| 0.5.0 - initial release | 
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 | 0.5.9 - signal ABI bugfix, various cleanup and fixes: | 
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 | sigset_t was wrongly defined as 1024 bytes instead of 1024 bits, | 
 | breaking the intended ABI compatibility with the LSB/glibc sigaction | 
 | structure. users should upgrade immediately and rebuild any libraries | 
 | or object files that might be using the incorrect definitions. | 
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 | improved security against DoS with tcb shadow passwords by checking | 
 | that the file opened was really an ordinary file. | 
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 | fixed a bug in the implementation of atomic ops that could have | 
 | allowed the compiler to incorrectly reorder them (in practice, gcc | 
 | with the default settings on i386 was not reordering them). | 
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 | greatly improved conformance to the C and POSIX standards regarding | 
 | what the standard header files make visible. _POSIX_C_SOURCE is now | 
 | needed to get POSIX functions in standard C headers, and _XOPEN_SOURCE | 
 | or _GNU_SOURCE are required to get XSI interfaces or GNU extensions, | 
 | respectively. | 
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 | many internal improvements have been made to the syscall-related code | 
 | in preparation for porting to x86_64 and other archs. | 
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 | 0.6.0 - x86_64 port, various important bugs fixed | 
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 | new x86_64 (amd64) architecture port, contributed by Nicholas J. Kain, | 
 | along with PORTING guide. source tree layout and build system have | 
 | been improved to accommodate further ports. | 
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 | various bugs that were introduced while making the headers respect C | 
 | and POSIX namespace standards have been fixed. conformance to the | 
 | standards has been improved. | 
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 | fixed an inefficiency in qsort that triggered a bug (occasionaly | 
 | internal compiler error) in some versions of gcc. | 
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 | fixed a major bug in the printf %n specifier that prevented it from | 
 | working and caused memory corruption. | 
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 | 0.7.0 - major improvements to posix conformance and completeness | 
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 | implemented posix shared memory and semaphore interfaces. | 
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 | implemented all remaining required pthread and clock interfaces. | 
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 | major fixes to signal semantics. | 
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 | greatly improved temporary file name generation for safety against | 
 | denial of service due to intentional name collisions. | 
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 | added syscall wrappers for the linux inotify interface. | 
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 | malloc(0) now returns a non-null pointer. | 
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 | fixed printf %n specifier (again), pthread_once (it was always | 
 | hanging), and non-default-type mutex behavior. | 
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 | added ucontext/sigcontext support in headers to facilitate building | 
 | libgcc with dwarf2 unwind support, and possibly other low-level tools. | 
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 | improved musl-gcc compiler wrapper. | 
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 | implemented many small missing functions here and there, minor header | 
 | fixes, etc. | 
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 | 0.7.1 - improvements to completeness, bug fixes | 
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 | implemented flockfile, wprintf, and robust mutex functions. | 
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 | fixed stack corruption bug in times(), minor header bugs, and some | 
 | error return value bugs in thread interfaces. | 
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 | 0.7.5 - new features, major optimization, and robustness | 
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 | implemented POSIX timers. | 
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 | optimized and simplified many thread-related functions. | 
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 | eliminated resource leak races in thread cancellation. (almost all | 
 | existing implementations, including glibc, have these leaks.) | 
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 | overhauled stdio implementation to take advantage of readv/writev for | 
 | reduced syscall load, and improved stdio's handling of error status. | 
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 | added syscall header and interface for applications to use and | 
 | greatly simplified internal system for making syscalls. | 
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 | strangthened tmpnam/tempnam/tmpfile filename generation and made the | 
 | straight C functions not depend on POSIX symbols. | 
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 | fixed pthread cancellation ABI on i386 to match the LSB/glibc ABI | 
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 | better double-free handling in malloc | 
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 | various minor bug fixes | 
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 | 0.7.6 - major bug fixes | 
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 | fixed rare but serious under-allocation bug in malloc. | 
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 | fixed signedness bug in strchr that prevented finding high bytes. | 
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 | fixed serious parsing bugs in strtold. | 
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 | fixed statvfs syscall (it was always failing with EINVAL). | 
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 | fixed race condition in set*id() functions with threads (possible | 
 | deadlock). further audit still needed though. | 
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 | fseek no longer sets the stream error flag on failed seeks (this was | 
 | wrong and broke some programs, notably GNU m4). | 
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 | nl_langinfo is no longer a dummy function. (the functionality was | 
 | previously implemented but accidentally left unused). | 
