The GNU C Library (glibc) 2.24 is now available for download. This release fixes several bugs, including security issues CVE-2016-1234, CVE-2016-3075, CVE-2016-3706, CVE-2016-4429 and CVE-2016-5417. For a complete list of features and fixes, please read Adhemerval Zanella’s e-mail in libc-alpha.
On the Power side, glibc-2.24 includes POWER8-optimized versions of sinf(), expf(), strcasecmp(), strncasecmp(), memset(), strcspn(), strcasestr(), strlen() and strspn().