Prepare for 2.29 release

* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29.
	* manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more
	names.
 	* manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages
 	tested.
 	* INSTALL: Regenerated.
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2019-01-31 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
* NEWS: Add the list of bugs fixed in 2.29.
* manual/contrib.texi: Update contributors list with some more
names.
* manual/install.texi: Update latest versions of packages
tested.
* INSTALL: Regenerated.
2019-01-25 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
* po/be.po: Update translations.

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INSTALL
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@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ build the GNU C Library:
GCC 5 or higher is required. In general it is recommended to use
the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for
building the GNU C Library, as newer compilers usually produce
better code. As of release time, GCC 8.1.1 is the newest compiler
better code. As of release time, GCC 8.2.1 is the newest compiler
verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), GCC 6.2 or higher
@ -514,14 +514,14 @@ build the GNU C Library:
* GNU 'bison' 2.7 or later
'bison' is used to generate the 'yacc' parser code in the 'intl'
subdirectory. As of release time, 'bison' version 3.0.4 is the
subdirectory. As of release time, 'bison' version 3.0.5 is the
newest verified to work to build the GNU C Library.
* Perl 5
Perl is not required, but if present it is used in some tests and
the 'mtrace' program, to build the GNU C Library manual. As of
release time 'perl' version 5.28.0 is the newest verified to work
release time 'perl' version 5.28.1 is the newest verified to work
to build the GNU C Library.
* GNU 'sed' 3.02 or newer
@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ build the GNU C Library:
* Python 3.4 or later
Python is required to build the GNU C Library. As of release time,
Python 3.6 is the newest verified to work for building and testing
the GNU C Library.
Python 3.7.1 is the newest verified to work for building and
testing the GNU C Library.
* PExpect 4.0
@ -550,8 +550,8 @@ build the GNU C Library:
use the pretty printers. Notice that your system having Python
available doesn't imply that GDB supports it, nor that your
system's Python and GDB's have the same version. As of release
time GNU 'debugger' 8.0.1 is the newest verified to work to test
the pretty printers.
time GNU 'debugger' 8.2 is the newest verified to work to test the
pretty printers.
Unless Python, PExpect and GDB with Python support are present, the
printer tests will report themselves as 'UNSUPPORTED'. Notice that

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NEWS
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@ -125,8 +125,136 @@ Security related changes:
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
[The release manager will add the list generated by
scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
[10425] localedata: it_IT/it_CH: LC_TIME format is wrong
[10496] localedata: 12h time representation in multiple locales faulty
[10797] localedata: it_IT locale numeric does not have a separator for
thousands
[11319] libc: dprintf doesn't handle errors properly
[16346] time: mktime: potentially unsafe use of localtime_offset
[17248] build: glibc should not sort CFLAGS (support gcc plugins and
--param options)
[17405] libc: Implement posix_spawn_file_actions_addchdir_np,
posix_spawn_file_actions_addfchdir_np
[17426] localedata: Indian locales: set the correct date format
[17490] stdio: popen should not invoke atfork handlers
[17783] libc: TIOCSER_TEMT conditions inconsistent
[18040] regex: use-after-free in regexec/get_subexp
[18093] libc: Corrupted aux-cache causes ldconfig to segfault
[20018] network: getaddrinfo should reject IP addresses with trailing
characters (CVE-2016-10739)
[20209] localedata: Spelling mistake for Sunday in Greenlandic kl_GL
[20271] libc: Missing "\n" in __libc_fatal calls
[20480] dynamic-link: Patch: ifunc not executable, crashes sudo qemu
[20544] libc: RFE: atexit, __cxa_atexit, on_exit should assert function
pointer argument is non-NULL
[21037] stdio: open_memstream and freopen
[21286] libc: bits/siginfo.h is missing enum definition for TRAP_HWBKPT
[21716] time: Crash in glibc's mktime in low-memory situations
[22834] stdio: Subprocess forked by popen may crash in Linux when
multithreads call popen
[22927] network: crash in vn_gai_enqueue_request if requests_tail was NULL
and pthread_create fails.
[23032] hurd: sysdeps/htl/pt-barrier-init.c:39: bad call to memcmp ?
[23125] libc: riscv64: endless loop when throwing an exception from a
constructor
[23275] nptl: Race in pthread_mutex_lock while promoting to
PTHREAD_MUTEX_ELISION_NP.
