You can see the release history at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Here's number of releases per year (from all branches):

You can see the release history at http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html Here's number of releases per year (from all branches): - 2011: 6 - 2010: 7 - 2009: 5 - 2008: 5 - 2007: 5 - 2006: 4 - 2005: 6 - 2004: 7 - 2003: 5 - 2002: 5 So at a high level, it doesn't look like the GCC release frequency has changed much in the last decade.