[lldb-dev] [llvm-dev] [4.0.0] Release notes nag email

[Matthias Braun via lldb-dev]

> On Feb 9, 2017, at 1:46 PM, Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear everyone,
> 
> It's time for the six-monthly release notes nag email in preparation
> for the upcoming release.
> 
> As usual, the release notes are almost empty. Please help fill them
> with the work you've done in the past six months. The notes do get
> read by a lot of people, so I think they're worth some effort.
> 
> If you made any interesting changes in the last six months, or know
> someone who did, please write something about it. You can commit
> directly the release notes on the branch, or send me a patch and I'll
> happily commit it for you.
> 
> If you're responsible for the care of a specific target, please help
> give those notes some extra love.
> 
> 
> Here are some examples we might want to mention (thanks LLVM Weekly!).
> If you're cc'd on this email, you're mentioned below.
> 
> - Adam, do you want to add a mention of opt-viewer?
> 
> - Alex, do you want to put something about RISC-V in the notes?
> 
> - Anastasia, do you want to write something about OpenCL?
> 
> - Brendon, do you want to mention MachinePipeliner? IIUC, this is only
> used by Hexagon at the moment?
> 
> - Dan, do you want to put in an update about WebAssembly?
> 
> - David, do you want to write something about ADCE?
> 
> - Davide, do you want to write something about NewGVN?
> 
> - Dean, XRay started to land in this cycle. Do you want to mention it
> in the notes?
> 
> - Dylan, do you want to include an AVR status update?
> 
> - Eric, want to add a note about clang-change-namespace to the
> clang-tools-extra notes?
> 
> - Gor, do you want to add the status of co-routines support?
> 
> - Jacques, do you want to add a note about Lanai?
> 
> - James, do you want to mention the switch range reduction through
> rotation (r277325) optimization?
> 
> - Kate, do you want to mention the gread LLDB clang-formating or LLDB
> evolution in general?
> 
> - Matthias, should we write something about MIR? It's used quite a bit
> now, is that new for this release?
It is not new, but was never mentioned in the release notes before. So I added a short section in r294656 of the 4.0 branch.

- Matthias