LDC 0.15.1 released!

[John Colvin via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Monday, 15 December 2014 at 05:42:45 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> 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

ldc2 --version reports 0.15.0