Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce LDC 1.9. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.079.1, including new `-i` switch and support for a minimal (d)runtime.
* Support for LLVM 6, used for all prebuilt packages (except for Win32).
* `-link-internally` able to (cross-)link Windows, Linux and macOS binaries.
* Prebuilt Linux and macOS packages now shipping with LTO-able druntime/Phobos.
* Various fixes, incl. druntime/Phobos/ldc-jit .dylib issues on macOS.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.9.0

Thanks to all contributors!