Known Issues

GLIDE has a native component as a Rust based library. Currently the native component is not compatible with certain older GLIBC based OS’s. The most relevant one is Debian 11, which is the base of ubuntu 20, which some other distros are based on, like Mint and Pop!_OS 20 etc. As a result, the ones mentioned above are incompatible with GLIDE.

Another OS which is known to be incompatible is Amazon Linux 2, which is the previous versions of what AWS Lambda is running on (node 18, py <=11, java <= 17). Note that this is not affecting MUSL based distros, which are not based on GLIBC.

For all the incompatible Linux distros listed, there’s at least one newer and stable version available, and it is recommended to use them.

Incompatible Distro Version	Compatible Successor Version
Debian 11	Debian 12 / 13
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	Ubuntu 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS
Linux Mint 20	Linux Mint 21 / 22
Pop!_OS 20.04 LTS	Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS
Amazon Linux 2	Amazon Linux 2023

When running on incompatible systems, the client crashes with one of the following errors:

/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found
/lib64/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.29' not found

You can get the GLIBC version included in your OS by running ldd --version. GLIBC versions 2.26, 2.27, 2.30, and 2.31 are not supported. We are working hard to resolve this issue. You can track our progress in issue #3291.