Dear All, On behalf of the LLVM Foundation I'd like to announce that this year we're having 8 projects accepted for GSoC (in no particular order): 1. "Better Alias Analysis By Default" of Jia Chen and mentored by Hal Finkel and George Burgess IV 2. "Capture Tracking Improvements" of Scott Egerton and mentored by Nuno P. Lopes and Mehdi Amini 3. "Enabling llvm’s self-hosted modules builds using libstdc++" of Bianca-Cristina Cristescu and mentored by Vassil Vassilev 4. "Finding and analysing copy-pasted code with clang" of Raphael Isemann and mentored by Vassil Vassilev 5. "Improvement of vectorization process in Polly" of Roman Gareev and mentored by Tobias Grosser 6. "Interprocedural Register Allocation in LLVM" of Vivek Pandya and mentored by Mehdi Amini and Hal Finkel 7. "Polly as an Analysis Pass in LLVM" of Utpal Bora and mentored by Johannes Doerfert 8. "SAFECode’s Memory Policy Hardening" of Zhengyang Liu and mentored by John Criswell Officially we're in the "community bonding" period now. More details for students will follow. -- With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University