Soft freeze for the glibc-2.43 release

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2025, 23:53:19 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Sunil Pandey:
> Hi Andreas,
> 
> I would like to get the following patch in 2.43.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2025-December/173413.html

Sure, together with the benchtest. 

From the list thread it looks to me like this mostly converged, but needs
a final review. Maybe Florian since you were involved?


(FWIW, one of our gentoo powerusers has been running v3 and was pleasantly
surprised.)

> 
> Thanks,
> Sunil
> 
> On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@gentoo.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > Dear all,
> >
> > as of today we're in the soft freeze phase for the upcoming glibc-2.43
> > release.
> >
> > * No *starting* of new features for 2.43 anymore
> > * Decisions on what of the ongoing work goes still into 2.43 and what not
> > * Review and addition of patches
> >
> > Please respond with your requests which features or fixes should still go
> > in,
> > and/or add them to the wiki page under blockers or desirables:
> > https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.43#Planning
> >
> > Thanks & already in advance, have nice holidays and/or a nice winter break!
> > Andreas
> >
> > ***********************
> >
> >     14 Dec 2025: Soft freeze (3 instead of 2 weeks because of end of year
> > / christmas break)
> >         No *starting* of new features anymore
> >         Decisions on what goes still in and what goes not
> >         Review and addition of patches
> >     4 Jan 2026: Freeze
> >         Machine testing
> >         Bug fixes without large impact
> >         No ABI changes without RM discussion
> >         High risk bug fixes should be discussed on the list.
> >     18 Jan 2026: Hard freeze
> >         Only critically important or technically straightforward bug fixes
> >     1 Feb 2026 (or ideally a bit earlier): Release
> >
> > ***********************
> >
> >
> > --
> > Andreas K. Hüttel
> > dilfridge@gentoo.org
> > Gentoo Linux developer
> > (council, toolchain, base-system, perl, libreoffice)
> 


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