Glad to announce D 2.071.2.

http://dlang.org/download.html

This point release fixes many issues with the new lookup and import rules. It should be used as a stopgap version when updating older code. The deprecations, the old access checks, and the -transition=import/checkimports switches are planned to be removed with 2.073.x.

Those new rules should now be finalized and semantic changes, deprecations, as well as the -transition=import and -transition=checkimports switches should work as expected. Please file a bug if you have any problems.

Also see the changelog for more details.

http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.2.html

-Martin

On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 11:08:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.071.2.
>
> http://dlang.org/download.html
>
> This point release fixes many issues with the new lookup and import rules. It should be used as a stopgap version when updating older code. The deprecations, the old access checks, and the -transition=import/checkimports switches are planned to be removed with 2.073.x.
>
> Those new rules should now be finalized and semantic changes, deprecations, as well as the -transition=import and -transition=checkimports switches should work as expected. Please file a bug if you have any problems.
>
> Also see the changelog for more details.
>
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.2.html
>
> -Martin

Thanks for releasing this.

On a slightly related note, I think it would be a good idea to branch off 2.072 and start beta testing right away, as it's been five months since the last point release, and A LOT has changed since then.  I fear that we may see a huge number of regressions for this beta cycle because they've just been compounding over this time.

On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 12:26:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
> On a slightly related note, I think it would be a good idea to branch off 2.072 and start beta testing right away, as it's been five months since the last point release, and A LOT has changed since then.  I fear that we may see a huge number of regressions for this beta cycle because they've just been compounding over this time.

Yes, that was my intention as well. We'll discuss how to proceed in the next few days.
On the good side those have mostly been phobos instead of language changes.
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/stable...master
AFAIK the dmd work was mostly on C->D conversion and a few smaller fixes for @safe and @nogc.
On the bad side phobos changes had the tendency to not care too much about compatibility in the past.

As I've been on vacation the past 3-4 weeks, I still need to catch up and get a better overview.

On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 13:08:34 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 12:26:21 UTC, Jack Stouffer wrote:
>> On a slightly related note, I think it would be a good idea to branch off 2.072 and start beta testing right away, as it's been five months since the last point release, and A LOT has changed since then.  I fear that we may see a huge number of regressions for this beta cycle because they've just been compounding over this time.
>
> Yes, that was my intention as well. We'll discuss how to proceed in the next few days.
> On the good side those have mostly been phobos instead of language changes.
> https://github.com/dlang/dmd/compare/stable...master
> AFAIK the dmd work was mostly on C->D conversion and a few smaller fixes for @safe and @nogc.
> On the bad side phobos changes had the tendency to not care too much about compatibility in the past.
>
> As I've been on vacation the past 3-4 weeks, I still need to catch up and get a better overview.

Thank you for the release!

Please merge 2 ndslice PRs [1] for 2.072. They are required for Mir to exclude ndslice package except experimental ndslice.algotithm and future modules. It is very costly to maintain both Phobos and Mir versions. So I would like to exclude already accepted ndslice modules from Mir. 3 PRs are already merged by Andrei, he also reviewed #4780. #4781 is main preparation for Mir and it contains mapSlice, which was reviewed as ndMap in #4652.

[1] https://github.com/dlang/phobos/milestone/9

Best regards,
Ilya

On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 11:08:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Glad to announce D 2.071.2.
>
> -Martin

You guys are amazing! I love D and I love you all!

On Monday, 19 September 2016 at 11:08:33 UTC, Martin Nowak wrote:
> Also see the changelog for more details.
>
> http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.2.html

Thanks!

The entry for 2.071.2 seems to be missing in the side panel.

Bastiaan.

On Tuesday, 20 September 2016 at 14:41:19 UTC, Bastiaan Veelo wrote:
> The entry for 2.071.2 seems to be missing in the side panel.

Right, my mistake, even more manual maintenance.
We should really finish the tooling support for changelogs.

https://github.com/dlang/dlang.org/pull/1483

BTW, everyone is free to submit fixes for such issues, in the longterm this scales much better than having many people tell me what to do ;).