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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7838f79ab2..1577f4310f 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -31,6 +31,16 @@ Major new features: * Building and running on GNU/Hurd systems now works without out-of-tree patches. +* IDN domain names in getaddrinfo and getnameinfo now use the system libidn2 + library if installed. libidn2 version 2.0.5 or later is recommended. If + libidn2 is not available, internationalized domain names are not encoded + or decoded even if the AI_IDN or NI_IDN flags are passed to getaddrinfo or + getnameinfo. (getaddrinfo calls with non-ASCII names and AI_IDN will fail + with an encoding error.) Flags which used to change the IDN encoding and + decoding behavior (AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES, + NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED, NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES) have been + deprecated. They no longer have any effect. + Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * The nonstandard header files <libio.h> and <_G_config.h> are no longer @@ -79,13 +89,25 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: and was not declared in a header. Programs should use the lseek64 name for this function instead. +* The AI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED and NI_IDN_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED flags for the + getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The behavior + previously selected by them is now always enabled. + +* The AI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES and NI_IDN_USE_STD3_ASCII_RULES flags for + the getaddrinfo and getnameinfo functions have been deprecated. The STD3 + restriction (rejecting '_' in host names, among other things) has been + removed, for increased compatibility with non-IDN name resolution. + Changes to build and runtime requirements: [Add changes to build and runtime requirements here] Security related changes: - [Add security related changes here] + CVE-2016-6261, CVE-2016-6263, CVE-2017-14062: Various vulnerabilities have + been fixed by removing the glibc-internal IDNA implementation and using + the system-provided libidn2 library instead. Originally reported by Hanno + Böck and Christian Weisgerber. The following bugs are resolved with this release: |