Hello,
Finally, FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that
contains most library progress over the 2.6.0 and some crucial
compiler fixes.
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_2.6.2For 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
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What's New in 2.6.2
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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.