LDC 0.16.0 beta2 is out! Try out before we create the final release!

Sat Oct 10 08:28:01 PDT 2015

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the LDC 0.16.0 
beta2 release!
It is based on the 2.067.1 front-end and LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no 
support for 3.3).

If no more severe errors are reported then the next version will 
be the final release. The LDC team already considers this the 
best LDC release of all times!

Big news is that the Win64 version of the compiler reaches 
production quality, thanks to the hard work from kinke!

This release has been checked to work on Linux/PPC64 and 
OpenSolaris (x86), too. There is still a major issue on FreeBSD 
(x86_64) (issue #1119).
Due to a library build problem with druntime/Phobos there is no 
MinGW32 version (issue #1121). This is currently under 
investigation but we are also looking for volunteers. If you need 
this platform please consider helping us!!!

Big thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the last beta 
version! Without your feedback it would not be possible to 
eliminate the bugs so fast!

Most important changes are:

- Frontend is now at 2.067.1
- LLVM 3.7 is supported
- DMD-style coverage analysis is added
- ABI changes which fixes a lot of bugs in the Win64 compiler
- The ldc2 driver now only use slow -debuglib libraries if 
explicitly asked to

Be sure to read the change log at the GitHub release page which 
also has the package download links:
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v0.16.0-beta2

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

cdba4f2e043ed55409a7ba27d35f1fc9 ldc-0.16.0-beta2-src.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86.tar.gz
cbd6418b6eab0eedbe999b727dc18a61 
ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
9f9e0d23b5a8a449159b47b715c0963d ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with gcc 4.8.x 
and LLVM 3.7.0. They work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without 
installing additional software.

The OS X binaries are built with LLVM 3.6.2 on OS X 10.10.

The Win64 MSVC version is built with VS2015 using LLVM 3.7 in 
release mode. The distribution now contains a precompiled libcurl 
7.40.0 from http://d.darktech.org/libcurl.html. For any other 
VisualStudio version you need to rebuild the library.
You find the build script here: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc-scripts/blob/master/ldc2-win64/RELEASE.proj

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