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 | various small fixes have been made to the implementations and | 
 | prototypes for nonstandard and obsolete functions | 
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 | 0.7.7 - more bug fixes and program-compatibility improvements | 
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 | fixed floating point formatting and rounding bugs in printf. | 
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 | fixed broken %N$ positional argument specifiers in printf. | 
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 | fixed misaligned read/overread bug in strchr which could lead to | 
 | crashes scanning tiny strings at the end of a page when the next page | 
 | is not readable, or on archs (not yet supported) that forbid | 
 | misaligned reads. | 
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 | fixed breakage of statvfs on x86_64 | 
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 | fixed crash in getmntent_r | 
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 | fixed bug in POSIX timers created with NULL sigevent argument | 
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 | improved semaphore performance, and sem_wait is now interruptable by | 
 | signals, as required by POSIX. | 
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 | added many compatibility and system-level interfaces, increasing the | 
 | proportion of busybox that works with musl. | 
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 | 0.7.8 - more bug fixes and compatibility improvements | 
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 | fixed problems with ipv6 dns and address printing code that made ipv6 | 
 | support practically unusable, and some other getaddrinfo bugs. | 
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 | fixed broken sendmsg/recvmsg functions on x86_64 (caused by incorrect | 
 | msghdr structure). | 
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 | fixed broken sigsetjmp asm on x86_64. | 
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 | worked around a problem with input buffering on terminals reblocking | 
 | after getting a blank line, due to a bug in the linux readv syscall. | 
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 | various improvements to the "rsyscall" system used to implement | 
 | threaded setuid, setgid, etc. | 
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 | exiting/cancelling the a timer handler thread no longer kills the | 
 | timer. | 
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 | fixed incorrect trailing zeros on some %g conversions in printf. | 
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 | fixed buggy byte-swapping functions and moved them to inlines in | 
 | byteswap.h. | 
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 | many small improvements to header/application compatibility, support | 
 | for nonstandard macros, etc. | 
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 | 0.7.9 release notes | 
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 | new pthread cancellation implementation: | 
 | - safe against resource-leak/side-effect-leak race conditions | 
 | - safe against interruption by signal handlers | 
 | - reduced bloat in all cancellable functions | 
 | - reduced bloat for blocking cancellation | 
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 | new interfaces implemented: | 
 | - realpath (limited functionality) | 
 | - wordexp (limited functionality) | 
 | - flock (nonstandard) | 
 | - forkpty (nonstandard) | 
 | - posix_fadvise | 
 | - posix_fallocate | 
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 | general bug fixes: | 
 | - syslog function failure to communicate with syslogd | 
 | - bug in siginfo_t definition if wait.h was included before signal.h | 
 | - incorrect struct definitions for most of sysv ipc | 
 | - pthread_exit/cancel on timer handler wrongly destroying the timer | 
 | - linux dup2 ebusy workaround | 
 | - obscure issues in non-threaded programs using some pthread functions | 
 | - getopt_long allowed mismatch in last char of option name | 
 | - incorrect parsing of obscure ip address forms | 
 | - initgroups not working reliably (uninitialized var) | 
 | - shadow pass treating empty expiry field as pass-expired-in-1970 | 
 | - bogus longjmp if pthread_exit was called from cancellation handlers | 
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 | x86_64-specific bug fixes: | 
 | - fcntl file locking | 
 | - thread stack alignment | 
 | - broken select timeouts due to incorrect timeval definition | 
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 | 0.7.10 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - ipv6 numeric string parsing | 
 | - eventfd syscall wrappers | 
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 | optimizations: | 
 | - new qsort implementation using the smoothsort algorithm | 
 | - much smaller/faster sigset_t handling functions | 
 | - lowered spin count before futex wait in synchronization functions | 
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 | general bug fixes: | 
 | - incorrect floating point round-to-even behavior in printf | 
 | - major bugs in pthread barrier implementation | 
 | - off-by-one error in scanf %n results | 
 | - scanf failure to report EOF when scanning for literal text | 
 | - minor missing/incorrect prototype issues | 
 | - dependency on undefined call order in fclose | 
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 | compiler issue workarounds: | 
 | - incorrect inlining of variadic functions on recent gcc versions | 
 | - pcc preprocessor bug with recursive macro expansion | 
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 | 0.7.11 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - integrated dynamic linker | 
 | - dynamic loading (dlopen/dlsym) (for dynamic-linked programs only) | 
 | - XSI search.h API | 
 | - POSIX message queues | 
 | - POSIX spawn interfaces | 
 | - BSD pseudo-random number generator API (random/srandom/initstate/etc.) | 
 | - floating point environment (limited usefulness due to gcc bugs) | 
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 | general bug fixes: | 
 | - possible crashes with wordexp due to uninitialized variable | 
 | - race condition in pthread_kill (also present and unfixed in glibc/nptl) | 
 | - pthread exit destructors called too late | 
 | - dangerous unbounded vla in glob | 
 | - brk/sbrk legacy functions mismatching legacy semantics | 
 | - wcsncpy dest buffer overflow | 
 | - strncat and wcsncat possible overflows due to double-termination | 
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 | 0.7.12 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - support for textrels in shared objects | 
 | - rpath support in dynamic linker | 
