As you may have noticed on the FPC website, Free Pascal 1.9.2, which is the second beta of the upcoming FPC 2.0.x series, is available.

Compared with 1.9.0 there are a lot of bug fixes as well as some new features like register calling for i386 or a powerpc compiler. For more information about the new stuff see below.

You can download 1.9.2 from the well known FPC ftps (http://www.freepascal.org/sdown.html) or if they are overloaded, the 1.9.2 release is available at SourceForge as well
(http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2174).

------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the whatsnew.txt:

****************************************************************************** Whats New in 1.9.2 aka 2.0.0-Beta2
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Compiler:
+ PowerPC compiler
+ sse/sse2 code generation support
+ "global" property support
* improved inlining support
* optimizer enabled again
* uses register calling conventions by default
* $fputype directive
+ properties of type single can have default values
+ support of $IF DECLARED()
+ support of DQWORD in inline intel assembler code
* a lot of bug fixes

RTL:
* more improvements for unix runtime library
* using FPC_USE_LIBC allows to compile an rtl which uses libc instead of syscalls
+ System.Initialize
+ Sysutils.ExecuteProcess
+ System.WideStringManager
+ System.PtrInt and System.PtrUInt
* ipv6 support
* lots of bug fixes

FCL:
+ sqlite support
* bug fixes

Misc:
* improved docs

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The Free Pascal developement team