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lld |release| Release Notes
===========================
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These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM |release| release.
Release notes for previous releases can be found on
`the Download Page <https://releases.llvm.org/download.html>`_.
Introduction
============
This document contains the release notes for the lld linker, release |release|.
Here we describe the status of lld, including major improvements
from the previous release. All lld releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <https://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
ELF Improvements
----------------
* ``ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD`` compressed input sections are now supported.
(`D129406 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D129406>`_)
* ``--compress-debug-sections=zstd`` is now available to compress debug
sections with zstd (``ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD``).
(`D133548 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D133548>`_)
* ``--no-warnings``/``-w`` is now available to suppress warnings.
(`D136569 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D136569>`_)
* ``DT_RISCV_VARIANT_CC`` is now produced if at least one ``R_RISCV_JUMP_SLOT``
relocation references a symbol with the ``STO_RISCV_VARIANT_CC`` bit.
(`D107951 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D107951>`_)
Breaking changes
----------------
COFF Improvements
-----------------
* The linker command line entry in ``S_ENVBLOCK`` of the PDB is now stripped
from input files, to align with MSVC behavior.
(`D137723 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D137723>`_)
* Switched from SHA1 to BLAKE3 for PDB type hashing / ``-gcodeview-ghash``
(`D137101 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D137101>`_)
* Improvements to the PCH.OBJ files handling. Now LLD behaves the same as MSVC
link.exe when merging PCH.OBJ files that don't have the same signature.
(`D136762 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D136762>`_)
MinGW Improvements
------------------
* The lld-specific options ``--guard-cf``, ``--no-guard-cf``,
``--guard-longjmp`` and ``--no-guard-longjmp`` has been added to allow
enabling Control Flow Guard and long jump hardening. These options are
disabled by default, but enabling ``--guard-cf`` will also enable
``--guard-longjmp`` unless ``--no-guard-longjmp`` is also specified.
``--guard-longjmp`` depends on ``--guard-cf`` and cannot be used by itself.
Note that these features require the ``_load_config_used`` symbol to contain
the load config directory and be filled with the required symbols.
(`D132808 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D132808>`_)
MachO Improvements
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WebAssembly Improvements
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