LDC 1.17.0-beta1

[a11e99z]

On Saturday, 10 August 2019 at 15:51:28 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.17:
>
> * Based on D 2.087.1+ (stable from some days ago).
>   * The DMD fix wrt. 'local templates can now receive local 
> symbols' hasn't been ported yet.
> * LLVM upgraded to v8.0.1.
> * Fix for v1.16.0 regression when returning void expressions.
> * Don't ignore some options like `-lowmem` in response files.
> * Proper Unicode support for LDC/LDMD itself on Windows.
> * More fixes...
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.17.0-beta1
>
> Please help test, and thanks to all contributors!

thank you

OT:
why not equalize the versions?
based on DMD 2_087_1? ok, LDC 2_087_1_b1
is this patch? ok, LDC 2_087_1_p1
how long will we endure this mess? :) will the LDC go its own way 
in the future?