[23400] libc: stdlib/test-bz22786.c creates temporary files in glibc
source tree
[23479] math: [mips] bits/fenv.h should not define some macros for soft-
float
[23490] libc: sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86/tst-cet-property-2.c:49: off by
one error
[23497] libc: readdir64@GLIBC_2.1 cannot parse the kernel directory stream
[23509] dynamic-link: CET enabled glibc is incompatible with the older
linker
[23520] nscd: nscd: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX and its callers
[23521] nss: get_next_alias nss_files file stream leak
[23538] nptl: Hang in pthread_cond_broadcast
[23562] libc: Wrong type for si_band in Linux-specific siginfo_t
[23578] regex: Invalid memory access if regex pattern contains NUL byte
[23579] libc: Errors misreported in preadv2
[23597] build: support/test-container.c doesn't work with different
filesystems
[23603] time: mktime signed integer overflow on large timestamps
[23606] libc: Missing ENDBR32 in sysdeps/i386/start.S
[23614] libc: powerpc: missing CFI register information in __mpn_*
functions
[23637] string: Generic strstr/strcasestr fails with huge needles
[23640] libc: no way to easily clear FD_CLOEXEC in
posix_spawn_file_actions_adddup2()
[23649] libc: [microblaze/mips/nios2/riscv] sys/procfs.h pr_uid, pr_gid
have wrong type
[23656] libc: [mips n32] sys/procfs.h pr_sigpend, pr_sighold, pr_flag have
wrong type
[23679] libc: gethostid: Missing NULL check for gethostbyname_r result
[23689] libc: Bug in documentation for rusage.ru_ixrss in
bits/types/struct_rusage.h
[23690] dynamic-link: Segfault in _dl_profile_fixup with a high number of
threads
[23707] dynamic-link: Missing unwind info in sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc32/dl-
start.S
[23709] string: glibc 2.25 lacks sse2 optimized strstr()
[23716] dynamic-link: _dl_runtime_resolve_shstk isn't selected properly
[23717] libc: glibc: stdlib/tst-setcontext9 test suite failure on
powerpc64le
[23724] localedata: Albanian date formats are incorrect
[23735] math: libnldbl_nonshared.a references internal libm symbols
[23740] localedata: kl_GL: Month names and date formats need update
[23744] regex: regex refactorings to remove BE, avoid duplication
[23745] time: mktime fix for Gnulib + coreutils
[23758] time: Improve the width of alternate representation for year in
strftime
[23783] libc: [mips] Missing CMSPAR bits/termios.h
[23789] time: mktime does not set errno on failure
[23791] localedata: Wrong monetary format for ca_ES locale
[23793] locale: c32rtomb and mbrtoc32 should not alias wcrtomb and mbrtowc
[23794] locale: c16rtomb does not handle surrogate pairs
[23821] libc: si_band in siginfo_t has wrong type long int on sparc64
[23822] math: ia64 static libm.a is missing exp2f, log2f and powf symbols
[23836] time: time/tst-mktime2 test failure on Arm (32-bit)
[23848] libc: [sparc] Some socket syscalls wrongly assumed to be present
[23861] nptl: rdlock stalls indefinitely on an unlocked pthread rwlock
[23862] libc: [sh] missing kernel-features.h undefines
[23864] libc: [riscv] missing kernel-features.h undefines
[23867] libc: [arm/microblaze] __ASSUME_MLOCK2 incorrect
[23907] malloc: Incorrect double-free malloc tcache check disregards
tcache size
[23913] libc: off-by-one in function maybe_script_execute in
sysdeps/posix/spawni.c
[23915] libc: [arm] __ASSUME_COPY_FILE_RANGE incorrect
[23923] locale: Add --no-hard-links option to localedef
[23927] network: Linux if_nametoindex() does not close descriptor
(CVE-2018-19591)
[23961] math: powf can overflow to inf without setting errno in non-
nearest rounding mode
[23967] libc: [2.28 Regression]: New sigaction implementation breaks m68k
[23972] libc: __old_getdents64 uses wrong d_off value on overflow
[23993] libc: glibc 2.29 doesn't build with gcc 4.9
[23995] localedata: Remove execution flags from localedata/locales/bi_VU
[24011] localedata: Fixed small type in comment for locale bs_BA
[24018] libc: gettext() may return NULL
[24022] build: riscv build failure with Linux kernel 4.20-rc7
[24023] build: [2.29 Regression] FAIL: elf/check-localplt
[24024] string: strerror() might set errno to ENOMEM due to -fno-math-
error
[24027] malloc: glibc: realloc() ncopies 32-bit integer overflow
[24034] libc: tst-cancel21-static fails with SIGBUS on pre-ARMv7 when
using GCC 8
[24046] localedata: en_US locale doesn't define date_fmt
[24063] manual: @var{errno} should be @code{errno}
[24066] soft-fp: Inconsistent _FP_W_TYPE_SIZE check
[24088] libc: VSCR field is not being correctly read in ucontext_t on
ppc64le
[24096] time: Specifying '_' or '-' flag for "%EY" does not produce the
expected result
[24097] string: Can't use 64-bit register for size_t in assembly codes for
x32 (CVE-2019-6488)
[24110] hurd: SS_DISABLE never set in stack_t value returned by
sigaltstack
[24112] network: Do not send DNS queries for non-host names (where all
answers will be rejected)
[24130] libc: alpha __remqu corrupts $f3 register
Version 2.28

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@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ stack smashing protector enabled.
