Mega-big-full-ultra-power thanks. :) I published this announcement here in Brazil.
Thanks again. -- Silvio Clécio ================================================= Blog - silvioprog.com.br Twitter - twitter.com/silvioprog LazSolutions - code.google.com/p/lazsolutions Lazarus-BR - http://groups.google.com.br/group/lazarus-br?hl=pt-BR ================================================= 2011/3/16 Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl>: > Hello, > > We have placed the first release-candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler > version 2.4.4 on our ftp-servers. > > You can help improve the upcoming 2.4.4 release by downloading and > testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here: > http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_2.4.4 > > Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at: > http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.4 > > Downloads are available at: > > the main FTP server at > > ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/2.4.4-rc1/ > > and > > ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/beta/2.4.4-rc1/ > > Note: > > Some platforms are still being uploaded, among them Mac OS X, Linux/i386 and > Linux/x86_64. > > Enjoy! > > The Free Pascal Compiler Team > > Free Pascal Compiler > > Version 2.4.4rc1 > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.4.4rc1 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.4.4 contains most library fixes from early June 2010 till March > 2011. There are also some compiler fixes, most relating to 64-bit. > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.4 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Some highlights are: > > Packages: > * Many improvements to the XML units > * Many improvements to the database units. > * Specially sqlite got quite some fixes. > * Many improvements to the chm units. > * Including a commandline CHM compiler > * Many improvements to fppkg and fpmake for another round of testing. > > Platforms: > * Fixes for multi-threading support in OS/2 RTL. > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported > bugs which have been fixed in this release. > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.4.2 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.4.2 contains many fixes and a few new features. Most bugfixes > in the RTL and packages before June 2010 have been merged. > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.2 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Some highlights are: > > Compiler: > * Support D2006+ FOR..IN, with some FPC specific enhancements. Refer to > http://wiki.freepascal.org/for-in_loop for more information > * Support for sealed and abstract classes. > > Packages: > * The existing Mac OS X Universal Interfaces units have been synchronised > with the Mac OS X 10.6 SDK. Several new units have also been added, and > where indicated in the Mac OS X 10.6 SDK they have also been enabled for > iPhoneOS/iOS. > * Many improvements to the XML units > * Many improvements to the database units > * Many improvemnets to the chm units > > Platforms: > * Long term bug in OS/2 implementation of unit Video finally fixed which > among others allows inclusion of the text-mode IDE (without debugger) > for this platform as part of the distribution again. > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported > bugs which have been fixed in this release. > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.4.0 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.4.0 contains many fixes and new features. While we did not > manage to incorporate all planned additions, we believe this release offers a > nice collection of new functionality and bug fixes. > > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.0 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Some highlights are: > > Platforms: > * New platform: Mac OS X/PowerPC64 > * New platform: Mac OS X/x86_64 > * New platform: Mac OS X/ARM (iPhone) > > Compiler: > * Support for Delphi-style resource handling > * Whole-program optimization infrastructure, which initially supports > program devirtualization and unused virtual method removal > * Much faster compilation of units containing many type-sections > * The ability to suppress individual hints/warnings/notes > * Several improvements to the DWARF debug information generation > * Fixes to the generics support > * Fixes to the interface delegation (implements) support > * Improved cpu register allocation > * Improved ARM/EABI support > > RTL: > * Linearly scaling multi-threaded memory manager > * Support for (advisory) file locking on Unix-based platforms > when using the SysUtils file creation/opening routines > * Support for ANSI ISO Extended Pascal ReadStr/WriteStr > * A UnicodeString type that, while not yet equivalent to Delphi 2009's > UnicodeString type, offers reference counted UnicodeString support on > the Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and Beos/Haiku platforms. > > Packages: > * Many improvements to the XML units > * Many improvements to the database units > * Updated the common Mac OS X Pascal interfaces to r241, including > an updated header translation of the CFNetwork framework > * The zipper unit now works correctly on big endian platforms > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported > bugs which have been fixed in this release. > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.2.4 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.2.4 contains many bug fixes and some new features. The > main purpose of this release is to fix problems reported with FPC 2.2.2. > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.4 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Some highlights are: > > All: > * Experimental packages-installation tool > > Packages: > * Added support for TIFF reading/writing in fcl-image > * Improvements and fixes in CHM support > * Fixed linking the