From ea9525c8bcf6170df59364c4bcd616de1acf8703 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rich Felker Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2019 17:58:27 -0400 Subject: release 1.1.24 --- WHATSNEW | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 49 insertions(+) (limited to 'WHATSNEW') diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW index b46e9ae1..f9879bd5 100644 --- a/WHATSNEW +++ b/WHATSNEW @@ -2115,3 +2115,52 @@ arch-specfic bugs fixed: - 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 -- cgit 1.4.1