Changelog r15 beta2

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Changelog

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Announcements

Unified Headers are now enabled by default.

Note: The deprecated headers will be removed in a future release, most likely r16. If they do not work for you, file bugs now.
GCC is no longer supported. It will not be removed from the NDK just yet, but is no longer receiving backports. It cannot be removed until after libc++ has become stable enough to be the default, as some parts of gnustl are still incompatible with Clang. It will likely be removed after that point.
Gingerbread (android-9) is no longer supported. The minimum API level target in the NDK is now Ice Cream Sandwich (android-14). If your APP_PLATFORM is set lower than android-14, android-14 will be used instead.
NDK r15's release cycle is going to be extended somewhat due to the O developer preview logistics. r15 beta 1 is specifically for the O APIs rather than the libandroid_support rework we originally intended for this release. As such, the libandroid_support work will be coming in a later beta (hopefully beta 2). We'll be doing at least 3 beta releases this cycle.

APIs

Added native APIs for Android O Beta 1. To learn more about these APIs, see the Native APIs overview.

NDK

awk is no longer in the NDK. We've replaced all uses of awk with Python.

Clang

Clang has been updated to build 3960126. This is built from Clang 5.0 SVN at r300080.
Clang now supports OpenMP (except on MIPS/MIPS64): https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/9.

libc++

We've begun slimming down and improving libandroid_support to fix libc++ reliability issues. https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/300.

Known Issues

This is not intended to be a comprehensive list of all outstanding bugs.
gabi++ (and therefore stlport) binaries can segfault when built for armeabi: https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/374.
MIPS64 must use the integrated assembler. Clang defaults to using binutils rather than the integrated assmebler for this target. ndk-build and cmake handle this for you, but make sure to use -fintegrated-as for MIPS64 for custom build systems. See https://github.com/android-ndk/ndk/issues/399.