Soft freeze for the glibc-2.43 release

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto]

On 17/12/25 20:24, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> 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    is marked superseded, but I can't find a newer version

I put this change on hold, Florian was not really convinced about this change
and the need to an newer version for this is a lot of complexity indeed.

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

I would be really nice to have this on next release, I hope Carlos will have
time to finish the review ;)