I’ve asked this question personally many times directly to members of the executive committee. The overall answer seems to be “when we are done”. The thing is, there are quite a few proposals sitting in the DWARF issue queue that have yet to be discussed AT ALL in the official DWARF committee meeting and the current meeting is only one hour every other week. Plus, there are a rather large number of additional proposals which are quite extensive which are still being discussed outside of the DWARF committee meeting and haven’t yet made it to the DWARF issue queue. E.g. https://github.com/ccoutant/dwarf-locations  which is the standardization effort for https://www.llvm.org/docs/AMDGPUDwarfExtensionsForHeterogeneousDebugging.html  I also have 3 more that I’m incubating which haven’t seen the light of day yet because of some of this other work. 

Anyway, before the change in administration, it seemed like we were rushing to get DWARF6 out the door with just minor corrections and revisions. Now, it seems like DWARF6 is going to have many more significant changes in it and it is going to take a while. Personally, I’m quite glad for this because I feel as though a lot more work needs to be done. Before the change in administration, I felt DWARF6 was being rushed. I would say check in again in 6 months and see where we are then.

In the mean time, there is a https://snapshots.sourceware.org/dwarfstd/dwarf-spec/ which is the current working draft and keep an eye on the Issue queue.

-ben

On Nov 12, 2023, at 1:49 AM, Eleanor Bartle via Dwarf-discuss <dwarf-discuss@lists.dwarfstd.org> wrote:


Is there any plan for a time to release version 6? If not a time, then a condition? Say "2025" or "some time in the next year" or "when no new proposals are accepted for three months" or "when two independent implementations are fully compliant".
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