New Release

[georglauterbach]

It'd be super-helpful to see a new minor version if possible to include the latest changes. In particular, I'd be delighted to see the changes from the associated PR of #2454.

[briansmith]

This is blocked on me doing the pre-release testing. Unfortunately, some of the infrastructure I have for this, especially aarch64-windows-msvc machines, are not available to me currently. I filed #2526 to track adding it to GitHub Actions so we don't get blocked on that based on my location.

[georglauterbach]

May I assist you in that? What exactly needs to be done? I have a background with GH Actions.

[briansmith]

I started the work for aarch64-pc-windows-msvc in #2529.

Unfortunately, it seems there are multiple compatibility-breaking changes in Rust 1.87 and Rust Nightly that are blocking this.

I addressed one of them in #2530.

Another one seems to be rust-lang/rust#136088. I think this is caused by the recently-added doctest-cross-compile feature (previously, doctests were ignored when --target was given to cargo test but now they are not). Probably we need a PR to skip doctests for the test-features job for the aarch64-linux-musl target.

Another one, again probably attributable to the doctest-xcompile feature, is that many of the coverage jobs fail. Probably we should just disable all the doctests in the coverage jobs since we don't want to be relying on doctests for code coverage anyway.

[briansmith]

All the backward-incompatible changes have been dealt with and the aarch64-pc-windows-msvc testing has been added to CI. I hope to do the release soon.

[georglauterbach]

Awesome!

[briansmith]

Now blocked on Issue #2536 where a test is failing on aarch64-pc-windows-msvc with Rust 1.66 consistently in CI.

[georglauterbach]

With #2536 being removed from the 0.17.15 milestone, #2435 and #2444 seem to be the only blockers for the release left. Is this correct?

[georglauterbach]

Any updates on this?

[briansmith]

I've started the process of merging the latest BoringSSL changes into ring. As things have mostly diverged, the merge mostly involves doing analogous things with different code than BoringSSL. So, for example, we have PR #2593 and PR #2594 with quite non-obvious changes that could use extra eyes and (especially in the case of #2593) benchmarking.

After I do the BoringSSL merge then I'll do the re-benchmarking and then do the release.

[georglauterbach]

The mentioned PRs are merged, so what's the status on this? Can we put the remaining PRs into 17.16? We are really waiting on the improvements to the build process..