RFC. I submitted this two weeks ago as https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/1039301, but there was no response.

- Bootstrap using gdmd instead of prebuilt binaries
- Update to version 2.101.0
* Compiler changes
* Add bit fields to D
* Added __traits(classInstanceAlignment)
* Relaxed pragma(crt_constructor) / pragma(crt_destructor)
linkage check
* Add predefined version D_Optimized when compiling with -O
* Throwing from contracts of nothrow functions has been
deprecated
* Using integers for version or debug conditions has been
deprecated
* Print deprecations for scope pointer errors
* Improvements for the C++ header generation
* -preview=fixImmmutableConv has been added
* Returning a discarded void value from a function is now
deprecated
* ImportC now recognizes the typeof(...) operator
* Removed the -transition=markdown and -revert=markdown
switches
* new can now allocate an associative array
* -preview=in can now be used with extern(C++), disabled for
other non-D linkage
* The shortened method syntax is now available by default.
* Source files may no longer contain Unicode directionality
overrides
* Runtime changes
* Added avx512f detection to core.cpuid
* --DRT-oncycle=deprecate is removed
* Posix (excl. Darwin): Switch default GC signals from
SIGUSR1/2 to SIGRTMIN/SIGRTMIN+1
* Library changes
* Added SafeRefCounted, that can be used in @safe with
-preview=dip1000.
* Move logger out of experimental.
* remove std.experimental.logger's capability to set the minimal
LogLevel at compile time
* Change std.experimental.logger.core.sharedLog to return
shared(Logger)
* std.experimental.typecons has been removed
* std.digest.digest has been removed
* std.xml has been removed
* std.socket.Socket methods now accept only scope arrays.
* Add custom fill value to std.outbuffer.OutBuffer class
- Update to version 2.100.2
* Compiler changes
* scope(failure) blocks that contain return statements are
now deprecated
- Update to version 2.100.1
* Compiler changes
* scope(failure) blocks that contain return statements are
now deprecated
- Update to version 2.100.0
* Compiler changes
* End deprecation period for using alias this for partial
assignment.
* The deprecation period for D1-style operators has ended.
* scope as a type constraint on class, struct, and enum
declarations is deprecated.
* The deprecation period of unannotated asm blocks has been
ended.
* The deprecation period of the delete keyword has been ended.
* Improvements for the C++ header generation
* The deprecation period for scope as a type constraint on
interface declarations has ended.
* The inout attribute no longer implies the return attribute
* Support contract invariant version identifier.
* Implement DIP 1038: @mustuse
* Added .tupleof property for static arrays
* Usage of this and super as types has been removed
* A missed case of switch case fallthrough has been deprecated
* Library changes
* New function bind in std.functional
* Nullable in std.typecons can now act as a range
* Zlib updated to 1.2.12
* Tools changes
* rdmd now supports specifying the D compiler using the RDMD_DMD
environment variable
- Update to version 2.099.1
* Compiler changes
* Special case for __traits(parameters) in foreach loops
was removed
* Library changes
* std.experimental.logger default level changed to info instead
of warning
- Update to version 2.099.0
* Compiler changes
* When ref scope return attributes are used on a parameter,
and return scope appears, the return applies to the scope,
not the ref.
* __traits(parameters) has been added to the compiler.
* Add ability to import modules to ImportC
* Casting between compatible sequences
* New command line switch -vasm which outputs assembler code
per function
* The '-preview=intpromote' switch is now set by default.
* -m32 now produces MS Coff objects when targeting windows
* Ignore unittests in non-root modules
* main can now return type noreturn and supports return inference
* Falling through switch cases is now an error
* Throw expression as proposed by DIP 1034 have been implemented
* Added __traits(initSymbol) to obtain aggregate initializers
* Runtime changes
* Add support for @safe class opEquals
* Library changes
* Move checkedint out of experimental.
* chunkBy @safe with forward ranges and splitWhen fully @safe
* std.csv can now optionally handle csv files with variable
number of columns.
