strict conformance issues:
- NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast)
- alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements
+
+
+
+1.0.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- support for mips softfloat ABI variant
+- legacy setkey and encrypt API for DES
+- support for BSD version of struct tcphdr in addition to GNU version
+- added ipv6 and icmpv6 protocol lookups to getprotoent-family functions
+
+new experimental ports:
+- sh (SuperH)
+- x32 (ILP32 ABI for x86_64)
+
+compatibility:
+- improved c89 compiler support in math.h
+- eliminate some compiler warnings in public headers
+- added some missing things for LFS64 APIs
+- added fallback emulation of accept4 for older kernels
+
+bugs fixed:
+- buffer overflow in printf when printing smallest denormal exactly
+- rounding errors in printf in some just-over-halfway cases
+- posix_spawn did not accept null pid pointer (crashed)
+- ftello gave incorrect result for unflushed append-mode streams
+- mishandling of n=0 case in wcsxfrm (wild buffer overrun)
+- possible system breakage during libc upgrade due to install.sh bugs
+- nftw FTW_MOUNT flag prevented walking any directories at all
+- ptsname/ptsname_r returned negated error codes
+- getprotoent function returned junk after listing valid protocols
+- wrong error code from readdir when the directory has been deleted
+- various prototype/argument-type fixes, mostly to legacy functions
+- various header namespace violations
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) was broken on i386 and x86_64
+- strerror(EDQUOT) did not work on mips
+- recvmsg/sendmsg were broken on powerpc
+- sysv ipc was broken on powerpc and mips
+- statfs/statvfs were broken on mips
+- sigaltstack was broken on mips
+
+
+
+1.1.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- relro memory protection in dynamic linker
+- malloc can now extend heap with mmap if brk fails
+- vdso clock_gettime/gettimeofday/time acceleration on x86_64
+- thread/library-safe versions of search.h functions (nonstandard)
+- getauxval function (nonstandard)
+- sysconf extensions to query physical memory size
+
+bugs fixed:
+- floating point printf output corruption from carry into uninitialized slot
+- possible runaway carry overflow in printf floating point
+- printf %g failure to strip trailing zeros in some cases
+- search past end of haystack in memmem
+- off-by-one error in confstr return value
+- crashes in some near-empty static programs that use stack protector
+- deadlock race in pthread_once
+- non-working clock_gettime fallback for old kernels
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- crash from missing syscall asm register clobbers on real microblaze kernel
+- crash in all nontrivial dynamic linker use on microblaze
+- incorrect rlimit constants on mips
+- broken, possibly dangerous, use of getrlimit syscall on x32 in sysconf
+
+
+
+1.1.1 release notes
+
+new features:
+- new options --preload and --library-path to dynamic linker
+- public execvpe function (nonstandard extension)
+- iconv support for cp437 and cp850
+
+bugs fixed:
+- false negatives with some periodic needles in strstr, wcsstr, and memmem
+- crash on invalid zoneinfo files
+- incorrect zero-padding of some outputs for strftime %s specifier
+- misreporting of errors in configure script when $CC does not work at all
+- treating not-yet-implemented strptime specifiers as errors
+
+compatibility:
+- configure now detects serious constant-folding bug in gcc 4.9.0
+- removed __yield symbol (unused) that clashed with some compilers
+- improvements to sysconf's handling of unsupported/invalid arguments
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- misdetection of superh ABI variant by configure on gcc 3.x
+- missing SO_RCVBUFFORCE and SO_SNDBUFFORCE in mips socket.h
+- build regression on armv6 and later with -mthumb
+
+
+
+1.1.2 release notes
+
+new features:
+- multi-protocol matches (tcp and udp) in getaddrinfo
+- support for AI_V4MAPPED and AI_ALL flags to getaddrinfo
+- reverse name lookups from /etc/hosts
+- reverse service lookups from /etc/services
+- support for service aliases in /etc/services
+- ipsec and tunneling protocols to getprotoent-family functions
+- res_send, res_mkquery, res_querydomain, and dn_comp functions
+- ipv6 scope id handling for link-local scope addresses
+- previously-unimplemented %C and %y in strptime now work
+- vdso clock_gettime acceleration on i386 (new kernel feature)
+- better O_CLOEXEC/SOCK_CLOEXEC fallbacks for old kernels
+
+bugs fixed:
+- buffer overflow in dns response parsing (CVE-2014-3484)
+- possible infinite loop in dns response parsing
+- sendfile off_t 32/64-bit size mismatch
+- incorrect end pointer in some cases when wcsrtombs stops early
+- incorrect if_nametoindex return value when interface does not exist
+- dummy "ent" function aliases that possibly shadowed real ones
+- tmpfile fd leak on memory exhaustion
+- getaddrinfo returning EAI_NONAME for some transient failures
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- broken kernel side RLIM_INFINITY on mips
+- incorrect syscall argument 6/7 types for pselect on x32
+
+
+
+1.1.3 release notes
+
+new features:
+- address sorting in getaddrinfo, etc. modeled on rfc 3484/6724
+- default timezone taken from /etc/localtime when $TZ is unset
+- getopt double-colon extension for optional arguments
