glibc 2.27: 3 weeks till release

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

Hi,

We have 3 weeks till the planned release date.

* There are no release blockers listed in the release page[1], that is,
either we have no blockers or we haven't recognized them yet.
I suppose the latter is more likely explanation, so please
put them on the page.

* There are 4 features listed as desirable in the release page:

+ Month names in alternative grammatical case

Very little has changed for the last two weeks, but Carlos volunteered
to review this series.

+ C11 threads

This seems to be waiting for review for many weeks.
Are we still pursuing this?

+ Istvan Kurucsai's malloc security patches

Likewise, are we still pursuing this?

+ RISC-V port

The shared part has been committed, all the rest doesn't affect other
architectures.

* There are issues not listed in the release page that change ABI:

+ Implement allocate_once [2]

This is close to be committed.

+ libidn2-based IDNA implementation [3]

This qualifies as security bug fixes.

+ Regression caused by setjmp changes [4]

There is going to be another ABI change if these changes are reverted.

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.27
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00288.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00335.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00268.html


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