@item
John David Anglin for various fixes to the hppa port.
@item
Albert ARIBAUD for Y2038 related fixes.
@item
Ryan S. Arnold for his improvements for Linux on PowerPC and his direction
as FSF Project Steward for @theglibc{}.
@ -32,6 +35,9 @@ Jeff Bailey for his maintainership of the HPPA architecture.
@item
Petr Baudis for bug fixes and testing.
@item
Anton Blanchard for various fixes.
@item
Stephen R. van den Berg for contributing a highly-optimized
@code{strstr} function.
@ -104,9 +110,6 @@ and wide-character support functions (@file{wctype.h}, @file{wchar.h}, etc.).
@item versioning of objects on the symbol level
@end itemize
@item
Wilco Dijkstra for various fixes.
@item
Richard Earnshaw for continued support and fixes to the various ARM
machine files.
@ -168,6 +171,9 @@ Richard Henderson for the port to Linux on Alpha
@item
David Holsgrove for the port to Linux on MicroBlaze.
@item
Leonhard Holz for various fixes.
@item
Daniel Jacobowitz for various fixes and enhancements.
@ -238,6 +244,12 @@ code.
@item
Chris Leonard for various fixes and enhancements to localedata.
@item
Ilya Leoshkevich for various fixes.
@item
Dmitry V. Levin for various fixes.
@item
Stefan Liebler for various fixes.
@ -281,6 +293,9 @@ Chris Metcalf for the port to Linux/Tile
@code{tilepro-@var{anything}-linux}) and support for the generic Linux
kernel syscall interface used by several newer ports.
@item
Jim Meyering for various fixes.
@item
David Miller for contributing the port to Linux/Sparc
(@code{sparc*-@var{anything}-linux}).
@ -362,6 +377,9 @@ pthread_rwlock and condition variables.
Maciej W. Rozycki for MIPS fixes, support for ABSOLUTE symbols,
and various fixes.
@item
Leonardo Sandoval for various fixes.
@item
Pravin Satpute for writing sorting rules for some Indian languages.
@ -385,6 +403,9 @@ Martin Schwidefsky for porting to Linux on s390
@item
Thomas Schwinge for his contribution to Hurd and the SH architecture.
@item
Martin Sebor for various fixes.
@item
Andrew Senkevich for contributing vector math function implementations for x86.
@ -426,10 +447,16 @@ Samuel Thibault for improving the Hurd port.
@item
Pino Toscano for various fixes.
@item
Matt Turner for various fixes to the Alpha port.
@item
Tim Waugh for the implementation of the POSIX.2 @code{wordexp}
function family.
@item
Ulrich Weigand for various fixes to the PowerPC64 and Arm ports.
@item
Florian Weimer for his maintainership of the network component, for handling
of security issues, and for various fixes.
@ -438,6 +465,9 @@ of security issues, and for various fixes.
Zack Weinberg for the @code{explicit_bzero} implementation and for various
fixes.
@item
Mark Wielaard for various fixes.
@item
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@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ GCC 5 or newer
GCC 5 or higher is required. In general it is recommended to use
the newest version of the compiler that is known to work for building
@theglibc{}, as newer compilers usually produce better code. As of
release time, GCC 8.1.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build
release time, GCC 8.2.1 is the newest compiler verified to work to build
@theglibc{}.
For PowerPC 64-bits little-endian (powerpc64le), GCC 6.2 or higher is
@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ to work to build @theglibc{}.
GNU @code{bison} 2.7 or later
@code{bison} is used to generate the @code{yacc} parser code in the @file{intl}
subdirectory. As of release time, @code{bison} version 3.0.4 is the newest
subdirectory. As of release time, @code{bison} version 3.0.5 is the newest
verified to work to build @theglibc{}.
@item
@ -563,7 +563,7 @@ Perl 5
Perl is not required, but if present it is used in some tests and the
@code{mtrace} program, to build the @glibcadj{} manual. As of release
time @code{perl} version 5.28.0 is the newest verified to work to
time @code{perl} version 5.28.1 is the newest verified to work to
build @theglibc{}.
@item
@ -577,7 +577,7 @@ with any version of @code{sed}. As of release time, @code{sed} version
Python 3.4 or later
Python is required to build @theglibc{}. As of release time, Python
3.6 is the newest verified to work for building and testing
3.7.1 is the newest verified to work for building and testing
@theglibc{}.
@item PExpect 4.0
@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ GDB itself needs to be configured with Python support in order to use
the pretty printers. Notice that your system having Python available
doesn't imply that GDB supports it, nor that your system's Python and
GDB's have the same version. As of release time GNU @code{debugger}
8.0.1 is the newest verified to work to test the pretty printers.
8.2 is the newest verified to work to test the pretty printers.
Unless Python, PExpect and GDB with Python support are present, the
printer tests will report themselves as @code{UNSUPPORTED}. Notice