[llvm-dev] LLVM 4.0.0 Release

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev]

It is my pleasure to announce that LLVM 4 is now available.

Get it here: http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#4.0.0

LLVM is now using a new versioning scheme, increasing the major
version number with each major release. Stable updates to this release
will be versioned 4.0.x, and the next major release, six months from
now, will be version 5.0.0. For more information, see
http://blog.llvm.org/2016/12/llvms-new-versioning-scheme.html

This release is the result of the community's work over the past six
months, including: use of profile data in ThinLTO, more aggressive
aggressive dead code elimination, experimental support for coroutines,
experimental AVR target, better GNU ld compatibility and significant
performance improvements in LLD, as well as improved optimizations,
many bug fixes and more.

See the release notes for more details:
http://llvm.org/releases/4.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://llvm.org/releases/4.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://llvm.org/releases/4.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://llvm.org/releases/4.0.0/tools/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Thanks to everyone who helped with filing, fixing and code reviewing
for release blocking bugs.

Special thanks to the release testers and packagers: Ben Pope,
Bernhard Rosenkränzer, Diana Picus, Dimitry Andric, Mehdi Amini,
Michał Górny, Renato Golin, Simon Dardis, and Sylvestre Ledru. Also
thanks to Zhendong Su and his team whose fuzz testing prevented many
bugs going into the release.

For questions or comments about this release, please contact the
community on the mailing lists. Onwards to LLVM 5!

Cheers,
Hans