+- support for TLSDESC-based (gnu2) TLS dialect on i386 and x86_64
+- sendmmsg/recvmmsg (linux-specific)
+- fmtmsg (last mandatory XSI function that was missing)
+
+compatibility:
+- treat dns rcode=2 as temporary failure, not negative result
+- working thread-pointer for pre-2.6 kernels on i386
+- further ABI-compat symbols: __xmknod[at], __sysv_signal
+
+bugs fixed:
+- memmem false positives/false negatives/crashes from invalid logic
+- gethostby*_r not setting result pointer to null on failure
+- aliasing violations in syscall.h SYSLOG_NAMES feature
+- fanotify_mark syscall arguments wrong
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- various subtle relocation bugs in powerpc and sh dynamic linker
+
+
+
+1.1.4 release notes
+
+new features:
+- experimental locale support for LC_MESSAGES and LC_TIME
+- non-stub gettext family functions for message translation
+- or1k (OpenRISC 1000) port
+- syslog options LOG_CONS and LOG_PERROR
+- issetugid function (from OpenBSD)
+- improved if_nameindex and getifaddrs functions
+
+compatibility:
+- work around bug #61144 in gcc 4.9.0 and 4.9.1
+- support getauxval(AT_SECURE) even on kernels without AT_SECURE
+
+bugs fixed:
+- empty dynamic linker error messages (regression in 1.1.3)
+- if_nameindex omitted unconfigured and ipv6-only interfaces
+- incorrect return value for fwide function
+- failure of wide printf/scanf functions to set wide orientation
+- multiple issues in legacy function getpass
+- dynamic linker did not accept colon as a separator for LD_PRELOAD
+- errno clobber in syslog caused wrong output for %m specifier
+- crash in regexec for nonzero nmatch argument with REG_NOSUB
+- minor bugs in rarely-used nl_langinfo item lookups
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- broken relocations in mips dynamic linker (regression in 1.1.3)
+- register state corruption in setjmp asm for microblaze
+- broken struct stat st_ino field on microblaze
+- broken struct stat st_dev field on big endian mips
+- broken asm register constraints in atomics on powerpc
+- missing barriers in atomics on mips, powerpc, microblaze, and sh
+
+
+
+1.1.5 release notes
+
+new features:
+- full C11 coverage (threads, UTF-16/32 API, timespec_get, etc.)
+- malloc_usable_size function (nonstandard)
+- support for new F_OFD_* fcntl operations (linux 3.15, POSIX-future)
+- new _DEFAULT_SOURCE feature test macro to request default profile
+
+performance:
+- private-futex support
+- redesigned cond var implementation with major performance improvement
+- tweaked spinning in userspace before performing futex waits
+
+bugs fixed:
+- failure of dn_expand to null-terminate name for crafted DNS packets
+- corruption of cond var mutex state when switching mutexes
+- use of uninitialized memory with application-provided thread stacks
+- false ownership of orphaned mutexes due to tid reuse
+- possible failure-to-wake for robust mutexes on owner death
+- subtle errors in robust mutex unrecoverable status handling
+- missing memory/compiler barrier spinning to obtain locks
+- wrong behavior in various zero-length stdio operations
+- buffer overflow in swab with odd argument
+- incorrect sequence generation in the rand48 family of prng functions
+- missing cancellation check in non-wait paths of sem_wait, pthread_join
+- missing barrier in pthread_once fast path
+- memory leak in regexec when input contains illegal sequence
+- various parser bugs in regcomp
+- wrong return value on overflow in some strtoul-family functions
+- broken CPU_EQUAL macro in sched.h
+- dlerror not working in static-linked programs
+- mishandling of negative non-whole-hour TZ offsets
+- incorrect case mappings for U+00DF
+- namespace pollution via accidentally-non-static function named "dummy"
+- missing __fpclassifyl and __signbitl definitions for ld64 archs
+
+
+
+1.1.6 release notes
+
+new features:
+- getopt '-' flag for processing non-option arguments
+- getopt_long argument permutation extension
+- getopt_long abbreviated options
+- ns_parserr and related DNS-packet-parsing functions
+- fnmatch FNM_CASEFOLD extension
+- support for translation of getopt error messages
+- login_tty function (legacy)
+
+performance:
+- efficient atomics on armv7+ targets
+- pthread_once shrink-wrapping of fast path
+
+compatibility:
+- baseline arm binaries now work on new cpus/kernels without kuser_helper
+- dynamic linker now honors DT_RUNPATH without DT_RPATH (new binutils)
+- arm asm is now compatible with clang's internal assembler
+- suppress macro implementations of functions when headers are used in C++
+- increased message length limit for syslog
+
+bugs fixed:
+- open ignored file creation mode argument for O_TMPFILE
+- wrong printf formatting for %#.0o with value zero
+- missing private state for uchar.h functions (null ps pointer)
+- sched_getaffinity left uninitialized data in output bit array
+- wrong return values for pthread_getaffinity_np and pthread_setaffinity_np
+- buggy handling of multibyte option chars with arguments in getopt
+- printf failed to report or stop on write errors
+- printf failed to honor '+' modifier when printing NANs
+- wcsnrtombs returned the wrong value in one code path
+- syslog failed to check for connect error
+- multi-threaded set*id() had spurious failures from ugly workaround code
+- various minor header conformance bugs (signedness, constant expressions, ...)
