The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.4.

This release was built with FPC 2.6.4, same as the previous release Lazarus 1.2.6.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.4.0_release_notes http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_2.6.4

The release is available for download on SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.4" directory. Windows x64 users: please use the 32 bit installer if possible. See http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Windows_Programming_Tips#FPC_2.6.x.2FLazarus_warning_.28Missing_support_for_SEH.29 for more details.

Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit.
On 64bit it is recommended to use the 32bit IDE.
Win98 IDE needs building with flag -dWIN9XPLATFORM. FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.
Mac OS X: 10.5 to 10.10, 10.9+ debugging requires -gw, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_4

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at:
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/ and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

Mattias

Are there screenshots?
Is it with the new layout, one Window only?

Are there screenshots? Is it with the new layout, one Window only?

No. You can install anchordockdsgn package to get one window.

Mattias

Rainer Stratmann wrote

Are there screenshots?

Screenshots of some new features :
http://wiki.freepascal.org/New_IDE_features_since#v1.4_.282015-04-22.29

Is it with the new layout, one Window only?

Anchordocking is not really "new" but it still does not work well enough to be installed by default.

Juha