Linaro GCC 4.8 and 4.7 2014.01 released

Written for Linaro GCC by Christophe Lyon on 2014-01-21

The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the
release of both Linaro GCC 4.7 and Linaro GCC 4.8.

As announced at Linaro Connect USA 2013 Linaro GCC is moving to a
pattern of quarterly stable releases, with engineering releases in the
intervening months. This is the first stable release, and contains no
known regressions compared to the 2013.12 release.

The next release of GCC 4.7 will be the 2014.04 stable release. There
will be no engineering releases of GCC 4.7 in 2013.02 or 2013.03.

The next stable release of GCC 4.8 will be the 2014.04 release. Next
month's release - 2013.02 - will be an engineering build.

Linaro GCC 4.7 2014.01 is the twenty second release in the 4.7
series. Based off the latest GCC 4.7.4+svn206380 release, this is the
ninth release after entering maintenance.

Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.7.4+svn206380

Linaro GCC 4.8 2014.01 is the tenth release in the 4.8 series. Based
off the latest GCC 4.8.3+svn206350 release, it includes performance
improvements and bug fixes.

Interesting changes include:
* Updates to GCC 4.8.3+svn206350
* Enhanced multilib support

The source tarballs are available from:
 http://releases.linaro.org/14.01/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.7
 http://releases.linaro.org/14.01/components/toolchain/gcc-linaro/4.8

Downloads are available from the Linaro Releases website:
 http://www.linaro.org/downloads/

More information on the features and issues are available from the
release pages:
 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.7/4.7-2014.01
 https://launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/4.8/4.8-2014.01

Mailing list: http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-toolchain

Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gcc-linaro/

Questions? https://ask.linaro.org/

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