* Change default log level for std.experimental.logger to
LogLevel.warning
* std.conv.to accepts std.typecons tuples
- Update to version 2.098.1
* DMD Compiler regression fixes
* [REG2.084.0] Bogus slice assignment in recursive CTFE call
* spurious deprecation warnings on function calls within with(X)
blocks while X has a deprecated alias this target
* OpDispatch does not work for structs with constructor and
destructor
* error in static struct initialization causes wrong position for
subsequent members, producing extra errors
* alias this returns 'null' for ref types when put into array
initializer
* Rebindable does not work when class has alias this to inout
property
* A case of compiler crash when using auto ref
* Spurious "non-constant expression" error with immutable
constructors
* Compiler segfault on static array in a struct at CTFE
* [REG2.097] Error: mismatched function return type inference of
void and noreturn
* Compiler crash when attempting to assign to function
* [REG 2.098-rc.2] -checkaction=context of a shared type with an
opCast fails to compile
* CTFE fails to iterate over associative array previously indexed
with implicit conversion to enum base type
* [REG2.094] function with tuple parameter with default argument
fails if there's a qualifier
* [REG2.098] Apparent CTFE regression wrt. alias this
* Invalid error message for void return from non-void functions
* importC: incomplete array type must have initializer
* Invalid duplicate case error when the switched value has errors
* Segfault for function literal in struct initializer with
previous errors
* wrong deprecation about empty statement
* [REG 2.098] Error: function 'core.stdc.stdio.vfprintf'
'pragma(printf)' functions must be
'extern(C) int vfprintf([parameters...], const(char)*, va_list)'
* more arguments than fields allowed in struct constructor
* importC: Error: undefined reference to 'parameter' when no
parameter names in forward declaration
* importC: Error: variable 'var' extern symbols cannot have
initializers
* importC: Segmentation fault indexing global array at run-time
* ICE on overloaded constructors
* DMD Compiler bug fixes
* ReturnStatement[CallExp(DotVarExp)]: Corrupted runtime on missed
manifest constant propagation
* Wrong cast of float constant to bool
* 'export' keyword on OSX/Linux globals causing segfaults
* [ICE] AssertError@dmd/optimize.d(691): Assertion failure
* Internal compiler assertion
* ICE (illegal instruction) with bad code
* cod1: Assertion failure for noreturn parameter
* ice for global / tls variable of type noreturn
* ice when dmd computes the alignment of an union containing a
noreturn
* importC: Parser accepts arrays with incomplete element types
* ImportC: #pragma pack is not implemented
* Link error for virtual destructor of C++ class in DLL
* ImportC: error parsing compound literal with more than one value
at function scope.
* importC: Error: C non-array initializer not supported yet
* importC: Error: cannot use non-constant CTFE pointer in an
initializer
* Wrong overload selected for @safe delegate
* noreturn functions are allowed to return normally
* importC: Error: unknown, when compiling source with non-constant
initializer.
* importC: Error: static variable cannot be read at compile time
* importC: Error: unknown, when compiling source with typedef'd
initializer
* importC: Error: can't subtract '__tag2[1]' from pointer
* importC: Error: cannot pass argument '0' of type 'int' to
parameter 'const(char)*'
* importC: Error: cannot modify 'const' expression '(*s).field'
* importC: Error: 'switch' statement without a 'default'; use
'final switch' or add 'default: assert(0);' or add
'default: break;'
* importC: Error: cannot implicitly convert expression of type
'extern (C) int(int a)' to 'const(extern (C) int function(int))'
* importC: [ICE] Error: struct no size because of forward reference
* importC: Error: cannot implicitly convert expression of type
'const(char*)' to 'char*'
* importC: Error: array index 0 is out of bounds
* ImportC: parse gnu attributes after a function parameter
* importC: static variables/functions emit global symbols
* ImportC: casting result of postfix operator on a parenthesized
expression to a typedef’d type is parsed incorrectly
* ImportC: Lots of errors when compiling tomlc99
* ImportC: address of member of struct can’t be taken at compile
time.
* [REG 2.093][ICE] Bus error at dmd/lexer.d:398
* Explicit cast between classes incorrectly goes through
'alias this' inside CTFE
* importC: D name mangling applied to forward declaration of
function inside function
* ImportC: const pointer (not pointer to const) is treated as
transitive const
* importC: function 'func' conflicts with function 'func' when
using static in forward declaration
* importC: float literal should support leading zero
* ImportC: extra semicolon not allowed outside of functions
* DMD compiler errors on Illumos/Solaris
* ImportC: cannot implicitly convert expression S(0) of type S to
int in an S array
* ImportC: decay of function to typedef'd const function pointer
causes ICE.
* importC: Error: undefined reference to '__builtin_va_start' and
'__builtin_va_end'
* importC: Debug information for C sources have DW_AT_language set
to D.
