Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to the 34 contributors.

This release comes with 10 major changes, including:

• In the compiler, assignment-style syntax is now allowed for alias this.
• In the library, integration with the Valgrind memcheck tool has been added to the garbage collector.
• In dub, there's a new --d-versions CLI flag.

As always, you can find the release binaries and full changelog on the dlang.org site.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.105.0.html

As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

-Iain
on behalf of the Dlang Core Team

On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 17:26:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:

Thanks for the beta Iain.

This looks like a breaking change that can affect people. There should be a deprecation (6-12 months) period to give people notice to fix their code, without immediately breaking code.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15405 and https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 show there was no discussion on deprecation, despite authors knowing that there is code in the wild using this.

It does not affect me, but in light in recent discussions, it again gives a bad picture of D and maintainability of code developed in D.

On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 19:26:04 UTC, Witold Baryluk wrote:

You’re correct about the deprecation cycle being wrong, but please remember that “enum” on a function is just a more confusing way of writing “auto”. Anyone using it probably didn’t understand what it did—nothing much.