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GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2012-1-27
Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
using `glibc' in the "product" field.
Version 2.16
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
174, 208, 350, 369, 411, 706, 766, 887, 2074, 2541, 2547, 2548, 2550,
2551, 2552, 2553, 2554, 2562, 2563, 2565, 2566, 2570, 2576, 2636, 2678,
3335, 3440, 3748, 3768, 3866, 3868, 3906, 3976, 3992, 4026, 4108, 4596,
4822, 5077, 5461, 5805, 5993, 6471, 6486, 6578, 6649, 6730, 6770, 6794,
6884, 6890, 6894, 6895, 6907, 6911, 6959, 7064, 9739, 9902, 10110, 10135,
10140, 10153, 10210, 10254, 10346, 10375, 10545, 10716, 10846, 11174,
11322, 11365, 11451, 11494, 11521, 11677, 11837, 11959, 12047, 12097,
12193, 12297, 12298, 12301, 12340, 12354, 12416, 12495, 13058, 13223,
13361, 13525, 13526, 13527, 13528, 13529, 13530, 13531, 13532, 13533,
13547, 13551, 13552, 13553, 13555, 13556, 13559, 13563, 13566, 13576,
13583, 13592, 13594, 13613, 13618, 13637, 13656, 13658, 13673, 13691,
13695, 13704, 13705, 13706, 13718, 13726, 13738, 13739, 13743, 13750,
13758, 13760, 13761, 13775, 13786, 13787, 13792, 13806, 13824, 13840,
13841, 13844, 13846, 13848, 13851, 13852, 13854, 13871, 13872, 13873,
13879, 13883, 13884, 13885, 13886, 13892, 13895, 13908, 13910, 13911,
13912, 13913, 13914, 13915, 13916, 13917, 13918, 13919, 13920, 13921,
13922, 13923, 13924, 13926, 13927, 13928, 13938, 13941, 13942, 13954,
13955, 13956, 13963, 13967, 13968, 13970, 13973, 13979, 13983, 13986,
13996, 14012, 14027, 14033, 14034, 14036, 14040, 14043, 14044, 14048,
14049, 14050, 14053, 14055, 14059, 14064, 14075, 14080, 14083, 14103,
14104, 14109, 14112, 14117, 14122, 14123, 14134, 14153, 14183, 14188,
14199, 14210, 14218, 14229, 14241
* Support for the x32 ABI on x86-64 added. The x32 target is selected by
configuring glibc with:
BUILD_CC='gcc' CC='gcc -mx32' CXX='g++ -mx32'
Visit <http://sites.google.com/site/x32abi/> for more x32 ABI info.
Implemented by H.J. Lu.
* ISO C11 support:
+ define static_assert
+ do not declare gets
+ declare at_quick_exit and quick_exit also for ISO C11
+ aligned_alloc. NB: The code is deliberately allows the size parameter
to not be a multiple of the alignment. This is a moronic requirement
in the standard but it is only a requirement on the caller, not the
implementation.
+ timespec_get added
+ uchar.h support added
+ CMPLX, CMPLXF, CMPLXL added
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Support for the IA-64 has been moved to ports.
* Remove support for anything but ELF binary format
* Checking versions of poll, ppoll added.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* More generic and 64-bit performance optimizations to math functions.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New configure option --enable-obsolete-rpc makes the deprecated RPC
headers and functions available at compile time as they were before
version 2.14. This option will be removed at some time in the future
after the TI-RPC library becomes fully sufficient for the needs of
existing applications.
* Compatibility code for Linux kernel versions before 2.4 has been removed.
Note that glibc is not expected to work with any Linux kernel version
before 2.6.
* New header <sys/auxv.h> and function getauxval allowing easy access to
the AT_* key-value pairs passed from the Linux kernel. The header also
defines the HWCAP_* bits associated with the AT_HWCAP key.
* New locales: mag_IN
* New configure option --enable-systemtap builds SystemTap static probes
into libc for setjmp and longjmp and into libpthread for various operations.
So far the setjmp/longjmp probes and some of the libpthread probes are
provided only for i*86 and x86_64.
Implemented by Roland McGrath and Rayson Ho.
* Optimized expf for x86-32 and x86-64. Implemented by Liubov Dmitrieva.
* More optimized functions for PowerPC. Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella
and Will Schmidt.
* More optimized functions for SPARC. Implemented by David S. Miller.
* Improved support for cross-compilation, especially bootstrap builds
without a previously built glibc.
* Ports for the TILE-Gx and TILEPro families of processors. Contributed by
Chris Metcalf from Tilera.
* Support for the old ARM ABI has been removed from ports. Only the EABI is
now supported for ARM processors.
* The hard-float variant of the ARM EABI now uses /lib/ld-linux-armhf.so.3
as the name of the dynamic linker, to distinguish it from the
/lib/ld-linux.so.3 dynamic linker used for the base EABI.
