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The GNU C Library version 2.19 is now available!

Item posted by Carlos O'Donell <codonell> on Mon 17 Feb 2014 05:25:30 AM UTC.

The GNU C Library
=================

The GNU C Library version 2.19 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 2.19 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 2.19
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  support compiling programs that are derived from BSD sources and use
  __unused internally, and to support compiling with Clang's -fblock
  extension which uses __block.

  large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes.  This cache
  computation may overflow for large collation sequences and may cause a
  stack or buffer overflow.  This is now fixed to use a slower algorithm
  which does not use a cache if there is an integer overflow.

  rules for large collation sequences to optimize multiple passes and falls
  back to alloca if malloc fails, resulting in a possible stack overflow.
  The implementation now falls back to an uncached collation sequence lookup
  if malloc fails.

  initialized for static applications resulting in the security feature
  being disabled. The pointer guard is now correctly initialized to a
  random value for static applications. Existing static applications need
  to be recompiled to take advantage of the fix (bug 15754).

  to the d_name member of struct dirent, or omit the terminating NUL
  character.  (Bugzilla #14699).

  aligned_alloc functions could allocate too few bytes or corrupt the
  heap when passed very large allocation size values (Bugzilla #15855,
  #15856, #15857).

  for AF_INET6 has been fixed (Bugzilla #16072).

  pap_CW, quz_PE, the_NP.


  supported locales.



  command-line options to generate locales for a different system from that
  for which the C library was built.

  which they are generated and not on other properties of that system.  As a
  consequence, binary files generated with new localedef may be incompatible
  with old versions of the GNU C Library, and binary files generated with
  old localedef may be incompatible with this version of the GNU C Library,
  in the following circumstances:

  + Locale files may be incompatible on m68k systems.

  + Locale archive files (but not separate files for individual locales) may
    be incompatible on systems where plain "char" is signed.

  --disable-versioning had not worked for several years.

hak, czh,
  cjy, lzh, cmn, mnp, cdo, czo, cpx, wuu, hsn, yue).


  transcendental functions have been introduced.




  set of header declarations that are enabled by default, even when other
  feature test macros or compiler options such as -std=c99 would otherwise
  disable some of those declarations.

  conflict with POSIX.  The libbsd-compat library (which was a dummy library
  that did nothing) has also been removed.

  Async-Cancel Safety has been added.

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 Buchbinder
Adam Conrad
Adhemerval Zanella
Alan Modra
Alexandre Oliva
Allan McRae
Andreas Arnez
Andreas Jaeger
Andreas Krebbel
Andreas Schwab
Andrew Hunter
Andrew Pinski
Anton Blanchard
Arun Kumar Pyasi
Aurelien Jarno
Brooks Moses
Bruno Haible
Carlos O'Donell
Chris Leonard
Chris Metcalf
Chung-Lin Tang
David Holsgrove
David S. Miller
Eric Biggers
Eric Blake
Eric Wong
Fabrice Bauzac
Fernando J. V. da Silva
Florian Weimer
Guy Martin
H.J. Lu
Jan Kratochvil
Jia Liu
Joseph Myers
Kaz Kojima
Liubov Dmitrieva
Maciej W. Rozycki
Marc-Antoine Perennou
Marcus Shawcroft
Marko Myllynen
Markus Trippelsdorf
Maxim Kuvyrkov
Meador Inge
Michael Bauer
Michael Stahl
Mike Frysinger
Olivier Langlois
OndÅej BÃlka
Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott
Paul Eggert
Paul Pluzhnikov
Pavel Simerda
Petr Machata
Rajalakshmi Srinivasaraghavan
Reuben Thomas
Richard Henderson
Richard Sandiford
Roland McGrath
Ryan S. Arnold
Sami Kerola
Samuel Thibault
Siddhesh Poyarekar
Stefan Liebler
Steve Ellcey
Thomas Schwinge
Toke HÃiland-JÃrgensen
Tom Tromey
Torvald Riegel
Ulrich Weigand
Uros Bizjak
Venkataramanan Kumar
Ville Skytta
Vinitha Vijayan
Wei-Lun Chao
Will Newton
Yogesh Chaudhari
Yuri Chornoivan
Yuriy Kaminskiy

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