LDC 1.17.0-beta1

[aliak]

On Saturday, 10 August 2019 at 15:51:28 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.17:

Nice!

>
> * Based on D 2.087.1+ (stable from some days ago).
>   * The DMD fix wrt. 'local templates can now receive local

Are there plans to port this or is it just too unworkable as is? 
And if it is too unworkable is there anything that can be done to 
get it in?

> symbols' hasn't been ported yet.
> * LLVM upgraded to v8.0.1.
> * Fix for v1.16.0 regression when returning void expressions.
> * Don't ignore some options like `-lowmem` in response files.
> * Proper Unicode support for LDC/LDMD itself on Windows.
> * More fixes...
>
> Full release log and downloads: 
> https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.17.0-beta1
>
> Please help test, and thanks to all contributors!