Re: Happy New Year 2024 & Freeze for the upcoming glibc 2.39 release

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 1/3/24 16:57, enh wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 1, 2024 at 5:18 AM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> first of all, a happy new year to all of you. Let us hope for a more peaceful 2024.
>>
>> We follow for the upcoming glibc 2.39 the same schedule as usual.
>>
>> - January 1-11, "slushy ABI freeze"
>>   * No new ABI additions.
>>   * ABI corrections should be reviewed, RM approval not required.
>>   * Avoid any changes that require action by the ports (including all
>>     that require ulps regeneration)
>>   * Bug fixes.
>>   * Monday patch review switches to reviewing critical bug list and
>>     ABI issues.
>>
>> The planning section of our 2.39 wiki page lists at the moment the following items:
>> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.39#Planning
>>
>> * Release blockers
>>   - Revert to original qsort implementation and apply subsequent mergesort changes with heapsort as fallback.
>>         Attempts to make changes to qsort have shown deep application dependencies on undocumented behaviour.
>>         In order to preserver application compatibility we need to revert the less conservative changes.
>>         It would be good to revert to the original known state and then copy in some of the final changes.
>>   - AArch64 SME support https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=28136
>> * Desirable this release?
>>   - Add clone3 support for multiple architectures (mips and arm missing)
>>   - Remove ia64-linux-gnu
>>   - Implement C23 <stdbit.h>
>>
>> Please update what is in the meantime done / obsolete / ..., ideally with links to the commits or bugs.
>>
>> What else should we add here that still needs to go into 2.39?
> 
> (speaking not as a glibc maintainer [or even user!], but as someone
> who aims for source compatibility where possible...) what's the status
> of the riscv64 ifunc stuff?

Adding Palmer and Jeff to TO: to see if we have an answer for this.

>> - January 12-31, "hard ABI freeze"
>>   * Noncritical bug fixes.
>>   * No ABI changes without RM discussion.
>>   * High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list.
>>
>> - February 1
>>   * glibc 2.39 release
>>
>> If you have any comments or objections, please reply to the list.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Andreas
>>
>> --
>> Andreas K. Hüttel
>> dilfridge@gentoo.org
>> Gentoo Linux developer
>> (council, comrel, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
>> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Dilfridge
> 

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.