Beta D 2.071.0-b1

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d-announce]

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes 
> and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of 
> these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and 
> -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing 
> code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta 
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates 
> false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed 
> in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

Congrats on fixing the import issues 313 and 314, the 7th and 8th 
oldest D2 issues in bugzilla, before they hit a decade:

https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&order=bug_id&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

Looking forward to getting rid of the remaining top-level 
non-selective imports in phobos.