Lazarus Release 2.0.12

[Martin_fr]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.12.

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_3.2.0

Windows users should be careful with -O3 or higher optimization, due to bug https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37305.

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 2.0.12" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_12

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:
  Cocoa (64bit) 10.12 to 10.15, Carbon (32bit) 10.5 to 10.14, qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_12

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/

[ASBzone]

Thanks, team.  And congrats. 

[lucamar]

Nice work!

Ok, so I am downloading right now and can't yet know whether it's in fact "nice", so let's say instead:

Thanks, folks, and (extrapolating from past performance) good work!

[VTwin]

Excellent! Many thanks for the developers work.

I am currently installing Mac, Win, and Lin versions.

I notice that on Mac, the Lazarus files are placed into the Applications -> Lazarus directory. This seems like an odd decision, as previously just an alias was placed there. Is this a permissions issue?

[pathfinder]

The link on the home page needs to be updated, because it still points to 2.0.10.

[Marc]

The link on the home page needs to be updated, because it still points to 2.0.10.

Done

[nachoap]

Excellent news!

Thank you very much!

[jonyrh]

Thank you! 

[Al-Eid]

Thank you very much

[dseligo]

Thank you

[geraldholdsworth]

So excited, I downloaded and installed it for my Mac (High Sierra), which it upgraded itself from Lazarus 2.0.11, ran my project and got told:
"cocoagdiobjects.pas(11,34) Fatal: Can't find unit CocoaGDIObjects used by CocoaPrivate"

Not a great start.

EDIT: Followed the instructions to completely remove Lazarus, then started again. Same error. Gone back to 2.0.11, which works fine.

[VTwin]

@geraldholdsworth

Curious. I had no problem installing it over 2.0.10 on High Sierra.

[Marcel59]

Thank you Team for this new version!

LOL -  Just installed the 2.0.10 on 24 feb 2021 (yesterday) after a very, very long time absent. So, uninstall, new download, install and again back to the manuals. My Pascal knowledge is old and rusty.

Greetings, Marcel

[Bloodbat]

Thanks to the team for all the work and the new release.

I have two problems with the Win32 version:
-The first is extremely annoying; but not a deal breaker: the Source Editor is quite sluggish, 2.0.10 wasn't when editing the same code base.
-It tends to hang when closing: when I first installed it and rebuilt it to install packages it refused to close until I forced it via Windows, and has refused every time I tried to get it to rebuild without hanging: I have to force it through Windows or Task Manager. It builds properly: the hang occurs when the IDE is closing itself to restart. The problem is also present, intermittently, when building any of my own code, those unlucky times when I close it the window goes away, but I can see the process wasting CPU cycles until I kill it with Task Manager or similar.

[trev]

So excited, I downloaded and installed it for my Mac (High Sierra), which it upgraded itself from Lazarus 2.0.11, ran my project and got told:
"cocoagdiobjects.pas(11,34) Fatal: Can't find unit CocoaGDIObjects used by CocoaPrivate"

Works for me on High Sierra 10.13.6 and Xcode 10.1 - I just removed Lazarus 2.0.4 from /Developer and installed FPC 3.2.0 (leaving 3.0.4) and then installed Lazarus 2.0.12 and compiled a new project with just a Quit button. All good.