Released vibe-core 1.0.0 and vibe.d 0.8.0

[Sönke Ludwig via Digitalmars-d-announce]

After a long journey - it took over eight months - the new core 
package is finally ready. Along with it, version 0.8.0 of vibe.d 
is released. This marks a major milestone in vibe.d's development.

Apart from offering support for using the new core package, 0.8.0 
now also employs @safe and nothrow where possible, making it 
possible to write fully @safe vibe.d applications. And of course, 
as always, there is also a long list of other improvements and 
bug fixes.

The core package can be considered as a complete rewrite of the 
original vibe-d:core package, retaining a mostly backwards 
compatible API from a library user's point of view. Lots of 
changes went into modernizing the code and removing inherent 
performance limits of the previous design*.

See the dedicated blog post for a basic explanation of the 
changes:
https://vibed.org/blog/posts/introducing-vibe-core

The change log for vibe.d 0.8.0 is listed here:
https://vibed.org/blog/posts/vibe-release-0.8.0

Finally, to make use of the vibe-core module, which is highly 
recommended outside of critical production systems, you'll have 
to manually enable it in the package recipe of your project:

- dub.sdl:
     dependency "vibe-d:core" version="~>0.8.0"
     subConfiguration "vibe-d:core" "vibe-core"

- dub.json:
     {
         ...
         "dependencies" : {
             ...
             "vibe-d:core": "~>0.8.0"
         },
         "subConfigurations": {
             ...
             "vibe-d:core": "vibe-core"
         }
     }

DUB packages:
https://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-d/0.8.0
https://code.dlang.org/packages/vibe-core/1.0.0

* Note that no dedicated performance tuning has been done yet, so 
performance levels are expected to still be on a similar level.


BTW, @CyberShadow, I originally sent this using a NG client, but 
the thread never appeared on forum.dlang.org