* importC: Segmentation fault initializing va_list with
__builtin_va_start
* importC: Error: cannot convert string literal to 'void*'
* Phobos regression fixes
* [REG2.069] TaskPool.reduce fails to compile "cannot get frame
pointer to D main"
* Phobos bug fixes
* OpenBSD: Add OpenBSD to std/system.d OS list
* Array!T.init.data crashes
* Phobos enhancements
* data should work with const/immutable Array's
* Nullable is not copyable when templated type has elaborate copy
ctor
* std.traits.fqnType is missing support for typeof(null)
* Druntime regression fixes
* [REG2.091] Wrong file read during exception stringification
leads to SIGBUS
* std.meta.allSatisfy in mutual recursion classes cannot be
compiled
* core.demangle does not support noreturn
* Druntime bug fixes
* Unify polyImpl implementations
* Remove useless conditional assignment of DISABLED_TESTS in
posix.mak
* Druntime enhancements
* Explicitly cast backtrace results to int
- Update to version 2.098.0
* Compiler changes
* Add Alias Assignment
* Accessing C Declarations From D Via ImportC Compiler
* Using the syntax (args) => {} now triggers a deprecation message
* Improvements for the C++ header generation
* -preview=dtorfields is now enabled by default
* Add .min, .max, etc. properties for vector types
* Using a mutable variable as a switch case now triggers an error
* Out of bounds array access now gives a better error message
* Class allocators have been removed from the language
* Initialization of immutable global data from static this now
triggers an error
* Add -target= for operating system, c, and c++ runtime
cross compilation
* Default initialization of union field that isn't the first member
now triggers an error
* Runtime changes
* TypeInfo names for aggregates are fully qualified and hence
unique now
* A concurrent GC for Posix systems
* Improve POSIX imports
* Library changes
* New function isValidCharacter in std.utf
* Dub changes
* Added support for environment variables to use compilation and
run (or test) option to the dub settings file and
dub.json/dub.sdl.
- Update to version 2.097.0
* Compiler changes
* Deprecation period for ambiguous ternary expressions has ended
* Usage of the body keyword has been deprecated
* Deprecate a case of using fully-qualified names to bypass imports
* Explicit package visibility attribute is now always applied to
new scopes
* pragma(mangle) can now be applied to aggregates
* Complex and imaginary types are now deprecated
* while (auto n = expression) is now supported
* Library changes
* Centering formatted output.
* AllImplicitConversionTargets replaces ImplicitConversionTargets
* Formatting integers with %e, %f, %g and %a is now possible.
* Implementation of pow(f, -2) and f ^^ -2 changed
* Deprecate std.format : enforceValidFormatSpec
* Deprecate std.format : formatElement
* Deprecate std.format : unformatElement
* FieldnameTuple now returns an empty tuple for interfaces
* Fields (formerly FieldTypeTuple) now returns an empty
tuple for interfaces
* Floating point numbers can be formatted at compile time
* Formatting floating point numbers don't allocate with the
GC anymore.
* Some reals will be downcast to double when used with
std.format.
* std.typecons.Nullable: Remove deprecated alias get this.
* Documentation of std.format has been completely reworked.
* Module std.format has been split into smaller modules
* Module std.math has been split into smaller modules
* splitWhen added to std.algorithm.iteration
* The old benchmarking functionality in std.datetime has been
removed.
* std.exception.enforceEx has been removed.
* New module: std.sumtype
* std.range.Transposed: Remove deprecated member save
* Dub changes
* Added support for low memory compilation option to the dub
settings file.
- Update to version 2.096.1
* Runtime changes:
* Variables suspendSignalNumber and resumeSignalNumber are now
private
* The druntime option callStructDtorsDuringGC has been removed
* Experimental llvm-libunwind based backtrace printing was added
* Library changes
* Return the number of characters consumed by std.conv.parse
* Deprecate std.stdio.getdelim and std.stdio.getline
* Add integer conversions in JSONValue.get
* Deprecate std.math : approxEqual
* Compiler changes
* Deprecate bypassing of symbol visibility when doing overload
resolution
* Deprecation triggered inside of templates now show instantiation
trace
* Improvements for the C++ header generation
* Diagnostics for conflicting function definitions within a module
* extern(Pascal) has been removed
* The compiler now accepts -extern-std=c++20
* C++ compability standard now c++11 by default
* Add -preview=inclusiveincontracts: in contracts must be an
explicit superset of the parent in contracts.
