memchr_sse2: regression in glibc-2.25 on i686
4136 [21207] localedata: ce_RU: update weekdays from CLDR
4137 [21209] dynamic-link: LD_HWCAP_MASK read in setuid binaries
4138 [21217] localedata: Update months from CLDR-31
4139 [21232] libc: miss posix_fadvise64 on MIPS64 when static linking
4140 [21243] libc: support_delete_temp_file should issue warning for failed
4142 [21244] libc: support resolv_test_start() socket fd close should be
4144 [21253] libc: localedef randomly segfaults when using -fstack-check due to
4145 new posix_spawn implementation
4146 [21258] dynamic-link: Branch predication in _dl_runtime_resolve_avx512_opt
4147 leads to lower CPU frequency
4148 [21259] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IXANY for POSIX
4149 [21261] libc: [sparc64] bits/setjmp.h namespace
4150 [21267] network: [mips] bits/socket.h IOC* namespace
4151 [21268] libc: [alpha] termios.h NL2, NL3 namespace
4152 [21270] libc: mmap64 silently truncates large offset values
4153 [21275] libc: posix_spawn always crashes on ia64 now
4154 [21277] libc: [alpha] termios.h missing IUCLC for UNIX98 and older
4155 [21280] math: [powerpc] logbl for POWER7 return incorrect results
4156 [21289] libc: Incorrect declaration for 32-bit platforms with
4157 _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 causes build error
4158 [21295] network: GETAI(AF_UNSPEC) drops IPv6 addresses if nss module does
4159 not support gethostbyname4_r
4160 [21298] nptl: rwlock can deadlock on frequent reader/writer phase
4162 [21338] malloc: mallopt M_ARENA_MAX doesn't set the maximum number of
4164 [21340] libc: Support POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
4165 [21357] libc: unwind-dw2-fde deadlock when using AddressSanitizer
4166 [21359] network: ns_name_pack needs additional byte in destination buffer
4167 [21361] network: resolv: Reduce advertised EDNS0 buffer size to guard
4168 against fragmentation attacks (CVE-2017-12132)
4169 [21369] network: resolv: Remove EDNS fallback
4170 [21371] libc: Missing timespec definition when compiled with _XOPEN_SOURCE
4172 [21386] nptl: Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
4173 [21391] dynamic-link: x86: Set dl_platform and dl_hwcap from CPU features
4174 [21393] stdio: Missing dup3 error check in freopen, freopen64
4175 [21396] libc: Use AVX2 memcpy/memset on Skylake server
4176 [21399] localedata: Bad description for U00EC in
4177 localedata/charmaps/CP1254
4178 [21411] malloc: realloc documentation error
4179 [21426] network: sys/socket.h uio.h namespace
4180 [21428] libc: [aarch64] tst-backtrace5 testsuite failure
4181 [21445] libc: signal.h bsd_signal namespace
4182 [21455] network: Network headers stdint.h namespace
4183 [21474] network: resolv: res_init does not use RES_DFLRETRY (2) but 4 for
4185 [21475] network: resolv: Overlong search path is truncated mid-label
4186 [21511] libc: sigstack namespace
4187 [21512] libc: clone() ends up calling exit_group() through _exit() wrapper
4188 [21514] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/syscall.h:31:27: fatal error:
4189 bits/syscall.h: No such file or directory
4190 [21517] libc: struct sigaltstack namespace
4191 [21528] dynamic-link: Duplicated minimal strtoul implementations in ld.so
4192 [21533] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 10.0
4194 ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/s390/s390-32/__makecontext_ret.S:44: Error:
4195 junk at end of line, first unrecognized character is `@'
4196 [21538] libc: SIG_HOLD missing for XPG4
4197 [21539] libc: S390: Mismatch between kernel and glibc ptrace.h with
4198 request 12: PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK vs PTRACE_GETREGS.
4199 [21542] libc: Use conservative default for sysconf (_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN)
4200 [21543] libc: sigevent namespace
4201 [21548] libc: [mips] get/set/make/swap context for MIPS O32 assume wrong
4202 size for general purpose registers in mcontext_t structure
4203 [21550] libc: sigwait namespace
4204 [21552] libc: XPG4 bsd_signal namespace
4205 [21554] libc: sigpause namespace
4206 [21560] libc: sys/wait.h signal.h namespace
4207 [21561] libc: waitid namespace
4208 [21573] nptl: GCC 7: /usr/bin/install: cannot remove
4209 '/usr/include/stdlib.h': Permission denied
4210 [21575] libc: sys/wait.h missing struct rusage definition
4211 [21584] libc: sigaltstack etc namespace
4212 [21597] libc: siginterrupt namespace
4213 [21607] math: hppa: FAIL: math/test-tgmath
4214 [21609] dynamic-link: Incomplete workaround for GCC __tls_get_addr ABI
4216 [21622] libc: [tile] missing SA_* for POSIX.1:2008
4217 [21624] dynamic-link: ld.so: Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias
4218 stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
4219 [21625] libc: wait3 namespace
4220 [21654] nss: Incorrect pointer alignment in NSS group merge result
4222 [21657] network: Parse interface zone id for node-local multicast
4223 [21662] string: memcmp-avx2-movbe.S lacks saturating subtraction for
4225 [21666] libc: .symver is used on common symbol
4226 [21668] network: resolv: res_init cross-thread broadcast introduces race
4228 [21687] math: tgmath.h totalorder, totalordermag return type
4229 [21694] locale: Current Glibc Locale Does Not Support Tok-Pisin and Fiji
4231 [21696] libc: Incorrect assumption of of __cpu_mask in
4232 posix/sched_cpucount.c
4233 [21697] libc: sysdeps/posix/spawni.c: 2 * suspicious condition ?
4234 [21706] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Breton [LC_MESSAGES]
4236 [21707] math: ppc64le: Invalid IFUNC resolver from libgcc calls getauxval,
4237 leading to relocation crash
4238 [21709] libc: resolv_conf.c:552: update_from_conf: Assertion
4239 `resolv_conf_matches (resp, conf)' failed.
4240 [21710] localedata: Added Samoan language locale for Samoa
4241 [21711] localedata: Pashto yesstr/nostr locale are missing
4242 [21715] nptl: sysdeps/nptl/bits/pthreadtypes.h: typedef guard
4243 __have_pthread_attr_t can cause redefinition of typedef ‘pthread_attr_t’
4244 [21721] localedata: Incorrect Full Weekday names for ks_IN@devanagari
4245 [21723] localedata: yesstr/nostr missing for Chinese language locale
4246 [21724] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Xhosa [LC_MESSAGES]
4248 [21727] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for Tsonga [LC_MESSAGES]
4250 [21728] localedata: New Locale for Tongan language
4251 [21729] localedata: incorrect LC_NAME fields for hi_IN
4252 [21733] localedata: yesstr and nostr are missing for zh_HK
4253 [21734] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr are for kw_GB
4254 [21738] libc: misc/tst-preadvwritev2 and misc/tst-preadvwritev64v2 fail
4255 [21741] libc: Undefined __memmove_chk_XXX and __memset_chk_XXX in libc.a
4256 [21742] libc: _dl_num_cache_relocations is undefined in libc.a
4257 [21743] localedata: ks_IN@devanagari: abday strings mismatch the day
4259 [21744] libc: Tests failing on --enable-tunables --enable-stack-
4261 [21749] localedata: Wrong abbreviated day name (“abday”) for
4263 [21756] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for nds_DE and nds_NL
4264 [21757] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for pap_AW and pap_CW
4265 [21759] localedata: missing yesstr and nostr for Tigrinya
4266 [21760] localedata: Fix LC_MESSAGES and LC_ADDRESS for anp_IN
4267 [21766] localedata: Wrong LC_MESSAGES for om_ET Locale
4268 [21767] localedata: Missing Bislama locales
4269 [21768] localedata: Missing yesstr and nostr for aa_ET
4270 [21770] localedata: Missing Field in li_NL
4271 [21778] nptl: Robust mutex may deadlock
4272 [21779] libc: MicroBlaze segfaults when loading libpthread
4273 [21783] localedata: Fix int_select international_call_prefixes
4274 [21784] localedata: Inconsistency in country_isbn
4275 [21788] localedata: Missing Country Postal Abbreviations
4276 [21794] localedata: Added-country_isbn-for-Italy
4277 [21795] localedata: Add/Fix country_isbn for France
4278 [21796] localedata: Added country_isbn for Republic of Korea
4279 [21797] localedata: Fix inconsistency in country_isbn and missing prefixes
4280 [21799] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4281 [21801] localedata: Added int_select international_call_prefixes
4282 [21804] nptl: Double semicolon in thread-shared-types.h
4283 [21807] localedata: LC_ADDRESS fix for pap_CW
4284 [21808] localedata: Fix LC_ADDRESS for pap_AW
4285 [21821] localedata: Added country_name in mai_IN
4286 [21822] localedata: Fix LC_TIME for mai_IN
4287 [21823] localedata: missing yesstr, nostr for sa_IN
4288 [21825] localedata: Fix name_mrs for mag_IN
4289 [21828] localedata: 2.26 changelog should mention user visible changes
4291 [21835] localedata: Added Maithili language locale for Nepal
4292 [21838] localedata: Removed redundant data for the_NP
4293 [21839] localedata: Fix LC_MONETARY for ta_LK
4294 [21844] localedata: Fix Latin characters and Months Sequence.
4295 [21848] localedata: Fix mai_NP Title Name
4300 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_LIB_EXT2__, from ISO/IEC TR
4301 24731-2:2010, is supported to enable declarations of functions from that
4302 TR. Note that not all functions from that TR are supported by the GNU C
4305 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_BFP_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4306 18661-1:2014, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4307 from that TS. Note that not all features from that TS are supported by
4310 * The feature test macro __STDC_WANT_IEC_60559_FUNCS_EXT__, from ISO/IEC TS
4311 18661-4:2015, is supported to enable declarations of functions and macros
4312 from that TS. Note that most features from that TS are not supported by
4315 * The nonstandard feature selection macros _REENTRANT and _THREAD_SAFE are
4316 now treated as compatibility synonyms for _POSIX_C_SOURCE=199506L.
4317 Since the GNU C Library defaults to a much newer revision of POSIX, this
4318 will only affect programs that specifically request an old conformance
4319 mode. For instance, a program compiled with -std=c89 -D_REENTRANT will
4320 see a change in the visible declarations, but a program compiled with
4321 just -D_REENTRANT, or -std=c99 -D_POSIX_C_SOURCE=200809L -D_REENTRANT,
4324 Some C libraries once required _REENTRANT and/or _THREAD_SAFE to be
4325 defined by all multithreaded code, but glibc has not required this for
4328 * The inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. This
4329 means that in a future release, the macros “major”, “minor”, and “makedev”
4330 will only be available from <sys/sysmacros.h>.
4332 These macros are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently
4333 collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug
4334 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code
4335 presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the
4338 * New <fenv.h> features from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to libm: the
4339 fesetexcept, fetestexceptflag, fegetmode and fesetmode functions, the
4340 femode_t type and the FE_DFL_MODE and FE_SNANS_ALWAYS_SIGNAL macros.
4342 * Integer width macros from TS 18661-1:2014 are added to <limits.h>:
4343 CHAR_WIDTH, SCHAR_WIDTH, UCHAR_WIDTH, SHRT_WIDTH, USHRT_WIDTH, INT_WIDTH,
4344 UINT_WIDTH, LONG_WIDTH, ULONG_WIDTH, LLONG_WIDTH, ULLONG_WIDTH; and to
4345 <stdint.h>: INT8_WIDTH, UINT8_WIDTH, INT16_WIDTH, UINT16_WIDTH,
4346 INT32_WIDTH, UINT32_WIDTH, INT64_WIDTH, UINT64_WIDTH, INT_LEAST8_WIDTH,
4347 UINT_LEAST8_WIDTH, INT_LEAST16_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST16_WIDTH,
4348 INT_LEAST32_WIDTH, UINT_LEAST32_WIDTH, INT_LEAST64_WIDTH,
4349 UINT_LEAST64_WIDTH, INT_FAST8_WIDTH, UINT_FAST8_WIDTH, INT_FAST16_WIDTH,
4350 UINT_FAST16_WIDTH, INT_FAST32_WIDTH, UINT_FAST32_WIDTH, INT_FAST64_WIDTH,
4351 UINT_FAST64_WIDTH, INTPTR_WIDTH, UINTPTR_WIDTH, INTMAX_WIDTH,
4352 UINTMAX_WIDTH, PTRDIFF_WIDTH, SIG_ATOMIC_WIDTH, SIZE_WIDTH, WCHAR_WIDTH,
4355 * New <math.h> features are added from TS 18661-1:2014:
4357 - Signaling NaN macros: SNANF, SNAN, SNANL.
4359 - Nearest integer functions: roundeven, roundevenf, roundevenl, fromfp,
4360 fromfpf, fromfpl, ufromfp, ufromfpf, ufromfpl, fromfpx, fromfpxf,
4361 fromfpxl, ufromfpx, ufromfpxf, ufromfpxl.
4363 - llogb functions: the llogb, llogbf and llogbl functions, and the
4364 FP_LLOGB0 and FP_LLOGBNAN macros.
4366 - Max-min magnitude functions: fmaxmag, fmaxmagf, fmaxmagl, fminmag,
4369 - Comparison macros: iseqsig.
4371 - Classification macros: iscanonical, issubnormal, iszero.
4373 - Total order functions: totalorder, totalorderf, totalorderl,
4374 totalordermag, totalordermagf, totalordermagl.
4376 - Canonicalize functions: canonicalize, canonicalizef, canonicalizel.
4378 - NaN functions: getpayload, getpayloadf, getpayloadl, setpayload,
4379 setpayloadf, setpayloadl, setpayloadsig, setpayloadsigf, setpayloadsigl.
4381 * The functions strfromd, strfromf, and strfroml, from ISO/IEC TS 18661-1:2014,
4382 are added to libc. They convert a floating-point number into string.
4384 * Most of glibc can now be built with the stack smashing protector enabled.
4385 It is recommended to build glibc with --enable-stack-protector=strong.
4386 Implemented by Nick Alcock (Oracle).
4388 * The function explicit_bzero, from OpenBSD, has been added to libc. It is
4389 intended to be used instead of memset() to erase sensitive data after use;
4390 the compiler will not optimize out calls to explicit_bzero even if they
4391 are "unnecessary" (in the sense that no _correct_ program can observe the
4392 effects of the memory clear).
4394 * On ColdFire, MicroBlaze, Nios II and SH3, the float_t type is now defined
4395 to float instead of double. This does not affect the ABI of any libraries
4396 that are part of the GNU C Library, but may affect the ABI of other
4397 libraries that use this type in their interfaces.
