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| -rw-r--r-- | VERSION | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | WHATSNEW | 46 |
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@@ -1 +1 @@ -1.1.15 +1.1.16 @@ -1730,3 +1730,49 @@ 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 |