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- on or1k, some syscalls with 64-bit arguments were broken (misaligned)
+- usage of sahf instruction on x86_64 crashed on some early cpu models
+
+
+
+1.1.7 release notes
+
+new features:
+- alternate passwd/group backend support via nscd protocol
+- masked cancellation mode extension (experimental)
+- aio cancellation
+- aarch64 port (experimental)
+
+performance:
+- significant memset asm optimizations on i386 and x86_64
+
+compatibility:
+- suppress EINTR in semaphores for old kernels where futex restart is broken
+- always set optarg in getopt_long
+- support SOCK_RAW socket type in getaddrinfo
+- report success instead of EINPROGRESS when close is interrupted
+
+bugs fixed:
+- multithreaded set*id() was not async-signal safe, had various race bugs
+- getspnam_r returned results for partial username matches
+- wordexp bad character checker mis-counted parentheses
+- close on fd with pending aio could lead to file corruption
+- old aio implementation had numerous conformance bugs
+- malloc init code could deadlock due to race condition
+- pthread_exit did not disable cancellation
+- pthread_cond_wait could wrongly consume signal on cancellation
+- execvp wrongly stopped path search on EACCESS
+- fsync, fdatasync, and msync were not honored as cancellation points
+- fchmodat was subject to fd leak race (missing O_CLOEXEC)
+- fchmodat failed to report EOPNOTSUPP in race path
+- passwd/group lookup functions had various minor error-reporting bugs
+- isatty had false-positives/device-state-corruption for OSS sound devices
+- configure script failed to detect gcc with translated messages
+- FLT_ROUNDS macro failed to reflect rounding mode changes in fenv
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- mips fesetenv did not handle FE_DFL_ENV
+- mips POLLWRNORM and POLLWRBAND macros had wrong values
+- x32 pthread synchronization object type definitions were wrong
+- powerpc minimum signal stack size was insufficient
+
+
+
+1.1.8 release notes
+
+bugs fixed:
+- stack-based buffer overflow in inet_pton (CVE-2015-1817)
+- regcomp crash/mem-corruption with illegal bytes after backslash
+- regcomp wrongly allowed backrefs in ER
+- regcomp miscompiled character class brace-repetitions
+- regcomp wrongly processed \0 as an unmatchable backref
+- new FLT_ROUNDS definition failed to work in C++ code
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- aarch64 was missing max_align_t definition
+
+
+
+1.1.9 release notes
+
+new features:
+- ability to protect libc code itself with stack protector
+- sigsetjmp now restores signal mask after restoring context, not before
+- thread-local dlerror status/messages
+- dlerror messages are no longer truncated
+- diagnostics for constraint violations with ctype.h macros
+
+optimizations:
+- reduce cost of PIC on archs where PLT calls need a fixed GOT register
+- spin locks no longer constantly invalidate cache lines while spinning
+- code size reduction in static-linked TLS init
+
+bugs fixed:
+- failure to process robust mutexes on detached-thread exit
+- possible memory corruption due to robust mutex list on detached-thread exit
+- crash on memory exhaustion in getgr* internals
+- misaligned memory accesses in static binaries with low-alignment TLS blocks
+- multiple cases of wrongful path search continuation after transient failure
+- small memory leak on failure of dlopen with RPATH $ORIGIN
+- several small math bugs related to exception flags with non-finite args
+- mmap leak in sem_open failure path for link call
+- duplocale clobbered new locale struct with memcpy of old
+- futimes crashed with null timeval argument
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- stack protector spuriously aborted after forking on x32
+- stack protector spuriously aborted with flockfile on powerpc
+- theoretically-possible clobbering of syscall return value on mips
+- random thread-pointer setup failure on sh (uninitialized return value)
+- possible crash in dlsym on sh due to incorrectly-computed branch target
+- broken fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) on mips
+- dynamic linker name for sh ignored fpu/nofpu and endianness
+- various minor aarch64 bugs
+- dangling pointers in x32 syscall timespec fixup code
+
+
+
+1.1.10 release notes
+
+new features:
+- fail-safe (allocation-free) C locale for newlocale to return
+- all locale categories track requested locale name
+- rcrt1.o start file for static PIE
+
+optimizations:
+- inline atomics for sh4a
+- removed heavy atomics from locale-related code paths
+- removed global data accesses from CURRENT_LOCALE macro & callers
+- dynamic linker stage 1 size reduction
+
+compatibility:
+- better configure detection of unsupported compiler options
+- support for more relocation types in libc.so, not currently used
+- iconv_open accepts "" and "CHAR" as aliases for native (UTF-8)
+- additional LFS64 macros in sys/resource.h
+
+regressions fixed:
+- dynamic linker crash on NONE-type relocations (only mips affected)
+- inability to build as thumb2 on arm
+- failure to run under qemu-i386 user-level emulation
+- inability to access globals from libc on powerpc
+- PIE link errors in Scrt1.o under unusual usage on some archs
+
+other bugs fixed:
+- failure of ungetc/ungetwc to work on FILE streams in EOF state
+- possible null pointer dereference in gettext
+- possible initial stack misalignment on mips with PIE
+
+
+
+1.1.11 release notes
+
+new features:
+- byte-based C locale
+- vdso clock_gettime on arm
+- musl-clang wrapper
+- sh2 nommu target support
+
+performance:
+- major speed-up for dynamic linker symbol lookups with GNU hash
+
+compatibility:
+- strverscmp now matches GNU behavior in corner cases
+- empty TZ environment variable gives GMT rather than system default
+- reconnection on syslog server socket loss (syslogd restart)
+- mmap fallback in simple_malloc when brk fails
+- support for %m and %s with null pointers in wide printf variants
+- call frame information in i386 asm for improved debugger support
+
+bugs fixed:
+- spurious errors from pwd/grp functions when nscd backend is absent
+- possible invalid access on calloc with simple_malloc
+- null pointer dereferences after calling uselocale((locale_t)0)
+- erroneous support for cancellation in stdio caused data loss
+- inconsistent handling of atexit called from atexit handler
+- missing locking in error paths for ungetwc
+- btowc mishandling of out-of-range non-EOF inputs
+- negated return value of ns_skiprr, failure in related functions
+- incorrect void return type for syncfs, missing error status
+- possible failure of tempnam due to missing null termination
+- negated tm_gmtoff field in struct tm
+- off-by-one error in getsubopt leaving equals sign in value result
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- soft deadlocks on i386/x86_64 due to missing barrier in internal locks
+- regression in arm pre-v7 support for kernels with kuser helper removed
