glibc 2.43 suggested release schedule

[Collin Funk]

Hi Andreas,

"Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org> writes:

> the planned release date for glibc 2.43 is 1/February/2026.
> (Ideally a bit earlier since that is just the FOSDEM sunday.)
>
> So here's the suggested preparation schedule. 
>
> One change: because of the christmas / new year break where barely anyone
> is online, the soft freeze phase is extended by one week.
>
>     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 
>
> Good to go?

Sounds good to me.

I want to note here that I am waiting for a POSIX interpretation on
getdelim/getline before reverting a change of mine or introducing a
compat symbol.

The change was having getdelim null-terminate the buffer upon reading an
EOF. Some discussion on list and the bug report [1] [2]. And the POSIX
issue [3].

If there is no updates to the POSIX issue before the freeze, I'm leaning
towards keeping the new behavior and introducing a compat symbol.

Want me to add a note about that under Release blockers on the Wiki [4]?

Collin

[1] https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/87jz0e4f8d.fsf@gmail.com/
[2] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28038
[3] https://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=1953
[4] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.43#Release_blockers.3F