[fpc-pascal] FPC 2.6.1

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Tony Whyman said:
> Can someone please tell me where 2.6.1 comes from and what its status
> is? The FPC website still has 2.6.0 as the official release. On the
> other hand, some of the Lazarus snapshots include 2.6.1., but only for
> Windows targets.

See the "faq" on he website, it has a graph about versioning. It is the
current version in the current fixes branch. 
 
> One thing I do need to confirm is which of the FCL changes in 2.7.1
> appear in 2.6.1. I have a particular issue with a type change in the DB
> unit where TBookmark changes from a pointer to a TByte, and I need to
> track the version number change in units that depend on this.

r21037

See also

http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/mergelogs26/database.html

(click on revisions to expand the file tree, click on red "notes" to expand
that section)

Note that this overview (and its major index on
http://www.stack.nl/~marcov/mergelogs26 ) isn't 100% correct.

In rare cases, changes get merged, (partially) unmerged and/or manually
altered (*) due to discussion, which isn't completely visible in the
eligible merge history.

In this (tbookmark) case that has happened, and thus comparing source of the
various branches is the only 100% safe way.


(*) separate, non merge commits to the fixes branch