LDC 1.8.0-beta1

Sat Feb 17 11:34:07 UTC 2018

On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 22:30:35 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta 
> for LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:
>
> * Based on D 2.078.3.
> * New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
> druntime/Phobos.
> * Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
> * Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
> (AST-based) PGO.
> * Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Thank you for the fast beta!