LDC 0.16.0 alpha4 is out! We need your feedback!

Sat Sep 19 14:08:46 PDT 2015

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the LDC 0.16.0 
alpha4 release!
It is based on the 2.067.1 front-end and LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no 
support for 3.3).

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

This alpha version fixes some issues and adds new features. The 
LDC team already considers this the best LDC release of all times!
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

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-alpha4

Note: This release has alpha quality. There are known and unknown 
bugs left. Please test it with your projects! There are 2 test 
failures on Linux/x86 but otherwise the release should be good.

Due to a library build problem with Phobos there is currently no 
MinGW32 version. !!!Volunteer help wanted!!!

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-linux-x86.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-linux-x86.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
f2996c43477d1ec620ae1dc41742745a ldc2-0.16.0-alpha4-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with gcc 4.8.x 
and LLVM 3.6.2. They work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without 
installing additional software.

The OS X binaries are now built on OS X 10.10. It is currently 
unknown if this causes backwards compatibility issues.

The Win64 MSVC version is still considered alpha quality. It 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