* Support for CRIS has been removed from ports.
* A new class of installed header has been documented for low-level
platform-specific functionality. PowerPC added the first instance with a
function to provide time base register access. Contributed by Tulio
Magno Quites Machado Filho.
* ix86 configurations now install header files that are consistent with
what x86-64 configurations install. These same header files can be used
for -m32, -m64, or -mx32 builds.
Contributed by H.J. Lu.
Version 2.15
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
6779, 6783, 9696, 10103, 10709, 11589, 11929, 12403, 12786, 12840, 12847,
12868, 12852, 12874, 12885, 12892, 12906, 12907, 12922, 12935, 12962,
13007, 13021, 13061, 13062, 13067, 13068, 13085, 13088, 13090, 13092,
13096, 13114, 13118, 13123, 13134, 13138, 13147, 13150, 13166, 13179,
13185, 13189, 13192, 13268, 13276, 13282, 13291, 13305, 13328, 13335,
13337, 13344, 13358, 13367, 13413, 13416, 13423, 13439, 13446, 13472,
13484, 13506, 13515, 13523, 13524, 13538, 13540
* New program pldd to list loaded object of a process
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Add nss_db support back to glibc. No more dependency on Berkeley db
and support for initgroups lookups.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Optimized strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-32.
Contributed by HJ Lu.
* Improved strcpy, strncpy, stpcpy, stpncpy for SSE2 and SSSE3 on x86-64.
Contributed by HJ Lu.
* Optimized strcat, strncat on x86-64 and optimized wcscmp, wcslen, strnlen
on x86-32 and x86-64.
Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
* Optimized strchr and strrchr for SSE on x86-32.
Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
* Optimized memchr, memrchr, rawmemchr, memcmp, wmemcmp, wcschr, wcscpy
for x86-64 and x86-32.
Contributed by Liubov Dmitrieva.
* New interfaces: scandirat, scandirat64
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Checking versions of FD_SET, FD_CLR, and FD_ISSET added.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* nscd now also caches the netgroup database.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Integrate libm with gcc's -ffinite-math-only option.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Lots of generic, 64-bit, and x86-64-specific performance optimizations
to math functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for AVX on x86-64.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New Linux interfaces: process_vm_readv, process_vm_writev
* Optimized strcasecmp and strncasecmp for SSSE3 and SSE4.2 on x86-32.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Optimized nearbyint and strcasecmp for PPC.
Implemented by Adhemerval Zanella.
* New locales: bho_IN, unm_US, es_CU, ta_LK
Version 2.14
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
386, 6420, 7101, 9730, 9732, 9809, 10138, 10149, 10157, 11099, 11257,
11258, 11487, 11532, 11558, 11578, 11634, 11653, 11668, 11697, 11724,
11781, 11799, 11820, 11837, 11857, 11869, 11892, 11895, 11901, 11945,
11947, 11952, 11987, 12052, 12083, 12158, 12178, 12200, 12346, 12350,
12393, 12420, 12432, 12445, 12449, 12453, 12454, 12460, 12469, 12489,
12509, 12510, 12511, 12518, 12527, 12541, 12545, 12551, 12582, 12583,
12587, 12597, 12601, 12611, 12625, 12626, 12631, 12650, 12653, 12655,
12660, 12671, 12681, 12684, 12685, 12711, 12713, 12714, 12717, 12723,
12724, 12734, 12738, 12746, 12766, 12775, 12777, 12782, 12788, 12792,
12795, 12811, 12813, 12814, 12841
* The RPC implementation in libc is obsoleted. Old programs keep working
but new programs cannot be linked with the routines in libc anymore.
Programs in need of RPC functionality must be linked against TI-RPC.
The TI-RPC implementation is IPv6 enabled and there are other benefits.
Visible changes of this change include (obviously) the inability to link
programs using RPC functions without referencing the TI-RPC library and the
removal of the RPC headers from the glibc headers.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New Linux interfaces: clock_adjtime, name_to_handle_at, open_by_handle_at,
syncfs, setns, sendmmsg
* New locales: os_RU, bem_ZA, en_ZA, ff_SN, sw_KE, sw_TZ, lb_LU, wae_CH,
yue_HK, lij_IT, mhr_RU
* New encodings: CP770, CP771, CP772, CP773, CP774
* New program sotruss to trace calls through PLTs
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The malloc hook implementation is marked deprecated and will be removed
from the default implementation in the next version. The design never
worked ever since the introduction of threads. Even programs which do
not create threads themselves can use multiple threads created internally.
