[cfe-dev] LLVM 6.0.0 Release

[Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev]

I am pleased to announce that LLVM 6 is now available.

Get it here: https://llvm.org/releases/download.html#6.0.0

This release is the result of the community's work over the past six
months, including: retpoline Spectre variant 2 mitigation,
significantly improved CodeView debug info for Windows, GlobalISel by
default for AArch64 at -O0, improved scheduling on several x86
micro-architectures, Clang defaults to -std=gnu++14 instead of
-std=gnu++98, support for some upcoming C++2a features, improved
optimizations, new compiler warnings, many bug fixes, and more.

For more details, see the release notes:
https://llvm.org/releases/6.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
https://llvm.org/releases/6.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
https://llvm.org/releases/6.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
https://llvm.org/releases/6.0.0/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: Andrew Kelley,
Bero Rosenkränzer, Brian Cain, Diana Picus, Dimitry Andric, Jonas
Hahnfeld, Michał Górny, Simon Dardis, Sylvestre Ledru, Takumi
Nakamura, and Vedant Kumar!

For questions or comments about the release, please contact the
community on the mailing lists. Onwards to LLVM 7!

Thanks,
Hans