GCC 6.2 Is Coming Quite Soon
This is important as GCC 6.2 is the first point release to the stable GCC6 compiler under the versioning scheme they rolled out last year: GCC 6.0 was development, GCC 6.1 was the first stable release, and GCC 6.2 is now the first point release. That's important since a number of distribution vendors tend to wait until around this first point release before incorporating a major new version of the GCC compiler.
Debian unstable just landed GCC 6 and Ubuntu 16.10 has also been planning for the switch-over around the time of GCC 6.2, among other distributions.
SUSE's Richard Biener confirmed in a status report this morning that the 6.2 release candidate is expected in just about one week followed by the official release shortly after that point.
GCC 7.0 is meanwhile the version currently in development with new features for release in early 2017.
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