gtk2-package with gtk versions above 2.13.4 > > IDE: > * Added support for CHM help files > > Documentation > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported > bugs which have been fixed in this release. > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.2.2 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.2.2 contains many bug fixes and some new features. The > main purpose of this release is to fix problems reported with FPC 2.2.0, > and to remove all potentially tainted code from our source code base. > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.2 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Some highlights are: > > All: > * All code potentially infringing on CodeGear copyrighted code has been > reimplemented using a cleanroom approach. > > Platforms: > * Incompatibilities with Mac OS X 10.5's new default linker have been > resolved. > > Compiler: > * PIC support for Mac OS X (on by default, disable with -Cg-) > * several bugs in the experimental generics support have been fixed, > but this feature is still in beta > * initialisation and finalisation of shared libraries has been fixed > for all Darwin platforms, and for Linux/i386 > * support for {$packset x} directive to enable set packing > (use {$packset 1} for Delphi-compatible sets, but note that the > format is different on little and big endian platforms) > > RTL: > * thread resource leaking under unix has been fixed > * the widestring manager for unix has been completed > * several floating point to string conversion errors have been fixed > * significantly improved variant support > * implementation of RTL exception handler for OS/2 allowing proper > translation of some runtime errors > * various fixes for GO32v2 improving useability of this target > * OS/2 RTL enhanced to allow seamless working with large files (64-bit > file system API calls) where available (WSeB/MCP/eCS/Warp 4 with FP15) > > Packages: > * the Windows API interface units have been significantly updated > * Apple universal interfaces updated to r234 of the common FPC/GPC/MW > interfaces > * New TRegexEngine class to parse regular expressions > > Documentation > * Documentation was updated completely to conform to the actual > state of the compiler and RTL. > > See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported > bugs which have been fixed in this release. > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.2.0 > ****************************************************************************** > > Free Pascal 2.2.0 contains a lot of bug fixes and new features. The work on > Free Pascal 2.2.0 started halfway during the year 2005. A lot has been > improved > since then. > > Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.2.0 for a list > of changes which may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and > how to cope with these changes. > > Platforms: > * New platform: Win64. FPC is the first open source compiler for 64-bit > Windows operating systems. > * New processor architecture: 64-bit PowerPC > * PowerPC/64 support for Linux > * Mac OS X on Intel (i386) is now supported > * New platform: Windows CE (Windows Mobile) > * New platform: Nintendo Game Boy Advance > * New platform: Nintendo DS > * Native support for ARM-platform > * GO32V2 DOS platform got a long needed update > > Compiler: > * Internal linker for win32, win64 and wince, resulting in smaller > executables, less memory used during compilation, and faster compile > times for programs using large frameworks like for example the Lazarus > Component Library. > * Generics (experimental) > * Bit packed arrays and records > * Resourcestrings can now be smartlinked, resulting in smaller executables > * Multiple resource files support > * pointer[low..high] syntax to pass C-style pointer arrays to procedures > using open arrays > * Interface delegation > * Proper safecall implementation > * Wide strings are COM/OLE compatible on Windows > * Added several speed optimisations, for example: > * Compiler can omit stack frames (x86 and ARM) > * Compiler can store records in registers > * Tail recursion expansion > * Register renaming optimizations > * Improved optimizer for ARM CPU > * Compiler can initialise local variables, function results, and "out" > parameters with several values (command line parameters -gt till -gtttt) > to help find uses of uninitialised variables > * Compiler can now properly deal with paths > 255 characters in all cases > * Dwarf debug format support > * Reduced memory usage during compilation > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > RTL: > * Heap uses less memory > * Improved variants support > * Improved currency support > * Exception handling can be used without SysUtils unit > * Lot of small bug and compatibility fixes > > FCL: > * Improved database support > * The obsolete sqlitedataset, interbase, fpodbc, ddg, mysqldb3 and mysqldb4 > units are removed > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > Packages: > * Added a new fppkg package manager > * Improved database support > * Added Delphi compatible RichEdit unit > * Apple universal interfaces updated to r204 of the common FPC/GPC/MW > interfaces > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > Free Vision: > * Now uses resourcestrings > > IDE: > * Evaluate window > * Improved HTML rendering > * Improved xterm support > * Small bug fixes > > Misc: > * Improved documentation > * Better cross compilation support > > For a detailed list of reported bugs that are fixed in this release see the > bugtracker report at http://www.freepascal.org/mantis/changelog_page.php > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.0.4 > ****************************************************************************** > > More than 1000 changes have been made to 2.0.4 since 2.0.2. As this is a bug > fix release, most are fixes for some issues, but new features and performance > enhancements have been added as well. > > Compiler: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Updated several translations > * Improved code generation > * Improved and fixed PIC code generation > * Improved register allocation > * Improved ansistring string code generation > * Several alignment values increased so the requirements of modern processors > are met better > * WINDOWS defined on all windows platforms (Win32, Win64, WinCE) > * Parameter order for methods with structured results changed > (result pointer<->self swapped), please check such methods if they are > implemented in assembler > * i386 compiler no longer needs environment variables set when installed on > an x86_64 Linux distribution > > RTL: > * Lot of small bug and compatibility fixes > * 64 bit file pointer support on most targets > * Faster integer to string conversion > * Endian conversion routines added > * Improved heap manager > * Improved ansistring routines > * PowerPC: Power3/4/5/PPC970 compatibility > > FCL: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Improved database support > * The interbase, fpodbc, ddg, mysqldb3 and mysqldb4 units > are obsolete and replaced by the sqldb components > * Oracle support added > > Packages: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Improved database support > * Apple universal interfaces added > > Free Vision: > * New outline unit > * Small bug fixes > * Unix: much improved video and keyboard handling > * Unix: Free Vision applications no longer need to link to libc > * Linux: grab_vcsa utility to ensure vcsa access > > IDE: > * Small bug fixes > * Redesigned directories window > * Reorganised compiler options window > * Option to use Ctrl+X,C,V for cut/copy/paste > > Misc: > * Improved documentation > * Better cross compilation support > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.0.2 > ****************************************************************************** > This is a bug fix release, so don't expect a big new feature list here. Most > of the almost 700 changes made to 2.0.2 since 2.0.0 are fixes for some issues. > > Compiler: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Improved SSE support > * Improved inlining > * Enhanced variant support > * Embedded resource support for targets using elf32 executable format > + Type checking of compile time expressions > + Mode MacPas: Support for Mac style objects > + Mode MacPas: Compile time variables can be given on command line > > RTL: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Enhanced variant support > * Embedded resource support for targets using elf32 executable format > > FCL: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Improved SqlDB package > > Packages: > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > * Improved data base support > > IDE: > * Small bug fixes > > Misc: > * Improved docs > * Bug fixes for FreeVision > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 2.0.0 > ****************************************************************************** > Compiler: > + properties in objects are now allowed > + use of cmov when at least -Cppentium2 is supplied (i386+ only) > + .p is a searched source extension in macpas mode now > * Improved MacPas mode > * Improved variant support > * Updated language files > * Improved warnings regarding uninitialised variables > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > RTL: > * Several widestring and unicode fixes > * Heavily improved variant support > * Improved threading support > * Improved 64 bit compatibility > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > FCL: > * Improved data base support > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > Packages: > + Jedi windows api is part of the packages now > + Windows specific units of the rtl have been moved to packages/base/winunits > + XFree header conversions to X package added > * Endian and 64 bit fixes > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > IDE: > * Small bug fixes > > Misc: > * Improved docs > * Bug fixes for FreeVision > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 1.9.8 aka 2.0.0-Rc2 > ****************************************************************************** > > > Compiler: > + arm-linux cross compiler for i386-linux > + SysV style syscalls added for MorphOS > + Exportable macros for mode MacPas > + Support procvar declaration in parameters for mode MacPas > + Give warning if code is never executed in while/if statements > + Directive {$COPERATORS ON} added, synomym for -Sc > + Check for uninitialzed from and to values in for-loop statement > + -Fa<unit> option added to load units in a program before the uses statement > is parsed > + -vz for output to stderr > * Better support for unique types > * AfterConstruction/BeforeDestruction behaviour is now compatible with Delphi > * Better support for Widestring > * Removed {$THREADING ON} directive, threading support is always available > * Improved code generation on Sparc > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > + On target Mac OS, resource files is supported > > RTL: > + arm Linux support > * Basic threading support moved to the system unit > * Operator ** moved to math unit; system.power removed > * Improved variant support > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > + The unit MacOS (api to Mac OS) for target MacOS > > FCL: > + Support for Interbase/Firebird, PostgreSQL and MySQL 4.0 under windows > * Database drivers are now dynamically loaded > * The TSQLQuery is now fully editable using cached updates > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > Packages: > + gtk2 interface units > * 64 bit compatibility fixes > * Lot of small bugs and compatibility fixes > > IDE: > + vector unit window > * x86-64 asssembler debugging support improved > * Sparc asssembler debugging support improved > * Some bug fixes > > Misc: > + txt output to fpdoc added > * some fpdoc bugs fixes > + demo for macos > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 