1.12.0

This is a major new release with the following features and bug fixes:

• The --jit elaboration option no longer requires --no-save.
• Fixed a crash when subtype bounds depend on a package instance generic (#815).
• Fixed various issues in the implementation of guarded blocks and disconnection specifications (#829).
• The --std option now controls which VHDL standard the --install command uses to compile third-party libraries (#836).
• The prefix of an indexed or slice name now must be another name or function call, as required by the LRM (#835).
• The implementation of conversions in port maps has been reworked and fixes a number of long-standing issues (#843).
• Added support for inertial keyword in port maps (#843).
• Fixed a bug where 'last_value could give the wrong result if the signal has multiple sources.
• Updated to OSVVM 2023.09a and UVVM 2023.09.16 for nvc --install.
• The --exit-severity= option now also controls which severity level results in a non-zero exit code (#850).
• Improvements to waveform dumping for signals with record types or types with non-locally-static bounds (#851, #852).
• The parameter for attributes with dimensions such as 'length(N) may be any integer type when --relaxed is passed (#862).
• The default standard version was changed to VHDL-2008.
• The --vhpi-trace option now implies --vhpi-debug.
• The bounds of array aggregates are now calculated correctly in several corner cases (#873).
• Added supported for VHPI foreign subprograms.
• Resolved several other minor issues (#654, #854, #855, #859, #863).

For Windows users there is a new standalone MSI installer which does not depend on any MSYS2 installation.

As always thank you to @bpadalino, @tmeissner, @Blebowski, @amb5l, @m42uko, @a-panella, and @cmarqu for sponsoring me!