+- runaway PC on mips detached thread exit (due to kernel regression)
+- mismatched ABI for local-dynamic model TLS on mips and powerpc
+- incorrect value of some SO_* constants on mips
+- broken 64-bit syscall argument passing on aarch64
+
+
+
+1.1.12 release notes
+
+new features:
+- fdpic abi on sh2 for shareable text segment without mmu
+- general fdpic elf support in dynamic linker
+- CFI generation for x86_64 asm source files
+- protection against silently building a libc.so with missing symbols
+
+compatibility:
+- nl_langinfo(CODESET) now returns "ASCII" in byte-based C locale
+- fixed build regression due to buggy .SECONDARY in some GNU make versions
+- additional arm eabi functions needed by llvm arm backend
+- added format argument attributes to gettext function prototypes
+- static PIE no longer requires linking with -E/-rdynamic
+- eliminated spurious protected-data warnings linking against libc.so
+- avoided spurious fpu asm errors with some armhf toolchains
+
+bugs fixed:
+- fclose of stdin/stdout caused deadlock at exit
+- missing memory barrier in pthread_join
+- open_[w]memstream produced no buffer when no writes took place
+- uninitialized scopeid in address lookups from hosts file and ip literals
+- ip literals for mismatching family (v4 vs v6) were queried as hostnames
+- possible crash on OOM in regcomp
+- incorrect contents in localeconv structure (-1 instead of CHAR_MAX)
+- strftime mishandling of out-of-range struct tm members
+- wrongful attribute((const)) on pthread_self and errno location function
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- arm crt1 entry point failed to align stack pointer in some cases
+- mips fesetround failed to actually set rounding mode
+- i386 asm source CFI generation had multiple bugs
+
+
+
+1.1.13 release notes
+
+new features:
+- out-of-tree builds
+- search domains in resolv.conf
+- sh arch supports j-core (j2) cas.l atomics
+- dynamic linker includes arch/abi in output when run as a command
+- header support for new kernel features through linux 4.4
+- mips vdso clock_gettime support
+- regex BRE extensions: \|, \+, \?
+
+performance:
+- improved atomics performance on all archs with ll/sc model
+- atomic instructions are now inlined on armv6
+- use fpu sqrt for arm softfp abi on targets with vfp
+
+compatibility:
+- getnameinfo now accepts sockaddr sizes larger than needed
+- new default CFLAGS/LDFLAGS avoid entire classes of toolchain bugs
+- explicit use of float_t/double_t avoids compiler float spill bugs
+- i386 max_align_t definition now works with g++ 4.7's pseudo-c++11
+- all known protocols are added to protoent functions
+- stub utmpname, utmpxname functions
+- linker support for -Bsymbolic-functions is no longer mandatory
+- regex parsing size limits increased
+- malloc_usable_size now accepts null pointer input
+
+bugs fixed:
+- potential single-byte heap overflow in getdelim
+- mishandling of transient failure opening hosts, services, resolv.conf
+- mremap was sometimes able to allocate objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX
+- nl_langinfo wrongly returned NULL instead of "" for invalid items
+- out-of-bounds dynamic tls allocation due to pointer/index scaling error
+- getifaddrs misreported point-to-point interface addresses
+- tdelete left tsearch trees misbalanced
+- tsearch crashed on allocation failure
+- tsearch, tfind, and tdelete failed to handle null pointer input
+- passing signal number 0 to sigaction resulted in a crash
+- getdelim updated caller's size wrongly when realloc failed
+- getdelim realloc strategy was wasteful
+- if_nametoindex returned wrong value on failure
+- missing ssp-suppression for some source files called from early-init
+- various minor resolv.conf parsing bugs
+- fwrite wrongly reported success on write errors in line-buffered flush
+- fwrite and fread wrongly returned nmemb (not 0) when size was 0
+
+nommu-specific bugs fix:
+- failure to zero bss in FDPIC shared library loader
+- unsafe writes to read-only file mapping in non-FDPIC library loader
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- sh[eb]-nofpu-fdpic was using fpu-dependent setjmp/longjmp variants
+- dynamic linker path file name was wrong for arm "softfp" targets
+- mips siginfo_t and related macros were defined incorrectly
+- possibly misaligned pointer globals on arm (from an asm source file)
+- mips dynamic linker failed to provide info needed by debugger
+- mips cancellation asm wrongly assumed validity of $gp register value
+
+
+
+1.1.14 release notes
+
+regressions fixed:
+- treatment of empty string argument as error by puts and fputs
+- make clean and distclean failure in unconfigured trees
+- sh/fdpic dynamic linker entry point hang due to wrong code
+- armhf (and arm softfp model) build failure with clang
+
+other bugs fixed:
+- wrongly clamping (rather than failing) excessive rounds in crypt-sha*
+
+
+
+1.1.15 release notes
+
+new features:
+- mips64 (full 64-bit and n32) port
+- mips r6 isa support (subarch for mips, mips64, and mipsn32 archs)
+- powerpc64 port
+- powerpc (32-bit) soft-float ABI support (subarch)
+- pthread_tryjoin_np and pthread_timedjoin_np (nonstandard extensions)
+- header-level support for linux 4.5 and 4.6 features
+- sched_getcpu (nonstandard extension) support, including vdso version
+- __STDC_ISO_10646__, __STDC_IEC_559__ macros predefined via stdc-predef.h
+- support for new elf/arch features in elf.h
+
+compatibility:
+- configure now correctly chooses cross-prefix based on build/host/target
+- abort now successfully terminates pid 1 in a container (or top-level)
+
+bugs fixed:
+- memmem read past end of haystack, possible false positives or crashes
+- buffer underflow (reverse-overflow) in ungetwc
+- double-free under certain usage of putenv
+- incorrect treatment by regcomp of * at start of BRE subexpression
+- gethostbyname[2][_r] produced ip addresses in misaligned buffers
+- looking up some invalid hostnames caused malformed dns queries
+- lookups from hosts file were inconsistent with non-matching family
+- missing h_length value in gethostbyaddr results
+- a64l function produced wrong-signed results on 64-bit archs
+- broken padding of string formats to width in wide printf variants
+- wrong results for expf(-NAN) and exp2f(-NAN)
+- wrong value for RUSAGE_CHILDREN prevented it from working
+- abort failed to provide abnormal termination with SIGABRT blocked
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- broken posix_fadvise on arm and powerpc (32-bit)
+- thread structure/dtv corruption on powerpc at thread startup
+- various wrong mips and powerpc ioctl and termios constant values
+
+
+
+1.1.16 release notes
+
+new features:
+- s390x (64-bit S/390) port
+- pthread_setname_np extension function
+- limited pthread_setattr_default_np function to set stack size defaults
+- header-level support for linux 4.7, 4.8, and 4.9 features
+- confstr _CS_V6_ENV and _CS_V7_ENV items
+
+compatibility:
+- public prototypes for abi-compat *_unlocked symbols, etc.
