Re: GDB 13.2 and GDB 14 releases...

[Luis Machado <luis.machado@arm.com>]

On 4/29/23 21:15, Joel Brobecker via Gdb-patches wrote:
> Hi Team,
> 
> GDB 13.2 Release:
> =================
> 
> It's been a little over 2 months since we released GDB 13.1, so
> I thought I'd start investigating a possible GDB 13.2 release,
> roughly a month from now. I looked at the gdb-13-branch, and
> we have a total of 5 changes, all of them sufficiently important
> IMO to justify a .2 release. So let's do it, and let's target
> end of May for it.
> 
> If you guys know of any problem that you think should be fixed in
> GDB 13.2, and therefore should block its release, please create
> a Bugzilla PR for it, and then set its Target Milestone to 13.2.
> 
> As a reminder also: Now that the .1 release has been made, *all*
> changes to the gdb-13-branch should be documented via a Buzilla PR.
> This is to ensure that, come the time to make the release, the
> announcement can include the list of changes brought by the release,
> and the links to the corresponding PRs.
> 
> GDB 14.1 Branching and Release
> ==============================
> 
> Normally, my default approach is to start talking about the next
> major release as soon as the previous .2 release is out. The idea
> is to give ourselve 3 months or so to prepare for it, branch and
> then release, so as to try to follow a schedule of one major release
> every 6 months.
> 
> In this case, I think it's too early to tell. I've looked at the NEWS
> file, and while there are a number of nice new features, maybe we might
> want to wait a little longer to see if we can pack this release a little
> more.

Maybe so. I'd like to get the base SME functionality for AArch64, and it is still
under review at this point. Hopefully that can make it to GDB 14.

> 
> Cheers,