Lazarus 1.6.2 - Released

[mattias]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.2. This is a bugfix release.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.6.0 was built with FPC 3.0.0 too.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0

The release is available for download on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.6.2" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6_2

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
  MS Windows >= Win98 (32 or 64bit)
  Win98 and WinNT IDE needs FPC 2.6.4 and building with flag
    -dWIN9XPLATFORM.

FreeBSD/Linux:
  gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
  10.5 to 10.11, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6_2

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at:
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization)
http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/
and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

[Thaddy]

The previous release was Lazarus 1.6.0 which was released at February 18, 2016. Not 1.4.4.
You may want to correct that...

Otherwise congrats on this release for an ever more valuable and usable piece of software to all that helped improve it.
Indeed, even me is actually using it now  

[Handoko]

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[jwdietrich]

That is good news (again). Thanks to all contributors.

[chenyuchih]

What a great news! Thank you all guys the Lazarus team!

I love Lazarus & Free Pascal!!

[srcstorm]

Great, thanks!

[boren]

Thanks for you effort.
Bravo! Lazarus and Free Pascal!

[cappe]

Thank you, I love Lazarus and freepascal

Gabriele

[dogriz]

Already switched to fixes 1.6.3  on Debian x64 and i386 systems.
Next to test - arm (OrangePi).

[e-ric]

Hello

Great thanks to the Lazarus Team and i wish long life to Lazarus Project.

Best regards

Eric

[mischi]

Hi.

For Mac OS X, fink based lazarus will be ready in a few days. In addition to the 32bit carbon based version, there are 64bit gkt2 and Qt4 versions. Cross-compiling for Win32, Win64 and wince is also available.

MiSchi.

[ps]

Thank's. It's interesting that newest delphi xe10.1 update II keeping me cold and I'm downloading Lazarus 1.6.2 Great work!

[JZS]

Thank you Lazarus Team. Great job.

[Eugene Loza]

Thanks a lot! Installing ...

[Groffy]

Thanks to the Lazarus team for their great work! When looking at the long list of fixes and improvements its impressive!!

When looking into the repository log, it seems that most commits are coming from a handful of developer, I just hope these people will keep their motivation.

Thanks again !