Articles & Reviews
News Archive
Forums
Premium
Contact
Categories

Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals

GNU C Library 2.21 Released With Bug & Security Fixes

Written by Michael Larabel in GNU on 6 February 2015 at 12:50 PM EST. Add A Comment

Version 2.21 of the GNU C Library is now available. Glibc 2.21 fixes a lot of issues while also adding some new functionality.

Glibc 2.21 has many bug fixes, several security fixes, a port to the Altera Nios II platform, a new sempahore algorithm, support for TSX lock elision on PowerPC, optimized string functions for AArch64, support for new MIPS ABI extensions, and many other changes.

More details on glibc 2.21 can be found via the mailing list release announcement. Other GNU C Library 2.21 details can be found via the Sourceware.org Wiki.

Add A Comment

GCC 14 Compiler Adds AArch64 GNU/Hurd Support

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

GNU Poke 4.0 & Poke-ELF 1.0 Released For Dealing With Binary Data

GNU Coreutils 9.5 Can Yield 10~20% Throughput Boost For cp, mv & cat Commands

IBM Posts GCC Patches For -mcpu=power11 Support

About The Author

Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the site in 2004 with a focus on enriching the Linux hardware experience. Michael has written more than 20,000 articles covering the state of Linux hardware support, Linux performance, graphics drivers, and other topics. Michael is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite, Phoromatic, and OpenBenchmarking.org automated benchmarking software. He can be followed via Twitter, LinkedIn, or contacted via MichaelLarabel.com.