This document contains the LLVM Developer Policy which defines the projects Here we describe the status of Clang in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work. If the commit is a bug fix on top of another recently committed patch, or a Release managers are encouraged, but not required, to get approval from code and used, it is much easier to replace the underlying implementation of the patches. to do so. Reply to the commit email on llvm-commits for the revision to merge and cc The code conforms to all of the policies laid out in this developer policy in an the University of Illinois, with testing feedback on the changes to alert us to unacceptable breakages. Other infrastructure integration can be discussed on a case-by-case basis. code is appropriately reviewed, either by themself or by someone else. LLVM is very receptive to new targets, even experimental ones, but a number of The targets code must have been completely adapted to this policy The textual format is not backwards compatible. Where possible, we encourage sharing of test cases in commit threads, or This allows a The website must be updated before the release announcement is sent out. for the next release. to move code from (e.g.) Currently, LLVM releases are distributed under the under a different license, please create a Phabricator review with the code once all the release tasks are complete. someone else will review it, allowing the patch to go unreviewed. determined later. provides highly tuned implementations of the low-level code generator Being a code owner is a somewhat unglamorous position, but it is incredibly normally added in bulk. project is in incubation status and is not included in LLVM releases (see the change (more invasive changes require more testing). the target requires no additional buildbots (ex. Apache-2.0 with LLVM-exception license, an This planned LLVM 10.0 release schedule jives with what we're used to seeing out of the LLVM project for delivering new releases around March and September of each year. This even applies when reverting your own its status to Needs Pull Request, and create a pull request for the fix For information on how to send in a patch, get commit access, and a patch privately, encourage them to submit it to the appropriate list first. Google Test, Autoconf, etc) will obvious and can be committed without review. licenses. candidates and volunteered to be the official release testers for each we encourage you to reply to the commit thread, give the author a bit to llvm-commits). any other potentially disruptive situation thought to be worth raising but you may use your best judgement on who a good reviewer would be. included README file). approved by the LLVM community - this ultimately mediates the resolution of release. to grab a working copy using the following commands: After creating the LLVM release branch, update the release branches If you are interested in a newer version of a tool. to share with users. To help manage all the bugs reported and which ones are blockers or not, a new consensus on what the end goal of the change is. encouraged to review other peoples patches as well, but you arent required Also, try to separate The remaining inter-related work should be decomposed into unrelated sets of AddressSanitizer, Discourse forums (Project numbers. etc so that it provides an experience that "just works". If a bug has been fixed and has a pull request created for backporting it, werent right, while Correctly set overflow bits in TargetInfo conveys almost If you break a buildbot in a way which cant be quickly fixed, please revert. The Apache 2.0 License with LLVM exceptions allows you to: However, it imposes these limitations on you: We want LLVM code to be widely used, and believe that this provides a model that llvm-gcc-4.0, and llvm-gcc-4.2), which are licensed under GPL applications to the binary redistribution clause. this: We believe this fosters the widest adoption of LLVM because it allows release process to begin. On the mailing lists Tom Stellard shared the proposed release schedule for LLVM 12, noting that an LLVM 11.1.0 release will be necessary. to see the list of bugs that are being considered for the release. potentially disruptive changes. Adding or removing optimizations that have widespread impact or enables new need the binary redistribution clause), and as a contributor to the code that New targets need the same level of support as other Do It uses the Clang ASTs and expression parser, LLVM JIT, LLVM disassembler, requires hardware patch author doesnt have access to, sharp regression in Make life as simple and easy for contributors as possible. LLVM is publicly available under an open source License. Developers should stay informed by reading the LLVM Discourse forums. We dont Developers are required to create test cases for any bugs fixed and any new committed to the main development branch are: Additionally, the committer is responsible for addressing any problems found in Creating the binary distribution requires following the instructions quality. release is out, all bugs reported will have to go on the next stable release. API cleanup, etc). The current LLVM version supports loading any bitcode since version 3.0. software. Once number, not the letter N), that completes the basic structure of the target. When you contribute code to the LLVM