We aim to follow roughly a time-based release schedule. The roadmap describes likely focus and goals for current and upcoming release cycles, but these may change in the interest of keeping releases moving or meeting areas of user and developer interest.
Estimated release: April
- Integration of next-gen
mallocimplementation - Reduction in asm source files, replacement with inline asm in C source files.
Estimated release: June
- Removal of LFS64 APIs (not ABIs)
- Experimental no-
PT_INTERPdynamic linking mode - Locale support overhaul.
- Hostname resolver support for non-ASCII domains (IDN)
- ARM Cortex-M FDPIC ABI
On an as-needed basis, backport of post-1.1.24 fixes to
32-bit-time_t archs.
- RISC-V 32-bit port
LC_COLLATEsupport for collation orders other than simple codepoint order- Support for
LC_MONETARYandLC_NUMERICproperties. - IEEE quad math correctness for archs with
long doubleas quad - Complex math correctness
- Floating point exception flags for soft-float archs
- Enhanced LSB/glibc ABI-compat, especially fortify
__*_chksymbols - Remapping of glibc-ABI-incompatible symbols (regexec, etc.) by dynamic linker
- New
getlogin[_r]with lookup via controlling tty - Possible non-stub utmp backends
- Resolving GCC symbol-versioning incompatibility issue - see http://www.openwall.com/lists/musl/2015/05/10/1
- Message translation support for dynamic linker
- Non-glibc-based nscd-protocol backend for LDAP (and perhaps NIS)
- Locale data and libc message translations
- Bringing existing documentation into alignment with changes made since 1.0.0
- Documenting new and non-obsolescent extensions in detail
- Adapting text from wiki and other sources on properties of the implementation relevant to programmers and end users