4399 * On x86_64, when compiling with -mfpmath=387 or -mfpmath=sse+387, the
4400 float_t and double_t types are now defined to long double instead of float
4401 and double. These options are not the default, and this does not affect
4402 the ABI of any libraries that are part of the GNU C Library, but it may
4403 affect the ABI of other libraries that use this type in their interfaces,
4404 if they are compiled or used with those options.
4406 * The getentropy and getrandom functions, and the <sys/random.h> header file
4409 * The buffer size for byte-oriented stdio streams is now limited to 8192
4410 bytes by default. Previously, on Linux, the default buffer size on most
4411 file systems was 4096 bytes (and thus remains unchanged), except on
4412 network file systems, where the buffer size was unpredictable and could be
4413 as large as several megabytes.
4415 * The <sys/quota.h> header now includes the <linux/quota.h> header. Support
4416 for the Linux quota interface which predates kernel version 2.4.22 has
4419 * The malloc_get_state and malloc_set_state functions have been removed.
4420 Already-existing binaries that dynamically link to these functions will
4421 get a hidden implementation in which malloc_get_state is a stub. As far
4422 as we know, these functions are used only by GNU Emacs and this change
4423 will not adversely affect already-built Emacs executables. Any undumped
4424 Emacs executables, which normally exist only during an Emacs build, should
4425 be rebuilt by re-running “./configure; make” in the Emacs build tree.
4427 * The “ip6-dotint” and “no-ip6-dotint” resolver options, and the
4428 corresponding RES_NOIP6DOTINT flag from <resolv.h> have been removed.
4429 “no-ip6-dotint” had already been the default, and support for the
4430 “ip6-dotint” option was removed from the Internet in 2006.
4432 * The "ip6-bytestring" resolver option and the corresponding RES_USEBSTRING
4433 flag from <resolv.h> have been removed. The option relied on a
4434 backwards-incompatible DNS extension which was never deployed on the
4437 * The flags RES_AAONLY, RES_PRIMARY, RES_NOCHECKNAME, RES_KEEPTSIG,
4438 RES_BLAST defined in the <resolv.h> header file have been deprecated.
4439 They were already unimplemented.
4441 * The "inet6" option in /etc/resolv.conf and the RES_USE_INET6 flag for
4442 _res.flags are deprecated. The flag was standardized in RFC 2133, but
4443 removed again from the IETF name lookup interface specification in RFC
4444 2553. Applications should use getaddrinfo instead.
4446 * DNSSEC-related declarations and definitions have been removed from the
4447 <arpa/nameser.h> header file, and libresolv will no longer attempt to
4448 decode the data part of DNSSEC record types. Previous versions of glibc
4449 only implemented minimal support for the previous version of DNSSEC, which
4450 is incompatible with the currently deployed version.
4452 * The resource record type classification macros ns_t_qt_p, ns_t_mrr_p,
4453 ns_t_rr_p, ns_t_udp_p, ns_t_xfr_p have been removed from the
4454 <arpa/nameser.h> header file because the distinction between RR types and
4455 meta-RR types is not officially standardized, subject to revision, and
4456 thus not suitable for encoding in a macro.
4458 * The types res_sendhookact, res_send_qhook, re_send_rhook, and the qhook
4459 and rhook members of the res_state type in <resolv.h> have been removed.
4460 The glibc stub resolver did not support these hooks, but the header file
4461 did not reflect that.
4463 * For multi-arch support it is recommended to use a GCC which has
4464 been built with support for GNU indirect functions. This ensures
4465 that correct debugging information is generated for functions
4466 selected by IFUNC resolvers. This support can either be enabled by
4467 configuring GCC with '--enable-gnu-indirect-function', or by
4468 enabling it by default by setting 'default_gnu_indirect_function'
4469 variable for a particular architecture in the GCC source file
4472 * GDB pretty printers have been added for mutex and condition variable
4473 structures in POSIX Threads. When installed and loaded in gdb these pretty
4474 printers show various pthread variables in human-readable form when read
4475 using the 'print' or 'display' commands in gdb.
4477 * Tunables feature added to allow tweaking of the runtime for an application
4478 program. This feature can be enabled with the '--enable-tunables' configure
4479 flag. The GNU C Library manual has details on usage and README.tunables has
4480 instructions on adding new tunables to the library.
4482 * A new version of condition variables functions have been implemented in
4483 the NPTL implementation of POSIX Threads to provide stronger ordering
4486 * A new version of pthread_rwlock functions have been implemented to use a more
4487 scalable algorithm primarily through not using a critical section anymore to
4490 Security related changes:
4492 * On ARM EABI (32-bit), generating a backtrace for execution contexts which
4493 have been created with makecontext could fail to terminate due to a
4494 missing .cantunwind annotation. This has been observed to lead to a hang
4495 (denial of service) in some Go applications compiled with gccgo. Reported
4496 by Andreas Schwab. (CVE-2016-6323)
4498 * The DNS stub resolver functions would crash due to a NULL pointer
4499 dereference when processing a query with a valid DNS question type which
4500 was used internally in the implementation. The stub resolver now uses a
4501 question type which is outside the range of valid question type values.
4504 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4506 [4099] stdio: Overly aggressive caching by stream i/o functions.
4507 [7065] build: Support building glibc with -fstack-protector or -fstack-
4509 [9842] localedata: en_CA: incorrect date format
4510 [13165] nptl: pthread_cond_wait() can consume a signal that was sent
4511 before it started waiting
4512 [14139] manual: Do not hardcode platform names in manual/libm-err-tab.pl
4513 [15765] nptl: sem_open is wrongly a cancellation point
4514 [16421] network: IN6_IS_ADDR_UNSPECIFIED can use undefined s6_addr32
4515 [16458] libc: endian.h and netinet/in.h byte order macros return values of
4517 [16628] dynamic-link: Segfault after a binary without pthread dlopen()s a
4518 library linked with pthread
4519 [16630] nptl: Use SYSENTER for pthread_cond_broadcast/signal() (i.e. fix
4520 "FIXME: Ingo" issue)
4521 [16907] libc: <argp.h> compiled with --std=cXX disables __attribute__
4522 [17252] libc: getrandom and getentropy syscall
4523 [17730] malloc: thread-local storage is sometimes improperly free()'d
4524 after being __libc_memalign()'d
4525 [18241] stdio: failed fseek on memstream does not set errno and can fail
4527 [18243] nptl: sem_wait, sem_timedwait are cancellation points shm_open is
4529 [18463] nptl: pthread_cond_broadcast issue when surrounded by
4530 PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT mutex on ARM
4531 [18784] network: res_query and related function crash for special record
4532 type queries (CVE-2015-5180)
4533 [19380] math: strtod does not raise "inexact"
4534 [19387] string: Integer overflow in memchr
4535 [19390] string: Integer overflow in strncat
4536 [19398] build: linknamespace tests fail with massively parallel build
4537 [19402] nptl: Deadlock with robust shared mutex and asynchronous
4539 [19469] malloc: M_PERTURB in test-skeleton.c invalidates malloc tests
4540 [19473] malloc: Turn malloc_get_state etc. in compatibility symbols
4541 [19514] libc: [PATCH] Fix spelling errors in spelling
4542 "implement"/"implementation" in several places
4543 [19582] network: Deprecate RES_USE_INET6
4544 [19673] manual: clog10 docs appear to be erroneous
4545 [19810] dynamic-link: dlopen with both RTLD_NOLOAD and RTLD_NODELETE
4546 causes a segmentation fault
4547 [19826] libc: invalid pointer returned from __tls_get_addr with static
4549 [20016] network: resolv: Remove hooks support from the API
4550 [20019] dynamic-link: NULL pointer dereference in libc.so.6 IFUNC due to
4552 [20033] math: [x86_64] vectorized math function don't call the __finite
4554 [20116] nptl: use after free in pthread_create
4555 [20181] stdio: open_memstream(): writes not at end of stream corrupt data
4556 [20292] dynamic-link: Comparison in elf/dl-open.c _dl_addr_inside_object
4558 [20311] nptl: please install proc_service.h
4559 [20366] libc: Compilation errors in installed headers in strict-compliance
4561 [20370] malloc: malloc: Arena free list management is still racy
4562 (incorrect fix in bug 19243)
4563 [20386] libc: assert (X = 0) does not result in GCC warning
4564 [20432] malloc: malloc: Minimize interface required for interposition
4565 [20435] libc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop
4566 in _Unwind_Backtrace (CVE-2016-6323)
4567 [20444] hurd: recvmsg: PF_LOCAL sockets and msg_name lead to SIGLOST
4568 [20452] nptl: Addition of sysdep.o to libpthread.a breaks relinking
4570 [20455] math: [powerpc] fesetexceptflag fails to clear FE_INVALID
4571 [20459] localedata: et_EE: locale has wrong {p,n}_cs_precedes value
4572 [20477] network: resolv: incorrect double-checked locking related to
4574 [20478] libc: libc_ifunc macro and similar usages leads to false debug-
4576 [20495] math: x86_64 performance degradation due to AVX/SSE transition
4578 [20497] localedata: lt_LT: LC_TIME d_fmt used is obsolete
4579 [20508] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_avx/_dl_runtime_profile_avx512
4580 cause transition penalty
4581 [20517] math: sparcv9 missing fdiml compat symbol
4582 [20524] manual: strverscmp is inconsistent
4583 [20525] libc: <sys/quota.h> should be based on kernel headers
4584 [20539] math: GCC 7 -static -lm fails to link at -O3
4585 [20554] libc: ld: bss-plt forced due to /usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(ppc-
4587 [20558] string: POSIX bcopy/bzero decls do not implement Object Size
4589 [20591] network: Remove obsolete DNSSEC support
4590 [20592] network: DNS resource record type classification macros in
4591 <arpa/nameser.h> are incorrect
4592 [20593] network: Update DNS RR type definitions
4593 [20611] network: getaddrinfo accepts invalid numeric scope IDs
4594 [20615] build: glibc build fails when using --with-cpu=power9 --enable-
4596 [20629] network: libresolv: Remove support for bitstring labels
4598 [20647] libc: GLIBC quitting every program - glibc on Pentium-S leads to
4599 assertion: "maxidx >= 2"
4600 [20660] math: [arm] Use VSQRT
4601 [20662] libc: checking whether x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc implicitly enables
4602 -fstack-protector no (32bit gcc 6.2.0 pie and ssp enable)
4603 [20689] libc: Test for FMA should also check for AVX.
4604 [20707] glob: gl_pathv entries not set to NULL with GLOB_DOOFFS
4605 [20715] math: iszero macro breaks existing code
4606 [20718] math: [powerpc] copysignl raises "invalid" for sNaN
4607 [20728] libc: powerpc: Missing TOC stub in clone
4608 [20729] build: glibc-2.24 fails to build for i486 with -Os
4609 [20750] build: Build fails with default PIE enabled gcc-6.x
4610 [20768] math: [alpha] sqrt fegetenv namespace
4611 [20785] libc: binutils 2.28 fails to assemble power6/memset.S file in
4613 [20787] math: float_t is defined as float incorrectly on x86_64 even if
4614 __FLT_EVAL_METHOD__ is 2
4615 [20790] network: rpcgen buffer overrun in get_prog_declaration
4616 [20822] nptl: race condition in __lll_unlock_elision on powerpc
4617 [20829] libc: crypt snprintf namespace
4618 [20847] libc: tst-vfork3 failure
4619 [20855] math: Default bits/mathdef.h has inappropriate float_t
4620 [20859] math: [sh4] FP_ILOGB0 invalid
4621 [20864] localedata: iconv: cp936 missing single-byte euro sign (0x80,
4622 U+20AC), not same as GBK
4623 [20915] dynamic-link: global-dynamic TLS broken on aarch64
4624 [20916] math: pow handling of sNaN arguments
4625 [20918] build: Building with --enable-nss-crypt fails tst-linkall-static.
4626 [20919] math: Bad pow (qNaN, 0) result with -lieee
4627 [20940] math: hypot sNaN handling
4628 [20947] math: fmax, fmin sNaN handling
4629 [20956] libc: debug/tst-backtrace3-6 don't work with -O3 anymore
4630 [20964] network: sunrpc: Stack-based buffer overflow in getrpcport with
4632 [20971] string: powerpc64/power7 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4633 [20973] nptl: robust mutexes: Lost wake-ups
4634 [20974] locale: bs_BA: yesexpr/noexpr regexes accept any character
4635 [20978] nis: strlen on null pointer in nss_nisplus
4636 [20985] nptl: robust mutexes: lowlevelrobustlock assembly on x86 blocks on
4638 [21014] string: i686 memchr overflows internal pointer check
4639 [21019] libc: [mips] n32 lseek incorrect on overflow
4640 [21022] libc: [microblaze] __backtrace get_frame_size namespace
4641 [21026] libc: [MIPS] readahead syscall is broken on n64
4642 [21028] math: Fallback fesetexceptflag should always succeed
4643 [21045] libc: [powerpc-nofpu] swapcontext does not restore signal mask
4644 [21047] math: arm: fpu_control.h: _FPU_GETCW/_FPU_SETCW is rejected by
4646 [21053] libc: [SH] Namespace pollution from sys/ucontext.h
4647 [21061] librt: [microblaze] librt lost clock_* exports
4648 [21073] libc: tunables: insecure environment variables passed to
4649 subprocesses with AT_SECURE
4650 [21081] string: Missing vzeroupper in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4654 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
4655 can be used with is 3.2, except on i[4567]86 and x86_64, where Linux
4656 kernel version 2.6.32 or later suffices (on architectures that already
4657 required kernel versions more recent than 3.2, those requirements remain
4658 unchanged). Linux 3.2 or later kernel headers are required on all
4661 * The pap_AN locale has been deleted. This has been deprecated for a long
4662 time. It has been replaced by pap_AW & pap_CW, both of which have long
4663 been included in previous releases.
4665 * The readdir_r and readdir64_r functions have been deprecated. It is
4666 recommended to use readdir and readdir64 instead.
4668 * The type “union wait” has been removed. It was deprecated in the early
4669 1990s and never part of POSIX. Application code should use the int type
4670 instead of “union wait”.
4672 * A new NSS action is added to facilitate large distributed system
4673 administration. The action, MERGE, allows remote user stores like LDAP
4674 to be merged into local user stores like /etc/groups in order to provide
4675 easy to use, updated, and managed sets of merged credentials. The new
4676 action can be used by configuring it in /etc/nsswitch.conf:
4677 group: files [SUCCESS=merge] nis
4678 Implemented by Stephen Gallagher (Red Hat).
4680 * The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook variable has been removed from the
4683 * The long unused localedef --old-style option has been removed. It hasn't
4684 done anything in over 16 years. Scripts using this option can safely
4687 * nextupl, nextup, nextupf, nextdownl, nextdown and nextdownf are added to
4688 libm. They are defined by TS 18661 and IEEE754-2008. The nextup functions
4689 return the next representable value in the direction of positive infinity
4690 and the nextdown functions return the next representable value in the
4691 direction of negative infinity. These are currently enabled as GNU
4694 Security related changes:
4696 * An unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r was removed. It
4697 could result in a stack overflow when getnetbyname was called with an
4698 overly long name. (CVE-2016-3075)
4700 * Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
4701 even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
4702 resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
4703 instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
4705 * The glob function suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow when it was
4706 called with the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC flag and encountered a long file name.
