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This major release of the GNU Compiler Collection is the first to include a COBOL front end. It also features improved support for Rust. Developers are also concerned about breaking changes.
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) code was branched today to the releases/gcc-15 branch and GCC 16.0.0 is now the version on the main development branch.
With the newly-released LLVM 20.1 compiler stack among the many changes throughout the massive codebase is renaming the "flang-new" compiler just to "flang". This new Flang compiler front-end has matured quite well over the years to providing robust and reliable Fortran language support within the confines of the LLVM toolchain.
In marking the LLVM 20 stable release and the milestone of flang-new renamed to flang, the LLVM Project blog has put out a blog post outlining all of the accomplishments for this modern Flang Fortran compiler.