LDC 0.16.0 beta2 is out! Try out before we create the final release!

[John Colvin via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Saturday, 10 October 2015 at 15:28:02 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi everyone!
>
> On behalf of the LDC team I am proud to announce the LDC 0.16.0 
> beta2 release!
> It is based on the 2.067.1 front-end and LLVM 3.1-3.7 (OS X: no 
> support for 3.3).
>
> If no more severe errors are reported then the next version 
> will be the final release. The LDC team already considers this 
> the best LDC release of all times!
>
> Big news is that the Win64 version of the compiler reaches 
> production quality, thanks to the hard work from kinke!
>
> This release has been checked to work on Linux/PPC64 and 
> OpenSolaris (x86), too. There is still a major issue on FreeBSD 
> (x86_64) (issue #1119).
> Due to a library build problem with druntime/Phobos there is no 
> MinGW32 version (issue #1121). This is currently under 
> investigation but we are also looking for volunteers. If you 
> need this platform please consider helping us!!!
>
> Big thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the last beta 
> version! Without your feedback it would not be possible to 
> eliminate the bugs so fast!
>
> Most important changes are:
>
> - Frontend is now at 2.067.1
> - LLVM 3.7 is supported
> - DMD-style coverage analysis is added
> - ABI changes which fixes a lot of bugs in the Win64 compiler
> - The ldc2 driver now only use slow -debuglib libraries if 
> explicitly asked to
>
> 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/v0.16.0-beta2
>
> MD5 checksums for the release packages:
>
> cdba4f2e043ed55409a7ba27d35f1fc9 ldc-0.16.0-beta2-src.tar.gz
> 9ba23d30393ad3af6bcad76c6ac347f4 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86.tar.gz
> cbd6418b6eab0eedbe999b727dc18a61 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86.tar.xz
> eb6a89f95446a909739ae5748335bc97 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
> a07a1f622eddba7419b94325d913082e 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-linux-x86_64.tar.xz
> e316f5fb2e2b1df764b76b114fc0db98 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-osx-x86_64.tar.gz
> 3fc6a2276b263a97398cfd28cc98641c 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-osx-x86_64.tar.xz
> 9f9e0d23b5a8a449159b47b715c0963d 
> ldc2-0.16.0-beta2-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

brew reinstall ldc --devel

:) Thanks for all the great work