Version 2.13
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3268, 6812, 7066, 10085, 10484, 10563, 10851, 11149, 11155, 11577, 11611,
11640, 11655, 11701, 11840, 11856, 11883, 11903, 11904, 11968, 11979,
12005, 12037, 12067, 12077, 12078, 12092, 12093, 12107, 12108, 12113,
12140, 12159, 12167, 12191, 12194, 12201, 12204, 12205, 12207, 12348,
12378, 12394, 12397
* New Linux interfaces: prlimit, prlimit64, fanotify_init, fanotify_mark
* POWER7 optimizations: memset, memcmp, strncmp
* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strnlen (SSE2),
strcasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2), strncasecmp (SSE2, SSSE3, SSE4.2)
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.12
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3662, 4457, 5553, 10162, 10401, 10414, 10554, 10824, 10864, 10915, 10918,
10936, 10939, 10958, 10968, 10969, 10972, 10992, 11000, 11001, 11007,
11010, 11027, 11039, 11040, 11041, 11043, 11046, 11056, 11070, 11093,
11115, 11120, 11125, 11126, 11127, 11134, 11141, 11149, 11183, 11184,
11185, 11186, 11187, 11188, 11189, 11190, 11191, 11192, 11193, 11194,
11200, 11230, 11235, 11242, 11254, 11258, 11271, 11272, 11276, 11279,
11287, 11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397,
11410, 11438, 11449, 11470, 11471, 11520, 11537, 11538, 11571
* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
* New Linux interface: recvmmsg
* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for Sparc by David Miller.
* The dynamic linker now recognizes supported ABI versions from the
EI_ABIVERSION field in the ELF header.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New NIS mode selector ADJUNCT_AS_SHADOW. The passwd.adjunct.byname table
will not be used to fill in password fields in the passwd.byname replies.
Instead it is used to synthesize the shadow.byname table, should it be
missing. This is a useful mode in some installations involving Solaris.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New locales: kok_IN, sq_MK, cv_RU
Version 2.11
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3270, 7094, 9924, 9986, 10011, 10085, 10107, 10159, 10162, 10166, 10183,
10195, 10196, 10200, 10203, 10207, 10211, 10213, 10217, 10221, 10229,
10262, 10286, 10312, 10315, 10319, 10349, 10360, 10391, 10402, 10416,
10418, 10422, 10425, 10446, 10448, 10452, 10540, 10553, 10560, 10564,
10609, 10643, 10692, 10713, 10717, 10730, 10731, 10742, 10780, 10784,
10789, 10817, 10823, 10840, 10847
* New interfaces: execvpe, pthread_sigqueue, mkstemps, mkstemps64, mkostemps,
mkostemps64
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* STT_GNU_IFUNC is now supported in static executables.
Implemented by H.J. Lu.
* STT_GNU_IFUNC implemented for PPC by Alan Modra.
* New optimized string functions for x86-64: strstr, strcasestr, memcmp,
strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, strcpy, stpcpy, strncpy, strcmp (SSE2, SSE4.2),
strncmp (SSE2, SSE4.2), strchr (SSE4.2), strrchr (SSE4.2).
Contributed by H.J. Lu.
strlen, rawmemchr, strcmp (SSSE3), strncmp (SSSE3).
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New optimized string functions for x86: strlen, strcspn, strspn, strpbrk,
strstr, strcasestr.
Contributed by H.J. Lu.
* Support for fma instruction in AVX on x86-64.
Implemented by H.J. Lu and Ulrich Drepper.
* AVX support in x86-64 auditing support in ld.so.
Implemented by H.J. Lu.
* STB_GNU_UNIQUE support added.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Implement second fallback mode for optimized DNS lookup for even more
broken environments. If two requests from the same port are not
handled correctly close the socket and open a new one before sending
the second request. The 'single-request-reopen' option in /etc/resolv.conf
can be used to select this mode right away, instead of rediscovering the
necessity is every process again.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New resolver flag RES_USE_DNSSEC to enable use of verified lookup.
Implemented by Adam Tkac.
* Optimized iconv conversions for S390x.
Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
* Using condvars with PI mutexes is now more efficient due to kernel
support for requeueing to PI futexes. NPTL support added for x86-64.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New locales: ps_AF, my_MM
Version 2.10
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
697, 5381, 5807, 6411, 6545, 7040, 7058, 7067, 7080, 7083, 7095, 7098,
9677, 9694, 9697, 9701, 9704, 9705, 9706, 9720, 9726, 9730, 9733, 9736,
9741, 9750, 9753, 9759, 9781, 9791, 9793, 9823, 9833, 9844, 9880, 9881,
9891, 9893, 9895, 9913, 9916, 9920, 9948, 9955, 9957, 9963, 9985, 10052,
10069, 10086, 10087, 10090, 10092, 10093, 10100, 10118, 10128
* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New Linux interfaces: accept4, fallocate, fallocate64.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Correct declarations of string function when used in C++ code. This
could lead to compile errors for invalid C++ code.
