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From: Julian S. <js...@ac...> - 2005-11-01 18:25:12
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Greetings. It's once again time for the major-release fun 'n' games.
I'm proposing we make a first release candidate on Friday 18 Nov, with
final release as soon as possible after that, and not later than
Friday 25 Nov, unless something really nasty turns up.
3.1.0 will support {x86,amd64,ppc32}-linux. It will contain the new
address space manager (a.k.a proper 64-bit support), a usable
ppc32-linux port, and many many small fixes relative to 3.0.1.
Larger stuff that needs to be sorted before the RC:
* Tom's biarch stuff
* ppc Altivec support
* coordinate with JosefW so as to have a simultaneous matching
callgrind/kcachegrind release if possible
* fix timestamping to show wallclock time elapsed since the run
started, since it looks like reimplementing localtime_r is
pretty much a non-starter.
Smaller stuff:
* check interface versioning
* reinstate --partial-loads-ok for memcheck
* possible have a --definedness-errors=no flag for mc, to make it
look like addrcheck
* install libcoregrind.a (needed for external tools)
* add ppc32 instruction test program to the testsuite
* fix various missing instructions
What else?
Overall I think the code base is in pretty good shape. The master
bug-status list is kept in docs/internals/3_0_BUGSTATUS.txt.
Please let me know of any stability problems you know of. I have had
OOo crashing on V on some ppc32 distros, which I should look into.
Closer to the time, I'll trawl through regtest failures on machines I
have access to see if there's anything critical there. It would be
helpful if others could do likewise.
J
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