1.9.6 aka 2.0.0-Rc1 > ****************************************************************************** > > Compiler: > + x86_64/amd64 (Linux) compiler > + Sparc (Linux) compiler > + PowerPC MorphOS support > + Mac OS (classic) compiler (for MPW) > + Netware Libc support (-Tnetwlibc) > + Register variable support (-Or) for all targets > + MacPas compiler mode (-Mmacpas) > * Better inlining support > * For loop variable assignment is not allowed anymore > * $fpctarget expands to <cpu>-<os> (except for 8.3 limited targets), > old $target removed > * Implicit loading of Variants unit > * Lots of bug fixes > > RTL: > + x86_64/amd64 Linux support > + Sparc Linux support > + PowerPC MorphOS support > + Mac OS (classic) support (except Sysutils and its dependants) > + Netware Libc support > + New heap manager that releases memory back to the OS > + TThread.Synchronize support > + utf8bidi unit > + GetHeapStatus added > + GetProcessID added > + SysUtils.GetEnvironmentVariableCount and SysUtils.GetEnvironmentString > added > * gpm unit does not need libgpm anymore > + Further additions for improved Delphi compatibility > + System.GetProcessID and System.GetThreadID added > + Dos.GetMsCount added > + Support for changing console resolution in Video for Win32 > + Support for using high memory (> 512 MB) under OS/2 (where available) > - Removed MaxAvail, MemAvail, HeapSize due to their unreliability > (bogus/misleading return values) in multitasking environment with swapping > > FCL: > + RTTIUtils unit added > + fpcunit test-framework added > * Lots of dbf and other db fixes > > FV: > * Updated to fvision implementation, first official release > > IDE: > * Lots of improvements and stability fixes > * Support latest gdb 6.2.x and 6.3.x releases > > Docs: > + Lots of updates > + Easier to navigate html documentation > * fpDoc is used to generate all unit documentation > > Misc: > * Makefiles create units in a separate directory units/cpu-os/ > * More cross compilation improvements > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 1.9.4 aka 2.0.0-Beta3 > ****************************************************************************** > > Compiler: > + ARM (Linux) compiler > + PowerPC Darwin (Mac OS X) support > + reintroduce keyword support > + added prefetch(const mem) support > + MacPas compile mode > + -gv to generate an executable that can be run under Valgrind >= 2.1 > * register allocator fixes and tweaks > * better support for preprocessor $IF expressions > * better overloaded operator support > * Win32 DLL export table fixes > * stabs (debuginfo) generation cleanups > * enum names in RTTI are now in their original case > * record alignment fixes > * lots of bug fixes > > RTL: > + ARM Linux support > + Powerpc Darwin support > + Sysutils.RaiseLastOSError added > + Sysutils.GetLastOSError added > + Classes.TOwnedCollection added > + Sysutils.FileIsReadOnly added > + support of widestring and currency in the typinfo unit > * Better support for Libc based RTL (FPC_USE_LIBC) > * 64bit cleanup for future x86_64 port > * ExecuteProcess fixes > * Linux use getdents syscall instead of deprecated readdir > * bug fixes > > FCL: > + SDF DB backend > + TGA support in fpImage > + support of widestring and currency type in stream related classes > * Lot of fixes to fpImage classes > > Misc: > * better cross development support > * Documentation updates > * Testsuite updates to store testrun results in a database > * Testsuite updates for cross platform testing, with remote rsh/ssh support > > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 1.9.2 aka 2.0.0-Beta2 > ****************************************************************************** > > Compiler: > + PowerPC compiler > + sse/sse2 code generation support > + "global" property support > * improved inlining support > * optimizer enabled again > * uses register calling conventions by default > * $fputype directive > + properties of type single can have default values > + support of $IF DECLARED() > + support of DQWORD in inline intel assembler code > * lots of bug fixes > > RTL: > * more improvements for unix runtime library > * using FPC_USE_LIBC allows to compile an rtl which uses libc instead of > syscalls > + System.Initialize > + Sysutils.ExecuteProcess > + System.WideStringManager > + System.PtrInt and System.PtrUInt > * ipv6 support > * lots of bug fixes > > FCL: > + sqlite support > * bug fixes > > Misc: > * improved docs > > ****************************************************************************** > What's New in 1.9.0 aka 2.0.0-Beta1 > ****************************************************************************** > > Compiler: > + dynamic arrays > + interfaces > + variants > + full widestring support > + default parameters > + cross name scope overloading > + support for the PowerPC, Sparc and ARM processor, installation packages > will follow within the next weeks > + new and more sophisticated register allocator > + inlining across units > + register calling conventions > + SSE and SSE2 support for inline assembler > + PIC code generation > + new language mode: "Mac Pascal" > + full boolean evaluation is now also available > + threadvar support, enabled by using {$threading on} > * support of int64 integer constants > * improved Delphi compatibility in -Sd mode > * a lot of bug fixes > * large parts of the compiler are rewritten to create a more stable, > portable and maintainable compiler > > RTL: > + multithreading support > * completely rewritten unix runtime library > * improved Delphi compatiblity > * significantly improved speed of exception related code > * prepared for big endian and 64 Bit CPUs > * a lot of bug fixes > > FCL: > + tdataset support > + html generator > + 64 Bit file handling > * a lot of bug fixes > > Docs: > * adapted to reflect new language features > > IDE: > * a lot of bug fixes > > Misc: > * improved cross compilation > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal