.. warning::
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.8 release. You may
- prefer the `LLVM 3.6 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.6.0/docs
+ prefer the `LLVM 3.7 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.7.0/docs
/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
+* With this release, the minimum Windows version required for running LLVM is
+ Windows 7. Earlier versions, including Windows Vista and XP are no longer
+ supported.
+
+* With this release, the autoconf build system is deprecated. It will be removed
+ in the 3.9 release. Please migrate to using CMake. For more information see:
+ `Building LLVM with CMake <CMake.html>`_
+
+* The C API function LLVMLinkModules is deprecated. It will be removed in the
+ 3.9 release. Please migrate to LLVMLinkModules2. Unlike the old function the
+ new one
+
+ * Doesn't take an unused parameter.
+ * Destroys the source instead of only damaging it.
+ * Does not record a message. Use the diagnostic handler instead.
+
+* The C API functions LLVMParseBitcode, LLVMParseBitcodeInContext,
+ LLVMGetBitcodeModuleInContext and LLVMGetBitcodeModule have been deprecated.
+ They will be removed in 3.9. Please migrate to the versions with a 2 suffix.
+ Unlike the old ones the new ones do not record a diagnostic message. Use
+ the diagnostic handler instead.
+
+* The deprecated C APIs LLVMGetBitcodeModuleProviderInContext and
+ LLVMGetBitcodeModuleProvider have been removed.
+
+* The deprecated C APIs LLVMCreateExecutionEngine, LLVMCreateInterpreter,
+ LLVMCreateJITCompiler, LLVMAddModuleProvider and LLVMRemoveModuleProvider
+ have been removed.
+
+* With this release, the C API headers have been reorganized to improve build
+ time. Type specific declarations have been moved to Type.h, and error
+ handling routines have been moved to ErrorHandling.h. Both are included in
+ Core.h so nothing should change for projects directly including the headers,
+ but transitive dependencies may be affected.
.. NOTE
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During this release ...
+Changes to the X86 Target
+-----------------------------
+
+ During this release ...
+
+* TLS is enabled for Cygwin as emutls.
+
+
Changes to the OCaml bindings
-----------------------------
During this release ...
+* The ocaml function link_modules has been replaced with link_modules' which
+ uses LLVMLinkModules2.
+
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.8
============================================