* If you are doing any graphics programming in D, you may be interested in gl3n, a math library explicitly geared toward that purpose.

* Version 0.3.29 of VisualD has been announced. This release includes a nifty little tool that will convert C++ code to D.

* Another IDE plugin has hit the streets. This one, called Mono-D, is “a MonoDevelop AddIn which provides code completion/refactoring features and project management for D.”

* And good news for Windows developers who don’t want to use DMD. A new version of MingW GDC is out, with support for Thread-Local Storage. For this one, Daniel Green’s full newsgroup announcement is quoted below.

Please post all issues in D.gnu or on GDC’s bitbucket site https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc

* Built against TDM GCC 4.6.1:  http://tdm-gcc.tdragon.net/
* Built against GDC revision 7e22befef29c.
* Working TLS support.
* Updated binutils and mingw runtime for TLS support.
* new gas directive @secrel32 will generate a constant offset usable
as an immediate or displacement value.
Works like posix counterparts @tpoff, @dtpoff, etc.
* Fixes an error with the mingw runtime related to TLS.
* 7-zip format for size reasons:  http://7-zip.org
* Release includes both D versions.
* -v1(default) compiles for D1.
* -v2 compiles for D2.
* The switch must be used for linking as well.
* Made possible by Iain Buclaw’s hard work in maintaining GDC.
* 64bit and up to date GDC forthcoming.

To install simply extract to you TDM MinGW32 directory.

This release
https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads/gcc-4.6.1-tdm-1-gdc-7e22befef29c-20111205.zip

All MinGW GDC downloads.
It’s highly recommended to ignore all prior builds.  TLS *will* not work.
https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/downloads

All patches, source files and build scripts can be found at https://bitbucket.org/venix1/mingw-gdc/

Enjoy.

Visual D is a Visual Studio package providing both project management and language services for the D programming language. It works with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 as well as the free Visual Studio Shells.

This release features some useful updates to the mago debugger and language and runtime library help through F1:

* mago debugger: fixed crashes, display of local, TLS and global variables, workaround for bad line number debug info
* cv2pdb: fixed patching of autoexp.dat when the install path contained spaces
* improvements to the syntax parser
* fixed building phobos browse information
* F1 searches language and phobos documentation for help on identifier
* added highlighting of asm block, using new colors “Visual D Register/Mnemonic” and “Disabled/Token String” variants

I started using Visual D some time ago with both the 2008 and 2010 shells. I’ve had no trouble with it yet. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to roll up my sleeves, dust off my project folders, and figure out where I left off with Derelict and Dolce. And I’ll try to get a news roundup in soon to make up for all the announcements I haven’t posted about.

First up, Rainer announced a new version of Visual D. This release, 0.3.26, includes several fixes and improvements.

* fixed regression in last version: single file compilation did not build any d files
* single file compilation: avoid relinking every time
* separate compile and link: no longer trashes dependencies in link step
* goto definition, search symbol: now line number adjusted according to changes since last successful build
* fix: resource files in sub folders would not build because the same folders were expected in the intermediate directory
* global settings: split page into directories/settings pages to make option “Show build time” accessible
* global settings: added option to disable sorting projects
* parser now accepts “do {} while(condition)” without trailing ‘;’
* project options macro $(PROJECTNAME) now uses the name in the solution instead of the project file name
* fixed bad indentation of first contract
* fixed colorization of first token after debug condition without arguments
* “is” now always colored as operator, not as keyword
* updated to build with dmd 2.055beta

Also on the IDE front, Bruno has released version 0.5.0 of the Eclipse plugin, DDT (changelog here). If you plan to update, here’s some important info from the announcement:

This new release requires DLTK 3.0 (from Indigo), so if you are going for the upgrade path, you need to add the new DLTK update site:
http://download.eclipse.org/releases/indigo

In GUI news, Anders resurfaced to announce version 0.16 of wxD, his bindings to the wxWidgets library.

Fixed building with LDC 0.9.2 and DMD 2.054
Allow building with wxWidgets 2.9.2 / Cocoa
Tested with GDC/LDC/DMD 1.064 on 3 platforms

…

Mostly a bugfix update, allowing 64-bit builds
on Win/GNU/Mac – except for DMD

A couple of days later, Mike Wey announced version 1.5 of GtkD.

