(Changes from 1.0.0-alpha1 release are marked with (new) and gone.)
Big news
- Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version 2.070.2. (new)
Platform support
- Support for LLVM 3.8 and preliminary support for LLVM 3.9.
- Objective-C Support. (#1419) (new)
- ARM platform is now fully supported. (#1283, #489)
- Better support for Android. (#1447) (new)
- Preliminary support for AArch64.
Bug fixes
- Wrong template filter on atomicOp. (#1454) (new)
- Runtime error on synchronized(typeid(SomeInterface)) { }. (#1377)
- TypeInfo is stored read-only, but mutable from D. (#1337)
- Inline assembly regression with local variable references. (#1292)
- Compile error on Linux/PPC and Linux/PPC64 due to missing import in Phobos.
Building LDC
- LDC now requires a preinstalled D compiler.
Internals
- Linking against LLVM shared library is now supported.
Known issues
- LDC does not zero the padding area of a real variable. This may lead to wrong results if the padding area is also considered. See #770. Does not apply to real members inside structs etc.
- Phobos does not compile on MinGW platform.