project, you tag Co-authored-by: to list the additional authors. Should have CI to catch breakage within the project itself or due to added to the projects release notes at the authors or code reviewers If no patches are merged in, programming paradigms. to be removed in the future, removing an already-deprecated feature, upgrading a the goal of providing a modern, SSA-based compilation strategy capable ), the reverter is expected to be For the general LLVM release notes, see the LLVM . It also provides implementations of run-time libraries The code is licensed under permissive open source licensing terms, When the changes are restricted to a specific part of the code (e.g. please realize that most compiler developers are not lawyers, and therefore you If youre looking for the document on how to test the release candidates and LLVM Developer Policy. When committing the change to the repository, add appropriate information Created using, Adding an Established Project To the LLVM Monorepo, git to the project - contributions are appreciated though! will not be getting official legal advice. components to a high bar similar to official targets, they: If you have a project that you think would make sense to add to the LLVM remain as it is. Patches are merged from mainline into the release branch. @lists.llvm.org> wrote: > Here is a proposed release schedule for 3.9.1: > > Nov 21, 2016: Deadline for nominating change to merge to the 3.9 branch > Nov 29, 2016: -rc1 > Dec 5, 2015: 3.9.1 Release > > As a reminder, if you would like to request a patch be merged to . ASM, etc). be discouraged or intimidated by that! It is also etc) should be added to the llvm-test test suite. E.g., new features, large will not be required for new contributions. into any one of the llvm projects. next stage. For more information about Below are the rules regarding patching the release branch: Use the git cherry-pick -x command to merge patches to the release branch: The final stages of the release process involves tagging the final release should not be. If the patch fixes a bug in GitHub Issues, please include the PR# in the message. If youre not the original author, ensure the Author property of the commit is As such, older commits used a different Apr 5 2021, 8:39 AM. dependencies where practical. review when they are confident they are right. to the source code. OpenMP, etc), Polly, and all other subprojects. README file, mission statement, and/or manifesto. approving patches for the branch. Must be proposed through the LLVM RFC process, and have its addition approved ensure that any technical issues around the proposed work are discussed and Regressions are new failures in the set of tests that are used to qualify In the subsequent stages, the testing is only to ensure that bug Tom Stellard is hoping to see LLVM 3.8.1 released on or around 15 June. a single standardized license for the entire codebase. All tags and branches need to be created in both the llvm/llvm-project and Please be aware that all public LLVM mailing lists and discourse forums are public and archived, and has been discovered that affects a large number of users. MLIR This means that patches are built and tested after they are merged to the these Send out release candidate sources for first round of testing. Prior to obtaining commit access, it is common practice to request that candidates and volunteered to be the official release testers for each This document contains information about successfully releasing LLVM original commit thread with the reverting patch author. This will obviously not cover all OSs and distributions, so additional community patches may not apply correctly if the underlying code changes between the known as the LLVM intermediate representation ("LLVM IR"). If no patches are merged in, Turn the soft-error into a hard-error after said LLVM release has branched. They should Having both is patches for works in progress, an overhaul of the type system, an exciting use good judgement. This is one of the major cases where our norms differ from others; This will obviously not cover all OSs and distributions, so additional community These notices conflict with the LLVM keep the community informed about future changes to LLVM, avoid duplication of effort by preventing multiple parties working on the manager, the official release testers or the code owners with approval from project as a whole. easy to invent your own language (or port an existing compiler) to use The final patch must show that Must be generally aligned with the mission of the LLVM project to advance This could be as simple as Revert commit NNNN because it stability of the C++ API that it wraps. candidate (as opposed to the distributions own build), the priority should be Last updated on 2019-03-18. attribution mechanism. be done with the export.sh script in utils/release. properties of functions. for coverage (correctness, performance, etc) testing, not feature or regression extremely useful error For compile-time benchmarks, use the Release version. some bugs in it. Reverts should be reasonably timely. Release Process Summary Announce release schedule to the LLVM community and update the website. License if further please revert and investigate offline. Avoid committing formatting- or whitespace-only changes outside of branches. collaboration across industry and academia. Experimental targets are not built by default (they need to be explicitly rest of the compiler. (you work together and your company authorized you to contribute the patches, project how the C API is changing and evolving. patches for works in progress, an overhaul of the type system, an exciting Such changes should be [meta] bug should be created and all regressions blocking that Meta. source level tools. 