+- fflush_unlocked(NULL) now works
+- resolv.h __RES version macro now matches supported APIs
+- workaround for gdb bugs backtracing across signals on x86_64
+- anchors ^ and $ are now accepted in BRE subexpressions
+- building for thumb2-only arm isa levels is now possible
+
+bugs fixed:
+- integer overflows in regexec buffer allocation (CVE-2016-8859)
+- failure of regexec to report matches at offsets past INT_MAX
+- static-pie executables with initialized thread-local storage crashed
+- printf failed to catch EOVERFLOW in some cases, wrongly produced it in others
+- printf produced wrong output, result for float with precision near INT_MAX
+- printf produced wrong results with alt-form octal, zero flag, & field width
+- printf float rounding was wrong for some midpoint cases
+- swprintf printed junk after internal (256-byte) buffer filled up
+- strtod family rounded incorrectly in several corner cases
+- getmntent failed to handle long records
+- getopt_long_only wrongly treated "--" as an option
+- asctime output wrongly varied by locale
+- strftime %y specifier produced wrong output for negative tm_year
+- time zone names quoted with <> were misparsed
+- corner case integer overflow in tm_year for some date conversions
+- failure to load shared libs whose names were prefixes of standard lib names
+- wrong error codes for several failure cases in various functions
+- various asymptomatic undefined behavior
+- various minor namespace issues in headers
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- tcsetattr regression on mips (completely non-working)
+- wrong pread/pwrite syscall calling convention on sh
+- wrong preadv2/pwritev2 syscall numbers on x32
+- mrand48/jrand48 produced wrong-signedness results on 64-bit archs
+
+
+1.1.17 release notes
+
+new features:
+- RTLD_LAZY deferred symbol binding, functionally equivalent to lazy binding
+- safeguard against dlopen of multiple libc versions/instances
+- new posix_spawn flag POSIX_SPAWN_SETSID
+- posix_spawnattr_setflags now reports unknown flags as error
+- ldso option --argv0 to set argv[0]
+- added _NL_LOCALE_NAME extension to nl_langinfo
+
+compatibility:
+- dlopen local-to-global promotion no longer changes existing symbols
+- gettext now searches locale name variants for translation files
+- increased locale name length limit from 15 to 23 bytes
+- setlocale(LC_ALL, 0) returns single name if all categories are same
+- realloc no longer fails when mremap doesn't work
+- getservby* no longer treat numeric port strings as service records
+- mmap now works around incorrect EPERM error codes from kernel
+- impact of REG_* namespace pollution in x86[_64] signal.h is reduced
+- arm atomic asm now assembles correctly with new binutils
+- PAGE_SIZE on arm is no longer constant (quiet upstream ABI relaxation)
+- lsearch/lfind now pass args to compare callback in canonical order
+- STB_WEAK and STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbols now behave same as STB_GLOBAL
+- better clang CFLAGS checks in configure
+- global vis.h hack, which made lld refuse to link to libc.so, is disabled
+
+performance:
+- single-instruction optimized math functions for aarch64, s390x, powerpc64
+- fast path for ASCII in towupper/towlower
+- new mostly-integer-math fma function
+
+semantic bugs fixed:
+- POSIX-format TZ dst time transitions were wrong for southern hemisphere
+- regex REG_NEWLINE semantics were wrong with negated brackets
+- various bugs in strptime %j, %p, %C formats
+- iconv mapped some characters to legacy 8bit encodings incorrectly
+- glob failed to match "/"
+- UTF-8 decoder accepted invalid f4 9x xx xx code sequences
+- scanf %% conversion failed to consume whitespace
+- glob with GLOB_PERIOD wrongly descended into . and ..