4707 Reported by Alexander Cherepanov. (CVE-2016-1234)
4709 * The Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when
4710 flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages. Reported by Aldy Hernandez'
4711 alloca plugin for GCC. (CVE-2016-4429)
4713 * The IPv6 name server management code in libresolv could result in a memory
4714 leak for each thread which is created, performs a failing naming lookup,
4715 and exits. Over time, this could result in a denial of service due to
4716 memory exhaustion. Reported by Matthias Schiffer. (CVE-2016-5417)
4718 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4720 [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
4721 [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
4723 [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
4724 [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
4725 [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
4726 [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
4727 [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
4728 [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
4729 [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
4730 [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
4732 [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
4733 [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
4734 [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
4735 [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
4736 [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
4737 [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
4739 [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
4741 [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
4742 [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
4743 [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
4744 [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
4745 [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
4746 [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
4747 [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
4748 [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
4749 [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
4750 malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
4751 [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
4753 [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
4754 [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
4755 [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
4756 [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
4757 [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
4758 [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
4760 [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
4761 [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
4763 [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
4764 [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
4765 Romanian locale data
4766 [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
4768 [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
4769 [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
4771 [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
4772 [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
4773 nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
4774 [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
4776 [19400] locale: Language missing in "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
4778 [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
4779 [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
4780 posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
4781 [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
4782 when using RTLD_NEXT
4783 [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
4784 `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
4785 [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
4786 [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
4787 [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
4788 server initialization, breaking Hesiod
4789 [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
4790 [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
4791 [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
4793 [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4794 [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4795 [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
4796 [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
4798 [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
4800 [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
4802 [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
4803 [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
4804 [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
4805 [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
4806 [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
4807 [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
4809 [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
4810 [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
4812 [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
4813 [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
4815 [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
4817 [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
4819 [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
4820 pointers and lengths in error-case.
4821 [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
4822 report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
4823 [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
4824 [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
4825 [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
4826 [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
4827 [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
4828 [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
4829 NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
4830 [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
4831 [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
4832 [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
4834 [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
4836 [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
4837 [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
4838 [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
4839 response to getaddrinfo
4840 [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
4841 [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
4842 confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
4843 [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
4844 [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
4845 [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
4847 [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
4848 [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
4849 [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
4851 [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
4852 _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
4853 [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
4854 [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
4856 [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
4857 [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
4858 [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
4860 [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
4861 [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
4862 [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
4863 [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
4864 [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
4865 [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
4866 [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
4867 [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
4869 [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
4870 [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
4871 [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
4873 [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
4874 [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
4875 [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
4876 [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
4877 [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
4878 [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
4879 [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
4880 [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
4881 [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
4882 [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
4883 [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
4884 [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
4885 [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
4887 [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
4888 [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
4889 [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
4890 [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
4892 [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
4893 [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
4895 [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
4896 [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
4897 [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
4898 AS not supporting AVX512
4899 [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
4901 [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4902 [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
4904 [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
4905 [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
4906 [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
4907 [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
4908 [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
4910 [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
4911 [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
4913 [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
4914 [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
4915 [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
4916 [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4917 [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4918 [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
4919 [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4920 [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
4921 [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
4923 [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4924 [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4925 [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4926 [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4927 [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4928 [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
4929 [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
4930 [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
4931 [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
4932 [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
4933 [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
4934 [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
4935 [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
4937 [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
4938 [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
4939 subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
4940 [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
4941 [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
4943 [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
4944 [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
4946 [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
4947 "invalid" exceptions
4948 [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
4949 [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
4950 [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
4951 [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
4952 [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
4953 [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
4954 [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
4955 [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
4956 [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
4960 * Unicode 8.0.0 Support: Character encoding, character type info, and
4961 transliteration tables are all updated to Unicode 8.0.0, using new
4962 and/or improved generator scripts contributed by Mike FABIAN (Red Hat).
4963 These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fixes for bugs
4964 89, 16061, and 18568.
4966 * sched_setaffinity, pthread_setaffinity_np no longer attempt to guess the
4967 kernel-internal CPU set size. This means that requests that change the
4968 CPU affinity which failed before (for example, an all-ones CPU mask) will
4969 now succeed. Applications that need to determine the effective CPU
4970 affinities need to call sched_getaffinity or pthread_getaffinity_np after
4971 setting it because the kernel can adjust it (and the previous size check
4972 would not detect this in the majority of cases).
4974 * The fts.h header can now be used with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64. With LFS
4975 the following new symbols are used: fts64_children, fts64_close,
4976 fts64_open, fts64_read and fts64_set.
4978 * getaddrinfo now detects certain invalid responses on an internal netlink
4979 socket. If such responses are received, an affected process will
4980 terminate with an error message of "Unexpected error <number> on netlink
4981 descriptor <number>" or "Unexpected netlink response of size <number> on
4982 descriptor <number>". The most likely cause for these errors is a
4983 multi-threaded application which erroneously closes and reuses the netlink
4984 file descriptor while it is used by getaddrinfo.
4986 * A defect in the malloc implementation, present since glibc 2.15 (2012) or
4987 glibc 2.10 via --enable-experimental-malloc (2009), could result in the
4988 unnecessary serialization of memory allocation requests across threads.
4989 The defect is now corrected. Users should see a substantial increase in
4990 the concurrent throughput of allocation requests for applications which
4991 trigger this bug. Affected applications typically create and
4992 destroy threads frequently. (Bug 19048 was reported and analyzed by
4995 * There is now a --disable-timezone-tools configure option for disabling the
4996 building and installing of the timezone related utilities (zic, zdump, and
4997 tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
4998 independent of the GNU C Library.
5000 * The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
5001 this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.
5003 * The obsolete functions bdflush, create_module, get_kernel_syms,
5004 query_module and uselib are no longer available to newly linked binaries;
5005 the header <sys/kdaemon.h> has been removed. These functions and header
5006 were specific to systems using the Linux kernel and could not usefully be
5007 used with the GNU C Library on systems with version 2.6 or later of the
5010 * Optimized string, wcsmbs and memory functions for IBM z13.
5011 Implemented by Stefan Liebler.
5013 * Newly linked programs that define a variable called signgam will no longer
5014 have it set by the lgamma, lgammaf and lgammal functions. Programs that
5015 require signgam to be set by those functions must ensure that they use the
5016 variable provided by the GNU C Library and declared in <math.h>, without
5017 defining their own copy.
5019 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5020 C Library is GCC 4.7. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5021 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5023 Security related changes:
5025 * An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
5026 longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)
5028 * The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
5029 the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
5030 LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
5031 running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
5034 * An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
5035 out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)
5037 * The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
5038 Max. (CVE-2015-8779)
5040 * The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
5041 depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
5042 functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)
5044 * A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
5045 libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
5046 of execution flow in the DNS client. The buffer overflow occurs in
5047 the functions send_dg (send datagram) and send_vc (send TCP) for the
5048 NSS module libnss_dns.so.2 when calling getaddrinfo with AF_UNSPEC
5049 family. The use of AF_UNSPEC triggers the low-level resolver code to
5050 send out two parallel queries for A and AAAA. A mismanagement of the
5051 buffers used for those queries could result in the response of a query
5052 writing beyond the alloca allocated buffer created by
5053 _nss_dns_gethostbyname4_r. Buffer management is simplified to remove
5054 the overflow. Thanks to the Google Security Team and Red Hat for
5055 reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
5056 Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
5058 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5060 [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
5061 [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
5062 [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5063 [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
5064 [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
5065 [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
5067 [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
5068 [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doesn't set errno on
5069 overflow/underflow errors
5070 [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
5072 [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
5073 [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
5074 [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
5075 [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
5076 [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
5077 [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
5079 [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
5080 [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
5081 [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
5082 [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
5083 [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
5084 [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
5085 [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
5086 FE_INVALID with argument out of range
5087 [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
5089 [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
5091 [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
5092 [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
5093 [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
5095 [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
5096 [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
5097 [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
5098 [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
5099 [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
5101 [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
5102 [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
5104 [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
5105 "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
5106 [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
5107 [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
5108 [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
5109 [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
5110 [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
5111 [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
5113 [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
5114 [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
5115 [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
5116 [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
5117 [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
5119 [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
5120 [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
5122 [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
5123 [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
5124 [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
5125 (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
5126 [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
5128 [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
5129 [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
5130 (related to lock elision)
5131 [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
5132 [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
5133 [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
5134 [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
5136 [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
5137 [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
5138 [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
5139 is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
5140 [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
5141 [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
5142 [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
5143 [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
5144 [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
5145 [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
5146 [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
5147 [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
5148 [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
5149 [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
5150 [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
5151 [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
5152 [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
5153 [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
5154 contains a vector instruction exception.
5155 [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
5156 [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
5158 [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
5159 [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
5160 [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
5161 buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
5162 [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
5164 [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
5166 [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
5167 [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
5169 [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
5170 [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
5171 [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
5172 [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
5173 [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
5175 [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
5176 [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
5177 error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
5178 [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
5179 [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
5180 [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
5181 statically too large
5182 [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
5183 [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
5184 [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
5185 [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
5186 [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
5187 [18825] math: pow missing underflows
5188 [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
5189 [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
5190 [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
5192 [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
5193 [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
5194 [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
5195 [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
5196 [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
5197 [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
5198 [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
5200 [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
5201 binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
5202 [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
5203 [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
5205 [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
5206 [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
5207 [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
5208 [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
5209 [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
5210 [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
5212 [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
5213 [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
5214 [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
5215 [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
5216 [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
5217 [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
5219 [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
5220 [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
5221 [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
5222 [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
5223 [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
5224 [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5225 [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
5226 [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
5228 [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
5229 [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
5230 [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
5231 [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
5232 [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
5233 [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
5234 [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
5235 [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
5236 [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
5238 [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
5240 [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
5241 [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
5242 [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
5244 [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
5245 [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
5246 [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
5247 [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assembler
5248 [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
5249 [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
5250 [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
5251 [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
5252 [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
5253 pthread_setaffinity_np
5254 [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
5255 [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
5256 [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
5257 [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
5258 [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
5260 [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
5261 (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
5262 [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
5263 _int_new_arena/reused_arena
5264 [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
5265 [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
5266 [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
5268 [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
5269 [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
5270 for C99-based standards
5271 [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
5272 [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
5274 [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
5275 [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
5276 [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
5278 [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
5279 "inexact" exceptions
5280 [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
5282 [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
5283 [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
5284 to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
5285 [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
5287 [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
5288 [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
5289 [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
5290 MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
5291 [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
5292 [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
5293 [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
5294 [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
5295 [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
5296 [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
5298 [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
5299 [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
5300 / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
5301 [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
5303 [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
5304 [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
5305 error on 32-bit architectures
5306 [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
5307 [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
5308 IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
5309 [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
5310 [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
5311 [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
5312 [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
5313 [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
5314 [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
5316 [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
5318 [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
5319 [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
5320 [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
5321 [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
5323 [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
5327 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5329 438, 2981, 4719, 6544, 6792, 11216, 12836, 13028, 13064, 13151, 13152,
5330 14094, 14113, 14292, 14841, 14906, 14958, 15319, 15467, 15790, 15969,
5331 16159, 16339, 16350, 16351, 16352, 16353, 16361, 16512, 16526, 16538,
5332 16559, 16560, 16704, 16783, 16850, 17053, 17090, 17195, 17269, 17293,
5333 17322, 17403, 17475, 17523, 17542, 17569, 17581, 17588, 17596, 17620,
5334 17621, 17628, 17631, 17692, 17711, 17715, 17776, 17779, 17792, 17833,
5335 17836, 17841, 17912, 17916, 17930, 17932, 17944, 17949, 17964, 17965,
5336 17967, 17969, 17977, 17978, 17987, 17991, 17996, 17998, 17999, 18007,
5337 18019, 18020, 18029, 18030, 18032, 18034, 18036, 18038, 18039, 18042,
5338 18043, 18046, 18047, 18049, 18068, 18078, 18080, 18093, 18100, 18104,
5339 18110, 18111, 18116, 18125, 18128, 18134, 18138, 18185, 18196, 18197,
5340 18206, 18210, 18211, 18217, 18219, 18220, 18221, 18234, 18244, 18245,
5341 18247, 18287, 18319, 18324, 18333, 18346, 18371, 18383, 18397, 18400,
5342 18409, 18410, 18412, 18418, 18422, 18434, 18444, 18457, 18468, 18469,
5343 18470, 18479, 18483, 18495, 18496, 18497, 18498, 18502, 18507, 18508,
5344 18512, 18513, 18519, 18520, 18522, 18527, 18528, 18529, 18530, 18532,
5345 18533, 18534, 18536, 18539, 18540, 18542, 18544, 18545, 18546, 18547,
5346 18549, 18553, 18557, 18558, 18569, 18583, 18585, 18586, 18592, 18593,
5347 18594, 18602, 18612, 18613, 18619, 18633, 18635, 18641, 18643, 18648,
5348 18657, 18676, 18694, 18696, 18887.
5350 * Cache information can be queried via sysconf() function on s390 e.g. with
5351 _SC_LEVEL1_ICACHE_SIZE as argument.
5353 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
5354 requests has been fixed. If the NSS functions were called with a
5355 misaligned buffer, the buffer length change due to pointer alignment was
5356 not taken into account. This could result in application crashes or,
5357 potentially arbitrary code execution, using crafted, but syntactically
5358 valid DNS responses. (CVE-2015-1781)
5360 * The time zone file parser has been made more robust against crafted time
5361 zone files, avoiding heap buffer overflows related to the processing of
5362 the tzh_ttisstdcnt and tzh_ttisgmtcnt fields, and a stack overflow due to
5363 large time zone data files. Overly long time zone specifiers in the TZ
5364 variable no longer result in stack overflows and crashes.
5366 * A powerpc and powerpc64 optimization for TLS, similar to TLS descriptors
5367 for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64, has been implemented. You will need
5368 binutils-2.24 or later to enable this optimization.
5370 * Character encoding and ctype tables were updated to Unicode 7.0.0, using
5371 new generator scripts contributed by Pravin Satpute and Mike FABIAN (Red
5372 Hat). These updates cause user visible changes, such as the fix for bug
5375 * CVE-2014-8121 The NSS backends shared internal state between the getXXent
5376 and getXXbyYY NSS calls for the same database, causing a denial-of-service
5377 condition in some applications.
