LDC 0.17.0-alpha1 has been released!

[Kai Nacke via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Hi everyone!

On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the new 
0.17.0-alpha1 release!
It is based on the 2.068.2 front-end and LLVM 3.5-3.7.

This is the first version of the new release. It contains many 
internal refactorings, including preparation for a Win32 compiler.
Thanks to the whole team doing this great work. A special thanks 
goes to Rainer for the work on the Win32 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/v0.17.0-alpha1

MD5 checksums for the release packages:

90f521fafa6fee5f9c1bd05dc428e58a ldc-0.17.0-alpha1-src.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-linux-x86.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-linux-x86.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
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ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
bdc83bf24ebf76dda6bba2f2d164fcfb ldc2-0.17.0-alpha1-win64-msvc.zip

Regarding the binaries:
The Linux binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with gcc 4.8.x 
and LLVM 3.7.0. They work on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (or later) without 
installing additional software.

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

The Win64 MSVC version is built with VS2015 using LLVM 3.7 in 
release mode. The distribution now contains a precompiled libcurl 
7.40.0 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