Greetings all.
I'd like to propose a 3.15.0 release in just under a month from now, on 5 April. The last release, 3.14.0, was on 9 Oct 2018. In the past few years we've released pretty much once a year. That has the undesirable effect of making fixes and new features available only after a long wait. By contrast, making a release in early April means only a six-month interval, and would get useful changes to users and distro packagers sooner rather than later. Primarily these: * Support for Gcc 9. * Overhaul of the DHAT heap-usage profiler, including addition of a GUI. * Reduced Memcheck false-positive rates on amd64 (x86_64) and ppc64 targets. * Much improved s390x z13 support. * Reduced overhead for handling indirect branches in very large applications. * The usual stack of bug fixes. I've made a first pass through all bugs reported since 3.14.0. The results are in docs/internals/3_14_BUGSTATUS.txt. If there are any bugs in there (or even, not in there) that you think are important to fix for the release, please do mention them. I'll shortly send a second message listing the bugs I think are a priority. One thing that I'd like to ask at this point is: what level of support for Solaris should we say there is, in the release announcement? Now that we unfortunately no longer have a Solaris maintainer, I am concerned that could wind up shipping a non-working Solaris port. A similar question goes for the Mac OSX port, although there at least we have a maintainer. J _______________________________________________ Valgrind-users mailing list Valgrind-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/valgrind-users
