LDC 0.15.1 released!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the LDC 0.15.1 
release!
It is based on the 2.066.1 front-end and LLVM 3.1-3.5 (OS X: no 
support for 3.3).

This is a really exciting release!

Support for the PowerPC architecture has grown. Linux/PPC64 
Little Endian is now usable, including garbage collector support. 
Linux/PPC32 compiles out of the box and can run simple 
application. There is still lot to do, though.

Even more exciting this release comes with the first official 
development snapshot of a Win64 compiler targetting the MS C 
Runtime. Thanks to Trass3r and kinke for their active 
development! Please note that this version requires LLVM 3.6 
(current development version).

Solaris/x86 is a new supported platform. I added the missing 
druntime implementation. If you are using Solaris please try and 
give feedback!

Be sure to read the preliminary change log at the GitHub release 
page which also has the package download links:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v0.15.1

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

7cd280c9d73218360900cb89723f1050 ldc-0.15.1-src.tar.gz
629e974d1dc02e7015cc182a5c724adc ldc2-0.15.1-linux-x86.tar.gz
d9d590a943f3af9616cfa793681d9d3d ldc2-0.15.1-linux-x86.tar.xz
0e96c0cf918b0d6eb94e97ba1fc48cdc ldc2-0.15.1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
72c67a87cd695d0253581e7aa4d1d84d ldc2-0.15.1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
1f56113d8c5685a6b8ecda84babe0029 ldc2-0.15.1-mingw-x86.7z
94e14555558743afe096c7f1a1d6c152 ldc2-0.15.1-mingw-x86.zip
3aa63a0d6133dc2aadf7f70783814b56 ldc2-0.15.1-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
3c1a1da3ef639f1ee46e0146af73a81d ldc2-0.15.1-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
3ab78287729a5c94f0347433ef98534f ldc2-0.15.1-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with gcc 4.8.x 
and LLVM 3.5. They work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without 
installing additional software.

As always, the Win32/MinGW packages require a recent version of 
the mingw-w64 toolchain, see 
http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_LDC_on_MinGW_x86 for details. The 
package is build with i686-4.9.1-release-posix-dwarf-rt_v3-rev1 
downloaded with the mingw installer.

The Win64 MSVC version is still considered alpha quality. It is 
built with VS2013 against a snapshot of LLVM 3.6. Both builds are 
debug build.

Please be sure to report any bugs at
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues, and feel free to 
drop by
at the digitalmars.D.ldc forums
(http://forum.dlang.org/group/digitalmars.D.ldc) for any 
questions or
comments.

Thanks to everybody involved in making this happen!

Regards,
Kai