glibc Versions

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glibc Versions

List of oldest supported version of top 10 Linux Distros and their glibc version according to distrowatch.com.

Summary

Out of all versions with published EOLs, 2.12 is the oldest glibc still active, found in CentOS 6.8.

If CentOS 6 and 7 are eliminated, the oldest glibc is 2.23 in Ubuntu and Slackware.

Details

Mint - 18.3 sylvia

• EOL: 2021-04
• glibc: 2.27

Ubuntu

18.04 LTS bionic

• EOL: 2023-04
• glibc: 2.27

16.04 LTS xenial

• EOL: 2021-04
• glibc: 2.23

MX Linux - 17.1

• EOL: None (Based on Debian 9 which has no EOL yet)
• glibc: 2.24
• Notes: MX-16 is based on Debian 8 which is EOL 2020-05

Arch Linux - 2020.01.22

• EOL: Rolling release
• glibc: 2.30

Gentoo - 2020-01-22

• EOL: Rolling release
• glibc: 2.29

Slackware - 14.2

• EOL: None
• glibc: 2.23
• NOTE: No EOLs are published. 14.2 was released in 2016. Older versions have libc < 2.17.

Debian - 9 stretch

• EOL: None announced
• glibc: 2.24

Fedora - 30

• EOL: None announced
• glibc: 2.29

OpenSUSE - 15.1

• EOL: None announced
• glibc: 2.26

CentOS

6.10

• EOL: 2020-11
• glibc: 2.12

7.7.1908

• EOL: 2024-06
• glibc: 2.17

8.1.1911

• EOL: None announced
• glibc: 2.28

FreeBSD - 10.3

• EOL: 2018-04
• glibc: N/A

thanks

CentOS 6 is dead, isn't it? So now the oldest one is from CentOS 7: 2.17 (until 2024)

Then, Debian Jessie uses glibc 2.19, which will live until mid-2025.

Then, SLE 12 uses glibc 2.22, which will live until Oct-2027.

Then SLE 15 uses glibc 2.26, which will live until 2031. That's far enough for me.

Alternative: https://repology.org/project/glibc/versions

@mxmlnkn thanks!

Just published a little helper script, that parses distrowatch. It may help, if you want to know, whether a linux distro supports a special package version, e.g.: give me the first ubuntu release, that supports glibc-2.14.
https://github.com/fsonnenburg/get_linux_version_for_package_version/blob/main/get_linux_version_for_package_version.py