• kinke (13/13) Feb 16 2018 Hi everyone,
• Walter Bright (2/3) Feb 17 2018 Congratulations!
• 9il (2/15) Feb 17 2018 Thank you for the fast beta!

kinke <noone nowhere.com> writes:

Hi everyone,

on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta 
for LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

* Based on D 2.078.3.
* New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
druntime/Phobos.
* Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
* Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
(AST-based) PGO.
* Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.

Full release log and downloads: 
https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0-beta1

Thanks to all contributors!

Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:

On 2/16/2018 2:30 PM, kinke wrote:
 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta for LDC 1.8.

Congratulations!

9il <ilyayaroshenko gmail.com> writes:

On Friday, 16 February 2018 at 22:30:35 UTC, kinke wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 on behalf of the LDC team, I'm glad to announce the first beta 
 for LDC 1.8. The highlights of this version in a nutshell:

 * Based on D 2.078.3.
 * New switch `-link-defaultlib-shared` to link against shared 
 druntime/Phobos.
 * Plugins support, compatible with existing Clang plugins.
 * Support for LLVM IR-based PGO as alternative to existing 
 (AST-based) PGO.
 * Basic support for LLVM XRay instrumentation.

 Full release log and downloads: 
 https://github.com/ldc-developers/ldc/releases/tag/v1.8.0-beta1

 Thanks to all contributors!

Thank you for the fast beta!