Great news :) Sent it to some local open source news site.
Ido On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 13:50, Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaert...@netcologne.de>wrote: > > The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.30 release. This release > is based on fpc 2.4.2. > > This release is available for download at the SourceForge download page: > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/ > > Minimum requirements: > Windows: 98, 2k, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit > FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit > Mac OS X: 10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit > > > Highlights / Major changes: > > LCL: > * Windows CE: support for clipboard and keypad devices > * GTK2 and GTK1 interfaces are now separated. > GTK1 is no longer maintained by the Lazarus team, > but patches are still welcome. > * fpGUI: the LCL interface to fpGUI now supports all components > on the standard page. > * QT: support for Haiku > * Layout and autosizing is now more consistent across widgetsets, > overhead was reduced, improved cross platform layouts and complex forms. > * Added gif reader > * TLazIntfImage - New function AlphaBlend, which can alpha blend > an intfimage into another, using a separate intfimage as the > alpha channel. > * Unit chart and its component TBarChar are deprecated. > See the new package TAChartLazarusPkg. > > IDE: > * Support for FPC resources: > You can now use {$R *.lfm} instead of {$i unit1.lrs}. > * The Delphi converter has improved a lot. > * Build modes, build macros and conditionals now allows > different sets of compiler options for projects and packages. > * Editor > * Hiding (Folding) of comments in Pascal source. > * Allow Multiple Source-Editor Windows > * Allow several Views of the same Source > * User-defined color-schemes. > * Identifier-completion pop-up is now resizeable > * Project compiler options can now be saved as default for new projects. > * When opening a project only those forms are opened > that were open when project was closed. > * Various designer usability improvements: > * arrow and tab keys switching between components > * resize/move cancellation using ESC key > * save/restore of the form window state in the project session > * skip snapping when Alt key is pressed > * When creating a new project the default unit output directory > is now lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS). Target file name is project1. > This has no impact on old projects. > * IDE now preserves the line endings of source files (it uses > the line ending of the first line, it does not preserve mixed > line endings). > * You can now quickly switch between several versions / branches of > packages by defining the preferred package file name for each dependency. > * You can now use the IDE directive %H- to hide individual hints, > notes and warnings. > * The IDE can be made dockable. Install either the package > AnchorDockingDsgn or EasyDockMgrDsgn. > * The ToDo list was moved to a separate package: todolistlaz.lpk. > * Czech translation added > > Debugger / Editor > * Inserted/Deleted lines during a debug session are now tracked. > Breakpoints and Execution-line are adjusted. > * Step out command implementation (by Flavio) > * Show execution point command > * Single Instruction step (over/into) > * UI Improvements: Toolbars for Watches, Breakpoints, Disassembler > * Watches: Enabled display formats (mem-dump, Hex, Default, ..) > * Disassembler added navigation: jump to address / return to execution > point > * Improved reaction speed: It is possible to continue stepping > without having to wait for all watches, locals, ... to be evaluated > > Components: > * The IDE got some options to become easier for students and pupils > and there is a new package EducationLaz adding options to hide > complex parts of the IDE > * New AggPas (Anti Grain Geometry for Object Pascal) package, > now supporting FPImage and LCL. AggPas highlights: Subpixel rendering, > 8-bit alpha channel, paths, platform independent rendering using > pure pascal > * TAChart update, including: stacked and rotated series, 3 new types > of series, axis transformations, interactive tools, 6 new demos and > other improvements > > > And thousands of fixes and smaller changes. The detailed list of changes > can be > found here: > http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_0.9.30_release_notes > > > Mattias > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > laza...@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus >
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