Lazarus Release 2.0.4

[Martin_fr]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.4.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.2 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_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 2.0.4" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_4

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
  2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

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, beta), qt and qt5 (32 or
  64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_4

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/

[loaded]

Thank you very much to the Lazarus team. The work you created is terrific.

A suggestion for those who have antivirus problems;

I'm running Lazarus on pure windows.
I install and run all external programs on the virtual operating system. Thus, I do not need to use any antivirus program.
In my opinion, this method is very safe and performance.

[RAW]

Thanks very much ... just downloading ... 

[avk]

Great, congratulations to Lazarus team.

[fred]

Thanks all!
While installing the trend micro AV kills it on AppData\Local\Temp\is-N39DC.tmp\lazarus-2.0.4-fpc-3.0.4-win32.tmp
Will try again tomorrow, hopefully trend micro is updated...

[Martin_fr]

Thanks all!
While installing the trend micro AV kills it on AppData\Local\Temp\is-N39DC.tmp\lazarus-2.0.4-fpc-3.0.4-win32.tmp
Will try again tomorrow, hopefully trend micro is updated...

Sorry to hear. All Windows installers were tested before https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/3045aeeff9efbd7bc470b2c8cb82121cd9fa54ef98999b7b0e37a93e9257bd79/detection

For those within the file size restrictions, there are also results at https://metadefender.opswat.com
Note that occasionally one of the scanners may give a "generic" warning.

You can find each installer by using the checksums. (published on our homepage)
You can checksum your download using the Microsoft fciv tool https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/841290/availability-and-description-of-the-file-checksum-integrity-verifier-u
Microsoft also supplies a powershell variant that can do sha-256

[LazProgger]

Thank you very much for your great work!

I have not found a download for macOS/Cocoa. Will there be one?

I have tried to build the IDE with widgettype=cocoa and target cpu=x86_64 and it just worked to compile my first cocoa app! Very good work!

For beginners, who are not aware of setting those parameters, a direct download of a cocoa installer would be nice, especially because Apple will drop the cocoa support.

[af0815]

AV Problem: fpc.exe, ppc386.exe and fpres.exe are often send by my avira installation to the cloud for checking. Specially after a make run. In this time the execution is blocked, after few second it is running again without a problem. This was trigger by the heurastic module of my AV-Prg.

So maybe other AV found this prg inside of the installer and block/delete this. In the past i had some trouble with Avira, but i sent them the files and it was accepted as positive false and the next releases are working without an issue. (BTW: I have an payed AV-Account).

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Have your AV an quarantine area ? If yes, look if you can unlock the file or sent to the AV, so they can detect a positive false.

[RAW]

I will never understand why so many people bother themselves with these AV-Bullshit-Tools. What is the reason for that? More security? Is everything more secure since we deal with this kind of stupid software? Are all the problems gone? They say you need to use the lastest AV-software and use the lastet updates for all programs and then everything is fine! Yes, really? "Some" people should learn to really use their eyes ... Is everything saver since people do penetration testing all the time? Is that really the case? Where can I see this fantastic result?

There are only two things that are gone: time and money ...


I'm so sorry 

[ASBzone]

I will never understand why so many people bother themselves with these AV-Bullshit-Tools. What is the reason for that? More security? Is everything more secure since we deal with this kind of stupid software? Are all the problems gone? They say you need to use the lastest AV-software and use the lastet updates for all programs and then everything is fine! Yes, really? "Some" people should learn to really use their eyes ... Is everything saver since people do penetration testing all the time? Is that really the case? Where can I see this fantastic result?

There are only two things that are gone: time and money ...


I'm so sorry 

You may see no value in anti-virus / anti-malware tools, but I have seen many a malicious software deployments blocked by the use of these tools.

And I've seen people who felt that they didn't need such a tool, lose significant time and money to ransomware attacks.

[ASBzone]

AV Problem: fpc.exe, ppc386.exe and fpres.exe are often send by my avira installation to the cloud for checking. Specially after a make run. In this time the execution is blocked, after few second it is running again without a problem. This was trigger by the heurastic module of my AV-Prg.

So maybe other AV found this prg inside of the installer and block/delete this. In the past i had some trouble with Avira, but i sent them the files and it was accepted as positive false and the next releases are working without an issue. (BTW: I have an payed AV-Account).

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Have your AV an quarantine area ? If yes, look if you can unlock the file or sent to the AV, so they can detect a positive false.

You are well advised to exempt the folder (in your AV) where your compiler operates.  That compilation behavior will almost always look sketchy to heuristic engines, because it is very similar to what many modern malware apps do.

[ASBzone]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.4.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.2 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Thanks for the hard work, team...

[nouzi]

Thanks for all Lazarus team and freepascal team 

[440bx]

First, thanks go to the Lazarus team for all their efforts. 

I don't want to go to any great extent about AVs in this thread, since it is obviously not about AVs but, they are useful for "joe average".  In a properly configured machine, they are useless and just a hindrance.

[zoltanleo]

Guys, you're the best!