Hello! I would like to announce a new glibc-2.11 stable branch version. You can get it from ftp.gnu.org or from the git repository tagged as glibc-2.11.2. This is a bugfix glibc release, revising the glibc-2.11.1 release only by bugfixes backported from the master glibc development branch. The following known significant bug exists in this release: * Empty /etc/resolv.conf incorrectly does not cause glibc to default to localhost, to solve this issue please apply one of the patches in: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10851 These commits were included since glibc-2.11.1: Andreas Krebbel (1): S/390: Disable two UTF conversion instructions Andreas Schwab (10): Ignore negative dynamic entry types. Use correct type when casting d_tag. Fix ____longjmp_chk for s390/s390x. Fix error checking in iconv. Don't map U00DF to U1E9E in toupper table. Fix typo in cuserid Fix spurious UNAVAIL status is getaddrinfo Fix fallocate error return on i386. Don't crash in trace mode when dependencies are missing Fix lookup of collation sequence value during regexp matching Andrew Stubbs (1): Fix FP exception control. Bruno Haible (2): BZ #11537: Hurd: Fix ttyname_r error return value. BZ #11538: Fix ttyname_r callers not to expect errno was set. Emilio Pozuelo Monfort (1): Hurd: Fix file_name_lookup_at error case return value. Eric Blake (3): Fix -W with optional parameters in getopt. getopt mistakenly allows '-;' as short option getopt mishandles optstring of "+:" H.J. Lu (1): memchr overshoots on ia64 Jim Meyering (3): manual: fix doubled-words and typos manual: adjust grammar manual: fix typo: s/are/is/ Joe Landers (1): _nl_load_locale() incorrectly handles mmap() failures Jonathan Geisler (1): calls to cuserid() can result in buffer overruns and/or overflows Paul Eggert (1): regcomp.c: do not ignore memory allocation failure Paul Pluzhnikov (1): Fix missing dependency of localedata tests on gconv-modules Petr Baudis (2): Fix assertion in palloc and pvalloc as well. glibc 2.11.2 release Richard Guenther (1): Fix R_X86_64_PC32 overflow detection Roland McGrath (1): Fix a const warning in ldconfig. Ryan S. Arnold (1): Remove incorrect paring of /proc/stat etc. Sergey Poznyakoff (1): Fix option aliasing in argp. Ulrich Drepper (31): Fix a few error cases in *name4_r lookup handling. Avoid ELF lookup race. Fix typo in feature selection macro use. Make unistd.h pre-c((-safe. Remove unnecessary returns. regex: avoid internal re_realloc overflow Extend overflow detection in re_dfa_add_node. Add BZ number. Fix endless loop with invalid /etc/shells file. Fix i386 __mpn_lshift unwind info Fix file descriotor leak in nftw with FTW_CHDIR Fix reporting of I/O errors in *dprintf functions. Fix set_max_fast in malloc. Missing memory barrier in DES initialization. Document problem with NATs in getaddrinfo. Fix changes to interface list during getifaddrs calls. Add missing include. Handle unnecessary padding in getdents64. Fix concurrent handling of __cpu_features. Fix retrieving of kernel header version. Add test case for last argp bug. Declare iruserok and iruserok_af. Fix printing error messages in getopt. Fix aux cache handling in ldconfig with chroot. Handle DNS timeouts in old-style lookkup code. Fix crash on reloading of gai data in nscd. Fix handling if newline in addmntent. One more bug in ldconfig -r handling. Simplify OOM handling in ldconfig. Fix ldconfig to handle symlinks in chroot correctly. Fix typos I added in malloc.c Enjoy! Petr "Pasky" Baudis