[ACTIVITY] Week 45

[Yvan Roux]

== Progress ==
o Linaro GCC/Validation
* GCC 6 and 7 2017.11 RC1 deployed
* Fixed Binutils branch used for 5.5 release
* Investigate and fixed Python3 issues in release notes script
(patch under review)

o LLVM ramp-up
* Upstream bug 32999:
- Still tracking corner cases
* Looking at zero/sign-extension elimination status

o Misc

== Plan ==
o Release handover
o LLVM tasks (Bug 32999, sign-extension)