LLVM 3.9 Officially Released

Written by Michael Larabel in LLVM on 2 September 2016 at 02:38 PM EDT. 14 Comments
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As expected, LLVM 3.9 was released today as the newest version of this widely-used and innovative compiler stack.

Hans Wennborg of Google announced, "This release is the result of the LLVM community's work over the past six months, including ThinLTO, new libstdc++ ABI compatibility, support for all OpenCL 2.0 and all non-offloading OpenMP 4.5 features, clang-include-fixer, many new clang-tidy checks, significantly improved ELF linking with lld, identical code folding and initial LTO support in lld, as well as improved optimization, many bug fixes and more."

More details on the new release via our LLVM/Clang 3.9 feature overview. Next up is LLVM 4.0 for release in early 2017.
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