[fpc-announce] FPC 2.6.2 released!

[Marco van de Voort]

Hello,

Finally, FPC 2.6.2 has landed. FPC 2.6.2 is an update to 2.6.0 that
contains most library progress in 2012 and some crucial
compiler fixes, as well as a few new targets.

Building is still in progress and some formats (deb,rpm) and targets might
not be available yet.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2

For Downloads, please use the FTP server at

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.6.2/

and sourceforge

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/


as much possible.

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team


Free Pascal Compiler

Version 2.6.2

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What's New in 2.6.2
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Free Pascal 2.6.2 is a point release from the 2.6.0 fixes branch.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.2 for a list
of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and
how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

Compiler:
* Improvements and fixes for the ARM architecture

Packages:
* New package fpindexer (indexing engine)
* Support for observer pattern added to fcl-base (and base classes in RTL)
* Lots and lots fixes and improvements for fcl-db
* Support for JSON dataset added among others
* Fixes and improvements for fcl-passrc (and fpdoc)
* Updates for PTCPas and gtk2
* fpmkunit improvements (better support for future switch to fpmake)
* Several fixes for x11
* Several fixes for winunits (and winceunits)

Platforms:
* Improvements to the NativeNT target (newly introduced as alpha in 2.6.0)
* Many fixes for OpenBSD and NetBSD (considered in beta state now)
* Internal ELF writer supported for more BSD targets
* Fixes and improvements for gba and nds

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported
bugs which have been fixed in this release.