Hello, Finally, FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that contains most library progress in 2012 and some crucial compiler fixes, as well as a few new targets.
Building is still in progress and some formats (deb,rpm) and targets might not be available yet. Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2 For Downloads, please use the FTP server at ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/ and sourceforge https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/ as much possible. Enjoy! The Free Pascal Compiler Team Free Pascal Compiler Version 2.6.2 ****************************************************************************** What's New in 2.6.2 ****************************************************************************** Free Pascal 2.6.2 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch. Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2 for a list of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and how to cope with these changes. Some highlights are: Compiler: * Improvements and fixes for the ARM architecture Packages: * New package fpindexer (indexing engine) * Support for observer pattern added to fcl-base (and base classes in RTL) * Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db * Support for JSON dataset added among others * Fixes and improvements for fcl-passrc (and fpdoc) * Updates for PTCPas and gtk2 * fpmkunit improvements (better support for future switch to fpmake) * Several fixes for x11 * Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits) Platforms: * Improvements to the NativeNT target (newly introduced as alpha in 2.6.0) * Many fixes for OpenBSD and NetBSD (considered in beta state now) * Internal ELF writer supported for more BSD targets * Fixes and improvements for gba and nds See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
