LLVM {{env.config.release}} Release Notes

```{warning} These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM {{env.config.release}}
             release. Release notes for previous releases can be found on
             [the Download Page](https://releases.llvm.org/download.html).
```

Introduction
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release {{env.config.release}}.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code.  All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.
For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest release, please check out the main LLVM web site.  If you have questions or comments, the Discourse forums is a good place to ask them.
Note that if you are reading this file from a Git checkout or the main LLVM web page, this document applies to the next release, not the current one.  To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the releases page.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
  • ...
Changes to the LLVM IR
Changes to LLVM infrastructure
Changes to building LLVM
Changes to TableGen
  • !cond operator short-circuits at the first true condition.  Subsequent condition : value pairs, along with their corresponding side effects, are left unresolved.
Changes to Interprocedural Optimizations
Changes to Vectorizers
Changes to the AArch64 Backend
  • On AArch64 Windows targets, return address signing now uses the B-key by default because Windows unwind information only supports B-key signing.
Changes to the AMDGPU Backend
  • Replaced xnack and sramecc target features with amdgpu.xnack and amdgpu.sramecc module flags.
Changes to the ARM Backend
Changes to the AVR Backend
Changes to the DirectX Backend
Changes to the Hexagon Backend
Changes to the LoongArch Backend
Changes to the MIPS Backend
Changes to the PowerPC Backend
Changes to the RISC-V Backend
Changes to the WebAssembly Backend
Changes to the Windows Target
Changes to the X86 Backend
Changes to the OCaml bindings
Changes to the Python bindings
Changes to the C API
Changes to the CodeGen infrastructure
Changes to the Metadata Info
Changes to the Debug Info
Changes to the LLVM tools
Changes to LLDB
Windows
  • Python 3.11 or later is now recommended for building LLDB 23 on Windows. From LLDB 24, Python 3.11 or later will be required.
  • Messages from OutputDebugString[A|W] are now shown inline when using LLDB from the command-line and in the output window when using lldb-dap.
  • LLDB now uses lldb-server.exe to launch and manage the program being debugged, instead of running it within LLDB's own process. To revert to the previous behavior, set the environment variable LLDB_USE_LLDB_SERVER=0.
  • Support for PDB symbol servers has been added. By default, no symbol servers are used. You can control this either through the _NT_SYMBOL_PATH environment variable or by setting plugin.symbol-locator.symstore.urls (see plugin.symbol-locator.symstore for more info).
  • LLDB no longer depends on the Python private API on Windows. Users are now free to use any Python version they want, as long as it is 3.8 or later and LLDB can find it (i.e. it is on their PATH).
Changes to BOLT
Changes to Sanitizers
Other Changes
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM {{env.config.release}}
Additional Information
A wide variety of additional information is available on the LLVM web page, in particular in the documentation section.  The web page also contains versions of the API documentation which is up-to-date with the Git version of the source code.  You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by going into the llvm/docs/ directory in the LLVM tree.
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