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
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+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
+
+
+
+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
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