First beta for the 2.071.0 release.

This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html

Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

-Martin

[¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

No bug report for it, but a PR: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/pull/53

On 24.03.2016 02:49, Martin Nowak wrote:
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html

The changelog page has the wrong version number is the heading and in the download link.

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

Awesome! I'm really happy to see the protection issues fixed. Especially the DIP22 and selective/named import stuff.

On 03/24/2016 06:49 AM, ag0aep6g wrote:
> 
> The changelog page has the wrong version number is the heading and in the download link.

Thanks, fixed.

On 03/24/2016 03:00 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> No bug report for it, but a PR: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/pull/53

That seems unrelated. Bugfixes should simply go into stable for them to be released.

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

Shouldn't this be part of the release ?
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15581

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

As usual, `brew update && brew reinstall dmd --devel` :)

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 01:49:25 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> First beta for the 2.071.0 release.
>
> This release comes with many import and lookup related changes and fixes. You might see a lot of deprecation warnings b/c of these changes. We've added the -transition=import switch and -transition=checkimports [¹] switches to ease updating existing code.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
>
> Please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org
>
> -Martin
>
> [¹]: -transition=checkimports currently has a bug that creates false positive warnings about the $ symbols, this will be fixed in the next beta (Bugzilla 15825)

Congrats on fixing the import issues 313 and 314, the 7th and 8th oldest D2 issues in bugzilla, before they hit a decade:

https://issues.dlang.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&order=bug_id&query_based_on=&query_format=advanced&resolution=---

Looking forward to getting rid of the remaining top-level non-selective imports in phobos.

On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 10:52:44 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On 03/24/2016 03:00 AM, deadalnix wrote:
>> No bug report for it, but a PR: https://github.com/deadalnix/pixel-saver/pull/53
>
> That seems unrelated. Bugfixes should simply go into stable for them to be released.

Unrelated to what ? It is a type system breaking bug, I think it is worth merging.