(Changes since 1.40.1-beta1 are marked with (new).)
Big news
- Frontend and druntime bumped to version 2.110.0 final. (#4854, #4868)
- LLVM for prebuilt packages bumped to v19.1.7. (#4822)
- New prebuilt package for Alpine Linux x86_64 with musl libc. It's currently generated on Alpine v3.21, using its default LLVM 19. Most bundled executables are fully static and can be run on ~all distros. (#4826, #4862)
- Revived dynamic-compile (JIT) functionality (formerly unsupported since LLVM 12), supporting LLVM 18+ now. (#4774)
- ldc2.conf:
%%ldcversion%%placeholder added, allowing to refer to version-specific directories. - Windows: The prebuilt packages now bundle an official libcurl build (from https://curl.se/windows/), currently v8.12.1. The static library (
curl_a.lib) isn't available anymore. When bundling thislibcurl.dllwith your binaries, make sure to includecurl-ca-bundle.crttoo (in the same directory as the DLL), to prevent 'SSL peer certificate or SSH remote key was not OK' exceptions. (#4855, #4875) (new)
Platform support
- Supports LLVM 15 - 19.
- Initial compiler and runtime support for ppc64 and ppc64le systems that use IEEE 754R 128-bit floating-point as the default 128-bit floating-point format. (#4833, #4840)
- Initial support for Windows on ARM64. The prebuilt Windows multilib package/installer bundles prebuilt arm64 druntime and Phobos; cross-compiling works out of the box via
-mtriple=aarch64-windows-msvc, but you currently need to set up a suited MSVC arm64 build environment before yourself (e.g., by runningvsdevcmd.bat -arch=arm64 -host_arch=x64). (#4835, #4846)