CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

v1.6.0 - 2017-11-01

• The version list displayed for interactive package removal is now sorted - pull #1225, issue #1224
• File attributes of fetched packages are now preserved - pull #1226
• http://code-mirror.dlang.io is now used as a fallback for code.dlang.org - pull #1190
• Failed package downloads are now retried two more times (by Colin Grogan) - pull #1198

v1.5.0 - 2017-09-01

• Allow digits in package names (by Chad Joan) - pull #1165
• Support the no_proxy environment variable for HTTP requests (by André Pany) - pull #1162, issue #1159
• Read additional registry URLs (semicolon separated) from DUB_REGISTRY env var - pull #1173
• Single file packages don't have to specify an explicit name anymore (will be inferred from the file name) - pull #1081
• Add support for the --parallel switch for dub test (currently only has an effect for --build-mode=singleFile) - pull #1182
• Improved error reporting for package download failures - pull #1104
• Fixed building the code base against Android/Bionic - pull #1202
• Extended the generated gitignore file (by Ryan Frame) - pull #1050

v1.4.1 - 2017-08-10

This release is identical with 1.4.0.

v1.4.0 - 2017-07-19

• The copyright string is generated automatically by "dub init"
• "dub init" lets the user retry to enter the package name if not valid (by NotSpooky) - pull #1122
• Improved collection speed for source/import files - pull #1125
• Fixed "dub init" to allow digits in package names (by chadjoan) - pull #1165
• Fixed a sub package build issue on Windows, where colons were used as part of the file name (by andre2007) - issue #1130, pull #1137
• Fixed failures to acquire a lock when fetching packages - pull #1149

v1.3.0 - 2017-04-10

Features and improvements

• Reduced the initialization time for "dub test" by several seconds by avoiding a complex regex - pull #1078
• Reduced cubic runtime complexity for collecting string import files to almost linear in the common case - pull #1079
• Compiler flag usage warnings are now only emitted for the root package, reducing build output noise - a75023cd
• Avoid redundant recreation of hard links for build targets (by Danny Milosavljevic aka daym) - pull #1071

Bug fixes

• Fixed bogus rebuild of packages with no dependencies - pull #1093, issue #1091
• Fixed building with vibe-core instead of vibe.d 0.7.x
• Fixed the VisualD generator to properly handle the "x86_mscoff" pseudoarchitecture - 4d416e73

v1.2.2 - 2017-03-09

v1.2.1 - 2017-02-12

Bug fixes

• Fixed compile error when compiling with vibe.d versions prior to 0.8.0 - 9d25e5dd
• Fixed orphan format specifier error - 220b0128
• Fixed test executable name generation causing sub package test builds to fail - e6262373
• Fixed bogus warning message when compiling with --arch x86_mscoff (by Andrey Penechko aka MrSmith33) - pull #1059
• Fixed plaform specifiers to work for "x86_mscoff" - 86e85276

v1.2.0 - 2017-01-22

Features and improvements

• Added an --override-config command line option to force selecting specific configurations for dependencies - pull #1004
• Added an x86_mscoff architecture corresponding to DMD's -m32mscoff flag (by John Colvin) - pull #1007
• Implemented selective dependency upgrades ("dub upgrade <packages...>") - issue #1024
• Multiple configurations with the same name are now detected and will cause a warning to be displayed - issue #984
• Updated the Sublime Text generator and the Bash completion script to include the default "release-debug" build type (by p0nce) - pull #1028
• The --force-remove switch is scheduled for deprecation, as it didn't do anything for a while now - pull #1023

v1.1.2 - 2016-12-31

Bug fixes

• Fixes configuration resolution in diamond dependency settings - issue #1005, pull #1006
• Fixed path based package overrides ("dub add-override") - issue #779
• Contains various diagnostic and error message improvements - issue #957, pull #1010, pull #1012, issue #1019

v1.1.1 - 2016-11-30

Bug fixes

• Fixed a regression where path based dependencies were not properly resolved - issue #934, issue #959, pull #962, pull #969
• Fixed DMD separate compile/link detection code for the case where the compiler binary is not called "dmd" - [pull #966][issur966]
• Fixed using the selected compiler for generated Sublime Text projects - issue #931, pull #983
• Fixed upgrading of optional dependencies (were ignored during the upgrade previously) - issue #672, pull #989
• Fixed automatic downloading of selected optional dependencies - issue #990, pull #991

v1.1.0 - 2016-10-31

Features and improvements

• Fixed compilation for DMD 2.072.0 (minimum supported frontend version is 2.065) - pull #891
• Fixed compilation with the latest vibe.d 0.7.30 alpha versions (avoid Bson.opDispatch)
• Single-file packages are now built locally unless the shebang syntax is used (still performs a build in the temporary folder in that case) - issue #887, pull #888
• DUB now searches for a configuration file in "../etc/dub/settings.json" (relative to the executable location), enabling distribution-specific configuration - issue #895, pull #897
• "dub remove" is now interactive in case of multiple matching package versions - pull #879
• Added a "--stdout" switch to "dub convert" - issue #932, pull #933

Bug fixes

• Pressing Ctrl+C during "dub init" now doesn't leave a half-initialized package behind - issue #883, pull #884
• Fixed handling of empty array directives in the SDLang recipe parser (e.g. a single sourcePaths directive with no arguments now properly avoids searching for default source directories)
• Fixed a bad error message for missing dependencies that are referenced in the root package, as well as from a dependency - issue #896
• Fixed naming of folders in generated Sublime Text projects (by p0nce) - pull #918
• Fixed the workaround for "dub test" and modern vibe.d projects (proper fix is planned after a grace period)
• Fixed linking against intermediate dependencies in their build folder instead of the final build output file - issue #921, pull #922
• Fixed omission of packages in a moderately complex sub package scenario - issue #923, pull #924
• Fixed the default lib command line flag passed to LDC when building shared libraries (by Олег Леленков aka goodbin) - pull #930
• Fixed extraneous fields getting added to the package recipe by "dub convert" - issue #820, pull #901

v1.0.0 - 2016-06-20

Features and improvements

• Implemented support for single-file packages, including shebang script support - issue #103, pull #851, pull #866, pull #870, pull #878
• Builds on DMD 2.065.0 up to 2.071.1
• Removed all deprecated functionality from the API, CLI and data formats
• The minimum supported OS X version is now 10.7
• Switched from std.stream to std.stdio (beware that a recent version of DMD is now necessary when building DUB to support Unicode file names on Windows) - pull #847
• Now passes -vcolumns also to LDC - issue #859, pull #860

Bug fixes

• Avoids superfluous registry queries when building - issue #831, pull #861
• Fixed handling of "libs" on Windows/DMD when building in allAtOnce mode
• Fixed building with LDC on Windows for both, the VisualStudio based version and the MinGW version - issue #618, pull #688
• Fixed escaping of command line arguments with spaces for LDC - issue #834, pull #860

v0.9.25 - 2016-05-22

Features and improvements

• Builds on DMD 2.064.2 up to 2.071.0
• Cleaned up the API to be (almost) ready for the 1.0.0 release - issue #349 - pull #785
• Implemented new semantics for optional dependencies (now controlled using dub.selections.json) - issue #361, pull #733
• Made "dub init" interactive to improve/simplify the creation of new packages (can be disabled with the "-n" switch) - pull #734
• Switched back the default "dub init" recipe format to JSON (both, JSON and SDLang will stay supported) - issue #724
• Locally cached packages are now stored in a folder that matches their name, which enables more possible ways to organize the source code (mostly by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - issue #502, pull #735
• Improved worst-case speed of the dependency resolver for some pathological cases
• Sped up GIT based local package version detection using a cache on Windows - pull #692
• Implemented "dub convert" to convert between JSON and SDLang package recipes - pull #732
• Implemented a "dub search" command to search the package registry from the CLI - pull #663
• "dub test" doesn't build dependencies in unittest mode anymore - issue #640, issue #823
• Added a "-ddoxTool"/"x:ddoxTool" field to override the package used for DDOX documentation builds - pull #702
• DUB init now uses the users full name on Posix systems - issue #715
• Added support for the "DFLAGS" environment variable to "dub test"
• Added a "release-debug" default build type
• Path based dependencies are now also stored in dub.selections.json - issue #772
• Entries in dub.selections.json are now output in alphabetic order - issue #709
• The Sublime Text generator now outputs import paths for use with DKit (by xentec) - pull #757
• The VisualD generator now creates the project files in the ".dub" subdirectory (by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #680

Bug fixes

• Fixed outputting global build settings (e.g. architecture flags) only once - issue #346, issue #635, issue #686, pull #759
• Fixed an infinite recursive DUB invocation if dub was invoked in "preGenerateCommands" (by Nick Sabalausky) - issue #616, pull #633
• Fixed the VisualD generator to set the correct debug working directory
• Fixed disabling bounds-checking on LDC to avoid the deprecated/removed -noboundscheck flag (by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #693
• Fixed race conditions when running multiple DUB instances concurrently - issue #674, pull #683
• Fixed the error message when trying to build with DUB from a directory that doesn't contain a package - issue #696
• Fixed running the pre-compiled version of DUB on Mac OS versions prior to 10.11 (by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #704
• Fixed "dub dustmite" to emit a proper DUB command line if no explicit compiler/architecture is given
• Fixed "dub dustmite" when invoked on packages with path based dependencies - issue #240, pull #762
• Fixed target type inheritance from the top level scope in the SDLang recipe parser
• Fixed the error message when a dependency name is omitted in an SDLang recipe (by lablanu) - pull #723
• Fixed the error message when using one of the "list" modes of "dub describe" on a target type "none" package - issue #739
• Fixed writing the "subConfigurations" field in the JSON recipe of downloaded packages - issue #745
• Fixed recently updated packages sometimes to fail to download - issue #528
• Fixed handling of path based dependencies that have internal sub package references - issue #754, pull #766
• Fixed issues with generated CMake files due to backslashes in paths on Windows (by Steven Dwy) - pull #738
• Fixed path based dependencies sometimes overriding version based dependencies of the same package - issue #777
• Fixed loading of packages that have a path based selection
• Fixed detection of compiler errors in the build output for generated Sublime Text projects (by Justinas Šneideris aka develop32) - pull #788
• Fixed handling of certain libraries that got included using "pkg-config" (by Jean-Baptiste Lab) - issue #782, pull #794
• Quick fix for building shared libraries with LDC/Windows/OS X and DMD/OS X (by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #801
• Fixed several issues with the SDLang parser
• Fixed release-specific regressions regarding sub package dependencies that got ignored during dependency graph collection - issue #803, pull #807
• Fixed target type "none" packages still generating a binary target (affected dub describe)
• Fixed dub describe --data-list target-type work for target type "none" packages

v0.9.24 - 2015-09-20

Features and improvements

• Added support for SDLang based package descriptions - issue #348, pull #582
• Source code updated to build with DMD 2.064.2 through 2.068.0
• Enhanced dub describe support:
  • The D API is now strongly typed instead of using Json
  • Added a "targets" field that can be used to sport external build tools
  • Added a --data=X switch to get information in a shell script friendly format (by Nick Sabalausky) - pull #572
  • Added an "active" field to each package to be used to signal if a certain dependency takes part in the build - issue #393
  • Added a set of additional environment variables that are available to pre/post build/generate commands (by Nick Sabalausky) - issue #593
  • Errors and warnings are not suppressed anymore, but output to stderr
  • Added the possibility to get all import paths for dub describe (by w0rp) - pull #552, issue #560, pull #561
• Added stricter package name validation checks
• Added a --bare option to search for dependencies only in the current directory (useful for running tests)
• Removed the deprecated "visuald-combined" generator (use dub generate visuald --combined instead)
• The command line shown for verbose output now contain the same quotes as used for the actual command invocation
• Uses -vcolumns for DMD if supported - issue #581
• Properly suppressing compiler output when --quiet or --vquiet are given (by Nick Sabalausky) - issue #585, pull #587
• Added a warning when referencing sub packages by their path (instead of their parent's path)
• Building sourceLibrary targets with -o- is allowed now (enables documentation generation in particular) - issue #553
• The VisualD generator doesn't use a "_d" suffix for debug build targets anymore (by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #617
• Added a new "profile-gc" build type
• Cleaned up console output (parts by Guillaume Piolat aka p0nce) - pull #621
• Added "arm" and "arm_thumb" cross-compilation invocation support for GDC
• Added configuration support to set the default compiler binary "defaultCompiler" field in the settings.json file
• Removed the build script based selection of the default compiler (by Marc Schütz) - pull #678
• Added a --skip-registry= switch to skip searching for packages on remote registries - issue #580

Bug fixes

• Fixed quoting of command line arguments for the DMD backend in the linker phase - issue #540
• Fixed running Dustmite with versioned dependencies that are available as a git working copy
• Fixed dependency resolution for packages that have sub packages and all of them are path based - issue #543
• Fixed the error message for path based dependencies that are missing a package description file - see issue #535
• Fixed running Dustmite with dub not available in PATH - pull #547
• Fixed passing compiler, architecture, build type and configuration options to Dustmite - pull #547
• Fixed return code when dub run is used on a library (returns non-zero now) - pull #546
• Fixed spurious warning when building a package by name and DUB is not run from a package directory
• Fixed handling of dependency errors that occur during automatic upgrade checks - issue #564, pull #565
• Fixed the architecture flag for x64 passed to LDC (by p0nce) - pull #574
• Fixed enforcement of build requirements in dependencies - issue #592
• Fixed dub remove to only remove managed packages - issue #596
• Added a workaround for a data corruption issue (codegen bug) - issue #601
• Fixed building dynamic libraries with DMD - issue #613

v0.9.23 - 2015-04-06

Features and improvements

• Compiles with DMD frontend versions 2.064 up to 2.067
• Largely reduced the execution time needed by DUB itself during builds - pull #388
• Added a dub clean-caches command to clear online registry meta data that is cached locally - pull #433
• Added a "deimos" template type to the dub init command - pull #431
• Added support for dub init to take a list of dependencies (by Colin Grogan) - pull #453
  • Example: dub init myProj logger vibe-d gfm --type=vibe.d
  • DUB will try to get the latest version number for each of these dependencies from code.dlang.org and automatically add them to the dependencies section of dub.json
  • The previous syntax where the argument to dub init is the project type instead of a dependency list is preserved, but deprecated - use the --type= switch instead
• Added a project generator for Sublime Text (by Nicholas Londey) - pull #461
• Added a project generator for CMake files (by Steven Dwy) - pull #489
• Added support for dub test and modules where the path doesn't match the module name (by Szabo Bogdan) - pull #344
• Added dub --version option to output the program version and build date - pull #513
• Improved "copyFiles" support
  • Added support for glob matches (by Colden Cullen) - pull #407
  • Added support for copying directories (by Vadim Lopatin) - pull #471
  • Files are now hard linked into the target directory instead of making a real copy
  • Avoids to hard link "copyFiles" that have not changed in the source directory on Windows - issue #511
• DUB now searches the PATH for installed compilers and chooses the default compiler as appropriate - issue #480, pull #506
• --build-mode=singleFile can now build several files in parallel using the --parallel switch - issue #498
• Improved the JSON error diagnostic format to file(line): Error: message for better IDE integration - issue #317

Bug fixes

• Fixed determining module names from empty modules for dub test (by Szabo Bogdan) - pull #458
• Fixed generating VisualStudio solution files on Win64 (by Nicholas Londey) - pull #455
• Fixed erroneously adding "executable" dependencies to the list of link dependencies (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #474
• Fixed overriding the default source paths with "sourcePaths" - issue #483
• Fixed removing packages when build output files exist - issue #377
• Fixed handling of sub package references that specify an explicit path - issue #448
• Fixed erroneous detection of a "sourcemain.d" source file under certain circumstances - issue #487
• Fixed dub build -t ddox on OS X - issue #354
• Fixed using unique temporary files (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - issue #482, pull #497
• Fixed compiler command line issues on Windows with --buildMode=singleFile (by machindertech) - pull #505
• Fixed a version range match error (">=A <B" + "==B" was merged to "==B")
• Fixed broken up-to-date detection of changed overridden string import files - issue #331
• Fixed handling of the new -m32mscoff flag (is now also passed to the linker stage)
• Fixed handling of several command line options for GDC (by Iain Buclaw) - pull #387
• Fixed handling of "buildTypes" for downloaded packages (by sinkuu) - pull #406

v0.9.22 - 2014-09-22

Features and improvements

• Implemented an improved dependency handling (supported by Matthias Dondorff)
  • Deprecated "~branch" based dependencies - these have proven to facilitate unresolvable versioning conflicts
  • Added a "selections" file that contains the pinned versions of all dependencies for more control - dub upgrade can be used to update this file
  • Package selections can be overridden user or system wide using dub add-override
  • When determining the version of a GIT working copy, the latest tag is preferred over the branch
  • See the full rationale
• Implemented the dub dustmite command for comfortable creation of reduced test cases of DUB packages
  • All packages are automatically copied to an isolated folder where Dustmite can do its job
  • DUB is run in a special mode that doesn't require expensive initialization, so that it doesn't slow down the reduction process
  • The test condition can be a specific exit code or an output regex match on either the compiler, linker, or program run
• Added support for single file builds (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #364
• The special "*" version specification now matches any version or branch (should always be used for referencing sub packages of the same package)
• Warn about using certain build options outside of build types (in addition to warning about certain "dflags")
• Removed explicit linking against Phobos on Linux when building using DUB (fixed building with DMD 2.065)
• Fixed imports for DMD master (by John Colvin) - pull #283
• Path based dependencies don't require a version number anymore (ignored)
• Add support for vibe.d based HTTP downloads for better integration into vibe.d projects
• "mainSourceFile" is now implicitly added to "sourceFiles"
• "preGenerateCommands" are now run before collecting source files, enabling better support for generating source files - issue #144
• Added a -missing-only switch to dub upgrade to get the same upgrade/fetch behavior as for dub build - see also issue #271
• The default compiler is now the one that was used to build DUB itself (by Iain Buclaw) - pull #303
• When running an executable, the working directory is now only changed if an explicit "workingDirectory" is specified
• The compiler is now invoked to determine the actual build platform for the chosen compiler flags instead of simply guessing
  • Implemented for GDC by Kinsey Moore aka opticron - pull #324
• Added a basic dub clean command - issue #134
• Added a spell checker for the -c/--config flag (by Andrej Mitrovic) - pull #313
• Added support for $ROOT_PACKAGE_DIR and $<dependency>_PACKAGE_DIR variables
• Generalized the --local/--system flags to --cache=<location>, which is now available for all commands (by Colden Cullen) - pull #306
• Added a --build-mode switch to choose between combined build and separate compile/link for DMD
• When building a static library, its dependencies are not built anymore - issue #316
• Displaying the line number where parsing a JSON document fails - see issue #317
• Added a shorthand syntax for sub packages (":subpack" instead of "parent:subpack") - issue #315
• Replace all "package.json" files/mentions with "dub.json" and clean up white space throughout the code base (by James Clarke aka jrtc27) - pull #337, pull #338, pull #339
• dub describe not outputs all source/import files of all configurations and platforms - issue #185
• Added basic support for the new human readable "systemDependencies" field
• Added a --temp-build switch to force building in a temporary folder - issue #294
• Using executeShell when invoking tools to enable more flexible use of shell features - issue #356
• dub init now creates a default .gitignore file
• An exit code of -9 for a tool now triggers a short message with a possible cause (out of memory)
• The information about possible package upgrades is now cached for one day, resulting in less online queries to the package registry
• Implemented separate compile/link mode for GDC (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #367
• .def files are now passed to the linking stage when doing separate compile/link building
• Added BASH shell completion script (by Per Nordlöw) - issue #154
• Added FISH shell completion script (by Matt Soucy) - pull #375

Bug fixes

• Fixed automatic removing of packages, removing was only possible with --force-remove.
• Fixed "local" package fetching (was doing the same as "system") - issue #259
• Fixed handling of "mainSourceFile" when building with --rdmd - issue #263
• Fixed useless separate compilation of dependencies when building with --rdmd - see issue #255
• Fixed detection of known files during package removal, caused by a missing ending slash (by Matthias Dondorff)
• Fixed dub fetch <package> --version=<version> to actually fetch the supplied version (by Matthias Dondorff)
• Fixed linker issues for GCC based linking by putting -l flags after the list of source files - issue #281
• Fixed spurious log output happening during dub describe - issue #221
• Fixed interrupting the DDOX process for dub -b ddox (by Martin Nowak) - pull #291
• Fixed building library targets with LDC (by Dmitri Makarov) - pull #296
• Fixed the "disallowInlining" build option (by sinkuu) - pull #297
• Fixed determining build flags using pkg-config when some libraries are unknown to pkg-config - issue #274
• Fixed detection of dependency cycles - issue #280
• Fixed detection of a required rebuild when the compiler (front end) version changes - issue #284
• Fixed building of packages with a non-existent "targetPath" - issue #261
• Fixed the warning that should appear when using manual -debug= flags instead of "debugVersions" - issue #310
• Fixed processing of variables in "preGenerateCommands" and "postGenerateCommands"
• Fixed handling of empty path nodes (e.g. "/home//someone/somefile") - issue #177
• Fixed the up-to-date check for intermediate dependencies
• Fixed detection of equal paths for dub add-local when only the ending slash character differs - issue #268
• Fixed a bogus warning that the license of a sub package differs from the parent package when the sub package doesn't specify a license
• Fixed building when files from "\UNC" paths are involved - issue #302
• Fixed up-to-date checking for embedded sub packages (by sinkuu) - pull #336
• Fixed outputting multiple instances of the same platform flag which broke the build for some compilers - issue #346
• Fixed referencing path based sub packages - issue #347
• Fixed various error messages (by p0nce and sinkuu) - pull #368, pull #376
• Fixed the "ddox" build mode when DDOX hasn't already been installed - issue #366
• Fixed probing the compiler for platform identifiers when performing cross compiling (by Mathias Lang aka Geod24) - pull #380
• Fixed erroneously dropping the "buildTypes" field of downloaded packages (by sinkuu) - pull #406
• Fixed trying to copy files with the same source and destination
• Fixed downloading of packages with "+" in their version - issue #411
• Fixed building dependencies with versions containing "+" on Windows/OPTLINK
• Fixed a crash when sub packages of non-installed base packages are references - issue #398
• Fixed repeated download of base packages when a non-existent sub package is referenced
• Fixed intermediate build path for --compiler= binaries specified with path separators - issue #412

v0.9.21 - 2014-02-22

Features and improvements

• Implemented building dependencies as separate libraries (use --combined to use - almost - the old behavior)
• The preferred package description file name is now "dub.json" instead of "package.json" (which is still supported)
• Revamped command line help now shows detailed help for each command
• Added dub test to run the unit tests of a package using a custom main() function
• Public sub packages can now (and are recommended to) reside in sub folders
• Added ruby style ~> version specifications: "~>1.0.2" is equivalent to ">=1.0.2 <1.1.0" and "~>1.3" is equivalent to ">=1.3.0 <2.0.0"
• --annotate now works for all commands
• Added a --force-remove switch to force package removal when untracked files are found in a package folder
• Added a "mainSourceFile" field to better control how --rdmd and dub test work
• The target binary (if any) is now automatically deleted after a linker error to avoid partially linked binaries
• Added --force to dub build and dub run to force recompilation even if already up to date
• Renamed the "debug_" and "release" build options to "debugMode" and "releaseMode" to avoid the D keyword clash
• Renamed the "noBoundsChecks" build option to "noBoundsCheck" to be consistent with the corresponding build requirement
• dub init xxx vibe.d now emits a -version=VibeDefaultMain as required by the latest versions
• Reimplemented the VisualD project generator to use the new compile target logic
  • Instead of dub generate visuald-combined use dub generate visuald --combined
  • Properly handles the explicit library target types (those other than "targetType": "library")
• Added support for dub add-local without an explicit version argument (will be inferred using GIT) (by p0nce) - pull #194
• Added a new "release-nobounds" build type
• Improved the error message when "dub remove" fails because of a missing installation journal
• Removed the Mono-D project generator - use Mono-D's built in DUB support instead
• Added support for public sub packages in sub folders - this is the preferred way to use sub packages, see http://code.dlang.org/package-format#sub-packages
• Only "main.d"/"app.d" or "packname/main.d"/"packname/app.d" are now automatically treated as "mainSourceFile" for executable targets and none for library targets
• Excessive/unknown command line arguments now result in an error
• The "checking dependencies" message on startup is now a diagnostic message
• A "dflags" entry of the form -defaultlib=* for DMD is now passed to the linking stage for separate compilation
• Added simple support for --arch=x86 and --arch=x86_64 and LDC
• The order of source files as passed to the compiler is now sorted by name to avoid random triggering of order dependent compiler issues

Bug fixes

• Fixed a malformed log message for files with modification times in the future
• Fixed handling of absolute working directories
• Fixed a segmentation fault on OS X when doing dub upgrade - issue #179
• Fixed extraction of pre-release SemVer versions from the "git describe" output
• Fixed handling of paths with spaces in generated VisualD projects
• Fixed DUB binaries compiled with GDC/LDC to work around a crash issue in std.net.curl - issue #109, issue #135
• Fixed iterating over directories containing invalid symbols links (e.g. when searching a directory for packages)
• Fixed the path separators used for $DUBPATH (':' on Posix and ';' on Windows)
• Fixed using custom registries in the global DUB configuration file - issue #186
• Fixed assertions triggering when $HOME is a relative path (by Ognjen Ivkovic) - pull #192
• Fixed the VisualD project generator to enforce build requirements
• Fixed build requirements to also affect compiler options of the selected build
• Fixed configuration resolution for complex dependency graphs (it could happen that configurations were picked that can't work on the selected platform)
• Fixed dub build -b ddox to only copy resource files from DDOX if they are newer than existing files on Posix
• Fixed storing sub packages when the modified package description is written after fetching a package
• Fixed a bogus "conflicting references" error when referencing sub packages issue #214
• Fixed a null pointer dereference for locally registered package directories that had been deleted
• Fixed determining the version of the root package (previously, ~master was always assumed)
• Fixed parsing of ==~master style dependencies (equivalent to just ~master)
• Fixed handling of packages with upper case letters in their name (which is not allowed)
• Fixed running applications on Windows with relative paths (.\ gets prepended now)

v0.9.20 - 2013-11-29

Features and improvements

• Compiles on DMD 2.064 without warnings - issue #116
• Builds are cached now by default in the ".dub/" sub folder of each package
• An explicit "dub upgrade --prerelease" is now necessary to upgrade to pre-release versions of dependencies
• "dub describe" and generated VisualD projects now also contain pure import and string import files
• "dub run" now only builds in "/tmp" or "%TEMP%" if the package folder is write protected - issue #82
• "dub init" can not take an optional project template name (currently "minimal" or "vibe.d")
• Renamed "dub install" to "dub fetch" to avoid giving the impression of actual system installation (by Михаил Страшун aka Dicebot) - pull #150
• Added support for "dub describe (package name)" and "dub describe --root=(path to package)" to describe packages outside of the CWD
• "excludedSourceFiles" now supports glob expressions (by Jacob Carlborg) - pull #155
• "dub --build=ddox" now starts a local HTTP server and automatically opens the browser to display the documentation
• Environment variables can now be used inside path based fields in package.json (by Alexei Bykov) - pull #158
• "dub describe" now contains a "targetFileName" field that includes the file extension (e.g. ".exe" or ".so")
• Removed the compatibility version of the new std.process as it lacks support for browse()
• Support using .obj/.lib/.res/.o/.a/.so/.dylib files to be specified as "sourceFiles", they will be bassed to the compiler at the linking stage
• Added a "library-nonet" configuration to the package description file to compile without a CURL dependency
• Added support for the "http_proxy" environment variable

Bug fixes

• Fixed building of explicitly selected packages with custom configurations (using "dub build (package name)")
• Fixed running DUB from outside of a valid package directory when an explicit package name is given
• Fixed dependency calculation for dependencies referenced in configuration blocks - issue #137
• Fixed warnings to be enabled as errors by default again
• Fixed resolution of dependencies when sub packages are involved - issue #140
• Fixed handling of build options for GDC/LDC (by finalpatch) - pull #143
• Fixed emitting "-shared -fPIC" for DMD when building shared libraries - [issue #138][issue138]
• Fixed "dub --build=ddox" for target types other than "executable" - issue #142
• Fixed a crash when loading the main package failed - issue #145
• Fixed the error message for empty path strings in the "sourcePaths" field - see issue #149
• Fixed representing empty relative paths by "." instead of an empty string - issue #153
• Fixed running executables for projects outside of the CWD
• Fixed copying of DDOX resources on Posix for "--build=ddox" (by Martin Nowak) - pull #162
• Fixed ARM floating-point platform/version identifiers
• Fixed generating VisualD projects for shared library packages (by p0nce) - pull #173
• Fixed erroneous upgrading of packages that are not managed by DUB (for "dub upgrade") - issue #171
• Fixed erroneously fetching the same package multiple times when sub packages are used
• Fixed string representation of empty paths (fixes the target file name for generated VisualD projects)

v0.9.19 - 2013-10-18

Features and improvements

• Added the possibility to build or run a specific package, including sub packages
• Implemented a new "--root=PATH" switch to let dub operate from a different directory than the current working directory
• "dub init" now always emits lower case DUB package names
• Improved diagnostic output for "dub add-local" and "dub remove-local"
• Using the static version of Phobos fro building DUB to improve platform independence on Linux

Bug fixes

• Fixed erroneous "-debug" switches in non-debug builds
• Enabled again a warning when using "-debug=" flags in "dflags" instead of using "debugVersions"
• Fixed handling of paths with spaces for "--build=ddox"
• Fixed inclusion of multiple instances of the same package.json files in the "visuald-combined" generator (by p0nce) - pull #124
• Fixed response file output for LDC - issue #86
• Fixed response file output for GDC - issue #125
• Partially fixed working in paths with Unicode characters by avoiding std.stdio.File - issue #130

v0.9.18 - 2013-09-11

Features and improvements

• Added support for a "buildOptions" field to be able to specify compiler options in an abstract way
• Implemented a new configuration resolution algorithm that is able to handle complex dependency graphs
• Added support for a "debugVersions" field ("-debug=xyz")
• Added support for a "-debug=xyz" command line option to specify additional debug version specifiers
• The VisualD project generator doesn't specify redundant compiler flags for features that have dedicated checkboxes anymore
• Improved folder structure in generated "visuald-combined" projects (by p0nce) - pull #110

Bug fixes

• Fixed handling of packages with no configurations (a global null configuration is now assumed in this case)
• Fixed building of shared libraries (was missing the "-shared" flag)
• Fixed upgrading in conjunction with sub packages (was causing an infinite loop) - issue #100
• Fixed build of complex generated VisualD projects by avoiding redundant link dependencies
• Fixed upgrading of branch based dependencies
• Fixed inheriting of global build settings in configurations - issue #113
• Fixed inclusion of entry point files (e.g. "source/app.d") in pure library packages - issue #105

v0.9.17 - 2013-07-24

Features and improvements

• Added support for custom build types using the "buildTypes" field - issue #78
• Added support for multiple and custom package registry URLs on the command line and as a configuration field - issue #22
• Added support for a "workingDirectory" field to control from which directory the generated executable is run - issue #84
• Added a new generator "visuald-combined", which combines the whole dependency tree into a single project
• Updated default package registry URL to http://code.dlang.org
• The default "unittest" and "unittest-cov" build types now issue the "-debug" flag
• Building packages without any "importPaths" entry now issue a warning message

Bug fixes

• PARTIAL Fixed building with LDC - issue #86
• The version string in the HTTP "User-Agent" field is now formatted according to SemVer
• Fixed bogus warnings about "dflags" that are confused with flags that are a prefix of those
• Fixed the VisualD generator to use the build settings and dependencies of the selected build configuration
• Fixed the VisualD generator to enable the proper command line flags for each build type
• Generated VisualD projects don't clean up JSON files on clean/rebuild anymore
• Fixed building of packages with sub-packages when the main package is registered to DUB - issue #87
• Fixed adhering to the specified global target type for library packages that have no explicit build configurations - issue #92
• Fixed building of static libraries which have external library dependencies ("libs") - issue #91
• Fixed error message for references to unknown sub-packages
• Fixed handling of packages that are referenced multiple times using an explicit path - issue #98

v0.9.16 - 2013-06-29

Bug fixes

• Fixed fetching of all recursive dependencies in one go
• Fixed handling of paths with spaces when using "dub build"
• Fixed upwards inheritance of version identifiers in generated VisualD projects

v0.9.15 - 2013-06-19

Features and improvements

• Added "targetType": "none" for packages which don't contain sources and don't generate a binary output
• Added build settings to the "dub describe" output

Bug fixes

• Fixed fetching of "main:sub" style dependencies from the registry
• Remove half-broken support for sub-packages defined in sub-directories (needs to be determined if this feature is worth the trade-offs)
• Fixed bogus re-installations of packages referenced by a sub-package
• Fixed handling of dependencies of header-only (or target type "none") dependencies in the VisualD generator
• Fixed the reported version of sub-packages in the output of "dub describe"

