This document contains the release notes for the interactive C++ interpreter Cling, release 1.1. Cling is built on top of Clang and LLVM compiler infrastructure. Here we describe the status of Cling in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work.
Note that if you are reading this file from a git checkout or the main Cling web page, this document applies to the next release, not the current one.
Some of the major new features and improvements to Cling are listed here. Generic improvements to Cling as a whole or to its underlying infrastructure are described first.
- Upgrade to LLVM LLVM16 and further reduce our technical debt
- Require C++17
- Support ppc64 in jitlink
- Support LLVM plugins
- Improve the modulemap handling on Darwin
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This release wouldn't have happened without the efforts of our contributors, listed in the form of Firstname Lastname (#contributions):
FirstName LastName (#commits)
Jonas Hahnfeld (53) Devajith Valaparambil Sreeramaswamy (18) Vassil Vassilev (10) Bertrand Bellenot (6) ferdymercury (4) Devajth Valaparambil Sreeramaswamy (3) Yong Gyu Lee (2) Jonas Rembser (2) Vincenzo Eduardo Padulano (1) saisoma123 (1) Olivier Couet (1) Maxim Cournoyer (1) LiAuTraver (1) Kai Luo (1) Devajith (1) Danilo Piparo (1) Axel Naumann (1)