Hello,

We have placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.0.4 on our ftp servers.

You can help improve the upcoming 3.0.4 release by downloading and testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here: http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.0.4 or in the maillist.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at: http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Downloads are available at the main FTP server and

ftp://freepascal.stack.nl/pub/mirrors/fpc/beta/3.0.4-rc1/

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team

Free Pascal Compiler

Version 3.0.4

****************************************************************************** What's New in 3.0.4
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Free Pascal 3.0.4 is a point release of the 3.0.x fixes branch.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4 for a list of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

Rtl:
* fix traceback on ELF based systems

Packages:
* fcl-pdf updates
* fcl-passrc updates.

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.

Hi,

Are there already plans for the final 3.0.4 release?

Mattias

Mattias Gaertner wrote

Hi, Are there already plans for the final 3.0.4 release?

Yes.

Marco was going to do the final tagging this weekend. I think there was 1 problem to be fixed/merged still, I don't think we'll do a rc2.

So it looks like FPC 3.0.4 is imminent.

Michael.

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

Are there already plans for the final 3.0.4 release?

I branched on saturday and did the version updates. Then I usually wait a few days for people to check things (Tomas usually checks things) and for last minute merges. So I hope to generate source packages on tuesday/wednesday and then building can start.

Thanks for both branching and this reminder. ;-) I updated readme.txt in the release tag slightly (I already had those changes ready since RC1, but didn't know where to perform them since the latest version wasn't in either trunk nor in fixes_3_0 at that time - at the moment, these my changes are only in the tagged version, which is not the best place, because a potential future 3.0.6 might not include them).

I also checked building on OS/2 and it worked without any issues. :-)

Tomas

Any news?

Mattias

In our previous episode, Mattias Gaertner said:

The last few days I tried to find the problem with 64-bit freebsd tracebacks. No success or outlook yet, so maybe it is better to just release it.