[llvm-announce] LLVM 6.0.0 Release

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