[$] GNU C Library version 2.39 The GNU C Library (glibc) <a href="https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2024-January/154363.html" rel="nofollow"> released version 2.39</a> on January 31, including several new features. Notable highlights include new functions for spawning child processes, support for shadow stacks on x86_64, new security features, and the removal of libcrypt. The glibc maintainers had also hoped to include improvements to qsort(), which ended up not making it into this release. Glibc releases are made every six months. https://lwn.net/Articles/960309/