Beta 2.081.0

[Manu]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2018 at 21:45, Martin Nowak via Digitalmars-d-announce
<digitalmars-d-announce at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.081.0 release, ♥ to the 52
> contributors for this release.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html
>
> As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> ----
>
> Highlights:
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> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html#expression-based_contract_syntax
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html#min_runtime_classes
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html#backtrace_debug_info_macos
> https://dlang.org/changelog/2.081.0.html#customCachePaths
>
> -Martin

Great stuff.

The biggest highlight in this release for C++ users like myself is a
huge amount of work relating to extern(C++). I think this is the
biggest step forward since it was introduced in 2012.
Mixed-language class hierarchies are now supported, and a whole raft
of long-standing ABI issues have been worked out, making construction
and destruction semantics compatible between languages.
No more work-arounds for virtual destructors, or factory-style
'create' functions are required.

I made this PR to try and make it better advertised for the release:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/8366
Also, Rainer has 2 approved patches waiting for merge that complete the set.

I was planning to make this change to the release notes before the
next release, but I had no idea a release was imminent.
Are there announcements ahead of the release branch being tagged?

Anyway, if we could see that those patches are integrated into 2.081,
that'd be very excellent.