5379 * Added vector math library named libmvec with the following vectorized x86_64
5380 implementations: cos, cosf, sin, sinf, sincos, sincosf, log, logf, exp, expf,
5382 The library can be disabled with --disable-mathvec. Use of the functions is
5383 enabled with -fopenmp -ffast-math starting from -O1 for GCC version >= 4.9.0.
5384 Shared library libmvec.so is linked in as needed when using -lm (no need to
5385 specify -lmvec explicitly for not static builds).
5386 Visit <https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/libmvec> for detailed information.
5388 * A new fmemopen implementation has been added with the goal of POSIX
5389 compliance. The new implementation fixes the following long-standing
5390 issues: BZ#6544, BZ#11216, BZ#12836, BZ#13151, BZ#13152, and BZ#14292. The
5391 old implementation is still present for use be by existing binaries.
5393 * The 32-bit sparc sigaction ABI was inadvertently broken in the 2.20 and 2.21
5394 releases. It has been fixed to match 2.19 and older, but binaries built
5395 against 2.20 and 2.21 might need to be recompiled. See BZ#18694.
5397 * Port to Native Client running on ARMv7-A (--host=arm-nacl).
5398 Contributed by Roland McGrath (Google).
5400 * The header <regexp.h> is deprecated, and will be removed in a future
5401 release. Use of this header will trigger a deprecation warning.
5402 Application developers should update their code to use <regex.h> instead.
5404 This header was formerly part of SUS, but was deprecated in 1994 and
5405 removed from the standard in 2001. Also, the glibc implementation
5406 leaks memory. See BZ#18681 for more details.
5410 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5412 6652, 10672, 12674, 12847, 12926, 13862, 14132, 14138, 14171, 14498,
5413 15215, 15378, 15884, 16009, 16418, 16191, 16469, 16576, 16617, 16618,
5414 16619, 16657, 16740, 16857, 17192, 17266, 17273, 17344, 17363, 17370,
5415 17371, 17411, 17460, 17475, 17485, 17501, 17506, 17508, 17522, 17555,
5416 17570, 17571, 17572, 17573, 17574, 17582, 17583, 17584, 17585, 17589,
5417 17594, 17601, 17608, 17616, 17625, 17630, 17633, 17634, 17635, 17647,
5418 17653, 17657, 17658, 17664, 17665, 17668, 17682, 17702, 17717, 17719,
5419 17722, 17723, 17724, 17725, 17732, 17733, 17744, 17745, 17746, 17747,
5420 17748, 17775, 17777, 17780, 17781, 17782, 17791, 17793, 17796, 17797,
5421 17801, 17803, 17806, 17834, 17844, 17848, 17868, 17869, 17870, 17885,
5424 * CVE-2015-1472 CVE-2015-1473 Under certain conditions wscanf can allocate
5425 too little memory for the to-be-scanned arguments and overflow the
5426 allocated buffer. The implementation now correctly computes the required
5427 buffer size when using malloc, and switches to malloc from alloca as
5430 * A new semaphore algorithm has been implemented in generic C code for all
5431 machines. Previous custom assembly implementations of semaphore were
5432 difficult to reason about or ensure that they were safe. The new version
5433 of semaphore supports machines with 64-bit or 32-bit atomic operations.
5434 The new semaphore algorithm is used by sem_init, sem_open, sem_post,
5435 sem_wait, sem_timedwait, sem_trywait, and sem_getvalue.
5437 * Port to Altera Nios II has been contributed by Mentor Graphics.
5439 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, stpncpy, strcmp, and strncmp
5440 implementations for powerpc64/powerpc64le.
5441 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella (IBM).
5443 * Added support for TSX lock elision of pthread mutexes on powerpc32, powerpc64
5444 and powerpc64le. This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on
5445 HTM capable systems. The lock elision code is only enabled with
5446 --enable-lock-elision=yes. Also, the TSX lock elision implementation for
5447 powerpc will issue a transaction abort on every syscall to avoid side
5448 effects being visible outside transactions.
5450 * Optimized strcpy, stpcpy, strchrnul and strrchr implementations for
5451 AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5453 * i386 memcpy functions optimized with SSE2 unaligned load/store.
5455 * CVE-2104-7817 The wordexp function could ignore the WRDE_NOCMD flag
5456 under certain input conditions resulting in the execution of a shell for
5457 command substitution when the application did not request it. The
5458 implementation now checks WRDE_NOCMD immediately before executing the
5459 shell and returns the error WRDE_CMDSUB as expected.
5461 * CVE-2012-3406 printf-style functions could run into a stack overflow when
5462 processing format strings with a large number of format specifiers.
5464 * CVE-2014-9402 The nss_dns implementation of getnetbyname could run into an
5465 infinite loop if the DNS response contained a PTR record of an unexpected
5468 * The minimum GCC version that can be used to build this version of the GNU
5469 C Library is GCC 4.6. Older GCC versions, and non-GNU compilers, can
5470 still be used to compile programs using the GNU C Library.
5472 * The GNU C Library is now built with -Werror by default. This can be
5473 disabled by configuring with --disable-werror.
5475 * New locales: tu_IN, bh_IN, raj_IN, ce_RU.
5477 * The obsolete sigvec function has been removed. This was the original
5478 4.2BSD interface that inspired the POSIX.1 sigaction interface, which
5479 programs have been using instead for about 25 years. Of course, ABI
5480 compatibility for old binaries using sigvec remains intact.
5482 * Merged gettext 0.19.3 into the intl subdirectory. This fixes building
5483 with newer versions of bison.
5485 * Support for MIPS o32 FPXX, FP64A and FP64 ABI Extensions.
5486 The original MIPS o32 hard-float ABI requires an FPU where double-precision
5487 registers overlay two consecutive single-precision registers. MIPS32R2
5488 introduced a new FPU mode (FR=1) where double-precision registers extend the
5489 corresponding single-precision registers which is incompatible with the
5490 o32 hard-float ABI. The MIPS SIMD ASE and the MIPSR6 architecture both
5491 require the use of FR=1 making a transition necessary. New o32 ABI
5492 extensions enable users to migrate over time from the original o32 ABI
5493 through to the updated o32 FP64 ABI. To achieve this the dynamic linker now
5494 tracks the ABI of any loaded object and verifies that new objects are
5495 compatible. Mode transitions will also be requested as required and
5496 unsupportable objects will be rejected. The ABI checks include both soft and
5497 hard float ABIs for o32, n32 and n64.
5499 GCC 5 with GNU binutils 2.25 onwards:
5500 It is strongly recommended that all o32 system libraries are built using the
5501 new o32 FPXX ABI (-mfpxx) to facilitate the transition as this is compatible
5502 with the original and all new o32 ABI extensions. Configure a MIPS GCC
5503 compiler using --with-fp-32=xx to set this by default.
5507 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5509 6804, 9894, 11505, 12994, 13347, 13651, 14308, 14770, 15119, 15132, 15347,
5510 15514, 15698, 15804, 15894, 15946, 16002, 16064, 16095, 16194, 16198,
5511 16275, 16284, 16287, 16315, 16348, 16349, 16354, 16357, 16362, 16447,
5512 16516, 16532, 16539, 16545, 16561, 16562, 16564, 16574, 16599, 16600,
5513 16609, 16610, 16611, 16613, 16619, 16623, 16629, 16632, 16634, 16639,
5514 16642, 16648, 16649, 16670, 16674, 16677, 16680, 16681, 16683, 16689,
5515 16695, 16701, 16706, 16707, 16712, 16713, 16714, 16724, 16731, 16739,
5516 16740, 16743, 16754, 16758, 16759, 16760, 16770, 16786, 16789, 16791,
5517 16796, 16799, 16800, 16815, 16823, 16824, 16831, 16838, 16839, 16849,
5518 16854, 16876, 16877, 16878, 16882, 16885, 16888, 16890, 16892, 16912,
5519 16915, 16916, 16917, 16918, 16922, 16927, 16928, 16932, 16943, 16958,
5520 16965, 16966, 16967, 16977, 16978, 16984, 16990, 16996, 17009, 17022,
5521 17031, 17042, 17048, 17050, 17058, 17061, 17062, 17069, 17075, 17078,
5522 17079, 17084, 17086, 17088, 17092, 17097, 17125, 17135, 17137, 17150,
5523 17153, 17187, 17213, 17259, 17261, 17262, 17263, 17319, 17325, 17354.
5525 * Reverted change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5526 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased in
5527 2.19. This change is reverted in 2.20. The introduced 2.19 symbol versions
5528 of getcontext, setjmp, _setjmp, __sigsetjmp, longjmp, _longjmp, siglongjmp
5529 are preserved pointing straight to the same implementation as the old ones.
5530 Given that, new callers will simply provide a too-big buffer to these
5531 functions. Any applications/libraries out there that embed jmp_buf or
5532 ucontext_t in an ABI-relevant data structure that have already been rebuilt
5533 against 2.19 headers will have to rebuilt again. This is necessary in any
5534 case to revert the breakage in their ABI caused by the glibc change.
5536 * Support for file description locks is added to systems running the
5537 Linux kernel. The standard file locking interfaces are extended to
5538 operate on file descriptions, not file descriptors, via the use of
5539 F_OFD_GETLK, F_OFD_SETLK, and F_OFD_SETLKW. File description locks
5540 are associated with an open file instead of a process.
5542 * Optimized strchr implementation for AArch64. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5544 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5545 can be used with is 2.6.32.
5547 * Running the testsuite no longer terminates as soon as a test fails.
5548 Instead, a file tests.sum (xtests.sum from "make xcheck") is generated,
5549 with PASS or FAIL lines for individual tests. A summary of the results is
5550 printed, including a list of failing lists, and "make check" exits with
5551 error status if there were any unexpected failures. "make check
5552 stop-on-test-failure=y" may be used to keep the old behavior.
5554 * The am33 port, which had not worked for several years, has been removed
5557 * The _BSD_SOURCE and _SVID_SOURCE feature test macros are no longer
5558 supported; they now act the same as _DEFAULT_SOURCE (but generate a
5559 warning). Except for cases where _BSD_SOURCE enabled BSD interfaces that
5560 conflicted with POSIX (support for which was removed in 2.19), the
5561 interfaces those macros enabled remain available when compiling with
5562 _GNU_SOURCE defined, with _DEFAULT_SOURCE defined, or without any feature
5563 test macros defined.
5565 * Optimized strcmp implementation for ARMv7. Contributed by ARM Ltd.
5567 * Added support for TX lock elision of pthread mutexes on s390 and s390x.
5568 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TX capable systems.
5569 The lock elision code is only built with --enable-lock-elision=yes and
5570 then requires a GCC version supporting the TX builtins. With lock elision
5571 default mutexes are elided via __builtin_tbegin, if the cpu supports
5572 transactions. By default lock elision is not enabled and the elision code
5575 * CVE-2014-4043 The posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen implementation did not
5576 copy the path argument. This allowed programs to cause posix_spawn to
5577 deference a dangling pointer, or use an unexpected pathname argument if
5578 the string was modified after the posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen
5581 * All supported architectures now use the main glibc sysdeps directory
5582 instead of some being in a separate "ports" directory (which was
5583 distributed separately before glibc 2.17).
5585 * The NPTL implementation of POSIX pthreads is no longer an "add-on".
5586 On configurations that support it (all Linux configurations), it's now
5587 used regardless of the --enable-add-ons switch to configure. It is no
5588 longer possible to build such configurations without pthreads support.
5590 * Locale names, including those obtained from environment variables (LANG
5591 and the LC_* variables), are more tightly checked for proper syntax.
5592 setlocale will now fail (with EINVAL) for locale names that are overly
5593 long, contain slashes without starting with a slash, or contain ".." path
5594 components. (CVE-2014-0475) Previously, some valid locale names were
5595 silently replaced with the "C" locale when running in AT_SECURE mode
5596 (e.g., in a SUID program). This is no longer necessary because of the
5599 * On x86-64, the dynamic linker's lazy-binding support is now compatible
5600 with application code using Intel MPX instructions. (With all previous
5601 versions, the MPX register state could be clobbered when making calls
5602 into or out of a shared library.) Note that while the new dynamic
5603 linker is compatible with all known x86 hardware whether or not it
5604 supports Intel MPX, some x86 instruction-set emulators might fail to
5605 handle the new instruction encodings. This is known to affect Valgrind
5606 versions up through 3.9 (but will be fixed in the forthcoming 3.10
5607 release), and might affect other tools that do instruction emulation.
5609 * Support for loadable gconv transliteration modules has been removed.
5610 The support for transliteration modules has been non-functional for
5611 over a decade, and the removal is prompted by security defects. The
5612 normal gconv conversion modules are still supported. Transliteration
5613 with //TRANSLIT is still possible, and the //IGNORE specifier
5614 continues to be supported. (CVE-2014-5119)
5616 * Decoding a crafted input sequence in the character sets IBM933, IBM935,
5617 IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
5618 resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
5619 use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
5623 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5625 156, 387, 431, 762, 832, 926, 2801, 4772, 6786, 6787, 6807, 6810, 6981,
5626 7003, 9721, 9954, 10253, 10278, 11087, 11157, 11214, 12100, 12486, 12751,
5627 12986, 13028, 13982, 13985, 14029, 14032, 14120, 14143, 14155, 14286,
5628 14547, 14699, 14752, 14782, 14876, 14910, 15004, 15048, 15073, 15089,
5629 15128, 15218, 15268, 15277, 15308, 15362, 15374, 15400, 15425, 15427,
5630 15483, 15522, 15531, 15532, 15593, 15601, 15608, 15609, 15610, 15632,
5631 15640, 15670, 15672, 15680, 15681, 15723, 15734, 15735, 15736, 15748,
5632 15749, 15754, 15760, 15763, 15764, 15797, 15799, 15825, 15843, 15844,
5633 15846, 15847, 15849, 15850, 15855, 15856, 15857, 15859, 15867, 15886,
5634 15887, 15890, 15892, 15893, 15895, 15897, 15901, 15905, 15909, 15915,
5635 15917, 15919, 15921, 15923, 15939, 15941, 15948, 15963, 15966, 15968,
5636 15985, 15988, 15997, 16032, 16034, 16036, 16037, 16038, 16041, 16046,
5637 16055, 16071, 16072, 16074, 16077, 16078, 16103, 16112, 16143, 16144,
5638 16146, 16150, 16151, 16153, 16167, 16169, 16172, 16195, 16214, 16245,
5639 16271, 16274, 16283, 16289, 16293, 16314, 16316, 16330, 16337, 16338,
5640 16356, 16365, 16366, 16369, 16372, 16375, 16379, 16381, 16384, 16385,
5641 16386, 16387, 16390, 16394, 16398, 16400, 16407, 16408, 16414, 16430,
5642 16431, 16453, 16474, 16506, 16510, 16529
5644 * Slovenian translations for glibc messages have been contributed by the
5645 Translation Project's Slovenian team of translators.
5647 * The public headers no longer use __unused nor __block. This change is to
5648 support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
5649 __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
5650 extension which uses __block.
