Lazarus Release 1.8 (with FPC 3.0.4)

[Martin_fr]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.8.

The release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 1.6.4 was built with FPC 3.0.2.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.8.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.8.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.8_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.8.0" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_8_0

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.
optional qt 4.5 or 5.6 for qt apps

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, not stable), qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_8_0

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at:
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization)
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

[BSaidus]

 
Thanks !! great work from great peoples

[dbannon]

Good one, thanks to the teams involved !

David

[Jurassic Pork]

hello,
Thanks to the team for this release !

I have installed this release on Windows 7  (Lazarus version 32 bits) . I have a strange thing : with the project ziptest (attachment  of this bugtracker post  0032773: paszlib inflate of file gives crc error ) i cant'see the form and when i execute it no window displayed (no error message) . The project is a 1.6.0.4 project.

Friendly, J.P

[Noodly]

Great work, but the release notes haven't been released yet 

"Lazarus 1.8.0 is not yet released. This page is under construction!"

[Martin_fr]

I have a strange thing : with the project ziptest (attachment  of this bugtracker post  0032773: paszlib inflate of file gives crc error ) i cant'see the form and when i execute it no window displayed

Open the lfm, and look at "Left"...
At least for me this is displayed way outside the visible desktop area.

Edit left to something reasonable, and it works.

[Martin_fr]

Great work, but the release notes haven't been released yet 

"Lazarus 1.8.0 is not yet released. This page is under construction!"

Which url have you looked at?

The files are on sourceforge.

Maybe the mirrors need some time to catch up.

--
EDIT
Oh, I see the wiki... fixed

[Jurassic Pork]

Open the lfm, and look at "Left"...
At least for me this is displayed way outside the visible desktop area.
Edit left to something reasonable, and it works.

Yes i have seen that , the author must have a big screen 

[Eugene Loza]

Congratulations!!! Awesome job!

[tomitomy]

Really great work !  I've already downloaded it, and I'm making it a portable version.

[Mladen]

After updating to Lazarus 1.8 (was using 1.6.4 ) I have noticed strange behavior in source editor.

When ever i try to write something in source editor it inputs two characters on one key press.
For example if i press "k" on my keyboard it inputs "kk" and so on...
I have been unable to find the cause of the issue.

I am using Linux Mint mate 18.3 64 bit

[balazsszekely]

Did you try a forum search? The following thread was posted today: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,39213.0.html

[rvk]

Is there a page with known bugs per Lazarus/FPC version?

In this version Lazarus 1.8 the FormatFloat() error is still present.
See: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,39144.msg267614.html

With such a bug Lazarus 1.8 doesn't seem ready for production use and a (wiki-)page to list all known problems could help people decide if switching to that version is wise.

Edit: Or maybe this should be a section in the release notes ("Known bugs" or "Known issues") which can be changed as they are found.

[georgebou]

Congratulations guys.

Keep up good work

[hubblec4]

Many many thanks for this wonderful work!!