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The GNU C Library (glibc)
The current development version of glibc is 2.44, releasing on or around August 1st, 2026.
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GNU C Library
Original author Roland McGrath
Developers GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper
GNU C Library
Original author Roland McGrath
Developers GNU Project, most contributions by Ulrich Drepper
GNU
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The GNU C Library - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
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Phoronix
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GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions - Phoronix
January 23, 2026 - Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library 'glibc' was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update
Wikipedia
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glibc - Wikipedia
March 20, 2026 - The last-used version of Linux libc used the internal name (soname) libc.so.5. Following on from this, glibc 2.x on Linux uses the soname
Pkgs.org
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Glibc Download for Linux (apk eopkg rpm txz xbps xz zst)
glibc latest versions: 2.35.9000, 2.35.0.6.491f2e, 2.35, 2.34, 2.33.r681.g642213e043, 2.33, 2.32, 2.31, 2.28, 2.27, 2.26, 2.25, 2.23, 2.17
Red Hat
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10.2. GLIBC | 7.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7 | Red Hat Documentation
10.2. GLIBC | 7.0 Release Notes | Red Hat Enterprise Linux | 7 | Red Hat Documentation
Repology
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glibc package versions - Repology
List of package versions for project glibc in all repositories
GitHub
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GitHub - bminor/glibc: Unofficial mirror of sourceware glibc repository. · GitHub
Unofficial mirror of sourceware glibc repository. Contribute to bminor/glibc development by creating an account on GitHub.
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JetBrains
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Updated System Requirements for Linux GNU C Library (glibc) - The JetBrains Blog
January 3, 2025 - If you are running your IDE on an x64 Linux distribution with glibc 2.28 or newer, no action is required. If you are running your IDE on a system with a version of glibc lower than 2.28, whether it’s a desktop or a remote development environment, ...
GitHub
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glibc Versions - Gist - GitHub
Then SLE 15 uses glibc 2.26, which will live until 2031. That's far enough for me. ... 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, ...
Ubuntu
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Jammy (22.04) : glibc package : Ubuntu
Package versions including new features after the distribution release has been made. Updates are usually turned on by default after a fresh install. ... GNU C library (glibc) is one of the most important components of GNU Hurd and most modern Linux distributions.
GitHub
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Ubuntu Distro GCC GLIBC GLIBCXX C++-Standard versions · GitHub
Get all supported GLIBCXX versions · strings /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/libstdc++.so | grep -E 'GLIBCXX_[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+' Get the latest of supported GLIBCXX version · strings /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/11/libstdc++.so | grep -oP 'GLIBCXX_\d+\.\d+\.\d+' | sort -V | tail -n1 ·
Arch Linux
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Arch Linux - glibc 2.43+r22+g8362e8ce10b2-2 (x86_64)
lib32-glibc 2.43+r22+g8362e8ce10b2-2 [core] (x86_64) filesystem · linux-api-headers>=4.10 · tzdata · gd (optional) - for memusagestat · perl (optional) - for mtrace · gd (make) git (make) lib32-gcc-libs (make) python (make) 3cpio · 4ti2 · 7zip · a2jmidid · a52dec ·
Top answer 1 of 5
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For glibc:
/lib/libc.so.6
Sounds maybe strange to run a so file but should print out version information in this case
For the kernel version use uname
For the binutils parsing the output of ld --versionmight yield what you expect, the same for gcc --version. This is a bit tedious but I do not know another way.
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$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.39
GitHub
github.com › sgerrand › alpine-pkg-glibc › releases
Releases · sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc
April 13, 2023 - The first package release of version 2.35 of the GNU C library.
Author sgerrand
Red Hat
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What glibc version is shipped with a particular Red Hat Enterprise Linux? - Red Hat Customer Portal
December 2, 2025 - What glibc version is shipped with a particular Red Hat Enterprise Linux update or minor release? We need a later GNU C library for our project but we cannot find it from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Is there any document about glibc version information?
Ubuntu
launchpad.net › ubuntu › +source › glibc
glibc package in Ubuntu
GLibC 2.42 is older than the current packaged version.
OpenGenus
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Find glibc version in your system
We present 3 different ways to identify compile time and run time version of glibc. The version of glibc has two components: Major version and Minor version.
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Use ldd --version:
Copy$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.17
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
...
You can also run libc itself:
Copy$ /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (GNU libc) stable release version 2.17, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
...
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Write a test program (name it for example glibc-version.c):
Copy#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <gnu/libc-version.h>
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
printf("GNU libc version: %s\n", gnu_get_libc_version());
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
}
and compile it with the gcc-4.4 compiler:
Copygcc-4.4 glibc-version.c -o glibc-version
When you execute ./glibc-version the used glibc version is shown.
LinuxVox
linuxvox.com › blog › linux-get-glibc-version
Linux: How to Get the GLIBC Version — linuxvox.com
For example, in the version 2.34, 2 is the major version, and 34 is the minor version. Major version changes often introduce significant new features, API changes, or architectural improvements.