As I wrote the Lazarus development blog,
http://lazarus-dev.blogspot.com/2009/01/next-lazarus-release-09262.html, we are preparing for the next release. As the Lazarus team is using Lazarus 0.9.27 for its development, Lazarus 0.9.26.2 is not as much tested. Chances of regressions in 0.9.26.2 are therefore bigger than with a release from trunk. It would be sad to release a version, that you cannot use.

Thus we kindly ask you to test our latest fixes snapshots at http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ or the svn version from http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/branches/fixes_0_9_26. Please, check your work projects, run tests, play with the IDE, do crazy things. And if you find a regression, let us know through the bug tracker at http://bugs.freepascal.org/ .

Lazarus 0.9.26.2 will not be released with regressions (new errors, things that worked in 0.9.26), *if* we know about them in time. If there are no more regressions, we will release in two or three weeks. After the release it will be too late to bash us for regressions. So grab this opportunity.

Vincent

Vincent Snijders wrote

Thus we kindly ask you to test our latest fixes snapshots at

I took todays snapshot, compiled it on Windows 98 and made some tests with on of my projects. So far, it looks good to me. But I think there is one regression left:

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=12624

The problem described there worked with 0.9.24.

Regards, Bernd.