== Progress == * Infrastructure/validation: - iterated on patch for bug #3040: 1 abe patch to use libiconv, 1 linaro-gcc-6 patch (partial backport to make enable-nls and libiconv work together)

* Benchmarking: - noticed large differences in bench results from one run to another while looking at "deprecated it block" patch - trying less aggressive configuration

* GCC upstream validation: - working on further reducing noise ("random" pass/failures) - reported/fixed a few regressions - committed testsuite patch (for arm-neon flags)

* misc (conf-calls, meetings, emails, ....)