Hello,
Finally, as a (late) Christmas present, we have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.2 on our ftp servers.
You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.2 release by downloading and
testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.0.2 or in the maillist.
Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.2Due to a long gestation, the packages are synchronized up to about may 2016.
Downloads are available at the main FTP server and
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/3.0.2-rc1/Enjoy!
The Free Pascal Compiler Team
Free Pascal Compiler
Version 3.0.2
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What's New in 3.0.2
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Free Pascal 3.0.2 is a point release of the 3.0.x fixes branch.
Please also see
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.2 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:
- the bug in currency arithmetic has been fixed.
Rtl:
- TRect, TPoint and similar types are now type compatible between
Types and Windows unit, and are now advanced records.
Packages:
- googleapi and fcl-pdf packages.
- fcl-db and web packages synchronized
- unicode tables updated.
See
http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported
bugs which have been fixed in this release.