GNU C Library 2.38 released

[Posted August 1, 2023 by corbet]

Version 2.38 of the GNU C Library has been released. This release consists mostly of relatively small changes, including improved support for working with binary integer constants, some new printf() formatting options, libmvec support for 64-bit Arm systems, the strlcpy() and strlcat() string functions, and more. See the release notes for the details.

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 2, 2023 7:36 UTC (Wed) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link] (5 responses)

Hats off to the release team for mentioning the contributors by name!

GIMP is another project that does a great job at this: https://www.gimp.org/news/2023/07/09/gimp-2-99-16-release...

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 2, 2023 10:13 UTC (Wed) by peregrin (guest, #56601) [Link]

What I like about the way the contributors are listed in the glibc announcement is that it makes you aware that there is work happening on both sides of the contribution: proposing patches for inclusion, and iterating with the patch author to integrate those patches into the project.

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 2, 2023 19:31 UTC (Wed) by Hobart (subscriber, #59974) [Link] (1 responses)

DJ Delorie is a treasure. I've been benefiting from his work for 34 years, starting (iirc) with the MSDOS port of GCC to run LPMUD on my DOS machine.

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 3, 2023 12:55 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

And DJGPP is still alive and updating, believe it or not! Look for yourself: gcc 12, make 4.4, etc. All the cool goodies your DOS programs may need.

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 3, 2023 13:08 UTC (Thu) by bluca (subscriber, #118303) [Link] (1 responses)

Yep it's a nice touch, and it can be pretty much automated with git, we use something like:

git log --pretty=tformat:%aN -s "${tag}.." |
grep -v <bots to ignore> |
sed 's/ / /g; s/--/-/g; s/.*/\0,/' |
sort -u | tr '\n' ' ' | sed -e "s/^/Contributions from: /g" -e "s/,\s*$/\n/g" | fold -w 72 -s |
sed -e "s/^/ /g" -e "s/\s*$//g"

GNU C Library 2.38 released

Posted Aug 4, 2023 6:30 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

This should indeed be a minimum standard. Some projects give a thanks to the contributors "too numerous to mention", but fear of forgetting a few people shouldn't stop them from naming as many as possible. IMO.