+- nftw gave incorrect base name offset when pathname ends in "/"
+- functional regression in resolv.conf attempts option
+- scalbn could produce wrong result due to double rounding in subnormal range
+- strftime %y format wrong with negative years
+- mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs mishandled input limits
+- minor issues with error codes for various functions
+
+safety/consistency bugs fixed:
+- stack-based buffer overflow in dns response processing
+- invalid free in regexec on certain error paths
+- invalid free in globfree after failed glob
+- one-byte buffer overflow in legacy getpass function
+- failed dlopen corrupted thread-local storage module list
+- race in pthread_create with priority attributes could leave signals masked
+- multithreaded set*id() functions could induce spurious EINTRs
+- dl_iterate_phdr reported wrong base address in static PIE
+- fd leak and wrong cancellation state after dns socket failure
+- memory leaks and other issues in environment-modification functions
+- read-after-free race in pthread_detach
+- memmem performed single-byte over-read in short-needle code paths
+- read via uninitialized pointer in gettext core
+- bindtextdomain broke bindings for all other domains
+- various silent undefined behavior
+- getopt clobbered optopt on success
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- x32 dynamic TLS accesses crashed
+- s390x was missing dlsym entry point (needed for RTLD_NEXT)
+- powerpc64 ldso startup could crash depending on link order
+- powerpc64 setjmp/longjmp didn't properly save/restore TOC pointer
+- thumb2 setjmp/longjmp silently broke at ld-time with text not aligned
+- fchown was broken on archs without SYS_fchown syscall
+- fstatat was broken on mips64
+- various incorrect constants in powerpc64 and mips headers
+
+
+1.1.18 release notes
+
+regression fixes:
+- glob failed to match literal . and .. path components
+- build for armv4t ISA level was broken
+
+other bug fixes:
+- stack overflow in posix_spawnp with large PATH variable in environment
+
+
+1.1.19 release notes
+
+new features:
+- iconv framework for processing stateful encodings
+- iconv support for iso-2022-jp
+- iconv support for converting to legacy JIS-based Japanese encodings
+- iconv support for UTF-16/32 with BOM-determined endianness
+- iconv ibm1047 (ebcdic latin1-equivalent) support
+- iconv cp866 (dos cyrillic) support
+- character data tables & case mappings updated to Unicode 10.0
+- fopencookie stdio extension
+- strftime padding character extensions
+- header-level support for new linux features through 4.13
+
+compatibility:
+- UTC timezone is now called UTC instead of GMT
+- _DIRENT_HAVE_D_* macros in dirent.h
+- dladdr dli_fbase definition now matches other implementations
+- pthread_getattr_np now reports guard size
+- strftime '+' modifier better matches apparent intent of POSIX
+- getopt_long handles long option names containing '='
+- better compatibility with linux uapi headers
+- workaround linux bug where getcwd can return non-absolute pathname
+- configure logic for finding compiler_rt with clang
+- execvp path search now continues after ENOTDIR components
+
+bugs fixed:
+- fgetwc failed when character crossed buffer boundary
+- memory corruption after failing to dlopen a second libc
+- sysconf reported infinite rlimits incorrectly
+- getopt_long --opt=arg did not work with partial matches
+- printf was wrong for alt-form octal with value 0, no explicit precision
+- endian errors in arpa/nameser.h and netinet/icmp6.h (missing endian.h)
+- atfork handler could clobber fork's errno
+- iconv could wrongly output surrogate pairs in ucs2
+- fmemopen buffer underallocation with extreme size argument
+- getaddrinfo AI_NUMERICSERV wrong error code
+- data race in at_quick_exit
+- ldd failed to honor rpath $ORIGIN for program in . without "./" prefix
+
+arch-specfic bugs fixed:
+- x32 unistd.h wrongly reported LP64 instead of ILP32
+- aarch64 signal.h had wrong type for ucontext_t uc_link member
+
+
+1.1.20 release notes
+
+new features:
+- m68k port
+- replacement of malloc is now allowed/supported
+- setvbuf now accepts caller-provided buffers for stdio streams
+- getrandom syscall wrapper, getentropy function
+- mlock2 syscall wrapper
+- memfd_create syscall wrapper
+- explicit_bzero function
+- header-level support for new linux features through 4.17
+- wcsftime now supports padding specifier extensions
+- dynamic linker's reclaim_gaps now works on fdpic archs
+- getaddrinfo now honors AI_ADDRCONFIG
+- pthread_attr_init now honors pthread_setattr_default_np defaults
+
+hardening:
+- prevent bypass of guarantee that suids start with fd 0/1/2 open
+- dlopen now rejects libraries with initial-exec refs to dynamic TLS
+
+compatibility:
+- elf.h: new flags, aux vector entry types, etc.
