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From: Mark W. <ma...@kl...> - 2021-09-22 13:02:59
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Hi, I would like to propose we do a valgrind 3.18.0 release next month. There have been various useful changes since 3.17.0 for power10, s390x z15 updates, arm64 v8.2, glibc 2.34 updates (which are really needed, without them things simply break). I have backported most of the above improvements to the Fedora valgrind package (mainly because Fedora 35 has already switched to glibc 2.34), but that contains 25 patches now (where the power10 and z15 backports count as just one, so it is more like 35 patches), which is not ideal. There is also the DWARF reader speedup patch: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=442061 which I would really like to see go in because it really helps startup time (especially with distros that use debuginfod, which valgrind now also supports). I propose to do the release on October 15. So we have some time to go over the open bugs and see which really should get resolved before then. Please do respond if you have bugs/patches that really deserve to be resolved before the 3.18.0 release. Cheers, Mark |