GCC 6.3.0 is coming soon to a GNU/Linux distro near you

Dec 22, 2016 23:22 GMT  ·  By

Red Hat's Jakub Jelinek was proud to announce the release and immediate availability of the third stabilization update to the GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6 series for GNU/Linux distributions.

GCC (GNU Compiler Collection) 6.3 is here four months after the release of the previous maintenance update, namely GCC 6.2, and promises to address many of the bugs and annoyances reported by users since then. According to the developers, it looks like more than 79 recorder bugs have been fixed in this new version.

"GCC 6.3 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 6 branch containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 6.2 with more than 79 bugs fixed since the previous release," said Jakub Jelinek, Consulting Engineer at Red Hat, in the brief release announcement.

The full changelog, which might come in handy for those of you curious to know what exactly has been changed in this release, can be found in the source archive, which you can download right now from our website. In the meantime, you should install GCC 6.3 on your GNU/Linux operating system as soon as it arrives in the stable repositories.

GCC 6.3 might be one of the last point releases for the 6.x series, as the development team is already working hard on the next major branch, namely GCC 7, which is currently in Stage 3 and should hit final stage as soon as early 2017. GCC 7 promises a performance boost for all Linux-based operating systems.