* XPG7/POSIX 2008 compilation environment. Many GNU-specific functions are
now in POSIX.
* New POSIX 2008 interface: psiginfo
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New ISO C++1x interfaces: quick_exit, at_quick_exit
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Support for selecting between multiple function definitions at runtime
using STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The libcrypt library can now use the hash function implementations in
NSS. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The malloc implementation can be compiled to be less memory efficient
but higher performing in multi-threaded programs.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New locales: nan_TW@latin, ks_IN
* Faster strlen, strchr, strchrnul, strrchr, memchr, and rawmemchr for x86-64.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Extended printf hook support. It is possible to use user-defined types
and extend existing format specifiers.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Handling for group shadow files has been added.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* DNS IPv4-IPv6 parallel lookup now deals better with broken DNS
servers (the case, e.g., for some people using the built-in DNS
server in ADSL modems/routers). There is a once-per-process timeout
in case of a broken server. To avoid it, users can run nscd or put
'options single-request' in /etc/resolv.conf.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.9
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3406, 5209, 5210, 5381, 5794, 5814, 5911, 6428, 6438, 6442, 6447, 6461,
6472, 6505, 6544, 6589, 6612, 6634, 6653, 6654, 6657, 6698, 6712, 6713,
6719, 6723, 6724, 6740, 6763, 6771, 6790, 6791, 6817, 6824, 6839, 6843,
6845, 6856, 6857, 6860, 6867, 6875, 6919, 6920, 6942, 6947, 6955, 6966,
6968, 6974, 6980, 6995, 7008, 7009, 7029
* Unified lookup for getaddrinfo: IPv4 and IPv6 addresses are now looked
up at the same time. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* TLS descriptors for LD and GD on x86 and x86-64.
Implemented by Alexandre Oliva.
* getaddrinfo now handles DCCP and UDPlite.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New fixed-size conversion macros: htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh,
htobe32, htole32, be32toh, le32toh, htobe64, htole64, be64toh, le64toh.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New implementation of memmem, strstr, and strcasestr which is O(n).
Implemented by Eric Blake.
* New Linux interfaces: inotify_init1, dup3, epoll_create1, pipe2
* Implement "e" option for popen to open file descriptor with the
close-on-exec flag set. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Implement "b" mode for fmemopen. In this mode writes writes don't
implicitly add a NUL byte and seeks from the end of the buffer really
use the buffer end, not the string length as the basis.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Many functions, exported and internal, now atomically set the close-on-exec
flag when run on a sufficiently new kernel. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Kannada, Gurumukhi, Telugu,
Sinhala)
Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
* New locales: sd_IN, sd_IN@devanagari, ks_IN@devanagari, ht_HT, en_AG, nl_AW.
Version 2.8
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
2549, 3112, 4314, 4407, 4997, 5012, 5040, 5112, 5204, 5208, 5209, 5220,
5222, 5224, 5225, 5237, 5238, 5240, 5245, 5277, 5346, 5375, 5378, 5382,
5424, 5427, 5428, 5435, 5436, 5439, 5441, 5442, 5443, 5451, 5452, 5454,
5455, 5463, 5464, 5465, 5475, 5477, 5478, 5520, 5541, 5545, 5553, 5600,
5602, 5607, 5614, 5627, 5628, 5736, 5737, 5741, 5753, 5760, 5762, 5768,
5774, 5777, 5778, 5779, 5786, 5790, 5818, 5854, 5857, 5903, 5939, 5979,
5983, 5995, 5998, 6004, 6007, 6020, 6021, 6024, 6040, 6042
* New locales: bo_CN, bo_IN, shs_CA.
* New encoding: HP-ROMAN9, HP-GREEK8, HP-THAI8, HP-TURKISH8.
* Sorting rules for some Indian languages (Devanagari and Gujarati).
Implemented by Pravin Satpute.
* IPV6 addresses in /etc/resolv.conf can now have a scope ID
* nscd caches now all timeouts for DNS entries
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* nscd is more efficient and wakes up less often.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* More checking functions: asprintf, dprintf, obstack_printf, vasprintf,
vdprintf, and obstack_vprintf.
Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
* Faster memset for x86-64.
Implemented by Harsha Jagasia and H.J. Lu.
* Faster memcpy on x86.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* ARG_MAX is not anymore constant on Linux. Use sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX).
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Faster sqrt and sqrtf implemention for some PPC variants.
Implemented by Steven Munroe.
Version 2.7
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
4125, 4126, 4178, 4359, 4407, 4512, 4514, 4525, 4554, 4556, 4557, 4566,
4582, 4586, 4588, 4599, 4610, 4647, 4702, 4705, 4726, 4745, 4772, 4773,
4775, 4776, 4792, 4813, 4814, 4816, 4833, 4858, 4860, 4896, 4905, 4925,
4936, 4937, 4938, 4941, 4946, 4963, 4972, 5010, 5028, 5043, 5058, 5063,
5071, 5103, 5104, 5112, 5113, 5184, 5186
* More checking functions: fread, fread_unlocked, open*, mq_open.
Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
* Extend fortification to C++. Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
* Implement 'm' modifier for scanf. Add stricter C99/SUS compliance
by not recognizing 'a' as a modifier when those specs are requested.
Implemented by Jakub Jelinek.
* PPC optimizations to math and string functions.
Implemented by Steven Munroe.
* New interfaces: mkostemp, mkostemp64. Like mkstemp* but allow additional
options to be passed. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* More CPU set manipulation functions. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New Linux interfaces: signalfd, eventfd, eventfd_read, and eventfd_write.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Handle private futexes in the NPTL implementation.
Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
* Add support for O_CLOEXEC. Implement in Hurd. Use throughout libc.
Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
* Linux/x86-64 vDSO support. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* SHA-256 and SHA-512 based password encryption.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New locales: ber_DZ, ber_MA, en_NG, fil_PH, fur_IT, fy_DE, ha_NG, ig_NG,
ik_CA, iu_CA, li_BE, li_NL, nds_DE, nds_NL, pap_AN, sc_IT, tk_TM, ug_CN,
yo_NG.
+ New iconv modules: MAC-CENTRALEUROPE, ISO-8859-9E, KOI8-RU.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.6
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
3156, 3213, 3285, 3291, 3306, 3313, 3320, 3322, 3325, 3326, 3334, 3348,
3352, 3363, 3369, 3426, 3427, 3429, 3451, 3458, 3465, 3480, 3483, 3493,
3514, 3515, 3559, 3632, 3664, 3673, 3674, 3745, 3747, 3818, 3840, 3842,
3851, 3855, 3884, 3885, 3902, 3905, 3919, 3944, 3954, 3955, 3957, 3991,
3995, 3996, 4024, 4040, 4069, 4070, 4074, 4076, 4096, 4101, 4102, 4114,
4130, 4131, 4181, 4276, 4306, 4342, 4344, 4349, 4364, 4368, 4381, 4392,
4403, 4405, 4406, 4411, 4438, 4439, 4455, 4456, 4465, 4512, 4514, 4586,
4702, 4858
* New Linux interfaces: epoll_pwait, sched_getcpu.
* New generic interfaces: strerror_l.
* nscd can now cache the services database. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.5
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
39, 68, 192, 352, 388, 531, 935, 1006, 1201, 1203, 1386, 1782, 1783, 1784,
1785, 1786, 1787, 1951, 1974, 1996, 2072, 2098, 2125, 2134, 2158, 2182,
2349, 2376, 2386, 2389, 2415, 2418, 2420, 2423, 2450, 2451, 2466, 2472,
2473, 2477, 2498, 2499, 2501, 2502, 2505, 2507, 2508, 2509, 2517, 2526,
2569, 2571, 2592, 2611, 2625, 2632, 2644, 2662, 2680, 2683, 2684, 2693,
2695, 2703, 2734, 2751, 2764, 2766, 2775, 2792, 2821, 2823, 2832, 2841,
2843, 2883, 2892, 2908, 2914, 2926, 2961, 2978, 2980, 2987, 2997, 2998,
3013, 3018, 3034, 3040, 3044, 3123, 3124, 3137, 3138, 3143, 3155, 3189,
3225, 3251, 3252, 3253, 3273
* For Linux, the sorting of addresses returned by getaddrinfo now also
handles rules 3, 4, and 7 from RFC 3484. I.e., all rules are handled.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Allow system admin to configure getaddrinfo with the /etc/gai.conf file.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* New Linux interfaces: splice, tee, sync_file_range, vmsplice.
* New iconv module for MIK. Contributed by Alexander Shopov.
* For sites with broken group and/or passwd database, the auto-propagate
option of nscd can prevent creating ID lookup entries from the results
of a name lookup and vice versa. This usually is no problem but some
site might have problems with the default behavior.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Iterating over entire database in NIS can be slow. With the
SETENT_BATCH_READ option in /etc/default/nss a system admin can decide
to trade time for memory. The entire database will be read at once.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The interfaces introduced in RFC 3542 have been implemented by
Ulrich Drepper.
* Support for the new ELF hash table format was added by Ulrich Drepper.
* Support for priority inheritance mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek and
Ulrich Drepper.
* Support for priority protected mutexes added by Jakub Jelinek.
* New locales: nr_ZA, pa_PK, ca_AD, ca_FR, ca_IT, el_CY, tr_CY, as_IN,
or_IN, csb_PL, fy_NL, sr_ME.
Version 2.4
* More overflow detection functions.
