glibc 2.27: less than two weeks till release

["Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>]

Hi,

We have less than two weeks till the planned release date.  By this date
in the freeze calendar we should have been ready to start architecture
testing for 2.27, but, unfortunately, with pending complicated patches
that affect all architectures we cannot really start the testing until
these patches have either been accepted or postponed to 2.28.
Nevertheless, architecture maintainers are encouraged to do preliminary
testing.

Here is a recap of pending issues.

* Release blockers listed in the release page[1]:

** Reported failure on Intel hardware involving steam/mono runtimes[2],
likely a regression caused by recent setjmp changes[3].

There is going to be an ABI change if we have to revert these changes,
hampering the pre-release testing.
H.J., is there any progress with this?

** Month names in alternative grammatical case[4]

This has already been reviewed by Carlos.
Rafal, is there anything that has to be done before these series is committed?

** Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO 14651[5]

Given that the bug is almost 6 year old and no patch has been submitted
for review yet, does it have any chance for a review and a proper testing
before the release?
Mike, why do you consider this change as a blocker for 2.27?

* Features listed as desirable in the release page:

** C11 threads[6]

This has been waiting for review for many weeks, last week Carlos said
he will review this.
It's unfortunate that we still have complicated all-arch patch series
like this still pending review for 2.27.

** Istvan Kurucsai's malloc security patches[7]

This series has been under review for many weeks.
Florian, is it still targeted for 2.27?

** RISC-V port v4[8]

There is a separate summary[9] on this topic.

** Don't include libio.h from the installed stdio.h[10]

This is still pending review for 2.27.
Florian, anyone else, is there any progress with this?

[1] https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Release/2.27
[2] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00178.html
[3] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00268.html
[4] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00258.html
[5] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14095
[6] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-09/msg00871.html
[7] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-11/msg00229.html
[8] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00475.html
[9] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00379.html
[10] https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-01/msg00248.html


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