Re: freeze for sbcl-2.6.2

Less NEWS and more announcement mail, but:

  If you are using weak hash tables successfully with a recent SBCL, be
  aware that there's an upcoming fix for a problem targeting the next
  release.  If you're using them in releases before 2.5.11, consider not
  upgrading until that fix has landed, scheduled for early March.

Christophe

Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> writes:

> I'm just not even sure how it can be mentioned in the NEWS:
> "hey, if you use weak hash-tables things might crash randomly, or the
> GC might enter an infinite loop. So use sbcl 2.5.11 if you care about
> these things. But there are other fixes for memory corruptions
> included since 2.5.11. But don't despair, these are just the things we
> know about"
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:45 PM Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Maybe it can be reverted?
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 11:40 Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'll call it out in my release message but -- since it's not a
>>> regression this month -- I wouldn't want to hold up a release for that
>>> (or merge something last-minute-ish) because that looks like the kind of
>>> area where it would be easy to come up with something plausible but not
>>> complete.  Thank you for finding and reporting it though.
>>>
>>> Christophe
>>>
>>> Stas Boukarev <[email protected]> writes:
>>>
>>> > Would be nice to have this recent, but not current, regression be
>>> > solved: https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl/+bug/2142714
>>> >
>>> > On Sat, Feb 21, 2026 at 12:31 AM Christophe Rhodes via Sbcl-devel
>>> > <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> It's been a busy month!  184 commits in 25 days: time to pause for a bit
>>> >> and take stock.  Please could everyone spend your energies on testing,
>>> >> verifying, and dealing with any regressions or critical bugs, for a
>>> >> release late next week?
>>> >>
>>> >> Thank you,
>>> >>
>>> >> Christophe
>>> >>
>>> >>
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