 | - stdio_ext.h functions (for better gnu software compatibility) | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - some compilers miscompiling dlopen due to misuse of longjmp | 
 | - safe handling of invalid long-double bit patterns (affects printf) | 
 | - workaround for bugs in linux mprotect syscall | 
 | - thread-safety for random() functions | 
 | - various minor issues | 
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 | 0.8.0 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - chinese and japanese legacy charset support in iconv | 
 | - zero-syscall clock_gettime support (dynamic-linked x86_64 only) | 
 | - futex-based locking for stdio (previously used spinlocks) | 
 | - LD_PRELOAD and RTLD_NEXT support in dynamic linker | 
 | - strptime (mostly working but incomplete) | 
 | - posix aio (mostly working but not entirely conformant) | 
 | - memory streams (fmemopen, open_memstream, ...) | 
 | - stub/dummy implementations for various useless legacy functions | 
 | - if_nameindex | 
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 | security hardening: | 
 | - setuid, etc. should not longer be able to "partially fail" with threads | 
 | - ensure suid programs start with fd 0,1,2 open | 
 | - improved openpty/forkpty failure checks | 
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 | threads/synchronization bug fixes: | 
 | - dangerous spurious wakeup in pthread_join lead to early return | 
 | - race condition enabling async cancellation (delayed/lost cancellation) | 
 | - destruction/unmapping race conditions in semaphores, mutexes, rwlocks | 
 | - recursive rwlock_rdlock deadlock when a writer is waiting | 
 | - race condition in sigqueue with fork | 
 | - timer expiration thread exit wasn't running dtors | 
 | - timer threads weren't blocking signals | 
 | - close was wrongly cancellable after succeeding on some devices | 
 | - robust mutex list was not reset on fork | 
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 | general bug fixes: | 
 | - incorrect logic in fread (spurious blocking; crash on write-only files) | 
 | - many corner cases and overflow cases for strtol-family functions | 
 | - various printf integer formatting issues with flags/width/precision | 
 | - incorrect iconv return value on failure | 
 | - broken FD_* macros on 64-bit targets | 
 | - clock function returning wrong value (real time not cpu time) | 
 | - siglongjmp signal mask clobbering (off-by-one pointer error) | 
 | - dynamic linker weak symbol resolution issues | 
 | - fdopendir failure to set errno | 
 | - various minor header fixes | 
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 | 0.8.1 release notes | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - mismatching prototypes caused build failure on 64-bit | 
 | - other minor prototype errors in the headers have been fixed | 
 | - various other small omissions fixed | 
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 | 0.8.2 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - ptrace syscall support | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - const error (only a warning with many compilers) in lio_listio | 
 | - minor portability fixes aimed at supporting new arch targets | 
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 | 0.8.3 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - arm port (experimental) | 
 | - better musl-gcc wrapper script for building against musl | 
 | - added clone system call | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - numerous header file typos, copy/paste errors, omissions | 
 | - statfs and statvfs ABI are now LSB-conformant (and actually work) | 
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 | 0.8.4 release notes | 
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 | new features:  | 
 | - arm dynamic linker support | 
 | - process-shared pthread barriers now work | 
 | - efficient futex-requeue-based cond var broadcast | 
 | - more optional cancellation points are now cancellable | 
 | - printf accepts null pointers with %s, prints as "(null)" | 
 | - recursive mutexes are now fully reentrant | 
 | - __cxa_atexit support | 
 | - real vfork | 
 | - dynamic linker now gold-compatible | 
 | - prlimit syscall | 
 | - support for large limits with setrlimit/getrlimit (even on 32-bit) | 
 | - glob now supports GLOB_PERIOD option (GNU extension) | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - many serious issues in condition variables | 
 | - rwlock failure-to-wake deadlock issues | 
 | - various small header files bugs/omissions | 
 | - wrong failure return for pthread_create | 
 | - path handling issues on execvp | 
 | - lock count corruption with robust recursive mutexes on owner death | 
 | - integer overflows in atoi, etc. reading most-negative value | 
 | - spurious mremaps on every realloc of large memory chunks | 
 | - pthread cancellation failure in single-threaded programs | 
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 | security: | 
 | - avoid fd_set overflow in dns lookups | 
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 | 0.8.5 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - stdio operations are now cancellable (only when low-level io happens) | 
 | - global ctor/dtor support in main program start code and shared libs | 
 | - dynamic linker support for PIE executables (but missing startup code) | 
 | - vfork support on x86_64 | 
 | - complete set of locale_t functions (all ignore the locale argument) | 
 | - provide define float_t and double_t in math.h | 
 | - lighter/faster cancellation cleanup handler register/unregister | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - gcc wrapper now supports -shared, -nostdlib, -nostartfiles | 
 | - removed one wrongly-classified character from iswspace set (zwsp) | 
 | - fixed crashes in dns lookup on some errors, e.g. resolv.conf missing | 
 | - "make install" no longer tries to build shared libc if disabled | 
 | - ptrace argument handling bugs fixed | 
 | - work around visibility-hidden bugs in gcc 3.x | 
 | - fix thread-pointer-loss issue when it's initialized in signal handlers | 
 | - various minor typo/misc fixes in headers | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - glob behaves more like traditional implementations w.r.t. GLOB_MARK | 
 | - added legacy futimes, lutimes functions | 
 | - more compatibility macros in sys/param.h (nonstandard header) | 
 | - setfs[ug]id syscall wrappers (linux specific) | 
 | - fgetpwent function (nonstandard) | 
 | - utmp.h matches traditional version more closely | 
 | - caddr_t now matches glibc type (void * instead of long) | 
 | - dummy (always-fail) dlopen and dlsym functions for static linked programs | 
 | - [efg]cvt functions (previously posix, removed from standard) | 
