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lld |release| Release Notes
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  .. warning::
     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
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* ``--compress-sections <section-glib>=[none|zlib|zstd]`` is added to compress
  matched output sections without the ``SHF_ALLOC`` flag.
  (`#84855 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/84855>`_)
* ``GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_PAUTH`` notes, ``R_AARCH64_AUTH_ABS64`` and
  ``R_AARCH64_AUTH_RELATIVE`` relocations are now supported.
  (`#72714 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/72714>`_)
* ``--debug-names`` is added to create a merged ``.debug_names`` index
  from input ``.debug_names`` sections. Type units are not handled yet.
  (`#86508 <https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/86508>`_)

Breaking changes
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COFF Improvements
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MinGW Improvements
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MachO Improvements
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WebAssembly Improvements
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Fixes
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