glibc 2.43 suggested release schedule

[Andreas K. Huettel]

Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2025, 22:42:28 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb 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]?

Yes please, thank you!


> 
> 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
> 


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