[fpc-announce] Free Pascal 2.4.2 released!
Marco van de Voort
marcov at stack.nl
Sat Nov 13 10:49:03 CET 2010
Hello,
we have placed a new major release of the Free Pascal
Compiler, version 2.4.2 on our ftp-servers.
Changes that may break backwards compatibility are documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.4.2
Downloads are available at:
the main FTP server at
ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/
and mirrors like
ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/
ftp://ftp.hu.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/2.4.2/
and sourceforge.
Enjoy!
The Free Pascal Compiler Team
Free Pascal Compiler
Version 2.4.2
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What's New in 2.4.2
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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:
* 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.
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