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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index d96c7caae8..d51fa09544 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ Major new features: NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been deprecated. They no longer have any effect. +* Parsing of dynamic string tokens in DT_RPATH, DT_RUNPATH, DT_NEEDED, + DT_AUXILIARY, and DT_FILTER has been expanded to support the full + range of ELF gABI expressions including such constructs as + '$ORIGIN$ORIGIN' (if valid). For SUID/GUID applications the rules + have been further restricted, and where in the past a dynamic string + token sequence may have been interpreted as a literal string it will + now cause a load failure. These load failures were always considered + unspecified behaviour from the perspective of the dynamic loader, and + for safety are now load errors e.g. /foo/${ORIGIN}.so in DT_NEEDED + results in a load failure now. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer |