Two new releases of the DMD compiler. Big news for both versions. First, 1.076 will be the last official release of the D1 series. From here on out, D1 users are on their own. I haven’t downloaded a D1 compiler in ages, so I’m not going to miss it. As for D2, 2.061 becomes the first version of the compiler to include 64-bit support on Windows. If you’re going to compile 64-bits, though, you’ll need to have the Visual Studio tools installed. Not quite sure of the details yet myself, but as soon as I find out I’ll be sure to post about it here.

Usually, I link to the changelog. From now on, given that the changelog has been changed just to link to bugzilla (and, in this case, the 2.061 changelog hasn’t been updated as I write this), it seems the more interesting place to link will be Walter’s newsgroup announcement.

The D community has been eager to see the long overdue 2.060 version of DMD. Both it and 1.075 have now been officially released. The list of features and bugfixes in 2.060 is huge. One particular thing of note is that there have been reports of a decrease in memory usage with apps compiled with 2.060. That’s very good news indeed.