The latest release of the GNU Compiler Collection addresses regressions and serious bugs found in GCC 16.1.
The GNU Compiler Collection version 16.2 was officially released early this morning as GCC’s latest and greatest. The announcement came by way of Richard Biener in a short and sweet email on gcc@gcc.gnu.org and other mailing lists.
“GCC 16.2 is a bug-fix release from the GCC 16 branch containing important fixes for regressions and serious bugs in GCC 16.1 with more than 102 bugs fixed since the previous release,” he said. GCC 16.1 was released on April 30.
GCC is the tool used to convert source code from a number of programming languages into the binary format readable by computers. It’s what you’d use to compile an application from source if it’s not already available in binary form.
This release is available from FTP servers at https://sourceware.org/pub/gcc/releases/gcc-16.2.0/ and https://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html.
Further information and help can be found at http://gcc.gnu.org.
Christine Hall has been a journalist since 1971. In 2001, she began writing a weekly consumer computer column and started covering Linux and FOSS in 2002 after making the switch to GNU/Linux. Follow her on Twitter: @BrideOfLinux
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