5652 * CVE-2012-4412 The strcoll implementation caches indices and rules for
5653 large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes. This cache
5654 computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
5655 stack or buffer overflow. This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
5656 which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.
5658 * CVE-2012-4424 The strcoll implementation uses malloc to cache indices and
5659 rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
5660 back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
5661 The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
5664 * CVE-2013-4788 The pointer guard used for pointer mangling was not
5665 initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
5666 being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
5667 random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
5668 to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).
5670 * CVE-2013-4237 The readdir_r function could write more than NAME_MAX bytes
5671 to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
5672 character. (Bugzilla #14699).
5674 * CVE-2013-4332 The pvalloc, valloc, memalign, posix_memalign and
5675 aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
5676 heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
5679 * CVE-2013-4458 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with large number of results
5680 for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).
5682 * New locales: ak_GH, anp_IN, ar_SS, cmn_TW, hak_TW, lzh_TW, nan_TW, pap_AW,
5683 pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.
5685 * Substantially revised locales: gd_GB, ht_HT
5687 * The LC_ADDRESS field was updated to support country_car for almost all
5690 * ISO 1427 definitions were updated.
5692 * ISO 3166 definitions were updated.
5694 * The localedef utility now supports --big-endian and --little-endian
5695 command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
5696 for which the C library was built.
5698 * Binary locale files now only depend on the endianness of the system for
5699 which they are generated and not on other properties of that system. As a
5700 consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
5701 with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
5702 old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
5703 in the following circumstances:
5705 + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.
5707 + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
5708 be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.
5710 * The configure option --disable-versioning has been removed. Builds with
5711 --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.
5713 * ISO 639 definitions were updated for Chiga (cgg) and Chinese (gan, hak, czh,
5714 cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).
5716 * SystemTap probes for malloc have been introduced.
5718 * SystemTap probes for slow multiple precision fallback paths of
5719 transcendental functions have been introduced.
5721 * Support for powerpc64le has been added.
5723 * The soft-float powerpc port now supports e500 processors.
5725 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for ppc32/power4+ and ppc64.
5727 * A new feature test macro _DEFAULT_SOURCE is available to enable the same
5728 set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
5729 feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
5730 disable some of those declarations.
5732 * The _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro no longer enables BSD interfaces that
5733 conflict with POSIX. The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
5734 that did nothing) has also been removed.
5736 * Preliminary documentation about Multi-Thread, Async-Signal and
5737 Async-Cancel Safety has been added.
5739 * Change of ABI data structures for s390 and s390x:
5740 On s390 and s390x the size of struct ucontext and jmp_buf was increased to
5741 allow for future hardware extensions. All library functions that accept or
5742 return these structures were versioned in order to provide backwards
5743 compatibility with existing code. However, not all cases can be handled
5744 with interface versioning. If an application embeds either structure into
5745 another structure and that structure is passed to another compilation unit
5746 which expects the newer larger-sized object then any access to the new
5747 fields will result in undefined behaviour. Similarly any access to fields
5748 that were moved by the enlarging of the structures will cause undefined
5749 behaviour. To fix the undefined behaviour all objects that are part of the
5750 final in-memory image must agree on the size of structures, and this may
5751 require recompilation.
5755 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5757 2546, 2560, 5159, 6809, 7006, 10060, 10062, 10283, 10357, 10686, 11120,
5758 11561, 12310, 12387, 12492, 12515, 12723, 13550, 13889, 13951, 13988,
5759 14142, 14176, 14200, 14256, 14280, 14293, 14317, 14327, 14478, 14496,
5760 14582, 14686, 14812, 14888, 14894, 14907, 14908, 14909, 14920, 14941,
5761 14952, 14964, 14981, 14982, 14985, 14991, 14994, 14996, 15000, 15003,
5762 15006, 15007, 15014, 15020, 15022, 15023, 15036, 15054, 15055, 15062,
5763 15078, 15084, 15085, 15086, 15100, 15160, 15214, 15221, 15232, 15234,
5764 15283, 15285, 15287, 15304, 15305, 15307, 15309, 15327, 15330, 15335,
5765 15336, 15337, 15339, 15342, 15346, 15359, 15361, 15366, 15380, 15381,
5766 15394, 15395, 15405, 15406, 15409, 15416, 15418, 15419, 15423, 15424,
5767 15426, 15429, 15431, 15432, 15441, 15442, 15448, 15465, 15480, 15485,
5768 15488, 15490, 15492, 15493, 15497, 15506, 15529, 15536, 15553, 15577,
5769 15583, 15618, 15627, 15631, 15654, 15655, 15666, 15667, 15674, 15711,
5772 * CVE-2013-2207 Incorrectly granting access to another user's pseudo-terminal
5773 has been fixed by disabling the use of pt_chown (Bugzilla #15755).
5774 Distributions can re-enable building and using pt_chown via the new configure
5775 option `--enable-pt_chown'. Enabling the use of pt_chown carries with it
5776 considerable security risks and should only be used if the distribution
5777 understands and accepts the risks.
5779 * CVE-2013-0242 Buffer overrun in regexp matcher has been fixed (Bugzilla
5782 * CVE-2013-1914 Stack overflow in getaddrinfo with many results has been
5783 fixed (Bugzilla #15330).
5785 * Add support for calling C++11 thread_local object destructors on thread
5786 and program exit. This needs compiler support for offloading C++11
5787 destructor calls to glibc.
5789 * Improved worst case performance of libm functions with double inputs and
5792 * Support for priority inherited mutexes in pthread condition variables on
5793 non-x86 architectures.
5795 * Port to Xilinx MicroBlaze contributed by David Holsgrove.
5797 * Optimized string functions for AArch64. Implemented by Marcus Shawcroft.
5799 * Optimized string functions for ARM. Implemented by Will Newton and
5802 * Optimized libm functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
5804 * Support for building more of ARM glibc as Thumb-2 code. Implemented by
5807 * Support for building most of MIPS glibc as MIPS16 code. Implemented by
5808 Chung-Lin Tang, Maciej W. Rozycki and Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5810 * Added a benchmark framework to track performance of functions in glibc.
5812 * New <math.h> macro named issignaling to check for a signaling NaN (sNaN).
5813 It is based on draft TS 18661 and currently enabled as a GNU extension.
5815 * On Linux, the clock function now uses the clock_gettime system call
5816 for improved precision, rather than old times system call.
5818 * Added support for version-3 tz format files. This is needed when using
5819 the tz database release 2013e or later, and affects a few unusual cases --
5820 currently only TZ='America/Godthab' for time stamps after 2037.
5822 * Added new API functions pthread_getattr_default_np and
5823 pthread_setattr_default_np to get and set the default pthread
5824 attributes of a process.
5826 * Added support for TSX lock elision for pthread mutexes on i386 and x86-64.
5827 This may improve lock scaling of existing programs on TSX capable systems.
5828 When the --enable-lock-elision=yes parameter is specified at configure
5829 time lock elision will be enabled by default for all PTHREAD_MUTEX_DEFAULT
5832 * Support added for AT_HWCAP2 (to coincide with Linux kernel 3.10
5833 availability). Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5835 * Support added for POWER8 platform. Implemented by Ryan S. Arnold.
5839 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5841 1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
5842 9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10191, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638,
5843 11741, 12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679,
5844 13696, 13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950,
5845 13952, 13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157,
5846 14166, 14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298,
5847 14303, 14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376,
5848 14417, 14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518,
5849 14519, 14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568,
5850 14576, 14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645,
5851 14648, 14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719,
5852 14743, 14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803,
5853 14805, 14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833,
5854 14835, 14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872,
5855 14879, 14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
5857 * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
5859 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
5860 EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
5862 * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
5863 of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
5865 * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
5867 * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
5868 Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
5870 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
5872 * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
5873 returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process. This function replaces
5874 the internal function __secure_getenv.
5876 * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
5877 Implemented by Gary Benson.
5879 * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
5880 Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
5882 * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
5883 can be used with is 2.6.16.
5885 * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
5886 powerpc POWER7. Implemented by Will Schmidt.
5888 * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
5889 never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
5890 New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
5891 this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
5893 * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
5894 bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
5896 * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
5897 interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
5900 * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
5901 distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
5902 information in --help and --version output.
5904 * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
5905 the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
5906 allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
5908 * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
5909 specification for those values. On Linux, the `crypt' function will
5910 consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
5911 enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
5912 when the mode is enabled.
5914 * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
5915 directly in the main C library. Previously it was necessary to link with
5916 -lrt to use these functions. This change has the effect that a
5917 single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
5918 is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
5919 library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
5920 multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
5922 * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
5927 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
5929 174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550, 2551,
5930 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678, 3335,
5931 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596, 4822,
5932 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794, 6884,
5933 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135, 10140,
5934 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 10882, 11174,
5935 11261, 11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047,
5936 12097, 12193, 12194, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495,
5937 13058, 13223, 13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531,
5938 13532, 13533, 13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563,
5939 13566, 13576, 13579, 13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656,
5940 13658, 13673, 13691, 13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738,
5941 13739, 13743, 13750, 13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792,
5942 13806, 13824, 13840, 13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854,
5943 13871, 13872, 13873, 13879, 13882, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892,
5944 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911, 13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917,
5945 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921, 13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928,
5946 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954, 13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970,
5947 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986, 13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036,
5948 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048, 14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064,
5949 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103, 14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123,
5950 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188, 14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241, 14273,
5953 * Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
5954 configuring glibc with:
5955 BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
5956 Visit <https://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
5957 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
5961 + define static_assert
5963 + do not declare gets
5965 + declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
5967 + aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
5968 to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
5969 in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
5972 + timespec_get added
5974 + uchar.h support added
5976 + CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
5978 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5980 * Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
5982 * Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
5984 * Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
5985 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5987 * More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
5988 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
5990 * New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
5991 headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
5992 version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
5993 after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
5994 existing applications.
5996 * Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
5997 Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
6000 * New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
6001 the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
6002 defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
6004 * New locales: mag_IN
6006 * New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
6007 into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
6008 So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
6009 provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
6010 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
6012 * Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6014 * More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
6017 * More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
6019 * Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
6020 without a previously built glibc.
6022 * Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
6023 Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
6025 * Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
6026 now supported for ARM processors.
6028 * The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
6029 as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
6030 /lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
6032 * Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
6034 * A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
6035 platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
6036 function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
6037 Magno Quites Machado Filho.
6039 * ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
6040 what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
6041 for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
6042 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6044 * Math library bug fixes. A thorough audit of all open math library bugs was
6045 conducted by Joseph Myers. Significant progress was made on many math
6046 library bugs resulting in more accurate exceptions and function results.
6047 Many thanks to all those that contributed including Andreas Jaeger for his
6048 patch review and work on the x87 trigonometric instruction issues.
6050 * Timezone data is no longer installed. Timezone-related binaries and scripts
6051 will continue to be installed. Users should obtain their timezone data from
6052 their distribution provider or from the tzdata package at
6053 <ftp://munnari.oz.au/pub/>.
6057 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6059 6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
6060 12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
6061 13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
6062 13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
6063 13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
6064 13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
6065 13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
6067 * New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
6068 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6070 * Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
6071 and support for initgroups lookups.
6072 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6074 * Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
6075 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6077 * Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
6078 Contributed by HJ Lu.
6080 * Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
6081 on x86-32 and x86-64.
6082 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6084 * Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
6085 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6087 * Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
6088 for x86-64 and x86-32.
6089 Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
6091 * New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
6092 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6094 * Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
6095 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6097 * nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
6098 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6100 * Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
6101 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6103 * Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
6104 to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6106 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
6107 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6109 * New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
6111 * Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
6112 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6114 * Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
6115 Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
6117 * New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
6121 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6123 386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
6124 11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
6125 11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11884, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
6126 11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
6127 12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
6128 12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
6129 12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
6130 12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
6131 12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
6132 12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
6134 * The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
6135 but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
6136 Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
6137 The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
6139 Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
6140 programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
6141 removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
6142 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6144 * New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
6145 syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
6147 * New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
6148 yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
6150 * New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
6152 * New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
6153 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6155 * The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
6156 from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
6157 worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
6158 not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
6162 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6164 3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
6165 11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
6166 12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
6167 12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
6170 * New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
6172 * POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
6174 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
6175 strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
6176 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6180 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6182 3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915,
6183 10918, 10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001,
6184 11007, 11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070,
6185 11093, 11115, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
6186 11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
6187 11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
6188 11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
6189 11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
6191 * New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
6193 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg
6195 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
6197 * The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
6198 EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
6199 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6201 * New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
6202 will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
6203 Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
6204 missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
6205 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6207 * New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
6211 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6213 3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
6214 10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
6215 10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
6216 10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
6217 10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
6218 10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
6220 * New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
6222 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6224 * Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
6225 frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6227 * STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
6228 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6230 * STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
6232 * New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
6233 strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
6234 strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
6235 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6237 strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
6238 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6240 * New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
6242 Contributed by H.J. Lu.
6244 * Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
6245 Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
6247 * AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
6248 Implemented by H.J. Lu.
6250 * STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
6251 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6253 * Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
6254 broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
6255 handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
6256 the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
6257 can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
6258 necessity is every process again.
6259 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6261 * New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
6262 Implemented by Adam Tkac.
6264 * Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
6265 Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
6267 * Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
6268 support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
6269 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6271 * New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
6275 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6277 697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
6278 9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
6279 9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
6280 9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
6281 10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
6283 * New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
6284 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6286 * New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
6287 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6289 * Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
6290 could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
6292 * XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
6295 * New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
6296 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6298 * New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
6299 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6301 * Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
6302 using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6304 * The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
6305 NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6307 * The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
6308 but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
6309 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6311 * New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
6313 * Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
6314 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6316 * Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
6317 and extend existing format specifiers.
6318 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6320 * Handling for group shadow files has been added.
6321 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6323 * DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
6324 servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
6325 server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
6326 in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
6327 'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
6328 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6332 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6334 2447, 3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447,
6335 6461, 6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712,
6336 6713, 6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839,
6337 6843, 6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955,
6338 6966, 6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
6340 * Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
6341 up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6343 * TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
6344 Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
6346 * getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
6347 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6349 * New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
6350 htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
6351 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6353 * New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
6354 Implemented by Eric Blake.
6356 * New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
6358 * Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
6359 close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6361 * Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
6362 implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
6363 use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
6364 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6366 * Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
6367 flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6369 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
6371 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6373 * New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
6377 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6379 2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
6380 5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
6381 5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
6382 5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
6383 5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
6384 5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
6385 5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
6387 * New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
6389 * New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
6391 * Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
6392 Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
6394 * IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
6396 * nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
6397 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6399 * nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
6400 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6402 * More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
6403 vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
6404 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6406 * Faster memset for x86-64.