 | - get_current_dir_name function (nonstandard) | 
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 | 0.8.6 release notes | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - fix crash in dns lookups for all static-linked, non-threaded programs | 
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 | 0.8.7 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - c++ support with g++'s libstdc++ | 
 | - c99 math library (float, long double, complex, etc.) | 
 | - numerous wchar_t functions | 
 | - a64l, l64a functions | 
 | - getdate function | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - c89 compatibility in math.h | 
 | - syscall.h alias for sys/syscall.h | 
 | - memory.h alias for string.h | 
 | - getcwd supports null buffer argument (auto-allocation) | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - major fenv (floating point environment) fixes and optimizations | 
 | - strptime mishandling of day/month names | 
 | - strtoull wrongly rejecting the highest 16 possible values as overflow | 
 | - math.h constant expression fixes for INFINITY/NAN/etc. | 
 | - scanf mishandling of "0" with "%x" | 
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 | 0.8.8 release notes | 
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 | new feature: | 
 | - major math correctness and performance improvements | 
 | - many math functions implemented in asm for i386 | 
 | - some math functions (mostly long double) in asm for x86_64 | 
 | - new floating point parser/converter with correct rounding | 
 | - implement wcstod, wcstof, and wcstold | 
 | - new scanf implementation - cleaner, faster, more correct | 
 | - minimal/incomplete strfmon implementation | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - header fixes for c++ | 
 | - regex code resync with TRE; support common regex extensions | 
 | - support for compiling apps with gcc's -funsigned-char | 
 | - sysconf now returns dynamic limits for open files, processes | 
 | - give dlerror proper error status stickiness | 
 | - make alloca work even with -fno-builtin | 
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 | critical security fixes: | 
 | - stack-based buffer overflow in fprintf on unbuffered files | 
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 | other bug fixes: | 
 | - rare gcc register allocation (miscompilation) bug in syscall wrappers | 
 | - printf was rejecting the valid (but redundant) %lf format specifier | 
 | - fixed big data bloat (missing const) in math functions | 
 | - many math fixes related to floating point exceptions and rounding | 
 | - corrected DECIMAL_DIG definitions | 
 | - tgammal was wrongly setting global signgam | 
 | - crash in wordfree with uninitialized we_offs | 
 | - fix wordexp not null-initializing the we_offs initial slots | 
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 | 0.8.9 release notes | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - major breakage in strtol and family: failure to accept leading spaces | 
 | - incorrect name for MATH_ERREXCEPT in math.h | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - prototypes for a few additional nonstandard functions | 
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 | 0.8.10 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - correct over/underflow detection (ERANGE setting) for strtod | 
 | - new musl-gcc wrapper, specfile based, faster and more robust | 
 | - meaningful return strings for dlerror | 
 | - new iswalpha, iswpunct, and wcwidth; sync'd to Unicode 6.1 | 
 | - towupper/towlower sync'd with Unicode 6.1 | 
 | - new futex-based libc-internal locks instead of spinlocks | 
 | - experimental stack protector support (minimal; no random canary) | 
 | - experimental gdb shared library tracking support | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - getusershell family functions | 
 | - getresuid and getresgid syscall wrappers | 
 | - byte swapping macros in endian.h | 
 | - getdtablesize was wrongly declared in unistd.h for _XOPEN_SOURCE | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - iconv_open wrongly rejecting most dest charsets (broken in 0.8.0) | 
 | - sysconf failure when correct value is -1 (broken in 0.8.8) | 
 | - scanf and strtod family functions overreading past NAN (4 bytes vs 3) | 
 | - scanf and strtod wrongly treating "0.00000000001", etc. as 0 | 
 | - many bugs in towupper/towlower (never seriously tested before) | 
 | - int8_t definition was wrong when gcc -funsigned-char was used | 
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 | 0.9.0 release notes | 
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 | license change: MIT | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - configure script, improved build system | 
 | - full stack protector support | 
 | - PIE support on x86 and x86_64 | 
 | - new O(1) space, O(nm) time implementation of fnmatch | 
 | - improved support for sse2 floating point mode on x86 | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - added linux unshare syscall | 
 | - exp10/pow10 function | 
 | - sqrtl support on arm (previously missing) | 
 | - removed minimal linux/*.h headers that could conflict with real ones | 
 | - support for _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE (mapped to standard fcns with #define) | 
 | - better c89 compatibility in headers | 
 | - stub versions of sched_* functions (previously missing) | 
 | - pthread stacks no longer executable (compat with hardened kernels) | 
 | - new ar.h and lastlog.h (legacy junk) | 
 | - various other header improvements | 
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 | optimization: | 
 | - additional x86_64 math asm | 
 | - better formula for acos use in i386 asm | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - large (up to a few %) errors in strtod for certain values due to bug | 
 | - mbsnrtowcs and wcsnrtombs were completely broken (bad exit logic) | 
 | - wide printf %.0s could fail due to uninitialized variable | 
 | - missing dlerror strings for dlsym in some cases | 
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 | 0.9.1 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - dynamic linker can be used as a program to explicitly load/run executables | 
 | - ldd command, usable by making a symlink to the dynamic linker named ldd | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - major bugs in POSIX BRE parsing inherited from TRE regex code | 
 | - character matching bug in regex on ARM: WCHAR_MAX was assumed to be signed | 
 | - various obscure fixes related to signals and pthread cancellation | 
 | - remquot subnormal remainder bug | 
 | - buggy macros in (nonstandard) sys/param.h | 
 | - major bug in pthread barriers on x86_64 (out of bounds write) | 
 | - utimes (legacy) function was making wrong syscall (utime instead of utimes) | 