* New iconv converters for IBM1025, IBM1122, IBM1137, IBM1153,
IBM1154, IBM1155, IBM1156, IBM1157, and IBM1158 contributed by Jiro Sekiba.
More converters for IBM803, IBM901, IBM902, IBM921, IBM1008, IBM1097,
IBM1112, IBM1123, IBM1130, IBM1140, IBM1141, IBM1142, IBM1143, IBM1144,
IBM1145, IBM1146, IBM1147, IBM1148, IBM1149, IBM1166, IBM1167, IBM4517,
IBM4899, IBM4909, IBM4971, IBM5347, IBM9030, IBM9066, IBM9448, IBM12712,
IBM16804, IBM1364, IBM1371, IBM1388, IBM1390, and IBM1399 contributed
by Masahide Washizawa.
* It is now possible to install audit libraries for the dynamic linker using
LD_AUDIT. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The LinuxThreads add-on, providing pthreads on Linux 2.4 kernels, is no
longer supported. The new NPTL implementation requires Linux 2.6 kernels.
For a libc and libpthread that works well on Linux 2.4 kernels, we
recommend using the stable 2.3 branch.
* The new function open_wmemstream acts like open_memstream,
but uses a wchar_t wide character buffer.
* The new function ppoll is an improved version of poll, similar to pselect.
* New interfaces: fdopendir, openat, fstatat, fchmodat, fchownat,
futimesat, faccessat, mkdirat, mkfifoat, mknodat,
renameat, unlinkat, linkat, symlinkat, readlinkat.
* New Linux kernel system calls: unshare,
inotify_init, inotify_add_watch, inotify_rm_watch.
* The euidaccess function is now also known by the alias eaccess,
for compatibility with some other systems.
* Timezone data updated to 2006b version.
Version 2.3.6
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
38, 253, 549, 622, 653, 721, 758, 851, 877, 915, 934, 955, 961,
1016, 1037, 1076, 1079, 1080, 1081, 1082, 1083, 1084, 1085, 1086,
1087, 1088, 1090, 1091, 1092, 1093, 1094, 1095, 1096, 1097, 1098,
1099, 1100, 1101, 1102, 1103, 1104, 1105, 1106, 1107, 1108, 1109,
1110, 1111, 1112, 1113, 1125, 1137, 1138, 1249, 1250, 1251, 1252,
1253, 1254, 1350, 1358, 1394, 1438, 1498, 1534
Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
* As of this release, GCC 4 can be used to compile the C Library.
* Timezone data updated to 2005m version.
Version 2.3.5
* The following bugs are resolved with this release:
284, 592, 602, 626, 633, 640, 650, 661, 671, 681, 693, 700, 710, 719,
722, 723, 725, 726, 727, 728, 729, 730, 731, 732, 733, 734, 735, 736,
737, 738, 739, 740, 741, 742, 743, 744, 745, 765, 767, 768, 769, 776,
777, 787, 821, 822, 823, 825
Visit <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for the details of each bug.
Version 2.3.4
* Support for RFC 3678. Real implementations exist only for Linux so far.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* nscd can now cache entries persistently. Expiring entries are reloaded.
For speedups the cache can be shared in memory with client processes.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* nscd can now perform SELinux checks.
Implemented by Matthew Rickard <mjricka@epoch.ncsc.mil>.
* getaddrinfo queries are now cached. Canonical name lookup is performed
efficiently.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The nothrow function attribute is used when headers are used by gcc when
compiling C code. This can avoid significant amounts of exception
handling data.
* The malloc functions perform more error checking and are stricter when
it comes to reacting on errors. The default action is to terminate
the process after showing an error message. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Reverse lookups of IPv6 addresses does not use bit string or .ip6.int
lookups anymore unless explicitly requested. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Namespaces in ld.so are implemented. DSOs can be loaded in separate
namespaces using the new function dlmopen(). This feature is of course,
like most other dynamic loading functionality, not available in statically
linked applications. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Low-overhead boundary checking variants of string and some stdio functions
were added. These are to be used in conjunction with a gcc patch by
Jakub Jelinek which adds calls to these functions if possible.
Implemented by Jakub Jelinek and Ulrich Drepper.
* Old code for several operating systems and machine architectures that
have not been in working condition in a long time have been removed from
the main source tree maintained by the GNU C Library's maintainers.
These files are now reside in the separate `ports' source module
that is usable as an add-on when building the library.
Version 2.3.3
* New functions `dladdr1' and `dlinfo' in <dlfcn.h> provide more ways to
interrogate the dynamic linker, compatible with the Solaris interface.
* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on PowerPC and PowerPC64;
implemented by Paul Mackerras, Steven Munroe, and Roland McGrath.
* getifaddrs now uses the netlink interface on Linux to get its information.
Implemented by Thorsten Kukuk.
