GCC 16 is nearly ready for its official stable release (GCC 16.1), with the release branch now created after all 14 highest-priority regressions were resolved. Key features include an Algol 68 front-end, C++20 as the default standard, initial AMD Zen 6 (znver6) support, AVX10.2 and APX support for Intel Nova Lake, Picolibc embedded C library support, Intel Wildcat Lake targeting, higher default LTO partition count for modern high-core-count CPUs, and non-experimental ARM64 function multi-versioning. The official release is expected within a few weeks.
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