 | - avoid using "old" syscalls that don't exist on arm eabi linux | 
 | - broken strrchr(str, 0) | 
 | - broken mbsinit(0) | 
 | - broken wcsncmp | 
 | - syntax error in nextafter macro in tgmath.h | 
 | - missing support for -pie in musl-gcc wrapper | 
 | - abort could wrongly fail to terminate the program in some cases | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - increase default thread stack size to 80k | 
 | - support _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro | 
 | - support _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE feature test macro (merely exposes alt names) | 
 | - lots of legacy-compatibility improvements in headers | 
 | - various minor GNU extension functions | 
 | - sysconf reporting number of available CPUs/cores | 
 | - various LSB/glibc ABI interfaces aimed at compatibility with some binaries | 
 | - use fistpll asm mnemonic instead of fistpq for compat with clang | 
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 | 0.9.2 release notes | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - pointer overflow in printf (crash on 32bit userspace, 64bit kernel) | 
 | - printf %ls over-read bug | 
 | - strtod failure to read -0x as negative zero | 
 | - flush stdio after dtors, not before | 
 | - wrong file position for buffered input streams on exit | 
 | - popen was broken when stdin/out were already closed | 
 | - broken wcwidth tables (missing many characters) | 
 | - fwrite: wrong return value of partial/failed write | 
 | - broken utf-16 conversions | 
 | - bad buffer length check in getlogin_r | 
 | - bad perror("") behavior; did not match perror(0) | 
 | - broken sysinfo syscall/structure | 
 | - stdint.h const macro signedness bugs | 
 | - broken include guards in some headers | 
 | - bogus localeconv values | 
 | - cancellation-safety for popen and pclose | 
 | - fma corner cases wrong on i386 | 
 | - fcntl F_GETOWN errno missing on failure. | 
 | - char signedness bug in dynamic linker broke dlopen on arm | 
 | - mprotect failure in dynamic linker caused crash instead of error | 
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 | build system: | 
 | - configure check to work around hacked-up gcc versions | 
 | - test for old binutils that can't support musl dynamic linker | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - make _GNU_SOURCE imply _LARGEFILE64_SOURCE | 
 | - syscall wrapper for lots of nonstandard and/or legacy linux syscalls | 
 | - versionsort stub | 
 | - timegm function (inverse of gmtime) | 
 | - various minor header tweaks | 
 | - make __freading/__fwriting semantics match traditional ones | 
 | - added gnulib-compatibility stdio interfaces | 
 | - added pthread_attr_setstack interface | 
 | - make strerror_r return partial string when buffer is too small | 
 | - duplocale should accept LC_GLOBAL_LOCALE | 
 | - align ptsname_r to upcoming posix requirements | 
 | - support invalid ld80 bit patterns as extra nans. | 
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 | 0.9.3 release notes | 
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 | new features: | 
 | - mips (32-bit, o32 abi) port, currently static-linked only | 
 | - newly overhauled crypt implementation | 
 | - improved library pathname info for debugger from the dynamic linker | 
 | - getaddrinfo (and getservbyname) now support /etc/services lookups | 
 | - pipe2 syscall wrapper | 
 | - splice and vmsplice syscall wrappers | 
 | - syscall wrappers for extended attribute interfaces | 
 | - ioperm/iopl syscall wrappers on archs that support these operations | 
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 | bug fixes: | 
 | - dlsym RTLD_NEXT library search order was wrong | 
 | - multiple dlopen pathname and library name handling errors | 
 | - potential race condition in detached thread exit | 
 | - broken internal-lock-handling code not updated for futex-based __lock | 
 | - sem_trywait spurious EAGAIN errors arising from CAS failures | 
 | - workaround kernel bug in cmsghdr size_t vs socklen_t issue (64-bit) | 
 | - getservby* crash on null protocol argument | 
 | - logic error skipping failed interfaces in if_nameindex | 
 | - various minor header/declaration related issues | 
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 | arm-specific bug fixes: | 
 | - broken crti/crtn startup code when gcc crtbegin/end files are linked | 
 | - sigsetjmp tail call optimization failure broke the function | 
 | - incorrect little-endian assumptions in atomic.h functions | 
 | - use of blx instruction in asm (not supported on pre-v5 arm) | 
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 | build system: | 
 | - only use expensive -ffloat-store cflag on archs/compilers that need it | 
 | - make musl-gcc wrapper support -lgcc (mainly for self-hosting) | 
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 | 0.9.4 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - blowfish crypt | 
 | - dynamic linking on mips | 
 | - arm hard float support | 
 | - BSD fgetln function in stdio | 
 | - minor header improvements for compatibility | 
 | - support for CROSS_COMPILE variable to configure | 
 | - legacy significand function | 
 | - better support for SUSv3-targeted programs | 
 |  | 
 | performance: | 
 | - assembly (string ops based) memcpy for i386 and x86_64 | 
 | - reduce printf overhead | 
 |  | 
 | bug fixes: | 
 | - failure of strtod, etc. to process extremely long strings correctly | 
 | - read overrun in wcsstr for short needles | 
 | - various major mips issues that prevented most software from working | 
 | - erroneous floating point exception behavior in i386/x86_64 exp asm | 
 | - crashes on null arguments to legacy err.h functions | 
 | - various header file/type issues | 
 | - extremely rare/obscure race condition with robust mutexes | 
 | - crypt now never returns null (most programs don't check, then crash) | 
 | - missing xattr remove functions | 
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 | 0.9.5 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | compatibility and headers: | 
 | - POSIX+XSI+BSD features enabled by default with no macros defined | 
 | - most programs can now be built without adding -D_GNU_SOURCE | 
 | - added C99 restrict keyword where required in all prototypes | 
 | - greater C89 compatibility | 
 | - cleaner, more-compatible public syscall.h | 
 | - many other header fixes | 
 | - support for compiling musl with clang/llvm | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - sha 256/512 password hash functions in crypt | 
 | - GNU hash support in dynamic linker | 
 | - partial C11 coverage | 
 | - dladdr function added | 
 | - dynamic linker reports all errors instead of exiting on first error | 
 | - syscall wrappers added for most remaining linux syscalls | 
