On Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:15:38 GMT, Nick Hall <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will say that libkrb5 is largely pretty stable (it's really old code with 
> few features being added), though I'm not sure what range is required to be 
> supported here in terms of operating system builds? Worst case though, any 
> incompatibility will just result in this code not being used, although as 
> it'd be a silent failure without debug flags, that's perhaps not ideal (but 
> has always been the case, even before this change).

Two data points, but the JVM/krb5 library/jtreg test compiled on RHEL8 works on 
Ubuntu 24.04, and these two are reasonably far apart:

- RHEL8
glibc 2.28
kernel 4.18.0
krb5 1.18

- Ubuntu 24.04
glibc 2.39
kernel 6.8.0
krb5 1.20

Obviously the reverse doesn't work, but that's to be expected.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/28075#issuecomment-3547609210

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