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glibc 2.24 --- Hard freeze starting


Maintainers,

We are now in hard freeze as stated last week (with to days off due some
recent fixes).  As before, please keep your commits minimal, documentation
changes only, simple bug fixes, and no translatable strings.

Please start test your machines, refresh the ULP files and update the 
release page [2].

Current I see that we have 3 blockers:

1. [BZ #13165] New condition variable: Torvalds, I think you the most
   qualified to give us if you think or not this change is safe enough
   for 2.24 inclusion or if you prefer to commit in start of 2.25. I do
   not have a strong opinion.

2. malloc: Remove malloc_get_state, malloc_set_state: based on recent build
   issues with malloc hook change, I would suggest to move this change to
   2.25.

3. [PATCH] Fix cos computation for multiple precision fallback (bz #20357):
   I plan to review this patch today or tomorrow, but this its straightforward
   and contained enough so we can commit.  The only issue I see the possible
   need of ULP regeneration in some architectures, so ideally we should push
   this by the end of this week.

About the security bugs to news, the only one that is not documented in NEWS
is BZ#19755 [4].  My understanding is this does not have a CVE assigned, so
should we still explicit add it on NEWS?

Any other blockers and/or comments?

[1] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00605.html
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-06/msg00905.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-07/msg00315.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19755


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