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Did you even read the HN thread you've linked to? Everyone there clearly agreed that 4.8 was not released.

EDIT: thanks hamidr for correcting me!

GCC 4.8.0 released [2013-03-22] GCC internals documentation [2013-01-23] The GCC Resource Center at IITB is providing documentation, tutorials and videos about GCC internals with support from the Government of India. ARM AArch64 support [2012-10-24] A port for AArch64, the 64-bit execution state in the ARMv8 architecture, has been contributed by ARM Ltd. IBM zEnterprise EC12 support [2012-10-10] Support for the latest release of the System z mainframe zEC12 has been added to the architecture back end. This work was contributed by Andreas Krebbel of IBM.

Thanks, that's cool. I was looking at the mailing list only.

That thread was 5 days ago, at which time people agreed only a RC had been released, and that 4.8 would be released in about a week. As of now it appears 4.8 has either been released or is imminently about to be.

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