(Changes since 1.40.0-beta5 are marked with (new).)
Big news
- Frontend, druntime and Phobos are at version ~2.110.0. (#4707, #4737, #4749, #4768, #4784, #4792, #4798) (new)
- Support for LLVM 19. The prebuilt packages use v19.1.3 (incl. macOS arm64). (#4712, #4735, #4763, #4772)
- Objective-C: The compiler now properly supports Objective-C classes and protocols, as well as swift stub classes (via the
@swiftUDA). (#4777) - Android: NDK for prebuilt package bumped from r26d to r27c. (#4711, #4772)
- ldc2.conf:
%%ldcconfigpath%%placeholder added - specifies the directory where current configuration file is located. (#4717) - Add support for building against a system copy of zlib through
-DPHOBOS_SYSTEM_ZLIB=ON. (#4742) - Emscripten: The compiler now mimicks a musl Linux platform wrt. extra predefined versions (
linux,Posix,CRuntime_Musl,CppRuntime_LLVM). (#4750)
Platform support
- Supports LLVM 15 - 19.
Bug fixes
- Fix potentially corrupt IR layouts for bit fields. (#4646, #4708)
- Fix potentially corrupt IR layouts for explicitly under-aligned aggregates, a regression introduced in LDC v1.31. (#4734, #4736)
- ELF: Emit (most) instantiated symbols in COMDATs for proper link-time culling. (#3589, #4748)
- Support scalar right-hand-sides when bit-shifting vectors. (#3606, #4781)
- Fix LLVM data layout for the SPIR-V target used in D-Compute on LLVM 19+. (#4772)