LDC 1.1.0 released

[David Nadlinger via digitalmars-d-ldc]

Hi everyone,

On behalf of the LDC team I am happy to finally announce the 
release of LDC 1.1.0, based on the 2.071. It has been in the 
making for an uncharacteristically long time, but we hope you 
will enjoy the multitude of new features: profile-guided 
optimization, better-integrated link-time optimization, 
experimental cross module inlining and first Windows DLL export 
support; along with UDAs for fine-grained optimizer control (e.g. 
@fastmath), a partial object file cache, and of course many other 
bug fixes and improvements.

Binary packages (now also including Dub) and the source tarball 
can be found on the GitHub release page, along with the detailed 
changelog:

https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.1.0

All the binary packages are built against LLVM 3.9.1. The Linux 
x86/x86_64 binaries are built on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and should work 
on any newer distribution. The Win32 and Win64 MSVC versions are 
built with Visual Studio 2015, and shouldn't be expected to work 
with any older version.

Note that there were some changes to the command line semantics, 
which – although mostly minute – could break some application: 
http://forum.dlang.org/post/ubobkfmsspbsmjunosna@forum.dlang.org

Please be sure to report any bugs at 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/issues, and feel free to 
post here in the digitalmars.D.ldc forums for any questions or 
comments.

Oh, and stay tuned for a new release soon, now that the LDC 
release process has been straightened out and the team has more 
manpower again. There even is a pull request open for 2.072.2 
already.

  — David