 | - provide POSIX O_SEARCH open mode using linux O_PATH | 
 |  | 
 | bug fixes: | 
 | - most atexit functions were being skipped when exiting | 
 | - some BSD functions were not being exposed under _BSD_SOURCE | 
 | - issues loading ssp-protected DSO into non-ssp program with dlopen | 
 |  | 
 | debloating: | 
 | - eliminate .eh_frame (10-15% loaded size bloat) | 
 | - optimal inline syscall asm for ARM and MIPS | 
 | - no longer force -O3 for shared libs | 
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 |  | 
 | 0.9.6 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | bug fixes: | 
 | - serious breakage in definition of O_ACCMODE mask (missing a bit) | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - O_EXEC open mode | 
 | - md5 crypt hash function | 
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 | 0.9.7 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - thread-local storage (__thread/_Thread_local) | 
 | - microblaze port | 
 | - getopt option parsing reset support | 
 | - vsyscall (sysenter, etc.) support on i386 (faster syscalls) | 
 | - memmem function (GNU extension) | 
 | - mips fenv support | 
 | - accept "nan(n-char-sequence)" in strtod/scanf family functions | 
 | - configure now supports compiling with pcc | 
 |  | 
 | quality and correctness improvements: | 
 | - close-on-exec flag for all library-internal file descriptors | 
 | - cancellation-safety and corner-case overhaul in shm_open/sem_open | 
 | - close EINTR vs EINPROGRESS issue | 
 | - mark binaries as not requiring executable stack | 
 | - better gdb compatibility in dynamic linker | 
 | - support recursive dlopen (dlopen called from constructors) | 
 | - posix_spawn/system/popen no longer momentarily double commit charge | 
 | - all stdio functions wait for locks | 
 |  | 
 | bug fixes: | 
 | - broken sysvipc *ctl functions on 64-bit archs | 
 | - broken shmdt on some archs | 
 | - getaddrinfo failure with port "0" | 
 | - dirname handling of trailing slash | 
 | - vfork race in posix_spawn | 
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 | 0.9.8 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - powerpc port | 
 | - dl_iterate_phdr interface | 
 | - added mips-specific syscalls | 
 | - thread priority scheduling | 
 | - C11 CMPLX macro in complex.h | 
 | - x86 port io functions in sys/io.h | 
 |  | 
 | compatibility: | 
 | - improved headers for trace/debugging/machine-access | 
 | - stub functions for unsupported thread-related functionality | 
 |  | 
 | bug fixes: | 
 | - numerous math bugs (mostly exception flags and excess-precision issues) | 
 | - register clobber error in i386 vsyscall asm (did not affect most callers) | 
 | - various incorrect definitions in mips headers | 
 | - broken dlsym asm on mips | 
 | - empty prefix handling in configure script (--prefix="") | 
 | - ldso search path logic issues | 
 | - lock handling for stdio memory streams at exit time | 
 | - invalid SO_REUSEPORT definition in socket.h (not supported by Linux) | 
 | - broken redirection attempt to /dev/null in configure script | 
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 | 0.9.9 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - tgamma implementation (no longer lgamma wrapper with low precision) | 
 | - various gnu extensions: sigandset, sigorset, etc. | 
 | - futimesat function (obsolete) | 
 | - various linux syscalls: arch_prctl, personality, etc. | 
 |  | 
 | optimizations: | 
 | - hyperbolic, inverse hyperbolic, and inverse trig, bessel functions | 
 | - is* comparison macros in math.h now expand inline properly | 
 |  | 
 | library bugs fixed: | 
 | - calling getenv from shared library ctors was broken | 
 | - invalid read in mmap-serviced aligned_alloc/memalign (possible crash) | 
 | - wrong errno result in fallback path of pipe2  | 
 | - various math functions raising spurious exceptions | 
 | - mmap errno value on invalid offsets | 
 | - backwards alignment logic in strlcpy | 
 | - integer overflows in bessel functions | 
 | - large (up to 60ulp) error in erfcf | 
 | - dlsym/dlclose crashing on invalid library handles | 
 | - failure to handle arch variations for cloexec/nonblock flags | 
 | - lio_listio wrong return value for LIO_WAIT mode | 
 | - dladdr failure to resolve PLT addresses | 
 | - time_t/struct tm conversion off-by-one-day in december | 
 | - malloc corruption on nonstandard kernels with non-page-aligned brk | 
 |  | 
 | arch-specific bugs fixed: | 
 | - arm ctors/dtors were not working with recent gcc versions | 
 | - arm and mips setjmp/longjmp wrongly saved/restored fenv state | 
 | - loss of precision in i386/x86_64 expl | 
 |  | 
 | header bugs fixed: | 
 | - incorrect PRI/SCN macros in inttypes.h for some types | 
 | - arm sys/user.h regressions | 
 | - failure of offsetof() to be an integer constant expression | 
 | - tgmath return value type problems | 
 |  | 
 | header compatibility improvements: | 
 | - _GNU_SOURCE now enables everything; _ALL_SOURCE also works | 
 | - scsi/scsi.h and scsi/sg.h are now provided | 
 | - additional MAP_* flags for mmap | 
 | - additional F_* commands and flags for fcntl | 
 | - additional socket option, IPPROTO_* values, and multicase macros | 
 | - thread-related waitpid flags | 
 | - EHWPOISON added to errno.h | 
 | - additional macros for mount, swap, and reboot operations | 
 | - expose additional link.h structures | 
 | - always ensure sizeof(NULL)==sizeof(void *), even in c++ | 
 | - additional flags for poll, epoll, inotify, timerfd, timex, dlfcn | 
 | - register names in signal.h/ucontext.h for x86 | 
 | - ipc.h ipc_perm nonstandard struct field name compatibility improve | 
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 | 0.9.10 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - getifaddrs  | 
 | - pthread_getattr_np (widely used by garbage collectors) | 
 | - mkostemps, mkostemp, mkstemps functions (mkostemp is future-POSIX) | 
 | - strcasestr and strverscmp (previously stubs) | 
 |  | 
 | improvements: | 
 | - major performance improvements in mbtowc | 
 | - avoid filling caller-provided thread stacks with large TLS | 
 | - debloat unnecessary static buffers | 
 | - robust posix_spawn based on CLONE_VM instead of vfork | 
 | - new system() and popen() based on posix_spawn | 
 | - better strerror strings | 
 | - further emulation of atomic close-on-exec/nonblock options for old kernels | 
 | - provide macro constants for new-ish kernel features | 
 |  | 
 | compatibility: | 
 | - several nonstandard but widely-available pwd/grp/shadow functions | 
 | - program_invocation_[short_]name | 
 | - re-added useconds_t type used by some programs | 
 | - some legacy arpa headers | 
 | - dn_skipname function (legacy resolver API) | 
 | - additional ABI aliases for supporting glibc-linked libraries/binaries | 
