<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Hello,<br><br>As some might have noticed, We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler<br>version 3.2.4 on our download servers already for some time.<br><br>You can help improve the upcoming 3.2.4 release by downloading and<br>testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here:<br><a href="http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2">http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2.4</a> or in the maillist.<br><br>Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at:<br><a href="http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.">http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.4</a><br><br>Downloads are available at <br><br>https://downloads.freepascal.org/fpc/beta/3.2.4-rc1<br><br>The evaluation time frame for this release is at least two weeks, so bug reports within that period will be looked at before the final release is branched.<br><br>Enjoy!<br><br>The Free Pascal Compiler Team<div><br><div><div>******************************************************************************</div></div><div><br></div><div><div> Free Pascal Compiler</div><div><br></div><div> Version 3.2.4</div><div><br></div><div>******************************************************************************</div><div><br></div><div>Free Pascal 3.2.4 is a minor release of the 3.2.x fixes branch. As such, it</div><div>contains mostly fixes of bugs discovered in the previous version, plus some</div><div>updates for included packages.</div><div><br></div><div>There are currently no known changes which might result in incompatibility with</div><div>the previous version 3.2.2.</div><div><br></div><div>The main highlights of this version:</div><div> * large number of issue and bug fixes</div><div> * FPC development switched to git, all tools adapted accordingly</div><div> * fixes to avoid year 2038 problem</div><div> * updated translations of compiler messages</div><div> * Issues with newer glibc fixed</div><div><br></div><div>Platforms:</div><div> * Support for new AVR targets: megaAVR 0 and tinyAVR 0/1</div><div> * FreeBSD 12 support</div><div> * Darwin: made -gl working</div><div><br></div><div>Utilities:</div><div> * FPDoc: markdown support</div><div> * fpcres: several improvements</div><div><br></div><div>Packages:</div><div> * fcl-image improved, e.g. resolution support and orientation flag support</div><div> * fcl-base: thread pool support</div><div> * fcl-pdf: pdf reader</div><div> * vcl-compat significantly improved</div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>