* wraps GTK+ 2.22.x series api (and relative libraries: glib, cairo, pango, etc.)
* Improved memory management.
* Implements GtkBuildable.
* Brought Gstreamer up to date with the rest of the bindings, including 64bits support.

* fixed version information of the DLL
* error list: warnings are no longer shown as errors
* project name added to buildlog.html to allow multiple projects with the same intermediate dir
* fixed highlighting of version(unittest) and debug without identifier
* friendlier error message if debug executable or working dir do not exist
* reduced parsing thread priority to interfere less with editing
* adjusted vsi2d to build with the latest VS2010 SDK
* Visual D now builds with DMD 2.053
* moved from std.date to std.datetime to fix some time displays
* moved outlining into parse thread to reduce delays when editing large files
* added warning to library search path settings
* d-files now set to UTF8 encoding if not already marked by BOM
* fixed transparent window frame around dialogs in VS2010
* added drag’n'drop of project folders
* added support for “Stop Outlining” and “Toggle All Outlining”
* tweaked outlining for multi-dimensional arrays and token strings
* build order of custom/resource compilations now sorted by dependencies
* project items now sorted alphabetically
* fixed a few more issues with relative paths causing a source file to be opened twice in the editor

* fixed crash when installing/uninstalling other Visual Studio plugins
* added menu entry “Open Website” to browse the Visual D Website inside Visual Studio
* added support for Object Browser and Class View
* now runs a parser in the background to underline syntax errors
* fixed scanning of floating point literals starting with ‘.’
* default colors for identifiers, numbers and operators now follow the “Plain Text” setting
* new version 0.1.2 of mago that fixes some issues with exceptions and improves the call stack display
* if a source file is used in multiple project, it is no longer opened multiple times in the editor
* improved lookup speed in browse info, now removing duplicate entries for eponymous templates
* fixed issues with quoted arguments with trailing backslash in settings
* browse info now updated when JSON paths changed in global options
* fixed spurious crash when removing multiple lines

I’m really having a hard time deciding which D IDE I like better – VisualD or DDT. Both are getting better with each release.

http://ddt.eclipselabs.org.codespot.com/hg.updates/

Also, the DDT forum has moved from DSource to Google groups at http://groups.google.com/group/ddt-ide.

== DDT 0.4.2 (2011-04-29) ==
* Fixed #33, bug with spaces in projects names: made all variables in DMD response file resolve to quote escaped values.
* Fixed bug where all D comments where considered DDoc comments for documentation hover.
* Fixed limitation where problem hovers where not more prioritary than documentation hovers.
* Fixed #37: F2 always brings up empty documentation hover.
* Fixed #38: autocomplete crashing / very slow. (Content Assist takes very long to show up when many completion options are available)
* Added support for editor code templates in Content Assist.
* Fixed bug in cast expression, where the cast type reference was ignored by the parser/semantic-engine;
* Fixed bug where DDoc comments where not associated with the corresponding symbol definition if that definition had protection, storage, linkage, or certain other kinds of attributes;
* Implemented #35: format immutable keyword and @annotations.
* Added (nothrow, pure, shared, immutable) keywords to syntax coloring
* Added @annotations to syntax coloring (spaces after @ not supported, any identifier accepted)
* Changed syntax coloring example in preferences
* Fixed minor Content Assist bug where completions would not appear when requested on certain syntax errors.

DMD 1.064 and 2.049 Released

1.064 is a bugfix release. 2.049 gets bug love and several additions to Phobos.

Vibrant 1.5

Ponce let it be known that he has made several updates to his abstract shooter, Vibrant, since it was first released, the latest being 1.5. If you’re a gamer, give it a go.

Visual D 0.3.16

The latest Visual D sports several enhancements, including support for the Mago debugger and a profile window to parse DMD’s trace logs. If you are a Windows user, it’s an excellent plugin for Visual Studio and can be used even if you haven’t purchased VS.

d.vim 0.22

Vim users will be interested in the latest version of d.vim, courtesy of Jesse Phillips.

dcollections 2.0c

The latest version of this container library contains a few bug fixes and enhancements, including the addition of a deque.

BitHorde Public Beta

BitHorde is a content distribution system developed with D and Tango. A public beta has recently been announced, and source code is available.

I’ve likely missed some things, particularly since I haven’t trawled the DSource forums or some of the D blogs for other news. If you did announce a D-related item somewhere that I missed here, sorry! It wasn’t intentional. See you next time I come up for air!