+- minor namespace issues in several headers
+- intNN_t types used in bitfields now safe against -funsigned-bitfields
+- complex arc trig/hyperbolic functions were badly broken
+- nice function returned wrong value
+- stdio locks no longer depend on read-after-free not faulting
+- avoid excessive stack usage in getcwd
+- inet_ntop no longer compresses single zeros in IPv6 (RFC 5952)
+- resolver routability probe for sorting results works on no-IPv6 systems
+- added missing ST_RELATIME definition to statvfs.h
+- uchar.h now works with old C++ profiles
+- added missing and arch-specific commands to ptrace.h
+- musl-gcc wrapper now works with default-pie host toolchains
+
+bugs fixed:
+- getopt wrongly treating colons in optstring as valid option chars
+- nl_langinfo_l(CODESET, loc) reported wrong locale's value
+- out-of-tree build produced broken crt files with stack protector enabled
+- fmaf produced wrong result for some corner cases
+- out of bounds write for zero length buffer passed to gethostname
+- getopt_long_only wrongly prefix-matched long-options over short ones
+- pthread_kill wrongly returned ESRCH for exited by valid pthread_t's
+- iconv buffer overflow converting to legacy JIS-based encodings
+- iconv conversion to "UTF-32" (no explicit endianness) failed (regression)
+- iconv mishandled big5-hkscs characters that map to two unicode chars
+- dynamic linker didn't map/clear bss for libraries with single LOAD segment
+- resolver wrongly duplicated trailing dot from query into canonical name
+- some futex waits omitted timeout arg to syscall, thereby spun on EFAULT
+- dladdr mishandled addresses not matching symbols
+- alignment of dirent structures from readdir was broken (regression)
+- strftime %z output wrong sign for offsets <1 hour west of UTC
+- limits.h, pathconf erroneously defined SYMLINK_MAX
+- FP_ILOGB0 and FP_ILOGBNAN definitions were not valid for use in #if
+- getopt failed to update optarg and optind correctly on missing argument
+- EMULTIHOP error lacked strerror text
+- mktime malfunctioned with tm_isdst>0 but no-DST POSIX-format time zone
+- async thread self-cancellation produced a deadlock condition
+- pthread_barrierattr_setpshared failed to produce EINVAL for bad argument
+- fileno failed to produce EBADF for non-fd-associated FILEs
+- fmemopen's w+ mode failed to truncate buffer at open
+- open_[w]memstream did not bind stream orientation at open time
+- system wrongly returned 0x7f00 instead of -1 on error
+- wide printf functions ignored field width for %c formats
+- fprintf failed to set stream orientation for unbuffered stream or no output
+- psignal, psiginfo, and perror wrongly set stream orientation for stderr
+- psignal, psiginfo potentially clobbered errno on success
+
+arch-specfic bugs fixed:
+- on arm/aarch64/sh, local-exec TLS layout mismatched ABI with large align
+- on arm/microblaze/sh, struct ipc_perm mismatched (buggy) kernel ABI
+- SO_PEERSEC definition was wrong on mips
+- on mips, return from start function passed to clone crashed (runaway exec)
+- printf %a precision specifier malfunctioned except on ld80 archs
+- async thread cancellation crashed on powerpc64 and sh-fdpic
+
+
+1.1.21 release notes
+
+new features:
+- setting default thread stack size via PT_GNU_STACK program header
+- arm vfork implementation
+- arm tlsdesc/gnu2 tls dialect support
+- name_to_handle_at and name_to_handle_at syscall wrappers
+- header-level support for new linux features through 4.18
+
+optimizations:
+- glob rewrite with much better performance and stack usage properties
+- single-threaded and already-locked fast paths for getc/putc variants
+- single-instruction fma implementations for arm, s390x, powerpc, & x86_64
+- single-instruction fabs and sqrt implementations for powerpc
+- size and performance from making all internal-only functions/data hidden
+- made &errno and pthread_self results cachable again (attribute((const)))
+- significant speedup in strtod with short inputs
+- new tsearch AVL tree implementation, smaller and faster
+- special-cased nop calls to wmemmove
+- fixed erroneously suboptimal skip conditions in strstr and memmem
+
+hardening:
+- default thread stack guard size increased from 4k to 8k
+
+compatibility:
+- default thread stack size increased from 80k to 128k
+- building for arm as thumb2 with clang internal assembler now works
+- aio threads could overflow stack on kernels that break MINSIGSTKSZ ABI
+- aio threads no longer call malloc (problematic with malloc replacement)
+- pthread_sigmask/sigprocmask now ignore an invalid how when not changing mask
+
+bugs fixed:
+- soft deadlock regression in stdio FILE locks with >2 threads contending
+- deadlock and buffered data loss race in fclose
+- race condition leading to possible crash in dcngettext plural forms
+- glob failed to see past searchable-but-unreadable path components
+- getdelim wrongly realloc'd buffer that was already exactly right size
+- getdelim failed to set stream orientation on early error
+- ttyname[_r] reported wrong error when given bad fd
+- pthread_key_delete left old tsd values exposed if slot was reused
+- freeaddrinfo failed to support freeing sublists
+- access to optopt was broken by copy relocations
+- memccpy returned wrong result if first byte past buffer end matched
+- wordexp read past end of input string ending in backslash
+- sem_wait and sem_timedwait were wrongly not interruptible by signals
+- getspnam[_r] wrongly treated not-found as an error
+
+arch-specfic bugs fixed:
+- soft deadlocks (missing futex wake) on powerpc locking
+- dlsym returned wrong address for thread-local symbols on ppc/mips/m68k
+
+
+1.1.22 release notes
+
+new features:
+- priority-inheritance mutexes
+- membarrier syscall, pre-registration to use it, fallback emulation
+- header-level support for new linux features in 4.19, 4.20, 5.0
+
+major internal changes:
+- complete, async-safe view of all existent threads as global list
+- robust __synccall based on new thread list
+- new dynamic TLS is installed synchronously at dlopen
+- TLSDESC resolver functions no longer make bad ABI assumptions to call C
+- resolved shared library dependencies are now recorded
+
+compatibility & conformance:
+- dependency-order shared library constructor execution
+- sigaltstack no longer rejects SS_AUTODISARM, future flags
+- FILE is now a complete (dummy) type in pre-C11 feature profiles