6407 Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
6409 * Faster memcpy on x86.
6410 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6412 * ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
6413 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6415 * Faster sqrt and sqrtf implementation for some PPC variants.
6416 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6420 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6422 4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
6423 4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
6424 4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
6425 4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
6426 5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
6428 * More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
6429 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6431 * Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6433 * Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
6434 by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
6435 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
6437 * PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
6438 Implemented by Steven Munroe.
6440 * New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
6441 options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6443 * More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6445 * New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
6446 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6448 * Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
6449 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6451 * Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
6452 Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6454 * Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6456 * SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
6457 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6459 * New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
6460 ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
6463 + New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
6464 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6468 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6470 3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
6471 3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
6472 3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
6473 3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
6474 3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
6475 4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
6476 4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
6479 * New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
6481 * New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
6483 * nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6487 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6489 39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
6490 1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
6491 2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
6492 2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
6493 2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
6494 2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
6495 2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
6496 3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
6497 3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
6499 * For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
6500 handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
6501 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6503 * Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
6504 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6506 * New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
6508 * New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
6510 * For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
6511 option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
6512 of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
6513 site might have problems with the default behavior.
6514 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6516 * Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
6517 SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
6518 to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
6519 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6521 * The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
6524 * Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
6526 * Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
6529 * Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
6531 * New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
6532 or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
6536 * More overflow detection functions.
6538 * New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
6539 IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
6541 More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
6542 IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
6543 IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
6544 IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
6545 IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
6546 by Masahide Washizawa.
6548 * It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
6549 LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6551 * The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
6552 longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
6553 For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
6554 recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
6556 * The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
6557 but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
6559 * The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
6561 * New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
6562 futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
6563 renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
6565 * New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
6566 inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
6568 * The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
6569 for compatibility with some other systems.
6571 * Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
6575 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6577 38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
6578 1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
6579 1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
6580 1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
6581 1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
6582 1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
6584 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6586 * As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
6588 * Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
6592 * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6594 284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
6595 722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
6596 737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
6597 777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
6599 Visit <https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
6603 * Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
6604 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6606 * nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
6607 For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
6608 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6610 * nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
6611 Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
6613 * getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
6615 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6617 * The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
6618 compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
6621 * The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
6622 it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
6623 the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6625 * Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
6626 lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6628 * Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
6629 namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
6630 like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
6631 linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6633 * Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
6634 were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
6635 Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
6636 Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
6638 * Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
6639 have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
6640 the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
6641 These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
6642 that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
6646 * New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
6647 interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
6649 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
6650 implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
6652 * getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
6653 Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
6655 * getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
6656 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6658 * support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
6661 * regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
6664 * getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
6669 * Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
6670 were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
6671 Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
6672 object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
6673 The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
6674 create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
6675 `uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
6676 parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
6677 in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
6679 * The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
6680 have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
6681 and are now also available on the Hurd.
6683 * ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
6685 * The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
6686 This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
6688 * Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
6689 PowerPC machines with no FPU.
6691 * fexecve is implemented on Linux.
6693 * The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
6694 specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
6696 * With appropriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
6697 in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
6698 change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
6699 of weak definition in ld.so.
6701 * Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
6702 at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
6704 * Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
6705 AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
6709 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
6712 * iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
6713 options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
6715 * localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
6716 the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
6718 * Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
6719 tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
6721 * Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
6722 copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
6723 the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6725 * The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
6726 on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
6728 * Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
6729 implementation of regex.
6731 * Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
6734 * Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
6735 not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
6737 * The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
6738 thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
6739 Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
6741 * Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
6742 EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
6744 * New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
6745 BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
6746 Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
6748 * Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
6749 archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
6751 * Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
6752 inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
6755 * Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
6759 * The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
6760 old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
6762 * The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
6763 with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
6767 * Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
6768 128-bit long double format.
6770 * Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
6771 IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
6773 * Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
6775 * Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
6777 * libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
6780 * optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
6781 versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
6783 * Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
6787 * Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
6788 asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
6790 * Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
6791 support Unicode 3.1.
6793 * Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
6794 Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
6796 * Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
6798 * Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
6799 iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
6800 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6802 * The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
6803 severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
6805 * The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
6806 extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
6808 * mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
6812 * Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
6813 accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
6814 in float, double, and long double format.
6816 * Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
6817 and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
6818 128-bit long double format.
6820 * The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
6821 The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
6822 <ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
6823 <ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
6825 * An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
6826 after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
6827 No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6829 * Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
6830 <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
6832 * David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
6833 of functions for Linux/IA-64.
6835 * The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
6836 of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
6837 <eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
6839 * Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
6840 family of functions for Linux/S390.
6842 * Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
6843 of functions for Linux/x86.
6845 * Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
6849 * Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
6850 we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
6851 result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
6852 the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
6853 corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
6854 previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
6857 * regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
6858 Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
6860 * iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
6861 charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
6862 provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
6863 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6865 * The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
6870 only lists the names of the supported locales
6874 provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
6875 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
6879 * The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
6880 selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
6881 character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
6882 to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
6883 message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
6885 $ codeset=ISO-8859-2
6887 to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
6889 Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
6891 * New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
6892 IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
6893 Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
6895 * Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
6896 <rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
6898 * The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
6899 changed from the default "C" locale.
6901 * The usual bug fixes.
6905 * Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
6906 new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
6909 * Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
6911 * The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
6913 Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
6914 obviously requires a database library being available.
6916 * Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6918 * Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
6920 * Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
6921 behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
6923 * ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
6925 * The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
6926 threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
6929 This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since
6930 now `_res' is a thread-local instead of a global variable, modifying it
6931 in one thread does not have any effect in other threads.
6933 The resolver library was also extended to allow IPv6 as the transport
6934 protocol for the requests. This work was done by Stig Venaas.
6936 * Compatibility code for K&R C compilers has been removed from the
6937 header files. A ISO C compiler is needed to use the library
6938 (conforming to either C89 or C99 standard).
6940 * Complete rewrite of the localedef program to support multibyte character
6941 sets. Implement handling of ISO 14651 and ISO 14652. Rewrite strcoll,
6942 strxfrm, wcscoll, and wcsxfrm functions. Make isw*() functions work.
6943 Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6945 Bruno Haible significantly improved the generation and use of the data
6946 structures for the wide character tables.
6948 * Plural handling in gettext implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6950 * The utmp daemon has been removed.
6952 * The port to MIPS-Linux has been finished by Andreas Jaeger.
6954 * A port to Hitachi SH3 and SH4 has been contributed by Kazumoto Kojima
6957 * POSIX clocks and timers implemented by Kaz Kylheku and Ulrich Drepper.
6959 * POSIX barriers implemented by Kaz Kylheku.
6961 * POSIX spawn function family implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
6963 * POSIX spinlocks are now available.
6965 * Timed wait functions for mutex, rwlock, and semaphores are implemented.
6967 * the configure option --enable-kernel=X.Y.Z allows to strip out
6968 compatibility for kernel versions before X.Y.Z. This is currently only
6969 implemented for Linux.
6971 * the sockaddr_in6 structure changed. The IPv6 working group added a new
6972 field sin6_scope_id. This means that all programs using IPv6 should be
6973 recompiled. Don't expect binary compatibility with previous glibc
6976 * various conversion modules for IBM character sets contributed by
6979 * IA-64 port by Jes Sorensen and HJ Lu.
6993 * New ISO C 9x function _Exit, imaxabs, and imaxdiv are added.
6995 * New xdr functions are added; some rpc functions are now 64bit clean.
6997 * Fixed a number of bugs and memory leaks (especially in NIS+ code).
6999 * Fixed known incompatibilities with glibc 2.0.
7001 * New functions lock64, strchrnul, rawmemchr, getutmp and getutmpx.
7003 * Optimized a number of functions (especially the ELF dynamic loader).
7005 * Update timezone data files.
7007 * lots of charmaps corrections
7009 * some new locale definitions and charmaps
7014 * Richard Henderson corrected size of struct timeval on Linux/Alpha to
7015 conform to POSIX member type requirements. Symbol versions have been
7016 adjusted as needed within the library, and for direct use by applications,
7017 but there is potential for problems if third-party libraries use
7018 struct timeval as part of their interface. This does not present
7019 a problem for X and other "essential" system libraries.
7021 * An additional locale model to support C++ Standard Library locale
7022 model and probably more was implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
7024 * Eric Youngdale and Ulrich Drepper implemented versioning of objects on
7027 * Miles Bader provided the `argp' function family to support hierarchical
7028 command line argument parsing, layered on top of getopt.
7030 * strtod accepts new hexadecimal floating-point format from ISO C 9X.
7032 * printf has two new specifiers %a and %A to print hexadecimal flaoting-point
7035 * scanf recognizes the %a and %A format for scanning floating point numbers.
7037 * the new headers <stdint.h> and <inttypes.h> from ISO C 9X provides
7038 information and interfaces for the available integer types.
7040 * about 130 new math functions were added to implement the ISO C9x math
7043 * the new header <complex.h> contains definitions of the complex math
7044 functions from ISO C 9X.
7046 * the new header <tgmath.h> defines generic macros to use complex or
7047 real valued functions.
7049 * Thorsten Kukuk provided an implementation for NIS+, securelevel 0, 1 and 2.
7051 * Andreas Jaeger provided a test suite for the math library.
7053 * Mark Kettenis implemented the utmpx interface and an utmp daemon.
7055 * Ulrich Drepper added character set conversion functions (iconv).
7057 * Optimized string functions have been added.
7059 * The localedata addon is now part of glibc.
7061 * An implementation of profiling shared libraries was added by Ulrich Drepper.
7063 * Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation for a caching
7064 daemon for NSS (nscd).
7066 Missing a better place here are some numbers on improvements. Under
7067 Linux 2.1.125 un-tar-ing the kernel sources takes
7071 using local files 12.19s 6.88s 22.91s
7073 using NIS 13.92s 8.91s 26.34s
7075 using NIS & nscd 10.37s 7.34s 25.30s
7077 using NIS+ 27.57s 30.37s 640.46s
7079 using NIS+ & nscd 10.25s 7.83s 26.51s
7081 using NIS & old nscd [1] 13.83s 8.32s 29.60s
7083 Keep in mind that non-namelookup related operations dominate above times.
7084 It was just a common complain that using NIS+ unpacking the kernel is
7087 [1] The old nscd implementation is not available anymore since it was
7088 distributed with glibc up to version 2.0.98 and thus is now replaced.
7090 * Tim Waugh provided an implementation of the POSIX.2 wordexp function family.
7092 * Mark Kettenis provided a Hesiod NSS module.
7094 * The ELF dynamic loader knows how to process dynamic string tokens ($ORIGIN
7095 and $PLATFORM) in RPATHs and similar strings (Ulrich Drepper).
7097 * rcmd can now handle netgroups (Dick Streefland).
7099 * A port to the ARM was contributed by Phil Blundell, Pat Beirne and Scott
7102 * Support for the IPv6 protocol has been added to the socket API, as per the
7103 latest draft standards.
7105 * Support for Linux 2.2 has been added.
7107 * Interface changes relative to the latest 2.0.x release:
7108 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7109 addseverity NEW: Unix98
7110 alphasort64 NEW: LFS
7111 argp_err_exit_status NEW: argp, GNU ext
7112 argp_error NEW: argp, GNU ext
7113 argp_failure NEW: argp, GNU ext
7114 argp_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7115 argp_parse NEW: argp, GNU ext
7116 argp_program_bug_address NEW: argp, GNU ext
7117 argp_program_version NEW: argp, GNU ext
7118 argp_program_version_hook NEW: argp, GNU ext
7119 argp_state_help NEW: argp, GNU ext
7120 argp_usage NEW: argp, GNU ext
7121 authdes_create NEW: Secure RPC
7122 authdes_getucred NEW: Secure RPC
7123 authdes_pk_create NEW: Secure RPC
7124 backtrace NEW: GNU ext.
7125 backtrace_symbols NEW: GNU ext.
7126 backtrace_symbols_fd NEW: GNU ext.
7128 cacosf NEW: ISO C 9x
7129 cacosh NEW: ISO C 9x
7130 cacoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7131 cacoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7132 cacosl NEW: ISO C 9x
7139 casinf NEW: ISO C 9x
7140 casinh NEW: ISO C 9x
7141 casinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7142 casinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7143 casinl NEW: ISO C 9x
7145 catanf NEW: ISO C 9x
7146 catanh NEW: ISO C 9x
7147 catanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7148 catanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7149 catanl NEW: ISO C 9x
7150 cbc_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7154 ccoshf NEW: ISO C 9x
7155 ccoshl NEW: ISO C 9x
7161 cimagf NEW: ISO C 9x
7162 cimagl NEW: ISO C 9x
7163 clearerr_locked REMOVED
7164 clntunix_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7166 clog10 NEW: ISO C 9x
7167 clog10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7168 clog10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7178 cprojf NEW: ISO C 9x
7179 cprojl NEW: ISO C 9x
7181 crealf NEW: ISO C 9x
7182 creall NEW: ISO C 9x
7187 csinhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7188 csinhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7191 csqrtf NEW: ISO C 9x
7192 csqrtl NEW: ISO C 9x
7196 ctanhf NEW: ISO C 9x
7197 ctanhl NEW: ISO C 9x
7199 des_setparity NEW: Secure RPC
7200 ecb_crypt NEW: Secure RPC
7201 endutxent NEW: Unix98
7203 exp10f NEW: ISO C 9x
7204 exp10l NEW: ISO C 9x
7208 fattach NEW: STREAMS
7209 fdetach NEW: STREAMS
7213 feclearexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7214 fegetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7215 fegetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7216 fegetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7217 feholdexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7219 feraiseexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7220 ferror_locked REMOVED
7221 fesetenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7222 fesetexceptflag NEW: ISO C 9x
7223 fesetround NEW: ISO C 9x
7224 fetestexcept NEW: ISO C 9x
7225 feupdateenv NEW: ISO C 9x
7226 fflush_locked REMOVED
7230 fgets_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7231 fileno_locked REMOVED
7243 fputc_locked REMOVED
7244 fputs_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7245 fread_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7250 fstatvfs NEW: Unix98
7254 ftruncate64 NEW: LFS
7256 fwrite_unlocked NEW: GNU ext.
7257 gai_strerror NEW: IPv6
7261 getchar_locked REMOVED
7263 getdate_err NEW: Unix98
7264 getdate_r NEW: GNU ext.