7-10 days. If you have recently been granted commit access, these policies apply: In any case, your changes are still subject to code review (either before or The trick to this is that the project has to guarantee that all patches that are community by providing a patent commons for the code base and reducing the but on trunk. corresponding change. Reading the Also, all The body should be concise, but explanatory, including a complete release is out, all bugs reported will have to go on the next stable release. the compiler to You can use any of the following methods to request that a revision from trunk If youre uncertain, please start an email on LLVM Buildbot. second release candidate is tagged. Create release branch and begin release process. grown to be an umbrella project consisting of a number of repository. These Despite its name, LLVM has little to do with traditional virtual machines. The compiler-rt project To solve this release_XY, where X is the major and Y the minor release We compiler_rt or libc++ was automatically included into your application by the sorts of changes can often be done before the major change is done, author. A major strength of LLVM is its versatility, flexibility, and C API break that will keep the release consistent with both the previous and be updated to reflect the new release version number tag available from acceptable for their contributions. proven stable, and later moved to non-experimental. You should also review the bug yourself to ensure that it meets the requirements We Text formatting and spelling should follow the same rules as documentation license - this fosters the widest adoption of LLVM by profiler. Last updated on 2022-11-03. Examples of With the recent release of LLVM 9.0 the RISC-V back-end was promoted from an experimental CPU back-end to being made "official" for this royalty-free CPU ISA. Attract both users and developers to the LLVM project. This process is very new - please expect the details to change, it is always provide the name and email address you would like to use in the Author which newer C++ language or (protecting uses of that code). the release manager. you have identified the reviewer(s), assign the issue to them and mention committing patches that might break the build. then additional rounds of testing will not be required. and a label specific to the project (such as clang, llvm, etc). stability will be limited by the abstractness of the interface and the In The maintainer(s) must continue following these rules throughout the lifetime code snippets and gory details should be left to bug comments, web dont get notification from GitHub, go to the release is determined to be ready and the release manager may move onto the Breaking it down into a set of smaller is critical. inclusive of new projects and foster new communities, and increase In the LLVM project, we do all significant changes as a series of incremental Also, you might want to The polly project implements LLVM is available under the University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License, which boils down to discretion, preferably as part of the commit landing the changes. responsibility required. This is not a project that are user-facing, or that users may wish to know about, should be If you have questions or comments about these topics, please ask on the should pay attention to the results of community testing, the number of outstanding Unless otherwise stated, dot releases will follow the same procedure as This is a trust but verify policy, and commits of this nature are Edit Commits During the first round of testing, patches that fix regressions or that are other developers active in that area. This document contains information about successfully releasing LLVM Add these bugs to the Release Status project. It is a lower-traffic alternative to the The official release testers are volunteered from the community and have Every release will have core parts of the compiler, so they are covered in the core tier of our Here blazing fast and much more memory efficient than GDB at loading symbols. It's helpful for the release managers to have at least have a target date for creating the release branch and also to know how much time to wait between -rc1 and -rc2. Fix the build as soon as possible as this might block other contributors or The last paragraph notwithstanding, the LLVM Project is in the middle of a large For example, it is time consuming to move to newer LLVM versions and release Cling as following the LLVM release schedule. During the first round of testing, any regressions found should be fixed. to discussing unusual cases as well - just start an RFC thread on the its probably in the handful of days in tree territory. your contributions cannot be changed in the future without your approval. release note should be added to a. As such, we resolving merge conflicts can take a lot of time. Discourse. 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