LDC 0.16.0 has been released!

Thu Oct 22 11:58:26 PDT 2015

Hi everyone!

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

The LDC team 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 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 
currently 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!

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

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

b8397cd1071315ad7612efc80c6844fc ldc-0.16.0-src.tar.gz
177a637431f6e5ee0ccebd5911d4baed ldc2-0.16.0-linux-x86.tar.gz
7ff847175bb442fd7682d748abb23072 ldc2-0.16.0-linux-x86.tar.xz
b233210beef30483de08fec53536aa1e ldc2-0.16.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
4cf2316d581560d694b753026e8185e5 ldc2-0.16.0-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
b6395ce58ef3803c53beae60bfc75176 ldc2-0.16.0-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
cf411c9309913dada376ee9d630d8d1b ldc2-0.16.0-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
89f18774ba0c5c804a9b86b1097e505d ldc2-0.16.0-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