LDC 1.0.0 beta 1

(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.