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lld |release| Release Notes
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  .. warning::
     These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |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 lld linker, release |release|.
Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements
from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================

ELF Improvements
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* ``-z nosectionheader`` has been implemented to omit the section header table.
  The operation is similar to ``llvm-objcopy --strip-sections``.
  (`#101286 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/101286>`_)
* Section ``CLASS`` linker script syntax binds input sections to named classes,
  which are referenced later one or more times. This provides access to the
  automatic spilling mechanism of `--enable-non-contiguous-regions` without
  globally changing the semantics of section matching. It also independently
  increases the expressive power of linker scripts.
  (`#95323 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/95323>`_)

* Experimental ``--thinlto-index=`` is added for distributed ThinLTO,
  addressing some symbol resolution issues with the old ``--thinlto-index-only=``.
  The ThinLTO indexing and the final link have very similar command lines.

Breaking changes
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COFF Improvements
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MinGW Improvements
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MachO Improvements
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WebAssembly Improvements
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Fixes
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