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# LLVM.jl release notes
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## In development: LLVM.jl v9.1
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## LLVM.jl v9.1
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The most important feature of this release is the addition of documentation, both in the
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form of function docstrings, and an extensive manual.
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As part of the documentation writing effort, many minor issues or areas for improvement were
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identified, resulting in a large amount of minor, but breaking changes. For all of those,
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deprecations are in place, so this release is not technically breaking. However, it is
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strongly recommended to update your code to the new APIs as soon as possible, which can be
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done by testing your code with `--depwarn=error`.
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deprecations are in place. However, it is strongly recommended to update your code to the
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new APIs as soon as possible, which can be done by testing your code with `--depwarn=error`.
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Technically beaking changes:
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Technically beaking changes (unlikely to affect any users):
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- Metadata values attached using the `metadata` function [now need to
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be](https://github.com/maleadt/LLVM.jl/pull/476) a subtype of `MDNode`. This behavior
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The previous behavior resulted in the wrong context being used, which could lead to
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- Branch instruction predicate getters [have been
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renamed](https://github.com/maleadt/LLVM.jl/pull/473) from `predicate_int` and
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enable extracting the address of a compiled function from an execution engine. This makes
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it possible to simply `ccall` a compiled function without having to deal with
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`GenericValue`s.
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- `globalstring!` and `globalstring_ptr!` now support `addrspace` and `add_null` arguments,
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similar to their C++ counterparts.
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## LLVM.jl v9.0

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