[llvm-dev] [cfe-dev] [3.7 Release] Let's fix the release notes!

Hans Wennborg via llvm-dev
Mon, 31 Aug 2015 16:41:19 -0000

Hi Francisco,

Sorry, the 3.7 tag has already been committed so it's too late to make
any changes to the release notes. Thanks for the pointer though!

Cheers,
Hans

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Francisco Lopes
<francisco.mailing.lists at oblita.com> wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Not sure whether this is worth to be in the release notes:
>
>  - http://nosubstance.me/articles/2015-01-29-better-completion-for-cpp/
>
> It's libclang specific.
>
> I'm sorry but I don't have time available to commit notes myself.
>
> Best Regards,
> Francisco Lopes
>
>
> 2015-08-13 20:52 GMT-03:00 Hans Wennborg via cfe-dev
> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org>:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>
>> The in-progress release notes for 3.7 [1,2] make it look like we
>> didn't do very much over the past six months. Obviously that's
not the
>> case at all, so let's get them in shape!
>>
>> If you've been thinking "I should probably add this to the
release
>> notes at some point", now is the time :-)
>>
>> I have a list below of changes that might be worth mentioning. I
>> probably missed lots of stuff; please let me know.
>>
>> To update the notes, please commit directly to the 3.7 branch. If you
>> don't want to do that, just email me some text, and I'll
happily land
>> it for you.
>>
>> If you're uncertain whether your work is in the release or not, 3.7
>> covers commits r225992-r242221.
>>
>> Other updates to the docs are also very welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hans
>>
>>
>> (You're bcc'd on this email if you're mentioned in this
list.)
>>
>> Lang: can you write something about the new ORC JIT interface?
>>
>> Reid: how far did SEH support get in 3.7? Is this something we should
>> mention?
>>
>> I'll add something about the switch lowering changes.
>>
>> Chandler: can you write something about the TTI changes? Just a small
>> blurb and pointer to
>> http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2015-February/081589.html
>> would probably help a lot.
>>
>> Chandler: were there vector lowering changes in this release, or was
>> that all in 3.6?
>>
>> Kostya: I think the sanitizer coverage is new in 3.7? And the fuzzer
lib?
>>
>> Diego: I think you added some new Clang flags like fprofile-generate.
>> These would be good to mention in the "new flags section" in
Clang's
>> release notes. Is there any other PGO work that should be mentioned?
>>
>> Alexei: maybe add something about the BPF backend.
>>
>> Saleem: should we mention something about libunwind moving to a
>> separate repository?
>>
>> Zach: should we mention llvm-pdbdump?
>>
>> David: did you get around to writing something about the opaque
>> pointer type conversion? People will certainly run into this.
>>
>> Duncan: I haven't followed the changes around debug info and
metadata.
>> Is there something here that should be in the release notes?
>>
>> Ulrich: would you like to mention something about SystemZ support?
>>
>> Mehdi: the notes do say "DataLayout is no longer optional",
but maybe
>> we could flesh this text out a little to make it easier for users?
>>
>> Eric: do you want to add anything for out-of-tree targets after your
>> TargetMachine changes, etc? I stumbled across
>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/83858, for
>> example
>>
>> Hal: the PowePC notes have a note saying "QPX - Hal, please say a
few
>> words" :-)
>>
>> Alex: I think MIR is new for 3.7. Do you want to add something to the
>> notes?
>>
>> Quentin: How far did your shrinkwrap work get in 3.7? If it mostly
>> landed after the branch, maybe add it to the 3.8 (trunk) notes.
>>
>> Alexey: Would you or someone of the OpenMP developers be willing to
>> add a section on OpenMP to Clang's UsersManual.rst? It would be
nice
>> if the note in the release notes could point to this.
>>
>> Peter: I think the SafeStack patch landed in 3.7. Should we mention
>> this in the notes?
>>
>>
>>  [1]. http://llvm.org/pre-releases/3.7.0/rc2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>>  [2].
http://llvm.org/pre-releases/3.7.0/rc2/docs/clang/ReleaseNotes.html
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