Lazarus Bugfix Release 4.6

[mattias]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 4.6.

This is a bugfix release and was built with FPC 3.2.2, and FPC 3.2.4RC1 for macOS.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_4.0_release_notes
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.2

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 4.x:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/commits/fixes_4/

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 4.6" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#4_6

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
  2k, 32 or 64bit, Qt, Qt5, Qt6 (64bit only)

FreeBSD/Linux:
  gtk 2.24 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, Qt6.2 for qt6, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
  Cocoa (64bit) 10.12, Carbon (32bit) 10.5 to 10.14, Qt and Qt5 (32 or 64bit), Qt6 (64bit only).

The gitlab page:
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/tree/lazarus_4_6

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

[mdalacu]

Yey!

[Paolo]

Thank you.

[Gigatron]

Thank you very much for all Lazarus Team.

[Martin_fr]

For Windows users who want to test the "ongoing" fpc 3.2.4 preparation efforts, there are the builds with the 3.2.4RC (branch):
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-snapshots/files/Window%2064/2026-02%20Lazarus%204.6%20with%20FPC%203.2.4-RC1%20%28d3a5f442eeff%29/
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus-snapshots/files/Window%2032/2026-02%20Lazarus%204.6%20with%20FPC%203.2.4-RC1%20%28d3a5f442eeff%29/

[Mimmo]

Thank you very much for your work!

[RayoGlauco]

Thank you very much !!

[jwdietrich]

Thank you. Like all versions, the new one is brilliant.

As with every version, I repeat my advice for Mac users to mark the downloaded zip archive as safe before decompressing. This is possible with the subsequent terminal command:

xattr -cr ~/Downloads/lazarus-darwin-aarch64-4.6.zip

This step prevents you from receiving a message that the app "Lazarus" is damaged and cannot be executed.

[Espectr0]

I installed Lazarus 4.6 on my Mac and there seems to be an error with VST.
I've attached a screenshot of an example from OPM.
My application is experiencing the same error.

[jamie]

I don't see the "VirtualStringTree" or Those components in the list you are showing.

Did you rebuild the IDE after installing the update?

Jamie

[Martin_fr]

I think its not about the packages in the OPM, but the way the tree is drawn.

After the + symbols should be a checkbox, but his image shows a tiny rectangle. Also his image show extra spacing.

I don't have a Mac myself, it may be related to https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus/lazarus/-/issues/42041
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[Espectr0]

The image shows a VST component used in OPM, smaller than normal. This happens on my macOS when using this component in any app. I've rebuilt the application, but the problem persists.

[wp]

Looked at the VTV of OPM in my mac-VM, and it is displayed correctly. Espectr0, could you please post another screenshot in which one of the checkboxes is checked? I am asking because if the VTV in your system is drawn in a 3d manner the bright lower right edges may be hard to see in the unchecked state. (However, drawing 3d checkboxes in macOS would be strange, anyway)

But I think the real problem is that you work on some kind of very-high-resolution display, and the VTV is not scaled correctly: The font in the VTV is much smaller than the font in the other controls. Unfortunately the monitor available in my mac-VM does not allow for scaling so that I cannot check this. Please file a bug report so that the mac experts can look into it.

[Espectr0]

I'm not with my Mac right now, but I'll upload more photos as soon as I can.
The problem is that the fonts are very small compared to the rest of the controls, as you mentioned.

This is happening to me now with Lazarus 4.6 and FPC 3.2.4rc; I previously had Lazarus 4.2 and FPC 3.2.2 installed, and it worked correctly.

[Paolo]

Before I mess my previous installations, this file "lazarus-4.6-fpc-3.2.4-rc1-d3a5f442eeff-win64.exe" is a stadard installer as per official release ? So I run it and see the installer dialogs ?
Thanks.