GDB 8.1.x Release Management
[NAME] at the beginning of each item is the name of a point of contact who will help trying to get the issue fixed faster.
Current Status
- Branched on: 2018-01-05
- GDB 8.1 released: 2018-01-31
- GDB 8.1.1 released: 2018-07-31
The GDB 8.1.1 Release
Todo: [Note: Items listed here are blocking for the release, but NOT the branch creation]
See also bugs marked "Target Milestone 8.1.1".
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The GDB 8.1 Release
Todo: [Note: Items listed here are blocking for the release, but NOT the branch creation]
See also bugs marked "Target Milestone 8.1".
Maybe:
Done:
See also fixed bugs marked "Target Milestone 8.1".
[Ulrich Weigand] Regression on i686 host: gdb.base/floatn.exp: [RFC v2][2/2] Target FP: Make use of MPFR if available
[Simon Marchi] hurd: Add enough auxv support for AT_ENTRY for PIE binaries Patch looks good to me, if it's not merged by the time we are ready to create the branch and nobody commented further, we can merge it.
[Tom Tromey] Regression on 32-bit: gdb.guile/scm-ports.exp [Re: [RFA 1/2] Fix two regressions in scalar printing]
Excluded:
- [Yao] ARMv8.3-A Pointer Authentication support
(blocked waiting for Linux kernel support to get in - ETA too far away for us to wait for it // see: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-11/msg00490.html)
Post Branch-Creation (for the NEXT release cycle)
Todo:
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Before Branch Creation [Please use the following format: [assignee] PR xxx/nnnnn (one-line description of PR)]
Todo:
See also bugs marked "Target Milestone 8.1".
Maybe:
Done:
- [Ulrich] floating-point emulation support using MPFR
- [Pedro] C++ wild matching support
- [Pedro/Jan] DWARF5 index support (standard replacement for .gdb-index)
Requested: https://www.sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-12/msg00074.html
Patch to be reviewed: https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2017-05/msg00577.html