* getaddrinfo now implements AI_V4MAPPED, AI_ALL, and AI_ADDRCONF.
Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* support for non-executable stacks on x86 has been added. Changes mostly
by Roland McGrath.
* regex is now much faster for multibyte locales. Changes by Jakub Jelinek
and Ulrich Drepper.
* getaddrinfo now performs destination address selection according to
RFC 3484.
Version 2.3.2
* Thread-safe interfaces for many functions that access locale data
were added in version 2.3, but these features were omitted from NEWS.
Many functions have variants with an `_l' suffix that take a `locale_t'
object as a parameter rather than consulting the current locale.
The new functions `newlocale', `duplocale', and `freelocale' in <locale.h>
create and maintain `locale_t' objects. Additionally, the new function
`uselocale' sets "the current locale" (as used by functions not so
parameterized) set for an individual thread. These features were added
in version 2.3, implemented by Ulrich Drepper and Roland McGrath.
* The functions getresuid, getresgid, setresuid, and setresgid, which
have long been available on Linux, are now declared in <unistd.h>
and are now also available on the Hurd.
* ELF thread-local storage support (TLS) now works on x86-64.
* The new dynamic string token $LIB is expanded in shared library names.
This normally expands to lib, but on some 64-bit platforms to lib64 instead.
* Aldy Hernandez contributed complete software floating point support for
PowerPC machines with no FPU.
* fexecve is implemented on Linux.
* The `btowc' function should work at least twice as fast due to
specialized callbacks in the iconv modules. Implemented by Bruno Haible.
* With approriate thread add-ons cancelable functions are now implemented
in libc.so as well. No need to call the function in libpthread. This
change allowed to finally disable the incorrect and expensive handling
of weak definition in ld.so.
* Yet more PLT entries in libc.so have been removed. We finally arrived
at the bare minimum. Startup times improved appropriately.
* Support for the new Linux/x86 system call interface was added. The
AT_SYSINFO auxiliary vector entry is recognized and handled.
Version 2.3
* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1163 and IBM1164
charsets.
* iconv (the program and the interface) now accepts empty names (excluding
options like //TRANSLIT) to mean "use charset of current locale".
* localedef can now transliterate characters in strings which are not in
the provided charmap. The information from the input locale is used.
* Prelinking support was added for ELF targets. This requires additional
tools and recent versions of the GNU binutils. Contributed by Jakub Jelinek.
* Read-only stdio streams now use mmap to speed up operation by eliminating
copying and buffer underflows. To use add 'm' to the mode string of
the fopen/fdopen/freopen call. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* The malloc functions were completely rewritten by Wolfram Gloger based
on Doug Lea's malloc-2.7.0.c.
* Isamu Hasegawa contributed a completely new and POSIX-conformant
implementation of regex.
* Bruno Haible upgraded the iconv and locale implementation to support
Unicode 3.2.
* Contents of the LC_* and LANG environment variables in the CEN style are
not recognized anymore. It never was used. Change by Ulrich Drepper.
* The runtime (ld.so, libc, libpthread for Linux) now can handle the ELF
thread-local storage (TLS) ABI on some platforms.
Changes by Ulrich Drepper. SH support by Kaz Kojima.
* Bruno Haible contributed iconv converters for ISO-2022-JP-3, SHIFT JIS-X0213,
EUC-JISX0213, and TSCII.
* New header <ifaddrs.h> with functions `getifaddrs' and `freeifaddrs':
BSD-compatible interface for getting all network interface addresses.
Implementation for IPv4 by Roland McGrath.
* Loading of locale data is faster due to the introduction of a locale
archive. Implemented by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
* Startup times are significantly reduced by not using exported functions
inside the library itself. Changes by Jakub Jelinek, Roland McGrath,
and Ulrich Drepper.
* Steven Munroe contributed a port to PowerPC64/Linux.
Version 2.2.6
* The Hurd now uses the GNU libio implementation of stdio rather than the
old GNU stdio implementation, and uses a new ABI (libc.so.0.3).
* The Hurd on x86 now has the `ioperm' function and <sys/io.h> header file
with the same behavior as the Linux system call of the same name.
Version 2.2.5
* Stephen Moshier implemented log2, log10, powl and cbrtl for the
128-bit long double format.
* Masahide Washizawa contributed iconv modules for IBM1132, IBM1133, IBM1160,
IBM1161, and IBM1162 charsets.
* Andreas Jaeger contributed a port to x86-64/Linux.
* Peter Bruin contributed a port to PowerPC/Hurd.
* libc functions using I/O streams now can handle wide-oriented streams
as well.
* optimizations in the dynamic linker. Binaries created by recent binutils
versions start up quicker due to reduced time spent on relocations.
* Support for use of gcc3 added by Jakub Jelinek and HJ Lu.