* Add support for Objective-C protocols
* Allow any compile-time argument in pragma(inline)
* Add __traits(getCppNamespaces, symbol) to retrieve the C++
namespaces a symbol resides in.
* DMD Compiler regressions / bugs:
* printf check does not recognize GNU extensions
* Function alias reported as conflicting function
* Slice assignment segmentation fault
* ssignment inside assert accepted if -checkaction=context
is given
* Struct dtor is called twice if struct is created inside
ternary operator
* Mangling problem wrt. backrefs and function types
* build.d install fails, can't find dmd.conf
* Constructor flow analysis doesn't understand unions
* Confusing error message for CTFE pointer in static initializer
* checkaction=context creates temporary of type void
* Overload selection ignores slice
* -preview=rvaluerefparam does not work with template deduction
* CTFE doesn't call base class destructor for extern(D) classes
* Wrong ParameterStorageClass when -preview=in is used
* Phobos enhancements / regression fixes:
* std.process.browse does not work with URLs 256 characters
or longer
* std.regex performance regression (additional GC allocation)
* Specifying null as bitfields variable name now fails
* avoid quadratic template expansion in constraints of multiple
search term versions of std.algorithm.searching.startsWith & endsWith
* casting std.BigInts to built-in floating point types
doesn't work without -preview=dip1000
* std.algorithm.mutation.copy fails on overlapping arrays if
the source array's pointer is less than the destination
array's pointer
* std.experimental.checkedint opBinaryRight with integer
left-hand side does not compile for any operators
* std.typecons.ReplaceType does not work for in parameters
* Deprecated Nullable.get warning with Appenders
* Druntime bugs / regression fixes:
* std.conv.emplace not usable in betterC - 2.096
* casWeak is not implemented
* joining a detached thread results in segfault.
* core.atomic.atomicFetchSub for pointers incorrectly calls
wrong function from core.internal.atomic
- Update to version 2.094.2
- Runtime changes:
* Support time64 changes for CRuntime_Musl
- DMD Compiler regressions:
* Delegate covariance broken between 2.092 and 2.094 (git master).
* False deprecation raised for templated overloaded struct method
- DMD Compiler bugs:
* Calling __traits(getUnitTests) on a template causes compiler segfault
* __traits(getUnitTests) should include unittests from anonymous mixins
* 'With()' statement ignores symbol visibility in some cases.
* Name clash between import and method triggers a segfault
- Phobos bugs:
* Segfault with Appender!string.init.toString()
* join can iterates ranges multiple times
* std.random.uniform!T(urng) when T is dchar disregards urng and always uses a thread-local random
* std.random.uniform!T() and std.random.uniform!T(urng) when T is dchar with any qualifiers can exceed dchar.max
- Druntime bugs:
* core.stdcpp.string.basic_string does not implement opEquals
* core.stdcpp.vector.vector does not implement opEquals
* TypeInfo.swap must not allow reachable memory to be freed if interrupted by a garbage collection pass
- refresh dmd_use_tarball_bootstrap.diff patch
- Update to version 2.087.1
- Runtime changes:
* Add all missing symbols to core.sys.darwin.mach.loader
- DMD Compiler regressions:
* ICE when taking address of member function passed as template parameter
* [REG] modification of member of a manifest constant that's also a struct is allowed
* POSIX: extern(C++, namespace) does not apply namespace to enum
* DMD Segfault in 2.087
* compiler segfaults on passing templates expression to lazy val
* [REG2.086] foreach no longer works on range with alias front
- DMD Compiler bugs:
* Templates inside templates used as mixins
* DMD segfault with circular template constraints
* [ICE] Internal error: ddmd/backend/cgcs.c 352 - CTFE appending to an array on a struct from a template
* Unable to remove a tuple from associative array.
* Can't use __traits(getAttributes, ...)[...] as a type
* access violation at compile time, possibly via template constraint and alias interaction
* Symbol not found: _dyld_enumerate_tlv_storage on macOS 10.15
* alias this combined with a copy constructor seems to lead to undefined behaviour.
