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reply Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
more.

http://dlang.org/download.html
http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

~Dennis
on behalf of the Dlang Core Team
Apr 01 2025
next sibling parent Adam Wilson <flyboynw gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

 This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
 support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
 more.

 http://dlang.org/download.html
 http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

 ~Dennis
 on behalf of the Dlang Core Team


This release is absolutely massive. 41 major changes and 185(!) 
bugs fixed!

Thank you for all your hard work Dennis!

Now I need to get this deployed across my build farm so I can 
start using all that ImportC goodness.
Apr 01 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent M. M. <matus email.cz> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

 This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
 support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
 more.

 http://dlang.org/download.html
 http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

 ~Dennis
 on behalf of the Dlang Core Team


fantastic! thank you, dlang-community, for all the development 
and hard-work, and thank you to Dennis (and the foundation) for 
releasing this new version.
Apr 01 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Nick Treleaven <nick geany.org> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

 This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
 support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
 more.

 http://dlang.org/download.html
 http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html


Thanks!

BTW in changelog under dmd enhancements I noticed:


 9. Bugzilla 20982: Add a pragma to suppress deprecation messages


But that does not seem to be fixed, in GH or in bugzilla:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/17968
Apr 02 2025
parent Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 10:33:45 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:

 But that does not seem to be fixed, in GH or in bugzilla:
 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/17968



changelog generator as a bugzilla issue, while it was fixing a 
GitHub issue. This is the last release that includes any bugzilla 
bug fixes, so it should fix itself in the future. In the mean 
time the current changelog could use some manual auditing.
Apr 02 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Dom DiSc <dominikus scherkl.de> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

 This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
 support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
 more.

 http://dlang.org/download.html
 http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

 ~Dennis
 on behalf of the Dlang Core Team


Hurray!

But some of the changes that are now in 2.111.0 are still 
mentioned in the nightly changelog. Is this normal or were they 
forgotten to remove?
Apr 02 2025
parent Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
On Wednesday, 2 April 2025 at 11:05:57 UTC, Dom DiSc wrote:

 But some of the changes that are now in 2.111.0 are still 
 mentioned in the nightly changelog. Is this normal or were they 
 forgotten to remove?


Should be fixed after merging the stable branch of Phobos (which 
releases are built from) into master (which the nightly is built 
from). https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/10732
Apr 02 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent Ogion <ogion.art gmail.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.


Finally!

This is a huge release. Many thanks to everyone involved.
Apr 02 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent sfp <sfp hush.ai> writes:
On Tuesday, 1 April 2025 at 22:59:19 UTC, Dennis wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.

 This release comes with local ref variables, `-i` and attribute 
 support for ImportC, -ftime-trace, improved error messages, and 
 more.

 http://dlang.org/download.html
 http://dlang.org/changelog/2.111.0.html

 ~Dennis
 on behalf of the Dlang Core Team


Thanks! Awesome work.
Apr 02 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent Walter Bright <newshound2 digitalmars.com> writes:
Ehhxcellent!
Apr 02 2025
prev sibling parent reply thinkunix <thinkunix zoho.com> writes:
Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 Glad to announce D 2.111.0, ♥ to the 78 contributors.


Hi Dennis,

Are the specs of the build hosts documented anywhere?

The info on the D wiki is generic and most pages have not been updated
in years.

What I am looking for is the minimum required OS version and compiler
used to build the binaries published on dlang.org.  I think it would
help to document this for all OSes as there are many versions of every
OS.

It could also be helpful to document the hardware used such as minimum
CPU, (for reasons of what CPU features are required/supported), amount
of RAM on the build host, etc.  A simple tool like inxi
(https://github.com/smxi/inxi), a perl script, provides that info for
Linux/BSD and Apple systems.  Windows should be enough to state the OS
and compiler versions used, e.g. Windows 10 and VS2019.

The info could be listed in the DMD changelog, or simply include a
REQUIREMENTS file in the source tarballs/zip files.

I ask because I have been building DMD from source for a while now and
this last upgrade failed to build on my customized Linux system.  DMD
and phobos appeared to build OK, but dustmite from the "tools" tarball
requires Linux kernel 3.17 and glibc 2.25 for getrandom(2).  Yes, I
have an older system but am trying to avoid the OS upgrade treadmill.
I realize most people probably don't build from source but documenting
the requirements would help those who do.

Aside from that, great job on taking over the releases.  I read your
blog about it and it sounds like a lot of work.

scot
Apr 03 2025
next sibling parent reply "Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:
On 04/04/2025 11:13 AM, thinkunix wrote:

 What I am looking for is the minimum required OS version and compiler 
 used to build the binaries published on dlang.org. I think it would help 
 to document this for all OSes as there are many versions of every OS.


Whatever the CI uses, is whatever is supported.

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/.github/workflows/main.yml
Apr 03 2025
parent thinkunix <thinkunix zoho.com> writes:
Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 On 04/04/2025 11:13 AM, thinkunix wrote:

 What I am looking for is the minimum required OS version and compiler 
 used to build the binaries published on dlang.org. I think it would 
 help to document this for all OSes as there are many versions of every 
 OS.


