dmd 2.063 released with 260 bugfixes and enhancements

[Nick Sabalausky]

On Fri, 31 May 2013 00:41:08 +0200
"Rob T" <alanb at ucora.com> wrote:

> On Thursday, 30 May 2013 at 22:04:07 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
> > On 5/30/13, Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail at erdani.org> 
> > wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >
> > We seem to have a regression affecting the zipped release:
> > http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=10215
> >
> > But I can't recreate this in git-head. It must have been a 
> > specific
> > commit the release is based on that introduced this behavior. I 
> > don't
> > know how it went through the autotester unnoticed, this is a 
> > pretty
> > major bug.
> 
> Prior to issuing a release like this, it should instead be made 
> public as a "stable release candidate" with full installer on the 
> downloads page for review by anyone. After the bugs are worked 
> out and some time has elapsed, the stable RC is simply declared 
> "stable final" and re-released as such with the usual big 
> announcement.
> 

That's more-or-less what already happens, the only difference is that
(to my knowledge) there's no link to it on the downloads page.

Although, we probably could use more time between "all known regressions
in beta fixed" and the actual release. Usually it's just the next day.