[fpc-devel] Lazarus 1.2 Release

[Mattias Gaertner]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.2.

This release was built with fpc 2.6.2. 

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2.0_release_notes

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" 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

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