Lazarus 1.6 - Released

[Martin_fr]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.4.4 was built with FPC 2.6.4.

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" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
  98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10, 32 or 64 bit.       
  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

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6:
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/

[itmitica]

FPC version was the same as with 1.6RC2. Removed 1.6RC2, removed the ~/.lazarus folder, installed 1.6, test compile successful.

Thank you Lazarus Team!

[Shebuka]

Congratulations to all, especially the Lazarus team! 👍

Btw, I'm the first to download the Mac version 😄 (or maybe the counter is lazy to update, it's still 0...)

[Martin_fr]

Advice for Linux users. Some distros contain an older version of ld, that does not work well. If building hangs during linking please see http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,31578.msg202509

[Thaddy]

Advice for Linux users. Some distros contain an older version of ld, that does not work well. If building hangs during linking please see http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,31578.msg202509

Linker needs to be (maybe equal or) above v7.25 it seems. Some distro's have 7.23 as default. That does not work well. Older linkers may work.

[TraumTaenzerDieter]

Just installed and then tried a rebuild (to use my extra components)
which gives me this error:
Fatal: Kann sslsockets nicht finden verwendet von fphttpclient. Make sure all ppu files of a package are in its output directory. ppu im falschen Verzeichnis=D:\Dev\Lazarus\fpc\3.0.0\units\i386-win32\fcl-net\sslsockets.ppu..

RC2 worked without problems, so should I go back?

Problem was solved by making a CLEAN install of LNET 0.6.6 !

[georgebou]

Great news guys.
Keep up good work.

[FTurtle]

Thanks.

By the way, I think it is a good time to change link "What's New" at Lazarus Homepage

from:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch

to:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

[frakno]

works like a charm. even my more sophisticated projects using zeos and/or internet connection work without any adjusting needs

a really great thank you for your efforts

[Martin_fr]

By the way, I think it is a good time to change link "What's New" at Lazarus Homepage

committed, will be uploaded soon

[chenyuchih]

Great news! Thank you so much all the lazarus team!!

[lhxzui]

Good.
Thanks a lot.

[guest58172]

Thx much for this awesome point release !

[dparnaby]

I changed a year ago to Lazarus with a large project  containing 250000 lines of code and thirty components but was not sure whether Lazarus would be a viable option.
Lazarus  has proved a rock solid alternative.
Lazarus 1.6 has been installed and works perfectly.
I am grateful.
Thank  you Lazarus and FPC teams. Well done. David

[j0x]

congrats to the new release

btw is this site http://www.getlazarus.org/ also yours? or are they fake?