 |  | 
 | general bugs fixed: | 
 | - stale locks and bogus munmap call when pthread_create fails | 
 | - uninitialized argument to munmap when dynlink load_library fails | 
 | - incorrect error returns in gethostby*_r | 
 | - memory leak in gethostbyname family | 
 | - blank ai_canonname in getaddrinfo for non-CNAME records | 
 | - undefined HZ macro in scsi/sg.h | 
 | - wrong return value for wmemmove on forward-copy | 
 | - namespace conformance in strings.h | 
 | - various utmp.h bugs | 
 | - unnecessary DT_SONAME in libc.so caused problems on some systems | 
 | - multiple bugs in syslog, some possibly dangerous | 
 | - non-functional setpriority function | 
 | - slight mishandling of 0xf5 byte in UTF-8 decoder | 
 | - misaligned memory accesses in mbsrtowcs | 
 |  | 
 | arch-specific bugs fixed: | 
 | - crash in shared library loading on arm | 
 | - missing __aeabi_atexit needed by arm eabi | 
 | - wrong float_t definition on x86_64 | 
 | - various low-impact type size/alignment mismatches in some headers | 
 | - epoll struct alignment wrong on non-x86[_64] archs | 
 | - broken pipe2 fallback code on mips with old kernels | 
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 | 0.9.11 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - %m allocation modifier for scanf | 
 | - week number and ISO week-based-year functionality in strftime | 
 | - per-process and per-thread cputime clocks | 
 | - ethernet address conversion interfaces | 
 | - legacy classful ipv4 network address interfaces | 
 | - minimal dlinfo function (nonstandard) | 
 |  | 
 | other improvements: | 
 | - dynamic linker path file can now use newlines to separate paths | 
 | - math optimizations for archs with extended precision (i386) | 
 | - musl-gcc wrapper now exposes gcc's intrinsic headers | 
 | - quality of rand and rand_r pseudo-random sequences | 
 | - support for large device minor numbers (greater than 8 bits) | 
 | - various header conformance and compatibility fixes | 
 |  | 
 | directly user-visible bugs fixed: | 
 | - scanf losing characters on unbuffered streams and fmemopen streams | 
 | - failure of mbsrtowcs to record stop position when dest is full | 
 | - failure of iconv to convert to legacy codepages | 
 | - non-working pthread_[sg]etschedparam functions (wrong syscall arguments) | 
 |  | 
 | other potentially-serious bugs fixed: | 
 | - resource leaks in sem_open | 
 | - various bugs in thread exit synchronization | 
 | - invalid access in aio notification after aiocb free/reuse | 
 | - synchronization in dynamic linker when new thread dlopens during ctors | 
 | - lack of error handling for failure to read dynamic linker path file | 
 | - creation by mmap or shmget of objects larger than PTRDIFF_MAX | 
 |  | 
 | minor conformance bugs fixed: | 
 | - overflow handling for the clock function | 
 | - workaround for incorrect exceptions in fma due to compiler bugs | 
 | - workaround wrong kernel type for sem_nsems field in struct semid_ds | 
 |  | 
 | arch-specific bugs fixed: | 
 | - x86_64 sigsetjmp clobbered the signal mask rather than saving it | 
 | - misaligned stack when calling ctors/dtors (crashing on x86_64) | 
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 | 0.9.12 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - zoneinfo time zone support | 
 | - PIE support on all supported archs | 
 | - named sub-archs for endian and float ABI variants | 
 | - improved support for non-root installs of the dynamic linker | 
 | - ability to selectively build only performance-critical modules with -O3 | 
 | - simple buffer overflow detection in free/realloc | 
 | - inet_ntop now presents v4-mapped addresses in ::ffff:a.b.c.d form | 
 | - ldd now reports libc and the dynamic linker in its output | 
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 | compatibility: | 
 | - support for new init/fini array (needed for ctors/dtors on newer gcc) | 
 | - C++ ABI fully matches glibc/LSB, at least on x86 | 
 | - many added ABI compatibility symbols for using glibc-linked libs | 
 | - support for STB_GNU_UNIQUE symbol bindings (found in some C++ libs) | 
 | - macros/types for new Linux kernel features in headers | 
 |  | 
 | bugs fixed: | 
 | - crashes in scanf on literal mismatches (regression from adding %m) | 
 | - dl_iterate_phdr was passing invalid phdr pointers to its callback | 
 | - getaddrinfo with null host and AF_UNSPEC was failing to report IPv6 | 
 | - integer overflows in date/time conversion code | 
 | - misinterpretation of pre-1930s dates as post-2038 on 32-bit archs | 
 | - make install failed to install bits headers if make was not run first | 
 | - shm_open was wrongly cancellable | 
 | - low- or no-impact heap corruption in memalign | 
 | - explicitly running the dynamic linker on PIE programs did not work | 
 | - missing macros and sysconf for some supported POSIX option groups | 
 | - missing close-on-exec flags for several internal fd uses | 
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 | arch-specific bugs: | 
 | - wrong SIG_ATOMIC_MIN/MAX macros on x86_64 | 
 | - erfcl was missing on archs where long double is same as double | 
 | - broken dynamic-model TLS in static-linked arm/mips/powerpc programs | 
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 | 0.9.13 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - iconv support for EUC-KR and Big5 (including HKSCS) encodings | 
 | - field widths (POSIX 2008 feature) in strftime | 
 | - recursive rpath and $ORIGIN support in dynamic linker | 
 | - cpu affinity interfaces | 
 | - support for armhf (hardfloat) floating point environment (fenv) | 
 | - support for SSE fenv on i386 (for apps using -mfpmath=sse -msse2) | 
 | - strftime %s format (seconds since the epoch, future POSIX requirement) | 
 | - configure script now saves its command line as a comment in config.mak | 
 | - legacy functions valloc and euidaccess | 
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 | performance: | 
 | - optimized asm memcpy for arm | 
 | - optimized asm memset for i386 and x86_64 | 
 | - optimized C versions of memcpy and memset for all archs | 
 | - eliminated major spurious syscalls from posix_spawn | 
 | - some math asm for armhf (hardfloat) | 
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 | workarounds for: | 
 | - qemu-user's rt_sigaction syscall does not allow old to alias new | 
 | - qemu-user's madvise always succeeds (broke pthread_getattr_np) | 
 | - passing PT_INTERP to dlopen attempted to double-load libc | 
 | - gcc 4.8.x generating self-referential (infinite recursion) memcpy/memset | 
 | - linux's lack of support for fchdir, fchmod, fchown, fstat on O_PATH fds | 
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 | bugs fixed: | 
