Is FPC 2.3.1 an issue

[picstart]

Versions of lazarus ince 26.2 have never worked as far as debugging goes. I had an issue with lnet and the author wrote

Latest trunk for fpc is 2.5.1 not 2.3.1, you shouldn't use 2.3.1 anymore (it's not developed). AFAIK there were issues with it

I understand many want to push the frontier of lazarus further and further but some especially newcomers like me can't even see the frontier. Instead we hope what little ground we can see is solid.The mixing of bug fixes and new features is unsettling for some. I'd rather see the bug fixes go into the current version until the rate of reported bugs becomes a tiny trickle. When debug fails in debugging "hello world" as it does for me in all versions after 26.2 I kind of wish that the bug fixes had gone into 26.2.

[Fred vS]

Hi picstart.
I totally agree with you.
The only "stable" version of FPC for Windows is fpc 2.2.3 (2.2.2 full of bugs and 2.2.4 > even worst).
The most incredible is that you cant download Lazarus-0.9.27-18500-fpc-2.2.3-20090130-win32 any more on the Lazarus download site. All the older versions are still available but the version with fpc-2.2.3 not. Fortunately i have a backup of that version