[fpc-devel] Who has been actively working on a release, and what is blocking that release?

[Karl-Michael Schindler]

> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:20:23 -0700
> From: Warren Postma <warren.postma at gmail.com>
> To: fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org
> Subject: [fpc-devel] Who has been actively working on a release, and what is blocking that release?
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> I am a mac, windows, and linux developer with a lot of pascal experience,
> and the fact that
> there hasn't been a Free Pascal release in over 5 years, gets me thinking
> this project is in fact, deadlocked.
> 
> Can someone please explain what's up?  Who is the project leader and are
> they on this list?
> 
> Claude has read the piles of messages for me that I didn't feel like
> reading, but it seems clear to me from traffic on -devel that FreePascal
> has been in a quiet period for about four years, and that this, a lack of a
> release master, rather than any massive disagreements, has lead to the
> current rather sad state of things.
> 
> I can't brew install fpc on mac, I can't get a binary fpc in ubuntu or
> debian anymore,  the lazarus builds on mac fail because the released
> binaries of FPC are wildly incompatible with recent Mac Os 26.3, and XCode
> 26.3 tooling levels.
> 
> I can build an alpha of FPC trunk on Mac OS, but it seems to me that
> nothing is happening much.  If there's a push to get a release out SOON,
> let me know what I can do to help.
> 
> Warren

Have you tried the fpc and lazarus packages from macports? I maintain them and they work on my MacBook, which runs recent macOS. Fpc 3.2.2 should also run on any older system down to 10.8, lazarus 4.4 down to 10.15.

I should update lazarus to 4.6.

Michael.