Re: freeze for sbcl-2.6.2

And 2.6.1 has a fix for clrhash on weak hash-tables.
And as for a scheduled fix, I don't have a fix, only a reversion.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 6:02 PM Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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