7266 getnameinfo NEW: IPv6
7267 getnetname NEW: Secure RPC
7268 getpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7269 getpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7270 getrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7271 getutxent NEW: Unix98
7272 getutxid NEW: Unix98
7273 getutxline NEW: Unix98
7274 glob64 NEW: GNU ext.
7275 globfree64 NEW: GNU ext.
7276 gnu_get_libc_release NEW: GNU ext.
7277 gnu_get_libc_version NEW: GNU ext.
7278 grantpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7279 host2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7281 iconv_close NEW: iconv
7282 iconv_open NEW: iconv
7283 if_freenameindex NEW: IPv6
7284 if_indextoname NEW: IPv6
7285 if_nameindex NEW: IPv6
7286 if_nametoindex NEW: IPv6
7287 in6addr_any NEW: IPv6
7288 in6addr_loopback NEW: IPv6
7289 inet6_isipv4mapped NEW: IPv6
7290 isastream NEW: STREAMS
7291 iswblank NEW: GNU ext.
7292 key_decryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7293 key_decryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7294 key_encryptsession NEW: Secure RPC
7295 key_encryptsession_pk NEW: Secure RPC
7296 key_gendes NEW: Secure RPC
7297 key_get_conv NEW: Secure RPC
7298 key_secretkey_is_set NEW: Secure RPC
7299 key_setnet NEW: Secure RPC
7300 key_setsecret NEW: Secure RPC
7301 llrint NEW: ISO C 9x
7302 llrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7303 llrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7304 llround NEW: ISO C 9x
7305 llroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7306 llroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7311 lrintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7312 lrintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7313 lround NEW: ISO C 9x
7314 lroundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7315 lroundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7317 makecontext NEW: Unix98
7318 mempcpy NEW: GNU ext.
7321 modify_ldt NEW: kernel
7325 nearbyint NEW: ISO C 9x
7326 nearbyintf NEW: ISO C 9x
7327 nearbyintl NEW: ISO C 9x
7328 netname2host NEW: Secure RPC
7329 netname2user NEW: Secure RPC
7330 nexttoward NEW: ISO C 9x
7331 nexttowardf NEW: ISO C 9x
7332 nexttowardl NEW: ISO C 9x
7336 passwd2des NEW: Secure RPC
7338 pow10f NEW: GNU ext.
7339 pow10l NEW: GNU ext.
7342 printf_size NEW: GNU ext.
7343 printf_size_info NEW: GNU ext.
7344 profil_counter REMOVED
7345 pthread_mutexattr_getkind_np REPLACED
7346 pthread_mutexattr_setkind_np REPLACED
7347 ptsname NEW: Unix98 PTY
7348 ptsname_r NEW: Unix98 PTY
7350 putchar_locked REMOVED
7351 putgrent NEW: GNU ext.
7353 putpmsg NEW: STREAMS
7354 pututxline NEW: Unix98
7358 readdir64_r NEW: LFS
7359 remquo NEW: ISO C 9x
7360 remquof NEW: ISO C 9x
7361 remquol NEW: ISO C 9x
7363 roundf NEW: ISO C 9x
7364 roundl NEW: ISO C 9x
7366 scalbln NEW: ISO C 9x
7367 scalblnf NEW: ISO C 9x
7368 scalblnl NEW: ISO C 9x
7370 sendfile NEW: kernel
7371 setcontext NEW: Unix98
7372 setrlimit64 NEW: LFS
7373 setutxent NEW: Unix98
7375 sigignore NEW: Unix98
7376 sigqueue NEW: POSIX.1b
7377 sigrelse NEW: Unix98
7378 sigset NEW: POSIX.1b
7379 sigtimedwait NEW: POSIX.1b
7380 sigwaitinfo NEW: POSIX.1b
7381 sincos NEW: GNU ext.
7382 sincosf NEW: GNU ext.
7383 sincosl NEW: GNU ext.
7387 strcasestr NEW: GNU ext.
7388 strtoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7389 strtoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7390 strverscmp NEW: GNU ext.
7391 svcauthdes_stats NEW: Secure RPC
7392 svcunix_create NEW: sunrpc etx
7393 svcunixfd_create NEW: sunrpc ext
7394 swapcontext NEW: Unix98
7395 tcgetsid NEW: Unix98 PTY
7396 tdestroy NEW: GNU ext.
7397 tgamma NEW: ISO C 9x
7398 tgammaf NEW: ISO C 9x
7399 tgammal NEW: ISO C 9x
7403 truncf NEW: ISO C 9x
7404 truncl NEW: ISO C 9x
7406 unlockpt NEW: Unix98 PTY
7407 updwtmpx NEW: Unix98
7408 user2netname NEW: Secure RPC
7409 utmpxname NEW: Unix98
7410 versionsort NEW: GNU ext.
7411 versionsort64 NEW: GNU ext.
7413 wcscasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7414 wcsncasecmp NEW: GNU ext.
7415 wcsnlen NEW: GNU ext.
7416 wcstoimax NEW: ISO C 9x
7417 wcstoll NEW: ISO C 9x
7418 wcstoull NEW: ISO C 9x
7419 wcstoumax NEW: ISO C 9x
7421 wordexp NEW: POSIX.2
7422 wordfree NEW: POSIX.2
7423 write_profiling REMOVED
7424 xdecrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7425 xdr_authdes_cred NEW: Secure RPC
7426 xdr_authdes_verf NEW: Secure RPC
7427 xdr_cryptkeyarg NEW: Secure RPC
7428 xdr_cryptkeyarg2 NEW: Secure RPC
7429 xdr_cryptkeyres NEW: Secure RPC
7430 xdr_getcredres NEW: Secure RPC
7431 xdr_key_netstarg NEW: Secure RPC
7432 xdr_key_netstres NEW: Secure RPC
7433 xdr_keybuf NEW: Secure RPC
7434 xdr_keystatus NEW: Secure RPC
7435 xdr_netnamestr NEW: Secure RPC
7436 xdr_sizeof NEW: Secure RPC
7437 xdr_unixcred NEW: sunrpc ext
7438 xencrypt NEW: Secure RPC
7439 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
7450 * inet_ntoa is thread-safe
7452 * updwtmp is moved from libutil to libc
7454 * rewrite of cbrt function
7456 * update of timezone data
7470 * add atoll function
7472 * fix complex problems in Berkeley DB code
7474 * fix math functions
7478 * fixed lots of header problems (especially Linux/GNU specific)
7480 * dynamic loader preserves all registers
7482 * Roland McGrath provided support for handling of auxiliary objects in
7483 the ELF dynamic loader.
7485 * support for parallel builds is improved
7489 * GNU extensions are no longer declared by default. To enable them you
7490 must define the macro `_GNU_SOURCE' in your program or compile with
7493 * The library has changed from using GNU ld symbol aliases to using weak
7494 symbols where available. The ELF object file format supports weak
7495 symbols; GNU ld also supports weak symbols in the a.out format. (There
7496 is also now support for other GNU ld extensions in ELF. Use the
7497 `--with-elf' option to configure to indicate you have ELF, and
7498 `--with-gnu-ld' if using GNU ld.) This change resulted in the deletion
7499 of many files which contained only symbol aliases, reducing the size of
7500 the source and the compiled library; many other files were renamed to
7501 less cryptic names previously occupied by the symbol alias files.
7502 There is a new header file <elf.h> for programs which operate on
7503 files in the ELF format.
7505 * Converted to Autoconf version 2, so `configure' has more options.
7506 Run `configure --help' to see the details.
7508 * The library can now be configured to build profiling, highly-optimized
7509 (but undebuggable), and/or shared libraries (ELF with GNU ld only). The
7510 `--enable-profile', `--enable-omitfp', and `--enable-shared' options to
7511 `configure' enable building these extra libraries. The shared library is
7512 built by default when using both ELF and GNU ld. When shared libraries
7513 are enabled, the new library `-ldl' is available for arbitrary run-time
7514 loading of shared objects; its interface is defined in <dlfcn.h>. The
7515 new header file <link.h> gives access to the internals of the run-time
7516 dynamic linker, `ld.so'. The shell script `ldd' is similar to the
7517 application of same name on other systems and it provides information
7518 about dynamically linked binaries.
7520 * The C library now provides the run-time support code for profiling
7521 executables compiled with `-pg'. Programs can control the profiling code
7522 through the interface in <sys/gmon.h>. The `gmon.out' files written by
7523 the GNU C library can be read only by GNU `gprof' (from GNU binutils);
7524 the support for this file format was contributed by David Mosberger-Tang.
7526 * The math code has been replaced with a math library based on fdlibm from
7527 Sun, and modified by JT Conklin and Ulrich Drepper with i387 support, by
7528 Ian Taylor with `float' functions and by Ulrich Drepper with `long double'
7529 functions. The math functions now reside in a separate library, so
7530 programs using them will need to use `-lm' their linking commands.
7532 * John C. Bowman contributed optimized ix87 assembler inline functions.
7534 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed support for an `/etc/nsswitch.conf'
7535 mechanism similar to that found in Solaris 2. This is now used for the
7536 group, passwd, hosts, networks, services, protocols, rpc, ethers,
7537 shadow, netgroup, publickey, and alias databases. The `nsswitch.conf'
7538 file controls what services are used for each individual database. This
7539 works by loading shared libraries with names specified in `nsswitch.conf',
7540 so service modules can be changed or added at any time without even
7541 relinking any program. Currently there are the file, db, and NIS based
7542 NSS services available.
7544 * The new functions `strtoq' and `strtouq' parse integer values from
7545 strings, like `strtol' and `strtoul', but they return `long long int' and
7546 `unsigned long long int' values, respectively (64-bit quantities).
7548 * The new functions `strtof' and `strtold' parse floating-point values from
7549 strings, like `strtod', but they return `float' and `long double' values,
7550 respectively (on some machines `double' and `long double' are the same).
7552 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new implementations of the floating-point
7553 printing and reading code used in the `printf' family of functions and
7554 `strtod', `strtof', and `strtold'. These new functions are perfectly
7555 accurate, and much faster than the old ones.
7557 * The implementation of the POSIX locale model was completely rewritten by
7558 Ulrich Drepper. This includes the new programs `localedef' and `locale'
7559 to compile the POSIX locale definition.
7561 * The former dummy implementations of the strcoll and strxfrm function are
7562 now replaced by fully functional code contributed by Ulrich Drepper. The
7563 collation information comes from the POSIX locale definitions.
7565 * The new header <langinfo.h> defines an interface for accessing
7566 various locale-dependent data (using the locale chosen with `setlocale').
7568 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new suite of functions for operation on
7569 wide-character and multibyte-character strings, in <wchar.h>;
7570 and classification and case conversion of wide characters, in <wctype.h>.
7571 These new functions are conforming to the ISO C, Amendment 1 specification.
7573 * There is now a second implementation of the standard I/O library available.
7574 It comes from GNU libg++ as was written by Per Bothner, heavily modified
7575 by Hongjiu Lu and made thread safe by Ulrich Drepper.
7577 * You can now use positional parameter specifications in format strings
7578 for the `printf' and `scanf' families of functions. For example,
7579 `printf ("Number %2$d, Mr %1$s\n", "Jones", 6);'' prints
7580 ``Number 6, Mr Jones''. This is mainly useful when providing different
7581 format strings for different languages, whose grammars may dictate
7582 different orderings of the values being printed. To support this
7583 feature, the interface for `register_printf_handler' has changed; see
7584 the header file <printf.h> for details.
7586 * The `printf' and `scanf' families of functions now understand a new
7587 formatting flag for numeric conversions: the ' flag (e.g. %'d or %'f) says
7588 to group numbers as indicated by the locale; for `scanf' and friends, this
7589 says to accept as valid only a number with all the proper grouping
7590 separators in the right places. In the default "C" locale, numbers are
7591 not grouped; but locales for specific countries will define the usual
7592 conventions (i.e. separate thousands with `,' in the US locale).
7594 * The pgrp functions have been regularized, slightly incompatibly but much
7595 less confusingly. The core functions are now `getpgid' and `setpgid',
7596 which take arguments for the PID to operate on; the POSIX.1 `getpgrp' (no
7597 argument) and BSD `setpgrp' (identical to `setpgid') functions are
7598 provided for compatibility. There is no longer an incompatible `getpgrp'
7599 with an argument declared under _BSD_SOURCE; no BSD code uses it.
7601 * The new header file <fts.h> and suite of functions simplify programs that
7602 operate on directory trees. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7604 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND 4.9.5-P1 release.
7605 Parts of the code were heavily modified by Ulrich Drepper to fit in the
7606 NSS scheme used in glibc.
7608 * There is a new malloc debugging hook `__memalign_hook'.
7610 * There are new typedefs `ushort' for `unsigned short int' and `uint' for
7611 `unsigned int' in <sys/types.h>. These are for compatibility only and
7612 their use is discouraged.
7614 * The `-lmcheck' library to enable standard malloc debugging hooks is now
7615 done differently, so that it works even without GNU ld.
7617 * New function `euidaccess' checks allowed access to a file like `access',
7618 but using the effective IDs instead of the real IDs.
7620 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest and greatest
7621 local time conventions of the countries of the world.
7623 * The new function `dirfd' extracts the file descriptor used by a DIR stream;
7626 * The new functions `ecvt', `fcvt', and `gcvt' provide an obsolete interface
7627 for formatting floating-point numbers. They are provided only for
7628 compatibility; new programs should use `sprintf' instead. There are
7629 also equivalent function for the `long double' floating-point type and
7630 all functions also exist in a reentrant form.
7632 * The new auxiliary library `-lutil' from 4.4 BSD contains various
7633 functions for maintaining the login-record files (primarily of use to
7634 system programs such as `login'), and convenient functions for
7635 allocating and initializing a pseudo-terminal (pty) device.
7637 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new support for System V style
7638 shared memory and IPC on systems that support it.
7640 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed several miscellaneous new functions found
7641 in System V: The `hsearch' family of functions provide an effective
7642 implementation of hash tables; `a64l' and `l64a' provide a very simple
7643 binary to ASCII mapping; `drand48' and friends provide a 48-bit random
7646 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new reentrant counterparts for the
7647 `random' and `hsearch' families of functions; `random_r', `hsearch_r', etc.
7649 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed new, highly-optimized versions of several
7650 string functions for the i486/Pentium family of processors.
7652 * Ulrich Drepper has updated the Linux-specific code, based largely
7653 on work done in Hongjiu Lu's version of GNU libc for Linux.
7654 The GNU library now supports Linux versions 2.0.10 and later,
7655 using the ELF object file format (i[3456]86-*-linux).
7657 * Andreas Schwab has ported the C library to Linux/m68k (m68k-*-linux).
7659 * David Mosberger-Tang and Richard Henderson have ported the C library
7660 to Linux/Alpha (alpha-*-linux). Richard Henderson contributed the
7661 dynamic linking support for ELF/Alpha.
