• Iain Buclaw (15/15) Jul 16 2023 Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to the
• Witold Baryluk (12/15) Jul 17 2023 This looks like a breaking change that can affect people. There
• IchorDev (5/21) Jul 17 2023 You’re correct about the deprecation cycle being wrong, but

Iain Buclaw <ibuclaw gdcproject.org> writes:

Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to the 
34 contributors.

This release comes with 10 major changes, including:

- In the compiler, assignment-style syntax is now allowed for 
`alias this`.
- In the library, integration with the Valgrind memcheck tool has 
been added to the garbage collector.
- In dub, there's a new `--d-versions` CLI flag.

As always, you can find the release binaries and full changelog 
on the dlang.org site.

http://dlang.org/download.html#dmd_beta
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.105.0.html

As usual please report any bugs at https://issues.dlang.org

-Iain
on behalf of the Dlang Core Team

Witold Baryluk <witold.baryluk gmail.com> writes:

On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 17:26:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to 
 the 34 contributors.

Thanks for the beta Iain.

 Functions can no longer have enum storage class

This looks like a breaking change that can affect people. There 
should be a deprecation (6-12 months) period to give people 
notice to fix their code, without immediately breaking code.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15405 and 
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 show there was no 
discussion on deprecation, despite authors knowing that there is 
code in the wild using this.

It does not affect me, but in light in recent discussions, it 
again gives a bad picture of D and maintainability of code 
developed in D.

IchorDev <zxinsworld gmail.com> writes:

On Monday, 17 July 2023 at 19:26:04 UTC, Witold Baryluk wrote:
 On Sunday, 16 July 2023 at 17:26:03 UTC, Iain Buclaw wrote:
 Glad to announce the first beta for the 2.105.0 release, ♥ to 
 the 34 contributors.

 Thanks for the beta Iain.

 Functions can no longer have enum storage class

 This looks like a breaking change that can affect people. There 
 should be a deprecation (6-12 months) period to give people 
 notice to fix their code, without immediately breaking code.

 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/15405 and 
 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13063 show there was 
 no discussion on deprecation, despite authors knowing that 
 there is code in the wild using this.

 It does not affect me, but in light in recent discussions, it 
 again gives a bad picture of D and maintainability of code 
 developed in D.

You’re correct about the deprecation cycle being wrong, but 
please remember that “enum” on a function is just a more 
confusing way of writing “auto”. Anyone using it *probably didn’t 
understand* what it did—nothing much.