v0.9.14 - 2013-06-18

Features and improvements

• Implemented support for multiple packages per directory and accessing sub-packages as dependencies - issue #67
• Dependencies can now be specified per-configuration in addition to globally
• Version numbers are now handled according to SemVer ("~master" style branch specifiers are independent of this and work as before)
• Library packages are now only built when running "dub" instead of trying to execute them - partially pull #66 by Vadim Lopatin and issue #53
• Add support for optional dependencies (picked up only if already installed) - issue #5
• Compiles on DMD 2.063
• The build script now directly calls the compiler instead of relying an rdmd and supports ldmd and gdmd in addition to dmd (automatically detected)
• Outputs a warning for package names with upper-case letters and treats package names case insensitive
• Added "buildRequirements": ["noDefaultFlags"] for testing manual sets of command line flags - issue #68
• Errors and diagnostic messages are now written to stderr instead of stdout
• Added "dub describe" to output a build description of the whole dependency tree for external tools given a configuration/compiler/platform combination
• Removed the -property switch and deprecated "buildRequirements": ["relaxProperties"]
• Added support for a DUBPATH environment variable and support for adding a directory with multiple packages using "dub add-local" to search for dependencies in local directories other than the predefined ones
• Replaced --list-locals/--list-user/--list-system with a single --list-installed switch
• The version of DUB is now inferred using "git describe" and output on the help screen and in the user agent string of HTTP requests
• Added some minimal example projects for several use cases
• Temporarily disabled automatic package upgrading (was only working for the now removed project locally installed packages)

Bug fixes

• Fixed recursive inferring of configurations
• Fixed including debug information for separate compile/link builds
• Fixed VisualD generator for x64 builds and avoid building header-only dependencies
• Fixed handling of "-Wl" flags returned by pkg-config
• Fixed LDC builds for projects with multiple modules of the same name (but in different packages) using the -oq switch
• Fixed the linker workaround in the build script to work on non-Ubuntu systems - issue #71
• Fixed handling of Windows UNC paths (by Lutger Blijdestijn) - pull #75
• Fixed a possible infinite update loop - issue #72
• Fixed handling of multiple compiler/linker arguments with the same content (e.g. "--framework A --framework B" on OS X)

v0.9.13 - 2013-04-16

Features and improvements

• Implemented "buildRequirements" to allow packages to specify certain build requirements (e.g. avoiding function inlining or warnings)
• Experimental support to specify flags to pass to "ddox filter" for --build=ddox
• Configurations inherit the global "targetType" by default now
• Import paths in VisualD projects are now relative
• Cleaner console output for -v (no thread/fiber ID is printed anymore)
• Build settings for VisualD projects are tuned to avoid common linker/compiler bugs by default
• Generated VisualD projects put intermediate files to ".dub/obj/<projectname>" now

Bug fixes

• Fixed upgrading of branch based dependencies - issue #55
• Fixed wording and repetition of the reserved compiler flag warning message - issue #54
• Fixed erroneous inclusion of .d files in the import libraries field of generated VisualD projects
• Fixed passing "package.json" to the compiler in generated Mono-D projects - issue #60
• Fixed the Mono-D and VisualD generators to properly copy "copyFiles" - issue #58
• Fixed removing of temporary files in case of unexpected folder contents - issue #41
• Fixed invocation of the linker on Windows in case of another "link.exe" being in PATH - issue #57
• Fixed computation of build settings for VisualD projects (inheritance works only bottom to top now)

v0.9.12 - 2013-03-21

Features and improvements

• Implemented separate compile/link building when using DMD
• Optimized platform field matching (by Robert Klotzner) - pull #47
• Added build types for coverage analysis - issue #45
• Wrong use of "dflags" now triggers a warning with suggestion for an alternative approach - issue #37
• The "dub" binary is now in "bin/" instead of the root directory

Bug fixes

• Fixed an assertion that triggered when appending an absolute path
• Fixed --build=ddox when DDOX was not yet installed/built - issue #42
• Fixed the build script to work on Ubuntu
• Fixed building in a project directory that contains no "package.json" file
• Fixed the error message for non-existent dependency versions - issue #44
• Fixed matching of (only) D source files (by Robert Klotzner) - pull #46
• Fixed "targetName" and "targetPath" fields - issue #48

v0.9.11 - 2013-03-05

Features and improvements

• Configurations are now "shallow", meaning that configurations of dependencies can be selected by a package, but stay invisible to users of the package itself - [issue #33]
• Target type selection is now supported (executable, static lib, dynamic lib etc.) - issue #26
• Target name and path can be configured now
• Added a possibility to exclude certain files from the build
• The package description files is now added to IDE projects - issue #35
• Using a response file to handle large compiler command lines - issue #19

Bug fixes

• Fixed spurious loading of the package during dub install - issue #25

v0.9.10 - 2013-03-04

Features and improvements

• Added direct support for generating HTML documentation using DDOC or DDOX
• Added support for pre/post generate/build commands
• dub install does not add a dependency anymore (reverted to old behavior)

Bug fixes

• dub uninstall actually works now
• The Windows installer also installs the needed DLLs
• Fixed Windows paths on non-Windows systems emitted by the Mono-D generator - issue #32

v0.9.9 - 2013-02-28

Features and improvements

• Adds a Windows installer (by Brad Anderson aka eco) - pull #27
• Support for branches other than "~master"
• The MonoD generator now generates a pretty source hierarchy for dependencies
• The "sourcePath" field has been changed to "sourcePaths" to support multiple paths (by Nathan M. Swan aka carlor) - pull #28

Bug fixes

• "dub init" with no arguments uses the current directory name as the project name - issue #16
• The tilde character is not used for path names anymore - issue #23