1======================== 2LLVM 8.0.0 Release Notes 3======================== 4 5.. contents:: 6 :local: 7 8.. warning:: 9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 8 release. 10 Release notes for previous releases can be found on 11 `the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_. 12 13 14Introduction 15============ 16 17This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, 18release 8.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements 19from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and 20some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded 21from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. 22 23For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest 24release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <https://llvm.org/>`_. If you 25have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List 26<https://lists.llvm.org/mailman/listinfo/llvm-dev>`_ is a good place to send 27them. 28 29Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main 30LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current 31one. To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases 32page <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_. 33 34Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release 35================================================= 36.. NOTE 37 For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of 38 this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet 39 point (e.g. maybe you would like to give an example of the 40 functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below 41 for adding a new subsection. 42 43* Note.. 44 45.. NOTE 46 If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a 47 subsection about it right here. You can copy the following boilerplate 48 and un-indent it (the indentation causes it to be inside this comment). 49 50 Special New Feature 51 ------------------- 52 53 Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing. 54 55Changes to the LLVM IR 56---------------------- 57 58 59Changes to the ARM Backend 60-------------------------- 61 62 During this release ... 63 64 65Changes to the MIPS Target 66-------------------------- 67 68 During this release ... 69 70 71Changes to the PowerPC Target 72----------------------------- 73 74 During this release ... 75 76Changes to the X86 Target 77------------------------- 78 79 During this release ... 80 81Changes to the AMDGPU Target 82----------------------------- 83 84 During this release ... 85 86Changes to the AVR Target 87----------------------------- 88 89 During this release ... 90 91Changes to the OCaml bindings 92----------------------------- 93 94 95 96Changes to the C API 97-------------------- 98 99 100Changes to the DAG infrastructure 101--------------------------------- 102 103External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 8 104========================================== 105 106* A project... 107 108 109Additional Information 110====================== 111 112A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page 113<https://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation 114<https://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section. The web page also contains versions of the 115API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source 116code. You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by 117going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree. 118 119If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact 120us via the `mailing lists <https://llvm.org/docs/#mailing-lists>`_. 121