On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors.

Many thanks, Martin!

Presumably, contributors Boris Carvajal and BorisCarvajal are the same Boris :-)

Bastiaan.

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 22:18:29 UTC, Andre Pany wrote:
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> Any dub package can now define a sub package init-exec which will be used to create an app skeleton. Just use the package name as argument -t in dub init command.
>
>
> Kind regards
> Andre

Thanks! Very useful.

On 2019-04-20 16:16, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52
> contributors.

I just noticed I got a test failure [1] in one of my projects using this version. I haven't investigated yet. Strangely the nightly build passes.

[1] https://travis-ci.org/jacob-carlborg/dstep/jobs/522548540

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/Jacob Carlborg

On 2019-04-21 19:59, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> On 2019-04-20 16:16, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52
>> contributors.
> 
> I just noticed I got a test failure [1] in one of my projects using this version. I haven't investigated yet. Strangely the nightly build passes.
> 
> [1] https://travis-ci.org/jacob-carlborg/dstep/jobs/522548540

Managed to find a reduced test case: https://github.com/dlang/dub/issues/1681.

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> [...]

__traits for private symbols AND copy constructors?!?!
Awesome!

On Sunday, 21 April 2019 at 09:29:45 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> Presumably, contributors Boris Carvajal and BorisCarvajal are the same Boris :-)

Our git mailmap¹ file lives in the tools repo, see https://github.com/dlang/tools/pull/367.

¹: https://www.git-scm.com/docs/git-check-mailmap#_mapping_authors

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:52:53 UTC, ag0aep6g wrote:
> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19777

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/6984

On Saturday, 20 April 2019 at 14:16:09 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.086.0 release, ♥ to the 52 contributors.

The release candidate is live now.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html

-Martin

The list in https://dlang.org/changelog/2.086.0.html#copy_constructor is still broken by the examples inside it. Do we have a DDOC expert that knows how to solve that?

Bastiaan.

On Monday, 29 April 2019 at 09:43:04 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> The release candidate is live now.

FWIW, I consider https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19822 a release blocker.