* [ICE] Segmentation fault in ExpressionPrettyPrintVisitor::visit(IntegerExp*) at dmd/hdrgen.d:1775
* ICE from double template instantiation with getMember of overload of class and template function
* __vector CTFE crashes the compiler
* Compiler crash when using an opaque struct as template parameter
* bogus error: "integer constant expression expected instead of (uint).sizeof"
* [Windows] Program segfaults when running tests
* ICE in func literal used in __traits(compiles)
* SIMD 32 bytes causes obscure segfault
* [2.087.0] Mixin templates: no property somevar for type some.Type, did you mean some.Type.__anonymous.somevar
- DMD Compiler enhancements:
* Empty AliasSeq can't be used to form compiletime array literal
- Phobos bugs:
* std.variant.VariantN does not work with a class that inherits from a template instantiation
* ReplaceType replaces type with the type forwarding using alias this
* ReplaceType fails to compile for self-referential inheritance chains
* someAllocator.make!T doesn't compile if T is a shared value type
* [2.087.0] std.conv.toImpl matches two functions when using static arrays as inout( T )
- Phobos enhancements:
* RefCounted fails to instantiate due to pureness of moveEmplace
* Tuple.rename doesn't work with const
- Druntime bugs:
* retrying while pthread_cond_signal/pthread_cond_broadcast return EAGAIN
* object.destroy doesn't propagate attributes
- Add missing provides/obsoletes to the versioned phobos shared library package.
- Update to version 2.085.1
- DMD Compiler regressions:
* DMD generates wrong code for some circular dependencies
* D compiler fails to resolve circular module dependency when modules are compiled separately
* D compiler fails to resolve circular module dependency when modules are compiled together
* ICE on null default value for struct parameter in constructor
* DMD 2.085 changes to gsroa make DCD crashing
* Regression: wrong order of linker arguments, again: -L-l before -L--start-group
* if (auto x) {} isn't properly rejected
* DMD fails to compile some circular dependencies spiced with is (T == super) condition
* [Reg v2.070.2] DMD fails with some circular module refs with Template/Mixin instances
- DMD Compiler bugs:
* wrong codegen for destructor call of unnamed struct instance on 64 bit environments
* case of undetected circular reference in function parameter
* ICE with multiple mixin templates containing conflicting ctor declarations
* Segfault when types are used in array literals
* DMD crash due to circular reference in function return type
* -checkaction=context not working with attributes
* [2.085.0-beta.2] Obj-C wrong code overloading selectors and extern(D)
* case of segfault due to undetected forward reference
* Compiler crash
* crash on invalid initializer at CTFE
* ICE on invalid code
- Phobos regressions:
* VariantN has unittests that are compiled into user modules
- Phobos bugs:
* std.algorithm.searching.findAmong doesn't save like it should
- Druntime bugs:
* wrong time values in GC.profileStats
- Update to version 2.085.0
- Compiler changes:
* Add support for Objective-C classes
* Add support for Objective-C instance variable
* Add support for Objective-C super calls
* Deprecate Objective-C interfaces
* Context-aware assertion error messages
* Avoid calling the struct constructor from const-casts
* dmd now supports expressive diagnostic error messages with -verrors=context
* memcmp() compares are no longer performed for struct equality tests, memberwise comparisons are done instead, per the spec
* OSX 32-bit is no longer supported
* -preview and -revert command line switches have been introduced
* Transition to C++11 character types
- Runtime changes:
* Added GC.profileStats() to core.memory
* Added core.stdcpp.new_
* Added core.sys.linux.sched.CPU_COUNT.
* Added core.sys.linux.sched.CPU_ISSET.
* Moved std.conv.emplace, std.algorithm.mutation.move, std.algorithm.mutation.moveEmplace, and std.functional.forward to core/lifetime.d
* GC cleanup can now be configured as a DRT GC option
* A garbage collector with precise heap scanning can now be selected
* GC.realloc is now more consistent and robust
* User supplied garbage collectors can now be linked with the runtime
* Added core.stdcpp.allocator
* char/wchar fields in most D runtime (core.* and rt.*) structs are now zero-initialized
- Update to version 2.084.1
- Compiler bugs
* -check=in=off doesn't work
* corrupt ELF library when using pragma(crt_constructor)
- Compiler enhancements
* Shared object "libstdc++.so.6" not found, required by "dmd"
----- --------------------------------------------------------------
- Update to version 2.084.0
- Compiler changes
* Aliases can be created directly from a __trait.
* Added -check switch to turn on and off each category of runtime checks.
* Add -checkaction=D|C|halt compiler switch.