+- setvbuf reports failure on invalid arguments
+- TSVTX is exposed unconditionally in tar.h
+- multithreaded set*id() no longer depends on /proc
+- key slot reuse after pthread_key_delete no longer depends on /proc
+
+bugs fixed:
+- failures in multithreaded set*id() with concurrent thread creation/exit
+- interposed free was called from invalid/inconsistent contexts
+- freeaddrinfo performed invalid free of some partial results lists
+- dlsym dependency order search had false negatives and false positives
+- dn_skipname gave wrong results for labels with 8-bit content
+- dcngettext clobbered errno, often breaking printing of error messages
+- sscanf read past end of buffer under certain conditions (1.1.21 regression)
+- pthread_key_create spuriously failed under race condition (1.1.21 regression)
+- fdopendir wrongly succeeded with O_PATH file descriptors
+- gets behaved incorrectly in presence of null bytes
+- namespace violations in c11 tsd and mutex function dependencies
+- incorrect prototype for makecontext (unimplemented)
+
+arch-specfic bugs fixed:
+- s390x had wrong values for POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED/_NOREUSE
+
+
+
+1.1.23 release notes
+
+new features:
+- riscv64 port
+- configure now allows customizing AR and RANLIB vars
+- header-level support for new linux features in 5.1
+
+major internal changes:
+- removed extern __syscall; syscall header code is now fully self-contained
+
+performance:
+- new math library implementation for log/exp/pow
+- aarch64 dynamic tlsdesc function is streamlined
+
+compatibility & conformance:
+- O_TTY_INIT is now defined
+- sys/types.h no longer pollutes namespace with sys/sysmacros.h in any profile
+- powerpc asm is now compatible with clang internal assembler
+
+changes for new POSIX interpretations:
+- fgetwc now sets stream error indicator on encoding errors
+- fmemopen no longer rejects 0 size
+
+bugs fixed:
+- static TLS for shared libraries was allocated wrong on "Variant I" archs
+- crash in dladdr reading through uninitialized pointer on non-match
+- sigaltstack wrongly errored out on invalid ss_size when doing SS_DISABLE
+- getdents function misbehaved with buffer length larger than INT_MAX
+- set*id could deadlock after fork from multithreaded process
+
+arch-specfic bugs fixed:
+- s390x SO_PEERSEC definition was wrong
+- passing of 64-bit syscall arguments was broken on microblaze
+- posix_fadvise was broken on mips due to missing 7-arg syscall support
+- vrregset_t layout and member naming was wrong on powerpc64
+
+
+
+1.1.24 release notes
+
+new features:
+- GLOB_TILDE extension to glob
+- non-stub catgets localization API, using netbsd binary catalog format
+- posix_spawn file actions for [f]chdir (extension, pending future standard)
+- secure_getenv function (extension)
+- copy_file_range syscall wrapper (Linux extension)
+- header-level support for new linux features in 5.2
+
+performance:
+- new fast path for lrint (generic C version) on 32-bit archs
+
+major internal changes:
+- functions involving time are overhauled to be time64-ready in 32-bit archs
+- x32 uses the new time64 code paths to replace nasty hacks in syscall glue
+
+compatibility & conformance:
+- support for powerpc[64] unaligned relocation types
+- powerpc[64] and sh sys/user.h no longer clash with kernel asm/ptrace.h
+- select no longer modifies timeout on failure (or at all)
+- mips64 stat results are no longer limited to 32-bit time range
+- optreset (BSD extension) now has a public declaration
+- support for clang inconsistencies in wchar_t type vs some 32-bit archs
+- mips r6 syscall asm no longer has invalid lo/hi register clobbers
+- vestigial asm declarations of __tls_get_new are removed (broke some tooling)
+- riscv64 mcontext_t mismatch glibc's member naming is corrected
+
+bugs fixed:
+- glob failed to match broken symlinks consistently
+- invalid use of interposed calloc to allocate initial TLS
+- various dlsym symbol resolution logic errors
+- semctl with SEM_STAT_ANY didn't work
+- pthread_create with explicit scheduling was subject to priority inversion
+- pthread_create failure path had data race for thread count
+- timer_create with SIGEV_THREAD notification had data race getting timer id
+- wide printf family failed to support l modifier for float formats
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- x87 floating point stack imbalance in math asm (i386-only CVE-2019-14697)
+- x32 clock_adjtime, getrusage, wait3, wait4 produced junk (struct mismatches)
+- lseek broken on x32 and mipsn32 with large file offsets
+- riscv64 atomics weren't compiler barriers
+- riscv64 atomics had broken asm constraints (missing earlyclobber flag)
+- arm clone() was broken when compiled as thumb if start function returned
+- mipsr6 setjmp/longjmp did not preserve fpu register state correctly
+
+
+
+1.2.0 release notes
+
+new features:
+- time_t is now 64-bit on all archs (not just 64-bit archs)
+- character type & case mapping data updated to Unicode 12.1.0
+- header-level support for new linux features in 5.3 and 5.4
+
+performance:
+- new O(1) wchar_t case mapping implementation
+- i386 now uses C math code for exp, faster than old asm
+- mips math asm
+
+compatibility & conformance:
+- endian.h now aims to conform to future POSIX definition
+- support older compilers that don't accept powerpc math asm constraints
+- fdpic code in ldso was incompatible with valid optimizations in gcc 9+
+- RLIMIT_RTTIME was missing from sys/resource.h
+
+bugs fixed:
+- wcwidth wrongly returned 0 for most of planes 4 and up
+- missing case mapping between U+03F3 and U+037F
+- wrong cacosh results for arguments with negative imaginary part
+- wrong catanf/catanl results for various classes of arguments
+- wrong return value for ungetc with argument outside [0,UCHAR_MAX]
+- posix_openpt with no ptys available produced wrong errno
+
+arch-specific bugs fixed:
+- sigcontext/regset definition mistakes & omissions on m68k, powerpc64
+- fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on riscv64
+- sh2 dynamic linker was broken since 1.1.21 (crash in stage 2b)
+- arm dynamic linker chose wrong tls/atomic variants since 1.1.21
+- some math library functions returned excess precision on i386
+- unconfirmed regression in fchmodat AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW on mips*
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