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Who has been actively working on a release, and what is blocking that release?

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Warren Postma

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

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Graeme Geldenhuys
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BST Warren Postma wrote
Can someone please explain what's up?

Please read the following threads - that should get you up to speed.

* "134 open merge requets - is that normal?"
* "[RFC] Modernising the FPC Release Process -- Proposal for Review"

TLDR: The FPC team can't come to an agreement on workflow, and since the Subversion-to-Git migration, there seem to be a lack of motivation to get releases out. The silver lining is that MvC seem as eager as I to get things moving again, and Michael is part of the FPC team (where I'm not).

Regards,
- Graeme -

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Karl-Michael Schindler
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Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:20:23 -0700 From: Warren Postma To: Subject: [fpc-devel] Who has been actively working on a release, and what is blocking that release? Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" 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.

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Michael Van Canneyt
to Graeme Geldenhuys: Please read the following threads - that should get you up to speed. * "134 open merge…
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote 13 lines
On Monday, 20 April 2026 16:20:23 BST Warren Postma via fpc-devel wrote: > Can someone please explain what's up? Please read the following threads - that should get you up to speed. * "134 open merge requets - is that normal?" * "[RFC] Modernising the FPC Release Process -- Proposal for Review" TLDR: The FPC team can't come to an agreement on workflow, and since the Subversion-to-Git migration, there seem to be a lack of motivation to get releases out. The silver lining is that MvC seem as eager as I to get things moving again, and Michael is part of the FPC team (where I'm not).

I'm working with Florian to get a RC2 out. I'm leaving on a 2 week holiday, but after that I'll start work on my part.

Michael.

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