Mark Mitchell announced the availability of GCC 4.2.1 saying, "GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases." He went on to note that future versions of GCC will be released under a new license, "GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released under GPL version 3."

GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection which includes C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada compilers. Download GCC 4.2.1 from your nearest gcc.gnu.org mirror.

From: Mark Mitchell [email blocked]
To:  gcc-announce
Subject: GCC 4.2.1 Released
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 12:55:00 -0700


GCC 4.2.1 has been released.

GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in
GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases.  This release is
available from the FTP servers listed at:

  http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html

GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the
GNU General Public License.  All future releases will be released
under GPL version 3.  See:

  http://gplv3.fsf.org

for more information about GPLv3.

Please do not contact me directly regarding questions or comments
about this release or about GPLv3.  Instead, use the resources
available from http://gcc.gnu.org.

As always, a vast number of people contributed to this GCC release --
far too many to thank individually!

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Mark Mitchell
CodeSourcery
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