LDC 1.0.0-beta1 has been released! Please help testing!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Hi everyone!

The LDC team moves fast to a major milestone: we're aiming for a 
1.0.0 release!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 
1.0.0-beta1 release!
It is based on the 2.070.2 front-end and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8.

We made great progress since the alpha1 version! The frontend 
level was raised to 2.070.2. (There will be no 2.069.2 based 
release.) On most supported platforms LDC can build itself.

There are many highlights in this release:
- Uncountable improvements to make LDC work on Windows, 
Linux/ARM, Android and iOS.
- The Windows exception handling stuff, now working on Win32 and 
Win64 versions.

A big thank to the LDC team for devoting so much passion. This is 
really getting a rocking release!

Please, try this beta1 release. Every feedback we get can only 
improve the 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/v1.0.0-beta1

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

ab6bbb5e3e9c61d84eabbf277fcbc16a ldc-1.0.0-beta1-src.tar.gz
188c62abb68346068bacfec223ae5e21 
ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-linux-armv7hf.tar.xz
bb002c79f801fc51b34f0a09c82c7c09 ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-linux-x86.tar.xz
08ba62875263e8c5290601ee51bc4d58 
ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
9c6b2f4d50189232e339e64b87d3c6a7 
ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-osx-x86_64-LLVM3.8.0.tar.xz
0ca9a964e7e03ac28d400f9b9c106222 ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-win32-msvc.zip
4a53195db8d5aa7aa9032cccb573d9f9 ldc2-1.0.0-beta1-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux x86/x86_64 binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with 
gcc 4.8.x, ldc2 1.0.0-beta1 and LLVM 3.7.1. They work on Ubuntu 
12.04 LTS (or later) without installing additional software.
The Linux armv7hf binary is built on Gentoo/ARM with gcc 4.9.x, 
ldc2 0.17.1 and LLVM 3.7.1.

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

The Win32 and Win64 MSVC versions are built with VS2015 (update 
1) using ldc2 1.0.0-beta1 and LLVM trunk in release mode. The 
distribution now contains a precompiled libcurl 7.46.0 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