* -color and -color=on will now always output colorized console output
* The code generated by mixin statements can now be saved with -mixin
* Deprecate invalid binary literals
* Deprecated extern(Pascal) linkage
* The deprecation phase for fully qualified names that bypassed private imports is finished
* Templates are now mangled correctly on POSIX
* Added __c_wchar_t as a correct mangling type for C's wchar_t
- Runtime changes
* Added core.stdcpp.array.
* Add D header file core.sys.darwin.crt_externs for libc/crt_externs.h on Darwin.
* Added initialize template argument to object.destroy().
* Added core.stdcpp.string_view.
- Library changes
* Add overload std.random.unpredictableSeed!UIntType
- Update to version 2.083.0
- Compiler changes
* Add CppRuntime_* version identifiers
* Deprecated CLI switch -gc have been removed
* Expose __traits(isZeroInit, T)
* Implement new C++ mangling syntax
* Add pragma(linkerDirective), to emit linker directives into object files
* fix Issue 14246 - RAII - proper destruction of partially constructed objects
* Add __traits(getTargetInfo, "key") to query details about the compilation target
- Library changes
* std.algorithm.iteration.each is now capable of early-stopping
* toHash function has been added to std.experimental.checkedint.Checked
- Update to 2.082.1
- DMD Compiler regressions
* Could not CTFE with std.math.exp from 2.082.0
* [REG 2.081] Can no longer override pragma(lib) with -L switch
* Some source files names are no longer accepted
- Phobos regressions
* Templated format with variable width allocates 2GB of RAM per call.
- Phobos bugs
* std.net.curl.post cannot be used with !ubyte
* std.algorithm.subsitute wrong results for single subrange substitution
- Update to 2.082.0
- Compiler changes
* Support for comparing arrays of unsigned byte-sized types and structs has been added to -betterC
* Added D_ModuleInfo, D_Exceptions, and D_TypeInfo version identifiers
* Deprecate conditional expression followed by an assign expression
* Unsafe code can now be used in debug blocks
* Deprecate usage of opDot
* D now supports deprecated, @disable and user-defined attributes on enum members
* Deprecated C-style array declarations will now result in a compilation error
* Mangling of extern(C++) template on Windows now correctly mangles const non-pointer template parameters.
* .offsetof and .tupleof for fields of Objective-C classes have now been disabled
* 64-bit OS X: Revert C++ mangling of long to pre-2.079 to restore size_t interop
* UDAs on function parameters are now supported
- Runtime changes
* Exception trapping can now be disabled via --DRT-trapExceptions=0
* Additional functions for associative arrays
* TypeInfo.getHash now uses core.internal.hash.hashOf functions for hash computing
* core.sys.posix.utsname.update renamed to version_
- Library changes
* Single- and double-precision implementations for (a)tan and exp function families
* std.algorithm.iteration.each is now capable of early-stopping
* std.algorithm.iteration.joiner can now be used for bidirectional ranges
* std.algorithm.searching.skipOver can now handle variadic arguments
* Added staticArray to construct a static array from array / input range. Includes a length-inferring compile-time variant.
* Deprecated functions for getting the timezone have been removed.
- Update to 2.081.2
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG 2.080] SIGSEGV in el_ptr (s=0x15) at dmd/backend/el.c:1760
* dmd 2.081 crashed by getVirtualFunctions for a interface extended interface
- DMD Compiler bugs
* Associative array opIn with static array key fails with dynamic array
- Phobos bugs
* Cannot inline "...Slides.numberOfFullFrames", "...Slides.gap"
- Druntime bugs
* __delete doesn't work with immutable
- Changes in 2.081.1
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG2.081] getOverloads traits returns empty tuples for void functions
* [REG 2.080.1] Error: const(Object) is used as a type with structs that have symbol named Object
- Update to 2.081.0
- Compiler changes
* Deprecate allowing a constructor declaration in a static block
* Deprecate usage of this and super as types
* Implement DIP 1009 - Add Expression-Based Contract Syntax
* extern (C++) construction, destruction, operators and other mangling improvements
* Support for iterating template overloads
* __traits(getLinkage, ...) now works on structs, classes, and interfaces.
* Implicit catch statements will now result in an error
* Implicit comparison of different enums will now result in an error
* Implicit string concatenation will now result in an error
* IRETQ is now supported in inline assembler.
