Soft freeze for the glibc-2.43 release

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Sonntag, 14. Dezember 2025, 23:07:42 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> 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

There are three items that I have mechanically carried over in the desirables for
several releases now. Should anything of these be removed from the list?

 * TCB layout changes
   no news for a long time

 * stdlib: Consolidate getentropy and adapt to POSIX 2024 semantics
   is marked superseded, but I can't find a newer version

 * linux: Do not spawn a new thread for SIGEV_THREAD (BZ 30558, 27895, 29705, 32833)
   last version from August 2025

Cheers,
Andreas

> 
> 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)
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