 
 Whatever the CI uses, is whatever is supported.
 
 https://github.com/dlang/dmd/blob/master/.github/workflows/main.yml
 


Thanks, that helps.
Apr 04 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
Hello Scot.

On Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 22:13:51 UTC, thinkunix wrote:

 Are the specs of the build hosts documented anywhere?


I don't know of any such place.


 What I am looking for is the minimum required OS version and 
 compiler
 used to build the binaries published on dlang.org.


The bootstrap compiler version, the oldest DMD version that DMD 
is tested to still build with, is currently 2.079. But that's 
just for the compiler, it might be different for tools like 
dustmite. The releases are built in VMs with 6 GB of Ram and 

(2022-09-02) x86_64, and Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium, 
6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601. I don't have the FreeBSD and 
OSX versions at hand but can check later.

LDC 1.32 is used to build optimized compiler binaries of dmd. I'm 
not sure if it uses the Visual Studio or mingw toolchain on 
Windows.


 The info could be listed in the DMD changelog, or simply 
 include a
 REQUIREMENTS file in the source tarballs/zip files.


I don't know the innards of the complex release process that well 
yet, I'm just following Iain's steps at the moment. Maybe later 
we can get a clearer picture of all requirements.


 I ask because I have been building DMD from source for a while 
 now and
 this last upgrade failed to build on my customized Linux 
 system.  DMD
 and phobos appeared to build OK, but dustmite from the "tools" 
 tarball
 requires Linux kernel 3.17 and glibc 2.25 for getrandom(2).


Note that dustmite is not an essential component of a D release, 
it's a separate utility to reduce code for bug reports. You can 
skip building it, or ask the author about build requirements. The 
upstream repository is: https://github.com/CyberShadow/DustMite


 Aside from that, great job on taking over the releases.


Thanks
Apr 04 2025
parent thinkunix <thinkunix zoho.com> writes:
Dennis via Digitalmars-d-announce wrote:

 On Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 22:13:51 UTC, thinkunix wrote:

 Are the specs of the build hosts documented anywhere?




Thanks Dennis for the detailed reply!
Apr 04 2025
prev sibling parent reply kdevel <kdevel vogtner.de> writes:
On Thursday, 3 April 2025 at 22:13:51 UTC, thinkunix wrote:

 I ask because I have been building DMD from source for a while 
 now and
 this last upgrade failed to build on my customized Linux 
 system.  DMD
 and phobos appeared to build OK, but dustmite from the "tools" 
 tarball
 requires Linux kernel 3.17 and glibc 2.25 for getrandom(2).


Just received

    libphobos2.so: undefined reference to `getrandom GLIBC_2.25'

when trying to produce a dynamically linked executable

    $ dmd -L-lphobos2 test

with

```
void main ()
{
}
```

Linking statically

    $ dmd test

works. I am using the dmd.2.111.0.linux.tar.xz for OpenSUSE. This 
is a
regression from the previous dmd.2.110.0.linux.tar.xz.
Apr 04 2025
next sibling parent Dennis <dkorpel gmail.com> writes:
On Friday, 4 April 2025 at 11:59:15 UTC, kdevel wrote:

 I am using the dmd.2.111.0.linux.tar.xz for OpenSUSE. This is a
 regression from the previous dmd.2.110.0.linux.tar.xz.


We might need to revert the following PR for 2.111.1:

https://github.com/dlang/phobos/pull/10623
Apr 04 2025
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Elias Batek (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:
On Friday, 4 April 2025 at 11:59:15 UTC, kdevel wrote:

 I am using the dmd.2.111.0.linux.tar.xz for OpenSUSE.


Which version of openSUSE does this affect?
Apr 04 2025
parent kdevel <kdevel vogtner.de> writes:
On Friday, 4 April 2025 at 19:09:00 UTC, Elias Batek (0xEAB) 
wrote:

 On Friday, 4 April 2025 at 11:59:15 UTC, kdevel wrote:

 I am using the dmd.2.111.0.linux.tar.xz for OpenSUSE.


 Which version of openSUSE does this affect?


Actually (only) those having glibc version < 2.25. I don't know 
if there is any currently supported OpenSUSE version which 
satisfies this "requirement". Maybe that the commercial versions 
are affected. The oldest seems to be SLES 12SP5 which according 
to [1] is supported till Oct. 2027. According to [2] SLES 11SP4 
LTSS Core Support ends even May 2028.

SLES 12SP5 comes with glibc-2.22. I cannot test if the v2.111.0 
runs on such environments.

[1] https://endoflife.date/sles
[2] 
https://www.suse.com/de-de/lifecycle/#suse-linux-enterprise-server-11
Apr 17 2025
prev sibling parent Elias Batek (0xEAB) <desisma heidel.beer> writes:
On Friday, 4 April 2025 at 11:59:15 UTC, kdevel wrote:

 Just received

 ```
 libphobos2.so: undefined reference to `getrandom GLIBC_2.25'
 ```

 when trying to produce a dynamically linked executable

 ```
 $ dmd -L-lphobos2 test
 ```


Unfortunately, I’m unable to reproduce this.

```
$ LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/yada/yada/phobos/generated/linux/release/64/ 
/yada/yada/dmd/generated/linux/release/64/dmd -L-lphobos2 test
$ echo $?
0
```
Apr 05 2025