* Interfaces and classes can be used without the runtime if only static fields are utilized
* Specifying redundant storage classes will now result in a compiler error
- Runtime changes
* Filenames and line numbers have been added to stacktraces on macOS
* object.destroy() supports extern(C++) classes.
* Add missing declarations to core.sys.darwin.mach.getsect
- Library changes
* The deprecated std.c package has been removed.
* The performance of std.algorithm.iteration.joiner has been improved
* std.algorithm.mutation.remove now only accepts integral values or pair of integral values as offset
* Changed semantics of std.math.{fmin,fmax} wrt. NaNs.
- Use same auto_bootstrap define for all builds.
- Update to 2.080.1
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG 2.073] object initializer omitted when it should be included.
* [REG2.078-b1] case where && is not shortcut anymore in CTFE
* DMD segfault when doing unsafe operation outside of any function
- DMD Compiler bugs
* static foreach segfaults on __traits(allMembers)
* Access violation when generating JSON on static foreach
* DMD compilation crash
* -lib crashes on static libraries in the command line
- Phobos regressions
* [REG 2.080.0] Compiling byGrapheme Fails
* DMD "illegal hardware instruction" crash
* getSymbolsByUDA fails on AliasSeq members
- Druntime bugs
* core.internal.string has issues with radix
- Update to 2.080.0
See the full changelog here:
https://dlang.org/changelog/2.080.0.html
- Refresh dmd_use_tarball_bootstrap.diff
- Update to 2.079.1
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG 2.073] [DIP1000] Error on bad interplay of 'auto ref' and 'return' attribute deduction.
* DMD segmentation fault
- DMD Compiler bugs
* Enums are evaluated differently in global scope
* compiler segfault if new on a union type with dip1000
- DMD Compiler enhancements
* Use of delete should be allowed without a deprecation in a deprecated scope
- Phobos regressions
* std.regex Captures opAssign returns void since v2.079.0
* getSymbolsByUDA produces wrong result if one of the symbols having the UDA is a function
* assigning a std.regex.Captures with 3 or more groups causes double free
- Phobos bugs
* [2.079] std.format ignores templated toString if another toString is not a template
- Phobos enhancements
* Document the type of std.stdio.stdin and friends
- Druntime regressions
* [Reg 2.079] src/rt/tracegc.d(43): Deprecation: The delete keyword has been deprecated
- Enable auto_bootstrap for Tumbleweed to get successful builds
- Run spec-cleaner
- Build only for %ix86 and x86_64 since other arch cannot be boostrapped
- Update to 2.079.0
* Full changelog: https://dlang.org/changelog/2.079.0.html
- spec-cleaner was run
- use %config(noreplace) for dmd.conf
Make sure we don't replace if users modify this config.
- Enable auto_bootrap for Leap 15.0
- Add !buildignore gcc-PIE for i586 arch since it will not compile on i586 with PIE enabled
- Update to 2.078.3
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG2.078.2] Access violation when dmd tries to print highlighted code
- DMD Compiler bugs
* Switch skips over declaration issued for explicitly uninitialized variables
- Update to 2.078.2
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG 2.078] dmd can't generate 64-bit binaries on Windows 10 with VS 2015
* [Reg 2.078] Building fails with VC 2015 Build Tools
- DMD Compiler bugs
* wrong code for int.min > 0
- Druntime regressions
* [Reg 2.078] comparison of arrays of associative arrays no longer compiles

- Update to 2.078.1
- DMD Compiler regressions
* [REG2.060] DMD hang in semantic3 on alias this
- DMD Compiler bugs
* undefined reference to __coverage
* unittests get different names depending on how the files are passed to dmd
* building with -m64 doesn't work with sc.ini from the zip distribution and VS2017
- Phobos bugs
* std.array.replace throws a range violation if the from range is longer than the array
* Generic functions in std.math cannot be overloaded
- Druntime regressions
* module config is in file 'rt/config.d' which cannot be read
- Update to 2.078.0
- Update auto_bootstrap version to 2.078.0
- Remove bootrap option for ldc since we have working bootstraping with dmd
- Did some more clean-up in spec of build flags that was wrong and redundant
- Update default dmd.conf with more accurate includes
- Enable PIC and set Model=32 for i586 builds
- Disable auto_bootstrap
- Enable auto_bootstrap to make it build on i586.
