GLIBC 2.23 tagging and release

[Adhemerval Zanella]

On 18-02-2016 11:27, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As we discussed yesterday [1] the *only* impeding fix for 2.23 release is
>> the ABI for AArch64 string inlines.  The patch is already posted [2] and
> 
> Florian's NEWS patch for security issues is also required and is duly 
> listed under release blockers on the wiki page.

Indeed. Florian, could you please update the NEWS patch?

> 
>> based on both H.J. Lu and Wilco feedback I see this should be accepted.
>> So any impeding reason to not proceed with this? I am planning to push
>> this patch soon and start the release procedures.
> 
> Note that the closing of the bug as fixed with appropriate milestone 
> (supposing that patch does indeed fully fix bug 19462) needs to come 
> before the insertion in NEWS of the list of fixed bugs generated by 
> list-fixed-bugs.py.
> 

Yes, I am planning to do so (I am testing the patch on the platforms I have
access).