Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.12:

* Based on D 2.082.0.
* LTO working for Win64 targets.
* IR-based PGO working for Windows targets.

Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.12.0-beta1

Thanks to all contributors!

On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 22:47:39 UTC, kinke wrote:
> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.12:
>
> * Based on D 2.082.0.
> * LTO working for Win64 targets.
> * IR-based PGO working for Windows targets.
>
> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.12.0-beta1
>
> Thanks to all contributors!

Fantastic work! This is the first time LDC caught up with DMD in a single day, I guess.

On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 23:03:30 UTC, Arun Chandrasekaran wrote:
> On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 22:47:39 UTC, kinke wrote:
>> Glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.12:
>>
>> * Based on D 2.082.0.
>> * LTO working for Win64 targets.
>> * IR-based PGO working for Windows targets.
>>
>> Full release log and downloads: https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.12.0-beta1
>>
>> Thanks to all contributors!
>
> Fantastic work! This is the first time LDC caught up with DMD in a single day, I guess.

No, kinke has had this down before, as the first 1.10 beta came out within two weeks and the 1.11 beta came out on the same day as its upstream dmd:

https://forum.dlang.org/thread/lyzbdiqcnohbvphzgsce@forum.dlang.org
https://forum.dlang.org/thread/gpeecjveashtvfpihccn@forum.dlang.org

This _is_ the first time we're releasing a native build of LDC for linux/AArch64 on the release date, because of the work kinke did to add a Linux/AArch64 CI for LDC, which also automatically uploads the release build. 1.11 was the first release with an AArch64 build, but that was added manually a week later, as can be seen from the datestamps here:

http://www.somsubhra.com/github-release-stats/?username=ldc-developers&repository=ldc

I'll add native beta builds for Android in a couple days.

On Tuesday, 4 September 2018 at 22:47:39 UTC, kinke wrote:
> * LTO working for Win64 targets.

Wow! Thank you.

On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 05:15:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> I'll add native beta builds for Android in a couple days.

The native Android builds are up at the above github release link. I think this is the last time I'll put beta builds out, too much of a PITA to rebuild llvm each time. I'll continue maintaining the ldc package in the official Termux package repo though.

The Termux package build script used to build these betas is online here:

https://github.com/joakim-noah/termux-packages/tree/beta/packages/ldc-beta

On Friday, 7 September 2018 at 03:12:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 05:15:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> I'll add native beta builds for Android in a couple days.
>
> The native Android builds are up at the above github release link. I think this is the last time I'll put beta builds out, too much of a PITA to rebuild llvm each time. I'll continue maintaining the ldc package in the official Termux package repo though.
>
> The Termux package build script used to build these betas is online here:
>
> https://github.com/joakim-noah/termux-packages/tree/beta/packages/ldc-beta

Can the Android builds be done automatically on the CI, like those for other platforms or the process is more involved?

On Friday, 7 September 2018 at 07:54:37 UTC, Petar Kirov [ZombineDev] wrote:
> On Friday, 7 September 2018 at 03:12:50 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 5 September 2018 at 05:15:45 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> I'll add native beta builds for Android in a couple days.
>>
>> The native Android builds are up at the above github release link. I think this is the last time I'll put beta builds out, too much of a PITA to rebuild llvm each time. I'll continue maintaining the ldc package in the official Termux package repo though.
>>
>> The Termux package build script used to build these betas is online here:
>>
>> https://github.com/joakim-noah/termux-packages/tree/beta/packages/ldc-beta
>
> Can the Android builds be done automatically on the CI, like those for other platforms or the process is more involved?

They could, though our tweaked llvm still has to be rebuilt for each Android platform. It may be worth setting up at some point.

I've been thinking of setting up an Alpine CI for ldc, so I don't have to manually build each release, just as kinke now does for linux/armhf also.