- Update to 2.077.1
* [REG2.068] compile-time string concatenation fails with CTFE and char[] literal involved
* compiler segfault in DsymbolSemanticVisitor::visit(UnittestDeclaration*)
* [REG 2.077.0] dmd 2.077.0 crashes when computing mangling symbol for simple program
* [Reg 2.077] don't build libphobos2.a with PIC for i386
* [Reg 2.075] Fibers guard page uses a lot more memory mappings
- Add "-fPIC" to DFLAGS in dmd.conf for 32bit so we can compile D programs for i586.
- Added missing LICENSE.txt to docs
- Improved the spec file
- Update to 2.077.0
* Mangled Symbols now back reference types and identifiers
* Removed prelude assert for constructors & destructors
* DMD builds are now reproducible
* core.atomic.atomicLoad's returns types have changed for aggregate types that have indirections
* Vectorized array operations are now templated
- Build with AUTO_BOOTSTRAP disabled
- Run spec-cleaner
- Update to 2.076.1
* fix Issue 16997 - Integral promotion rules not being followed for unary + - ~ operators
* Mangled Symbols now back reference types and identifiers.
* Removed prelude assert for constructors & destructors
* DMD builds are now reproducible
- Build with AUTO_BOOTSTRAP
- Rework description
- Update to 2.073.2
- https://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
- Update to 2.073.1
- Update to 2.071.0
Compiler Changes
- Import access checks for fully qualified names were fixed.
- Protection for selective and renamed imports were fixed.
Language Changes
- Imports no longer hide locals declared in outer scopes.
- Private symbols are no longer visible in other modules.
- Manifest constant can now be used for deprecation message.
Library Changes
- A clear method has been added to associative arrays to remove all elements.
- The GC now uses a spinlock instead of a recursive mutex.
- Calls to GC.free are now ignored during finalization instead of throwing an InvalidMemoryOperationError, see Bugzilla 15353.
- GC.addRoot and GC.addRange now use a separate lock.
- GCAllocator.goodAllocSize was added.
- High-level API of std.net.curl now uses Appender for received content. Which generally makes all calls slightly faster. Up to 200ms for large amounts of data.
- Repeat was added to obtain a repeating AliasSeq consisting of template arguments.
- fold was added as an alternative to reduce with argument order swapped.
- Added nextPow2 and truncPow2 to std.math.
- bsf, bsr, and popcnt now work with ulongs on 32 bit systems.
- topN is now 5% - 7% faster.
- Unary overloads of startsWith and endsWith were added.
- maxCount and maxPos were added.
- Range support for the convenience wrapper redBlackTree was added.
See the full changelog here:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.071.0.html
- Update to 2.070.2
This is a bugfix release, please refer to the changelog for details:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.2.html
- Update to 2.070.1
This is a bugfix release, see the changelog for details:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.1.html
Update to 2.070.0
Language Changes
- Add syntactic support to make an alias to a function literal.
Library Changes
- The package std.experimental.ndslice was added. It is also available as part of the Mir library.
- The core.sys.windows package has been greatly expanded.
- TypeInfo.init has been renamed to TypeInfo.initializer.
- std.json encodes string control characters.
- Default LogLevel of FileLogger was changed to LogLevel.all.
- Access to the internal ptr and len fields of BitArray was deprecated.
See the full changelog here:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.070.0.html
Update to 2.069.2
This is a bugfix release, see the changelog for details:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.2.html
Update to 2.069
This is the first release with a self-hosted dmd compiler and comes
with even more rangified phobos functions,
std.experimental.allocator, and many other improvements.
See the changelog for more details.
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.069.0.html
- update 2.068.2
- This point release fixes a few regressions 2.068.1, see the
changelog for more details:
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.068.2.html
- update to 2.068.1
- Fixes bugs and regressions in 2.068.0
- update to 2.068.0
Notable changes:
- many rangified phobos functions
- 2 new GC profilers
- a new AA implementation
- countless further improvements and fixes
- update to 2.067.1
- update to 2.067.0
- add a valid dmd.conf file (from upstream)
- recommend phobos-devel
- use https://en.opensuse.org/SourceUrls
- new project URL
- split libphobos as discussed in bos#905648
- add Artistic license
- deprecate dmd-fix-build.patch
- deprecate dmd-rpmlintrc
- update to 2.066.1
- fix license tag, Boost -> BSL-1.0
- add config file for include paths
- update to 2.059
- Parallel build with %_smp_mflags; strip redundant sections/tags
- SPDX license field
- created package (version 2.053)