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copx
Final Windows binaries will soon be available here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/files/windows-ho... (Prerelease binaries already available)

I post this link because it took me a long time to find quality Windows builds of GCC. There are many places which offer GCC for Windows, but most of the builds have problems. These ones are the best IMHO.

Project Description from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingwbuilds/

Snapshots and releases builds of the MinGW compiler that use CRT & WinAPI from the mingw-w64 project.

Builds support the following features: - OpenMP - LTO - Graphite - std Concurrency - Native TLS Callbacks - Wide-Character Startup (-municode) - 32-bit and 64-bit Windows - Multilib toolchains - Cross-compiling from x86_64 for i686 and vice versa.

[dead] copper
That looks nice, thanks! I use stl's mingw collection[1] because of the bundled libraries, but this looks more intersting.

[1] http://nuwen.net/mingw.html

japaget
Final Sourceforge MinGW-builds Windows binaries are now available.
dhx
Bugs fixed in this minor bugfix release:

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&...

The exciting release announcement:

http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2012-06/msg00198.html

And more relevant to those that missed the gcc-4.7.0 release announcement, C++11 support as of 4.7:

http://gcc.gnu.org/projects/cxx0x.html

C++11 features new to 4.7 are:

* Non-static data member initializers

* Template aliases

* Delegating constructors

* User-defined literals

* Extended friend declarations

* Explicit virtual overrides

ajross
Indeed, I was wondering why this was on the front page. It's just a point release. If you want to try gcc 4.7, just install Fedora 17.
cbsmith
It doesn't even have release notes yet. Can't be that big a change from 4.7.0.
jknupp
Helpfully, the changes page for 4.7.1 points at 4.7 changes, which confused me for a minute because I was sure I had read these before...