D 2.066 is out. Enjoy!

Dicebot via Digitalmars-d-announce digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com
Mon Aug 18 13:59:08 PDT 2014


On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 20:43:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Monday, 18 August 2014 at 19:23:14 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> I have a mixed feelings about this release. It has some really 
>> cool features and is good to finally see live. But it has 
>> taken ages and there are still many open regressions 
>> (http://wiki.dlang.org/Beta_Testing). And stuff like 
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11946 is just small 
>> disaster - complicated by the fact that no one but Kenji seems 
>> to be able neither to fix it nor even revert it.
>>
>> I don't know if we can do anything better about it.
>
> I agree, I am also surprised that 2.066 was released despite 
> the regressions. I uncovered a few just by accidentally 
> instructing someone on #d to build their project against git 
> HEAD. Most of the regressions were found in his project's dub 
> dependencies - libraries published on code.dlang.org.
>
> I was thinking of trying to see if more projects on the dub 
> registry failed to build with the 2.066 RC once the current 
> round of regressions was resolved.
>
> How is it decided when it's time to cut off a new release? Do 
> we have two RCs and that's it?

I don't know. There was nothing in the mail list until Andrei 
came with announcement and I did not expect it at all - in fact I 
would have merged one of regression fixes for Phobos 12 hours 
earlier otherwise.


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