Soft freeze and schedule for the upcoming glibc 2.40 release

Soft freeze and schedule for the upcoming glibc 2.40 release

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Hi all, 

as already announced we're slightly modifying the schedule for the 
upcoming glibc-2.40 release this time. We start with the soft freeze
6 weeks before release, so there is more time for machine testing on
slow/unusual/old architectures.

- June 18, "soft freeze"
  * No new ABI additions *started*
  * 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, 
     - ABI issues, and 
     - acceptance or deferring of patch series already 
       available on the list / in patchwork
  * "What still needs to go in?"

Right now the list of "desirables" on the wiki page is still empty.
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.40#Desirable_this_release.3F

Please reply to this list with your wishes and recommendations of 
what existing work we should still add before the release.

- July 4, "hard freeze"
  * Machine testing
  * Noncritical bug fixes
  * No ABI changes without RM discussion.
  * High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list.

- August 1, release

Cheers,
Andreas

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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfridge@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)

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Re: Soft freeze and schedule for the upcoming glibc 2.40 release

[Michael Jeanson]

On 2024-06-18 07:06, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 
> Right now the list of "desirables" on the wiki page is still empty.
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.40#Desirable_this_release.3F
> 
> Please reply to this list with your wishes and recommendations of
> what existing work we should still add before the release.

I would very much like to see the "Extended rseq support" [1] merged before
the freeze, it's been waiting for ABI review for a few months.

[1] https://patchwork.sourceware.org/project/glibc/list/?series=32221