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Expand Up @@ -196,3 +196,30 @@ But you must write `#ifdef _CLANGD`, you can configure this:
CompileFlags:
Add: [-D_CLANGD=1]
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## When will a recently added feature appear in a clangd release?

Clangd follows LLVM's [release schedule](https://llvm.org/docs/HowToReleaseLLVM.html#release-timeline).

Roughly speaking, LLVM release branches are created twice a year, in January and
July, and stable releases are cut from them in March and September.

So a clangd feature that lands on trunk between January and July will be available
in a stable release the following September, and a clangd feature that lands on
trunk between July and January will be available in a stable release the following
March.

For exact dates, you can check the [LLVM announcements forum](https://discourse.llvm.org/c/announce/46).

You can also check what branches a commit is present on by checking the associated
tags in GitHub. For example, you can tell
[this commit](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/85d60a441ab810e25605fb4555971b1d0a996e5c)
is present on the 21 branch because it's labelled with a tag named `llvmorg-21.1.0`, while
[this commit](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/a3e2b64b0ddf42abf065377d77a9957edd142585)
is not.

If you'd like to use a new clangd feature before it appears in a stable release, you
can obtain a weekly snapshot release from the project's
[GitHub releases page](https://github.com/clangd/clangd/releases). In addition,
for Debian-based operating systems, nightly packages are available from
[apt.llvm.org](https://apt.llvm.org).