Version 2.2.4
* Stephen Moshier implemented cosh, expm1, log1p, acos, sinh, tanh,
asinh, atanh, j0 for the 128-bit long double format.
* Bruno Haible updated all the code handling Unicode in some form to
support Unicode 3.1.
* Speed of regex for single-byte locales is back to previous levels.
Patch by Isamu Hasegawa.
* Alpha, SPARC, and IA-64 now also using floating stacks.
* Startup time of internationalized applications greatly improved through
iconv cache. Use iconvconfig to generate the cache file.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
* The IA-64 specific part of ld.so was rewritten to eliminate some pretty
severe performance problems. Patch by David Mosberger.
* The Hurd port got a lot more functionality like AIO, various stdio
extensions, etc. Mainly done by Roland McGrath.
* mtrace can now lookup symbols in shared libraries.
Version 2.2.3
* Intel's IA-64 math library is largely integrated. It provides fast and
accurate implementatations for most basic and standard math functions
in float, double, and long double format.
* Stephen Moshier implemented j0, j1, jn, y0, y1, yn, lgamma, erf, erfc,
and asin for the 96-bit long double format and asin, log, tan for the
128-bit long double format.
* The beginning of a last-bit accurate math library by IBM Haifa were added.
The basic double functions exist today. Contributed by Abraham Ziv
<ziv@il.ibm.com>, Moshe Olshansky <olshansk@il.ibm.com>, Ealan Henis
<ealan@il.ibm.com>, and Anna Reitman <reitman@il.ibm.com>.
* An asynchronous name lookup library was added. The interface is designed
after POSIX AIO. The proposal was circulated beforehand to get comments.
No negative ones came in. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Port to S390/64bit contributed by Martin Schwidefsky
<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>.
* David Mosberger <davidm@hpl.hp.com> implemented the setcontext family
of functions for Linux/IA-64.
* The RPC code is now thread safe. Threads can now use the same service
of different services at the same time. Patch by Eric Norum
<eric.norum@usask.ca> with some help by Ulrich Drepper.
* Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> implemented the setcontext
family of functions for Linux/S390.
* Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> implemented the setcontext family
of functions for Linux/x86.
* Port to Linux/CRIS contributed by Axis Communications.
Version 2.2.2
* Lots of headers were cleaned up. Using the tool in the conform/ subdir
we can now check for namespace violations and missing declarations. The
result is that almost all headers are now Unix-compliant (as defined in
the upcoming XPG6). The negative side is that some programs might need
corrections, too, if they depend on the incorrect form of the headers in
previous versions which defined too many symbols and included too many
other headers.
* regex now handles multibyte character sets correctly.
Contributed by Isamu Hasegawa <isamu@yamato.ibm.com>.
* iconv (the program) does now conform to the upcoming XPG6 and handles
charmaps. Instead of the charset names the path of charmaps can be
provided and the conversion happens based on this data.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
* The locale program now provides detailed information about the installed
locales. While
locale -a
only lists the names of the supported locales
locale -a --verbose
provides details such as country, language, and codeset name.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper.
Version 2.2.1
* The gencat program now parses the input file according to the charset
selected by the LC_CTYPE category. This is important for stateful
character sets. To make generating catalogs easier there is a way
to overwrite the charset selected by the locale: before the first
message or $ quote line the catalog can contain a line like
$ codeset=ISO-8859-2
to select the charset (ISO-8859-2 in this case).
Implemented by Shinya Hanataka and Ulrich Drepper.
* New codeset conversion modules: IBM-922 (Estonia PC codeset),
IBM-1124 (Ukraine PC codeset), IBM-1129 (Vietnamese PC codeset).
Contributed by Masahide Washizawa <washi@jp.ibm.com>.
* Optimized string functions for Alpha ev6 and ev67 by Richard Henderson
<rth@redhat.com> and Rick Gorton <rick.gorton@alpha-processor.com>.
* The LANGUAGE environment variable is now ignored unless the locale is
changed from the default "C" locale.
* The usual bug fixes.
Version 2.2
* Greg McGary added runtime support for bounds checking using gcc's
new -fbounded-pointers option. ix86 target is complete. PowerPC
is in progress.
* Thorsten Kukuk added secure mode support to nscd.
* The Berkeley db libraries have been removed.
Related, the nss_db module is now in a separate package since it
obviously requires a database library being available.
* Wide character I/O streams implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
* Functions from the extended socket API added by Ulrich Drepper.
* Functions feenableexcept and fedisableexcept to control the
behaviour of individual exceptions have been added by Andreas Jaeger.
* ldconfig program added by Andreas Jaeger and Jakub Jelinek.
* The resolver code has been updated from bind 8.2.3-T5B which supports
threads. The integration was done by Andreas Jaeger, Adam D. Bradley,
and Mark Kettenis.
This change could in some situations effect backward compatibility. Since