LDC 1.1.0-alpha1 has been released!

Thu Jul 14 23:24:15 PDT 2016

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 
1.1.0-alpha1 release!
It is based on the 2.071.1 front-end and supports LLVM 3.5-3.8.

This brand new alpha release contains a of of bug fixes and 
changes. Highlights are the support for profile-guided 
optimization and cross-module inlining. But there are lot of 
other changes - be sure to read the release notes!

We now bundle DUB with LDC in the binary distribution files. The 
Win64 binary packages now includes the 32bit libraries, too.

Please, try this alpha1 release. Every feedback we get can only 
improve the compiler. There are still some known bugs. Most 
important, use dub --compiler=ldmd2 on Windows to prevent a path 
naming problem.

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/v1.1.0-alpha1

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

05ebe074f9b992175bb72254221e7622 ldc-1.1.0-alpha1-src.tar.gz
496468678bfea3d6ad6e230ac4dab495 
ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-armv7hf.tar.xz
332423f6a6d017bb5a96c7bc767442b5 
ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-x86.tar.xz
4b6662684bd570af4e106898ef06ab6d 
ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
d92d7c2b8b7fe12bb8445731db04e042 
ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
2294dca757cefa8803afa71e23e33752 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-win32-msvc.zip
41a7203f21c4f636b0d08c31c04e82f8 ldc2-1.1.0-alpha1-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 and LLVM 3.8.0. 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 ldc2 1.0.0 and LLVM 3.8.0.

The OS X binaries are built with LLVM 3.8.0 on OS X 10.10.

The Win32 and Win64 MSVC versions are built with VS2015 (update 
2) using ldc2 1.0.0 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