 | - failure to honor flags for fchmodat and faccessat (linux syscall api flaws) | 
 | - SIGEV_THREAD timer id corruption and race condition issues | 
 | - timer thread TLS incorrectly keeping values from previous expiry run | 
 | - ecvt/fcvt decimal position off-by-one | 
 | - in symbol-versioned libs, symbol resolved to oldest instead of newest | 
 | - posix_spawn not correctly reporting errno from exec failure | 
 | - "make install" was not atomic (overwrote files rather than replacing) | 
 | - integer overflows in strftime | 
 | - unset/empty TZ variable was mishandled | 
 | - strftime could crash if the struct tm did not have valid tm_zone field | 
 | - failure of fenv functions to handle invalid arguments (required by ISO C) | 
 | - failure of some math functions (C and i386 asm) to raise underflow flag | 
 | - broken dn_expand function (previously not used internally) | 
 | - race conditions with signals during fork | 
 | - incorrect access check in mktemp (obsolete function) | 
 | - unnecessary arbitrary limits on size of program headers in dynamic loader | 
 | - text formatting bugs in output of err.h functions | 
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 | arch-specific bugs: | 
 | - fesetenv(FE_DFL_ENV) crashed on i386 | 
 | - breakage of arm crt code when libc is compiled as thumb | 
 | - arm/armhf (hardfloat) misidentified by configure | 
 | - ambiguity of wait (exit status) macros on mips with signal number 127 | 
 | - wrong value of _NSIG and SIGRTMAX on mips | 
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 | 0.9.14 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | bugs fixed: | 
 | - failure to properly install dynamic linker with DESTDIR set (symlink wrong) | 
 | - rare deadlock in libc-internal locking routines | 
 | - dynamic linker used fallback paths wrongly on (possibly transient) errors | 
 | - popen broken when stdin or stdout was already closed in parent | 
 | - deadlock/memory-corruption in multithreaded set*id and setrlimit functions | 
 | - realpath failed when file was not readable | 
 | - readpath mistakenly had cancellation points in it | 
 | - crashes in scanf with invalid %m conversion specifiers | 
 | - misclassificiation of some invalid ld80 float representation in fpclassify | 
 | - various overflow and underflow flag issues in math functions | 
 | - domain handling errors for acoshf and acoshl | 
 | - wrong values for some sysconf properties | 
 | - lack of proper memory barriers on arm | 
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 | mips-specific bugs: | 
 | - broken sysv ipc structures | 
 | - multiple stack-related bugs in clone, leading to crashes in parent or child | 
 | - overflow writing sigset_t in multithreaded set*id and setrlimit functions | 
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 | other improvements: | 
 | - size and performance improvements to various math functions | 
 | - wait.h as a compatibility alias for sys/wait.h | 
 | - various header improvements | 
 | - support for runtime-variable page size on archs that need it (mainly mips) | 
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 | 0.9.15 release notes | 
 |  | 
 | new features: | 
 | - support for mixing IPv4 and v6 nameserver addresses in resolv.conf | 
 | - RFC 3678 multicast structures/macros in netinet/in.h | 
 | - putspent and fgetspent functions (shadow password API) | 
 | - timef function (obsolete, removed in POSIX 2008) | 
 | - fanotify syscalls (Linux-specific feature) | 
 | - semtimedop syscall (Linux-specific sysvipc extension) | 
 | - quotactl syscall and header (filesystem quotas support) | 
 | - drem and finite functions (obsolete BSD functions) | 
 | - getloadavg function (non-standard) | 
 | - herror function (non-standard and obsolete) | 
 | - libc.so now stores and prints its version information | 
 | - expose constants for new Linux features including O_TMPFILE | 
 | - implement FNM_LEADING_DIR option to fnmatch (GNU extension) | 
 | - posix_close function (accepted for inclusion in next POSIX issue) | 
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 | bugs fixed: | 
 | - buffer overflow in mbsrtowcs | 
 | - clobbering of gr_name in getgrnam_r and getgrgid_r | 
 | - execle ignoring the environment argument | 
 | - setenv crash on malloc failure | 
 | - out-of-bounds access in fnmatch with FNM_PATHNAME and certain patterns | 
 | - failure of malloc to set errno when failing to extend heap | 
 | - incorrect errno value from getcwd with zero size | 
 | - spurious failure in faccessat with AT_EACCESS flag with suid/sgid programs | 
 | - several fd leaks due to missing close-on-exec flag | 
 | - misspellings/typos in macro names in several headers | 
 | - incorrect failure return value in inet_pton | 
 | - various numeric ip address parsing and validation fixes | 
 | - namespace conformance issues in several headers | 
 | - minor header issues | 
 | - zombie processes left by faccessat with AT_EACCESS | 
 | - timezone file parser failing/crashing on 64-bit archs | 
 | - hang in localtime with near-overflowing time_t values on 64-bit archs | 
 | - timezone path search was only trying first path | 
 | - incorrect handling of excessive-length TZ environment strings | 
 | - timezone file loading was wrongly enforcing O_NOFOLLOW/rejecting symlinks | 
 | - iswspace was wrongly returning true for the null character | 
 | - various bugs in wordexp | 
 | - putgrent could write corrupt lines after write failures | 
 | - dn_expand misinterpreted in-packet offsets greater than 255 | 
 | - spurious strftime/wcsftime failure on len+1==bufsize case | 
 | - incorrect underflow flag in fma corner cases | 
 | - log*(0) wrongly returned +inf in downward-rounding mode | 
 | - failure of fchmod, fstat, fchdir, and fchown to produce EBADF | 
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 | arch-specific bugs fixed: | 
 | - i386: failure of fesetround to set sse rounding mode | 
 | - i386: floating point limit constants misinterpreted due to excess precision | 
 | - powerpc: broken thread pointer access when compiled with clang | 
 | - microblaze: dynamic linker entry point code possibly clobbering argv | 
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 | strict conformance issues: | 
 | - NULL definition re-aligned with POSIX (requires (void *) cast) | 
 | - alignment of math.h is* comparison functions with C11 annex F requirements | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | new experimental ports: | 
 | - sh (SuperH) | 
 | - x32 (ILP32 ABI for x86_64) | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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) | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 | 
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 | 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 |