Please link with C++ runtime statically. Runtime dependency makes it impossible to upgrade from the old 1.0.66 for me and many others. 1.0.66 doesn't require additional fat runtimes.

This has been addressed by check-in [740c774926].  It is now possible to build statically linked interop DLLs (mixed-mode and/or native only) from the Visual Studio IDE or from the command line via MSBuild.  However, there are no current plans to create official release packages containing these statically linked interop DLL.