Upcoming glibc-2.42 release

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2025, 14:17:49 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb Sachin Monga:
> Can we include fix for
> 
> 1. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33056
> 
> 2. https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33060 ?
> 
> I am sharing the patch in couple of minutes. Testing is ongoing. I 
> remeber reviewer needs objdump verification also.

Let's please not hurry this. It produced a CVE already.

> 
> 
> Regards:
> Sachin.
> 
> On 12/06/25 7:34 pm, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > unless someone else wants to step in, I'm going to take care of the upcoming
> > release again.
> >
> > Suggested 6-week schedule, mostly just writing down how we've handled things
> > in the past:
> >
> > - 20 June 2024: Soft freeze
> >    * No *starting* of new features anymore
> >    * Decisions on what goes still in and what goes not
> >    * Review and addition of patches
> >
> > - 4 July 2025: 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 July 2025: Hard freeze
> >    * Only critically important or technically straightforward bug fixes
> >
> > - 1 Aug 2025 (or ideally a bit earlier): Release
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Andreas
> >
> 


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