LLVM 18 is scheduled to be released in early March

Tom Stellard announced plans last week to release the LLVM18 compiler stack in early March. According to the plan formulated by this long-term LLVM developer, LLVM18.1 is expected to be released on March 5 and will adopt a version control scheme similar to GCC, that is, the initial stable version will use the N.1 version.

After adopting a version scheme similar to GCC, LLVM18.1 will become a stable version in early March. In order to meet the March 5th release date, the code for LLVM18.x is planned to be forked next week on January 23rd. The first Release Candidate will be released next week, another Release Candidate will be released on February 6, and the third and final Release Candidate will be released on February 20.

According to the release plan, if all goes well, LLVM18.1 will be released in the first week of March. LLVM18 will carry out more work on Intel APX and AVX10 extensions, initial OpenACC code for Clang, OpenMP kernel language support, support for new Intel CPUs such as ArrowLake and LunarLake, initial support for AMDGFX12, etc.

learn more:

https://discourse.llvm.org/t/llvm-18-release-schedule/76175