7663 * Richard Henderson contributed several Alpha optimized assembler function
7664 for arithmetic and string handling.
7666 * Ulrich Drepper has contributed a new set of message catalog functions to
7667 support multiple languages using the <libintl.h> interface, for use with
7668 his new package GNU gettext. Translation volunteers have contributed
7669 catalogs of the library's messages in Spanish, German, and Korean.
7671 * For compatibility with XPG4, Ulrich Drepper has contributed the `gencat'
7672 program and the `catgets' function for reading the catalog files it
7673 creates. (The <libintl.h> interface is preferred; we include the
7674 <nl_types.h> interface using `catgets' only for source compatibility with
7675 programs already written to use it.)
7677 * New header file <values.h> gives SVID-compatible names for <limits.h>
7680 * Various new macros, declarations, and small header files for compatibility
7683 * New function `group_member' is a convenient way to check if a process has
7684 a given effective group ID.
7686 * When using GCC 2.7 and later, the socket functions are now declared in a
7687 special way so that passing an argument of type `struct sockaddr_in *',
7688 `struct sockaddr_ns *', or `struct sockaddr_un *' instead of the generic
7689 `struct sockaddr *' type, does not generate a type-clash warning.
7691 * New function `error' declared in header file <error.h> is a convenient
7692 function for printing error messages and optionally exiting; this is the
7693 canonical function used in GNU programs. The new functions `err', `warn',
7694 and friends in header file <err.h> are the canonical 4.4 BSD interface for
7695 doing the same thing.
7697 * The <glob.h> interface has several new flags from 4.4 BSD that extend the
7698 POSIX.2 `glob' function to do ~ and {...} expansion.
7700 * New function `unsetenv' complements `setenv' for compatibility with 4.4 BSD.
7701 `clearenv' which is used in POSIX.9 is also available.
7703 * New function `getsid' returns session ID number on systems that support it.
7705 * We have incorporated the 4.4 BSD `db' library (version 1.85). New header
7706 files <db.h> and <mpool.h> provide a rich set of functions for several
7707 types of simple databases stored in memory and in files, and <ndbm.h> is
7708 an old `ndbm'-compatible interface using the `db' functions. Link with
7709 `-ldb' to get these functions.
7711 * New macro `strdupa' copies a string like `strdup', but uses local stack
7712 space from `alloca' instead of dynamic heap space from `malloc'.
7714 * New function `strnlen' is like `strlen' but searches only a given maximum
7715 number of characters for the null terminator. `stpncpy', `strndup' and
7716 `strndupa' are similar variants for the `stpcpy', `strdup' and `strdupa'
7719 * New function `statfs' in header <sys/statfs.h>.
7721 * The new <argz.h> and <envz.h> interfaces contributed by Miles Bader
7722 provide convenient functions for operating on blocks of null-terminated
7725 * A new suite of functions in <utmp.h> handle all the details of reading
7726 and writing the utmp file.
7728 * An implementation of the NIS/YP(tm) based NSS service was contributed by
7731 * Paul Eggert and Ulrich Drepper modified the `strftime' function to be
7732 completely POSIX compliant and also implemented the extended functionality
7733 to handle alternate digit representation and alternate era date formats.
7735 * Ulrich Drepper provided an implementation of the `strptime' function
7736 defined in XPG4.2 which transforms a string into a `struct tm' value.
7738 * Paul Eggert provided the tzselect shell script as part of the timezone
7739 code. The shell script makes it easy to select the correct timezone
7742 * The implementation of the malloc family of functions is completely replaced
7743 by a new implementation by Doug Lea with many improvements by Wolfram Gloger.
7744 The implementation uses the mmap function (if available) and it is
7745 optimized for the use in multi threaded programs.
7747 * Ulrich Drepper contributed a MD5 "encryption" for the crypt family of
7748 functions. This new functionality is usable by specifying a special
7749 salt string and it is compatible with implementation on *BSD systems.
7751 * Lots of functions from the XPG4.2 standard were added by Ulrich Drepper:
7752 `getsubopt' to handle second level command line options, `bsd_signal'
7753 to access BSD style `signal' functionality, the obsolete `regexp' style
7756 * the `lchown' function is available on system which support this
7759 * The implementation of the shadow password handling function was contributed
7762 * David Mosberger-Tang changed the SunRPC implementation to be 64bit safe.
7764 * POSIX.1g support was added. The <sys/select.h> header is available,
7765 `isfdtype' and `pselect' are implemented. Craig Metz contributed an
7766 implementation of `getaddrinfo'.
7770 * For cross-compilation you should now set `BUILD_CC' instead of `HOST_CC'.
7772 * New header file <fstab.h> and new functions `getfsspec', `getfsent' and
7773 friends, for parsing /etc/fstab. This code comes from 4.4 BSD.
7775 * The new function `daemon' from 4.4 BSD is useful for server programs that
7776 want to put themselves in the background.
7778 * Joel Sherrill has contributed support for several standalone boards that
7779 run without an operating system.
7781 * `printf', `scanf' and friends now accept a `q' type modifier for long
7782 long int as well as `ll'. Formats using these might be `%qu' or `%lld'.
7784 * All of the code taken from BSD (notably most of the math and networking
7785 routines) has been updated from the BSD 4.4-Lite release.
7787 * The resolver code has been updated from the BIND-4.9.3-BETA9 release.
7789 * The new functions `getdomainname' and `setdomainname' fetch or change the
7790 YP/NIS domain name. These are system calls which exist on systems which
7793 * The time zone data files have been updated for the latest international
7796 * The SunRPC programs `portmap' and `rpcinfo' are now installed in
7797 $(sbindir) (usually /usr/local/sbin) instead of $(bindir).
7801 * The C library now includes support for Sun RPC, from Sun's free
7802 RPCSRC-4.0 distribution. The `portmap', `rpcinfo', and `rpcgen' programs
7803 are included. (There is still no support for YP.)
7805 * Tom Quinn has contributed a port of the C library to SGI machines running
7806 Irix 4 (mips-sgi-irix4).
7808 * The new `lockf' function is a simplified interface to the locking
7809 facilities of `fcntl', included for compatibility.
7811 * New time functions `timegm', `timelocal', and `dysize' for compatibility.
7813 * New header file <sys/timeb.h> and new function `ftime' for compatibility.
7815 * New header files <poll.h> and <sys/poll.h> and new function `poll' for
7818 * The error message printed by `assert' for a failed assertion now includes
7819 the name of the program (if using GNU ld) and the name of the calling
7820 function (with versions of GCC that support this).
7822 * The `psignal' function is now declared in <signal.h>, not <stdio.h>.
7824 * The library now includes the <sys/mman.h> header file and memory
7825 management functions `mmap', `munmap', `mprotect', `msync', and
7826 `madvise', on systems that support those facilities.
7828 * The interface for `mcheck' has changed slightly: the function called to
7829 abort the program when an allocation inconsistency is detected now takes
7830 an argument that indicates the type of failure. The new function
7831 `mprobe' lets you request a consistency check for a particular block at
7832 any time (checks are normally done only when you call `free' or `realloc'
7835 * It is now possible to easily cross-compile the C library, building on one
7836 system a library to run on another machine and/or operating system. All
7837 you need to do is set the variable `HOST_CC' in `configparms' to the
7838 native compiler for programs to run on the machine you are building on (a
7839 few generator programs are used on Unix systems); set `CC' to the
7842 * The new function `fexecve' (only implemented on the GNU system) executes
7843 a program file given a file descriptor already open on the file.
7847 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed most of a port to the DEC Alpha
7848 running OSF/1 (alpha-dec-osf1). He says it is 75% complete.
7850 * You can set the variable `libprefix' in `configparms' to specify a prefix
7851 to be prepended to installed library files; this makes it easy to install
7852 the GNU C library to be linked as `-lgnuc' or whatever.
7854 * The new `stpncpy' is a cross between `stpcpy' and `strncpy': It
7855 copies a limited number of characters from a string, and returns the
7856 address of the last character written.
7858 * You no longer need to check for whether the installed `stddef.h' is
7859 compatible with the GNU C library. configure now checks for you.
7861 * You can now define a per-stream `fileno' function to convert the
7862 stream's cookie into an integral file descriptor.
7864 * ``malloc (0)'' no longer returns a null pointer. Instead, it
7865 allocates zero bytes of storage, and returns a unique pointer which
7866 you can pass to `realloc' or `free'. The behavior is undefined if
7867 you dereference this pointer.
7869 * The C library now runs on Sony NEWS m68k machines running either
7870 NewsOS 3 or NewsOS 4.
7872 * The new `syscall' function is a system-dependent primitive function
7873 for invoking system calls. It has the canonical behavior on Unix
7874 systems, including unreliable return values for some calls (such as
7875 `pipe', `fork' and `getppid').
7877 * The error code `EWOULDBLOCK' is now obsolete; it is always defined
7878 to `EAGAIN', which is the preferred name. On systems whose kernels
7879 use two distinct codes, the C library now translates EWOULDBLOCK to
7880 EAGAIN in every system call function.
7884 * The GNU C Library Reference Manual is now distributed with the library.
7885 `make dvi' will produce a DVI file of the printed manual.
7886 `make info' will produce Info files that you can read on line using C-h i
7887 in Emacs or the `info' program.
7888 Please send comments on the manual to bug-glibc-manual@gnu.org.
7890 * The library now supports SVR4 on i386s (i386-unknown-sysv4).
7892 * Brendan Kehoe has contributed a port to Sun SPARCs running Solaris 2.
7894 * Jason Merrill has contributed a port to the Sequent Symmetry running
7895 Dynix version 3 (i386-sequent-dynix).
7897 * The library has been ported to i386s running SCO 3.2.4 (also known as SCO
7898 ODT 2.0; i386-unknown-sco3.2.4) or SCO 3.2 (i386-unknown-sco3.2).
7900 * New function `memory_warnings' lets you arrange to get warnings when
7901 malloc is running out of memory to allocate, like Emacs gives you.
7903 * The C library now contains the relocating allocator used in Emacs 19 for
7904 its editing buffers. This allocator (ralloc) minimizes allocation
7905 overhead and fragmentation by moving allocated regions around whenever it
7906 needs to. You always refer to a ralloc'd region with a "handle" (a
7907 pointer to a pointer--an object of type `void **').
7909 * There is a new `printf' format: `%m' gives you the string corresponding
7910 to the error code in `errno'.
7912 * In `scanf' formats, you can now use `%as' or `%a[' to do the normal `%s'
7913 or `%[' conversion, but instead of filling in a fixed-sized buffer you
7914 pass, the `a' modifier says to fill in a `char **' you pass with a
7917 * The `fnmatch' function supports the new flag bits `FNM_LEADING_DIR' and
7918 `FNM_CASEFOLD'. `FNM_LEADING_DIR' lets a pattern like `foo*' match a
7919 name like `foo/bar'. `FNM_CASEFOLD' says to ignore case in matching.
7921 * `mkstemp' is a traditional Unix function to atomically create and open a
7922 uniquely-named temporary file.
7926 * The standard location for the file that says what the local timezone is
7927 has changed again. It is now `/usr/local/etc/localtime' (or more
7928 precisely, `${prefix}/etc/localtime') rather than `/etc/localtime'.
7930 * The distribution no longer contains any files with names longer than 14
7933 * `struct ttyent' has two new flag bits: TTY_TRUSTED and TTY_CONSOLE.
7934 These are set by the new `trusted' and `console' keywords in `/etc/ttys'.
7936 * New functions `ttyslot' and `syslog' from 4.4 BSD.
7940 * The configuration process has changed quite a bit. The `configure'
7941 script is now used just like the configuration scripts for other GNU
7942 packages. The `sysdeps' directory hierarchy is much rearranged.
7943 The file `INSTALL' explains the new scheme in detail.
7945 * The header files no longer need to be processed into ANSI C and
7946 traditional C versions. There is just one set of files to install, and
7947 it will work with ANSI or old C compilers (including `gcc -traditional').
7949 * Brendan Kehoe and Ian Lance Taylor have ported the library to the
7950 MIPS DECStation running Ultrix 4.
7952 * The Sun 4 startup code (crt0) can now properly load SunOS 4 shared libraries.
7953 Tom Quinn contributed the initial code. The GNU C library can NOT yet be
7954 made itself into a shared library.
7956 * Yet further improved support for the i386, running 4.3 BSD-like systems
7957 (such as Mach 3 with the Unix single-server), or System V.
7959 * New function `strncasecmp' to do case-insensitive string comparison
7960 with limited length.
7962 * New function `strsep' is a reentrant alternative to `strtok'.
7964 * New functions `scandir' and `alphasort' for searching directories.
7966 * New function `setenv' is a better interface to `putenv'.
7968 * Ian Lance Taylor has contributed an implementation of the SVID `ftw'
7969 function for traversing a directory tree.
7971 * The GNU obstack package is now also part of the C library.
7972 The new function `open_obstack_stream' creates a stdio stream that
7973 writes onto an obstack; `obstack_printf' and `obstack_vprintf' do
7974 formatted output directly to an obstack.
7976 * Miscellaneous new functions: reboot, nice, sigaltstack (4.4 BSD only),
7977 cfmakeraw, getusershell, getpass, swab, getttyent, seteuid, setegid.
7979 * `FNM_FILE_NAME' is another name for `FNM_PATHNAME', used with `fnmatch'.
7981 * The new functions `strfry' and `memfrob' do mysterious and wonderful
7982 things to your strings.
7984 * There are some new test programs: test-fseek, testmb, and testrand.
7986 * Some work has been done to begin porting the library to 4.4 BSD and Linux.
7987 These ports are not finished, but are a good starting place for really
7988 supporting those systems.
7990 * `/etc/localtime' is now the standard location for the file that says what
7991 the local timezone is, rather than `/usr/local/lib/zoneinfo/localtime'.
7992 This follows the general principle that `/etc' is the place for all local
7993 configuration files.
7995 * The C library header files now use `extern "C"' when used by the C++
7996 compiler, so the C library should now work with C++ code.
7998 * The header file <bstring.h> is gone. <string.h> now declares bcopy,
7999 bcmp, bzero, and ffs. (Update: nowadays these functions are declared
8002 * Mike Haertel (of GNU e?grep and malloc fame) has written a new sorting
8003 function which uses the `merge sort' algorithm, and is said to be
8004 significantly faster than the old GNU `qsort' function. Merge sort is
8005 now the standard `qsort' function. The new algorithm can require a lot
8006 of temporary storage; so, the old sorting function is called when the
8007 required storage is not available.
8009 * The C library now includes Michael Glad's Ultra Fast Crypt, which
8010 provides the Unix `crypt' function, plus some other entry points.
8012 * The code and header files taken from 4.4 BSD have been updated with the
8013 latest files released from Berkeley.
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