GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release.

GCC 16 ships improved error messages with experimental HTML output support , the new Algol 68 programming language front-end , support for using Picolibc , Arm AGI CPU target support , experimental AMD Instinct MI300 series support in the AMDGCN back-end, and initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" CPU support .

GCC 16 is also using the C++20 standard by default and brings many C and C++ language improvements. More OpenMP 5.x/6.x functionality is also in place, the GCC Ada support continues improving, and many other improvements as outlined via the documentation .

Downloads and more details on today's GCC 16.1 stable release via gcc.gnu.org . GCC 16.1 compiler benchmarks coming up soon on Phoronix.