Alaknár@lemm.ee to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agoOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
arrow-up1147arrow-down1external-linkOn August 15th, 2025, Steam will officially stop supporting Linux distributions with a version of glibc older than 2.31help.steampowered.comAlaknár@lemm.ee to Linux Gaming@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-24 days agomessage-square4fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: linux@programming.dev
minus-squareLojcs@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·4 days agoThat’s surprisingly new. Wonder what causes the incompatibility
minus-square9tr6gyp3@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-24 days agoThe changelog for 2.31 is here: https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well.
That’s surprisingly new. Wonder what causes the incompatibility
The changelog for 2.31 is here:
https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-announce/2020/msg00001.html
Latest version of glibc is 2.41, released 2025-01-30. That puts 2.31 at least 10 releases behind. That version is quite outdated. There are numerous security and bug fixes in 2.31 alone, with each newer release also fixing some as well.