Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.1 saying, "GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases." He went on to note that future versions of GCC will be released under a new license, "GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released under GPL version 3."
GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.1 from your nearest gcc.gnu.org mirror.
From: Mark Mitchell [email blocked] To: gcc-announce Subject: GCC 4.2.1 Released Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:55:00 -0700 GCC 4.2.1 has been released. GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases. This release is available from the FTP servers listed at: http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released under GPL version 3. See: http://gplv3.fsf.org for more information about GPLv3. Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments about this release or about GPLv3. Instead, use the resources available from http://gcc.gnu.org. As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release -- far too many to thank individually! -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [email blocked] (650) 331-3385 x713
