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From: Paul F. <pj...@wa...> - 2025-10-14 07:02:58
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On 2025-10-09 22:03, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi Valgrind hackers, > > Normally we do a major releases in April and October. We did do a minor > 3.25.1 release in May. And the VALGRIND_3_25_BRANCH does contain a > couple more backported fixes. But the main branch has 350+ more commits > so it is time to prepare for a new major release. > > I am proposing to do a release on Friday October 24. With an RC1 a > week before, Friday October 17. And possibly an RC2 in between if we > find some big issue for which we like more testing. > > There are a couple of things I like to add before RC1: > > - Update to GPLv3+. > We discussed this on the list and then with some core developers > asking for advice from the FSF Legal and Compliance team. > I'll post a patch tomorrow with the full rational, so we can > discuss it before applying for RC1. > > - Don't warn about fcntl F_GETFD with --track-fds > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510436 > --track-fds=bad is great, but Paul correctly pointed out > that there has to be a way for an application to explicitly > check for bad fds that doesn't generate an error. > > - Removing glibc extra syscall frames might crash > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=507188 > This seems to only happen on i386 debian, but it a generic issue > with syscall frame filtering. > > And if I have time I also like to finish the removal of artificial > frames from the backtraces. There is already support for tracking > these artificial frams since commit f7dccaab11b8 "Rewrite DWARF > inlined subroutine handling to work cross CU". But they aren't yet > filtered. > > - On Fedora 43 (beta) for amd64 we get some make regtest failures > I haven't really investigated yet, but on f42 we get zero failures, > so it would be nice to see what updates caused the new failures. > > Please let me know what you believe are blockers for the release or > fixes you really would like to see in. Hi Mark Just two for me https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486398 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487055 Also https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286864 would be nice (and have fairly large impact) but I don't think that I'll have enough time. A+ Paul |