On the bttr forum, one of the people that helped on the dos release (Laaca) posted his initial conclusions. Note that the IDE is without debug support apparantly.
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I downloaded and briefly tested FPC 2.2.2 rc1 and the impresions are generaly positive.
+there are my fixes about mouse cursor included (although some minor problems with alternative VESA capable video driver used in IDE remain) +now can properly compile even without DOSLFN installed. (prior versions reported "Can not find unit system)
+compiles all sources I tested without any problems +compilation seems to be somewhat faster than in 2.2.0a
-no debugger support in distributed IDE. (however you can get it by recompilation the IDE sources)
-generated EXEs are much bigger than in 2.2.0a without obvious reason (-) not a bugs but missing features:
color selecting dialog still not available
topic help in IDE by pressing CTRL-RMouse still opens only help index but not the topic like Turbo pascal does.