GCC 15.2.1 Status Report (2026-05-04)
GCC 15.3 release candidate is planned for June 5th, with the release the following week; developers should review and backport regression fixes.
Richard Biener provides a status report for GCC 15.3, following the release of GCC 16.1. A release candidate is scheduled for June 5th, with the final release a week later. Developers are urged to review regression fixes and backport them to the release branch. The report includes quality data, indicating increases in P2 and P3 priority bugs.
In Details
This is a status report for a stable GCC release branch. The report highlights the plan to release GCC 15.3, the need to backport bug fixes identified as regressions, and the current bug count per priority.
For Context
After a major release of GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection, the focus shifts to maintaining stable branches. These branches provide users with more predictable and reliable versions of the compiler. This report outlines the plan for the next release (GCC 15.3) from the GCC 15 branch. The primary task is identifying and fixing regression bugs – issues that have been introduced since the previous release. The report also tracks the number and severity of these bugs.