[fpc-devel] Lazarus Release 1.6.2

[Mattias Gaertner]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.2. This
is a bugfix release.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.6 was built with FPC 3.0.0 too.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.6.2" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6_2

Minimum requirements:

Windows:       
  MS Windows >= Win98 (32 or 64bit)
  Win98 and WinNT IDE needs FPC 2.6.4 and building with flag
    -dWIN9XPLATFORM. 

FreeBSD/Linux:
  gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
  10.5 to 10.11, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6_2

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at:
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization)
http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/
and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

Mattias