The GNU C Library version 2.17 is now available.

Wed Dec 26 05:43:11 EST 2012

It will land in Fedora 19 so it will be when we rebase to that.

Peter

On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Chris Leonard <cjlhomeaddress at gmail.com> wrote:
> FYI,
>
> * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
>   sat_IN, and szl_PL.
>
>
> ayc_PE is the Aymara locale developed with our Peruvian collaborators.
>  niu_NU and niu_NZ are Niuean locales I developed in collaboration
> with Internet Niue.
>
> When we we incorporate this version we may need to make some
> adjustments in the locale workarounds we have built into Sugar.
>
> cjl
> Sugar Labs Translation Team Coordinator
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> Date: Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:42 PM
> Subject: The GNU C Library version 2.17 is now available.
> To: libc-alpha at sourceware.org, libc-announce at sourceware.org, info-gnu at gnu.org
>
>
>
> The GNU C Library
> =================
>
> The GNU C Library version 2.17 is now available.
>
> The GNU C Library is used as *the* C library in the GNU systems
> and most systems with the Linux kernel.
>
> The GNU C Library is primarily designed to be a portable
> and high performance C library.  It follows all relevant
> standards including ISO C11 and POSIX.1-2008.  It is also
> internationalized and has one of the most complete
> internationalization interfaces known.
>
> The GNU C Library webpage is at http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/
>
> Packages for the 2.17 release may be downloaded from:
>         http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/libc/
>         http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libc/
>
> The mirror list is at http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
>
> NEWS for version 2.17
> ====================
>
> * The following bugs are resolved with this release:
>
>   1349, 3439, 3479, 3665, 5044, 5246, 5298, 5400, 6530, 6677, 6778, 6808,
>   9685, 9914, 10014, 10038, 10114, 10631, 10873, 11438, 11607, 11638, 11741,
>   12140, 13013, 13412, 13542, 13601, 13603, 13604, 13629, 13679, 13696,
>   13698, 13717, 13741, 13759, 13761, 13763, 13881, 13939, 13950, 13952,
>   13966, 14042, 14047, 14090, 14150, 14151, 14152, 14154, 14157, 14166,
>   14173, 14195, 14197, 14237, 14246, 14251, 14252, 14283, 14298, 14303,
>   14307, 14328, 14331, 14336, 14337, 14347, 14349, 14368, 14376, 14417,
>   14447, 14459, 14476, 14477, 14501, 14505, 14510, 14516, 14518, 14519,
>   14530, 14532, 14538, 14543, 14544, 14545, 14557, 14562, 14568, 14576,
>   14579, 14583, 14587, 14595, 14602, 14610, 14621, 14638, 14645, 14648,
>   14652, 14660, 14661, 14669, 14672, 14683, 14694, 14716, 14719, 14743,
>   14767, 14783, 14784, 14785, 14793, 14796, 14797, 14801, 14803, 14805,
>   14807, 14811, 14815, 14821, 14822, 14824, 14828, 14831, 14833, 14835,
>   14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872, 14879,
>   14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
>
> * Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
>
> * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
>   EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).
>
> * The add-on ports collection is now distributed in the "ports" subdirectory
>   of the main GNU C Library distribution, rather than separately.
>
> * Port to ARM AArch64 contributed by Linaro.
>
> * Support for STT_GNU_IFUNC symbols added for s390 and s390x.
>   Optimized versions of memcpy, memset, and memcmp added for System z10 and
>   zEnterprise z196.
>   Implemented by Andreas Krebbel.
>
> * The new function secure_getenv allows secure access to the environment,
>   returning NULL if running in a SUID/SGID process.  This function replaces
>   the internal function __secure_getenv.
>
> * SystemTap static probes have been added into the dynamic linker.
>   Implemented by Gary Benson.
>
> * Optimizations of string functions strstr, strcasestr and memmem.
>   Implemented by Maxim Kuvyrkov.
>
> * The minimum Linux kernel version that this version of the GNU C Library
>   can be used with is 2.6.16.
>
> * Optimizations of string functions memchr, wcschr, wcscpy, and wcsrchr for
>   powerpc POWER7.  Implemented by Will Schmidt.
>
> * New configure option --disable-nscd builds the C library such that it
>   never attempts to contact the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).
>   New configure option --disable-build-nscd avoids building nscd itself;
>   this is the default if --disable-nscd is used.
>
> * Improved support for cross-compilation, including cross-testing and
>   bootstrap builds without a previously built glibc.
>
> * Several testsuite tests are now able to test multiple IFUNC variants of an
>   interface, rather than just testing the one that would be chooen by
>   default.
>
> * New configure options --with-bugurl and --with-pkgversion, for
>   distributors to use to embed their bug-reporting and package version
>   information in --help and --version output.
>
> * The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
>   the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available.  This
>   allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc.
>
> * The `crypt' function now fails if passed salt bytes that violate the
>   specification for those values.  On Linux, the `crypt' function will
>   consult /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled to determine if "FIPS mode" is
>   enabled, and fail on encrypted strings using the MD5 or DES algorithm
>   when the mode is enabled.
>
> * The `clock_*' suite of functions (declared in <time.h>) is now available
>   directly in the main C library.  Previously it was necessary to link with
>   -lrt to use these functions.  This change has the effect that a
>   single-threaded program that uses a function such as `clock_gettime' (and
>   is not linked with -lrt) will no longer implicitly load the pthreads
>   library at runtime and so will not suffer the overheads associated with
>   multi-thread support in other code such as the C++ runtime library.
>
> * New locales: ayc_PE, doi_IN, ia_FR, mni_IN, nhn_MX, niu_NU, niu_NZ,
>   sat_IN, and szl_PL.
>
> Contributors
> ============
>
> This release was made possible by the contributions of many people.
> The maintainers are grateful to everyone who has contributed
> changes or bug reports.  These include:
>
> Adam Conrad
> Adhemerval Zanella
> Alan Modra
> Alexander Kanevskiy
> Alexandre Oliva
> Allan McRae
> Andreas Jaeger
> Andreas Krebbel
> Andreas Schwab
> Andrej Lajovic
> Andrew Haley
> Andrew Stubbs
> Aurelien Jarno
> Benno Schulenberg
> Brendan Kehoe
> Carlos O'Donell
> Chandrakala Chavva
> Chris Leonard
> Chris Metcalf
> Daniel Gutson
> Daniel Jacobowitz
> David Alan Gilbert
> David S. Miller
> Dmitry V. Levin
> Eagle Burkut
> Florian Pritz
> Florian Weimer
> GOTO Masanori
> Gary Benson
> Greg McGary
> Guido Guenther
> H.J. Lu
> Jakub Jelinek
> Jeff Bailey
> Jeff Law
> Jeroen van Bemmel
> Jim Blandy
> Jim Meyering
> John Tobey
> Jonathan Nieder
> Joseph Myers
> Julian Brown
> Ken Werner
> Khem Raj
> Konstantinos Margaritis
> Liubov Dmitrieva
> Luis Machado
> Manjunath Matti
> Marcus Shawcroft
> Marek Polacek
> Mark Salter
> Marko Myllynen
> Markus Trippelsdorf
> Matt Turner
> Maxim Kuvyrkov
> Michael Cree
> Michael Hope
> Mike Frysinger
> Mike Hommey
> Mischa Jonker
> Nathan Froyd
> Nathan Sidwell
> Nik Kalach
> Paul Brook
> Paul Eggert
> Peng Haitao
> Petar Jovanovic
> Peter Green
> Petr Machata
> Phil Blundell
> Philip Blundell
> Pino Toscano
> Pravin Satpute
> Ramana Radhakrishnan
> Richard Henderson
> Richard Sandiford
> Robert Millan
> Roland McGrath
> Ryan S. Arnold
> Ryosei Takagi
> Samuel Thibault
> Sebastan Andrzej Siewior
> Siddhesh Poyarekar
> Steve Ellcey
> Steve McIntyre
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG
> Thomas Schwinge
> Thorsten Glaser
> Tom de Vries
> Torbjorn Granlund
> Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
> Ulrich Drepper
> Ulrich Weigand
> Viju Vincent
> Will Schmidt
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