4.17.0 release plan

[alejandro-colomar]

Cc: @hallyn , @ikerexxe , @thesamesam , @zeha , @jubalh , @stoeckmann

Hi!

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice.
The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Here's a set of PRs, in the order of priority (IMO):

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Pending:

• Replace most strtok(3) calls by strsep(3) #1093
  This one needs very careful review. If you have the slightest doubts, please skip it. Still, it's interesting because I have many patches that depend on this one in my local tree.

• Simplify #1109
  Contains a lot of patches simplifying mostly a single function. Each patch is more-or-less trivial, but there are many. I have some other patches after this one, so it'd be interesting to have it done before the release

• contrib/, lib/, src/: Use streq() instead of its pattern #1128
  Trivial stuff. Semantic patch provided for easier verification.

• readlinknul(): Minor tweaks #1107
  Trivial stuff; just silences diagnostics.

• lib/gshadow_.h: __STDC__ is always 1 #1110
  Trivial stuff. Remove fall-back code for pre-ANSI C, which is now dead.

• Use cc(1)'s __has_include() instead of build-system checks #1118
  Trivial stuff. Remove autotools-based header checks, and replace them by a common cc(1) feature.

• configure.ac, lib/, src/: Presume working shadow group support in libc #1111
  Trivial stuff. Remove some build-system check for an old libc bug that was present in the times of Red Hat 3.

• configure.ac, lib/, src/: Assume setgroups(2) and initgroups(3) exist #1125
  Trivial stuff. Remove obsolete check.

• src/login_nopam.c: resolve_hostname(): Use NI_MAXHOST instead of MAXHOSTNAMELEN with getnameinfo(3) #1101
  Trivial stuff. Just some pedantic POSIX stuff.

• lib/: Some improvements to sizes of array parameters #1134
  Array-bounds safety improvements. Trivial stuff, but triggers CodeQL false positives, which I've dismissed.

• csrand(): Use POSIX read(2) instead of the heavier stdio #1119
  Some simplification of csrand(). Just review if everything else is done, but we can live without it.

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Merged already:

• lib/idmapping.c: Fix get_map_ranges regression #1117
  Fix input validation. Prevents introducing a regression.

[ikerexxe]

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice. The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Is St. Nick's December 6? I am not used to using the calendar of saints.

Here's a set of PRs, in the order of priority (IMO):

It's good to have this list, as there are lots of PRs to take care of

[alejandro-colomar]

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice. The first RC (release candidate) will be out around St. Nick's day.

Is St. Nick's December 6? I am not used to using the calendar of saints.

Yes, it is. :)

[zeha]

We will soon release 4.17.0, around Christmas/Solstice.

Thanks for the heads up!

[alejandro-colomar]

There's a new PR from a contributor.

Since all of my PRs are just readability refactorings, please queue them after anything not mine, of course.