GCC 5.3 To Be Released Within A Few Weeks

While GCC 6 is the next major feature release of the GNU Compiler Collection that will come out in 2016, GCC 5.3 will be here in likely about two weeks.

GCC 5.3 is just the latest point release to GCC 5, per the group's version handling change that began with the GCC 5 release earlier this year. GCC 5.3 is mainly about bug-fixes and documentation updates.

SUSE's Richard Biener wrote a 5.3 status report where he shares plans for a GCC 5.3 release candidate at the end of the next week and to hopefully do the official GCC 5.3 release the following week. The status report shows no P0 regressions (the highest priority) but they increased by 30 P2 bugs to a total amount of 121 while being at 20 for the P3 issues and 87 for P4 issues.

GCC 6 meanwhile should make it out at the end of Q1 or early Q2 per the compiler's usual release tradition. GCC 6 has a lot of new features and more compiler benchmarks will be coming up shortly on Phoronix. There's also the daily GCC SVN benchmarks via LinuxBenchmarking.com.