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From: Paul F. <pj...@wa...> - 2021-09-23 19:05:42
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On 9/22/21 1:02 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > 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. Hi Mark I have FreeBSD support that I'd like to add. I'll refresh the patches in bugzilla. Not much has changed, but there has been at least one merge conflict since I last generated the patches. A+ Paul |