[fpc-devel] Lazarus 1.2.4 Release

[Mattias Gaertner]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.4.

This release was built with fpc 2.6.4.
The previous release 1.2.2 was built with 2.6.4 too, the release 1.2.0
was built with fpc 2.6.2. 

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch#Fixes_for_1.2.4_.28Merged.29
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4

On Windows the installer now allows 2 independent installations.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#Installation_of_multiple_Lazarus

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.2.4" directory.
Windows x64 users: please use the 32 bit installer if possible. See
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_Programming_Tips#FPC_2.6.x.2FLazarus_warning_.28Missing_support_for_SEH.29
for more details.

Minimum requirements:
Windows:       98
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X:      10.5 for Intel cpus, 10.4 for PowerPC, LCL only 32bit,
non LCL apps can be 64bit

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_2_4

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