[fpc-devel] Free Pascal 2.4.2 released!

[Marcos Douglas]

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 7:49 AM, Marco van de Voort <marcov at stack.nl> wrote:
> 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
>
> ******************************************************************************
>                              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:
>  * 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.

Congratulations!
It was a hard work.

Marcos Douglas