The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.30 release. This release is based on fpc 2.4.2.
This release is available for download at the SourceForge download page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.4, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit
Highlights / Major changes:
LCL:
* Windows CE: support for clipboard and keypad devices
* GTK2 and GTK1 interfaces are now separated.
GTK1 is no longer maintained by the Lazarus team,
but patches are still welcome.
* fpGUI: the LCL interface to fpGUI now supports all components on the standard page.
* QT: support for Haiku
* Layout and autosizing is now more consistent across widgetsets, overhead was reduced, improved cross platform layouts and complex forms.
* Added gif reader
* TLazIntfImage - New function AlphaBlend, which can alpha blend an intfimage into another, using a separate intfimage as the alpha channel.
* Unit chart and its component TBarChar are deprecated. See the new package TAChartLazarusPkg.
IDE:
* Support for FPC resources:
You can now use {$R *.lfm} instead of {$i unit1.lrs}.
* The Delphi converter has improved a lot.
* Build modes, build macros and conditionals now allows different sets of compiler options for projects and packages.
* Editor
* Hiding (Folding) of comments in Pascal source.
* Allow Multiple Source-Editor Windows
* Allow several Views of the same Source
* User-defined color-schemes.
* Identifier-completion pop-up is now resizeable
* Project compiler options can now be saved as default for new projects.
* When opening a project only those forms are opened that were open when project was closed.
* Various designer usability improvements:
* arrow and tab keys switching between components
* resize/move cancellation using ESC key
* save/restore of the form window state in the project session
* skip snapping when Alt key is pressed
* When creating a new project the default unit output directory is now lib/$(TargetCPU)-$(TargetOS). Target file name is project1. This has no impact on old projects.
* IDE now preserves the line endings of source files (it uses the line ending of the first line, it does not preserve mixed line endings).
* You can now quickly switch between several versions / branches of packages by defining the preferred package file name for each dependency.
* You can now use the IDE directive %H- to hide individual hints, notes and warnings.
* The IDE can be made dockable. Install either the package AnchorDockingDsgn or EasyDockMgrDsgn.
* The ToDo list was moved to a separate package: todolistlaz.lpk.
* Czech translation added
Debugger / Editor
* Inserted/Deleted lines during a debug session are now tracked. Breakpoints and Execution-line are adjusted.
* Step out command implementation (by Flavio)
* Show execution point command
* Single Instruction step (over/into)
* UI Improvements: Toolbars for Watches, Breakpoints, Disassembler
* Watches: Enabled display formats (mem-dump, Hex, Default, ..)
* Disassembler added navigation: jump to address / return to execution point
* Improved reaction speed: It is possible to continue stepping without having to wait for all watches, locals, ... to be evaluated
Components:
* The IDE got some options to become easier for students and pupils and there is a new package EducationLaz adding options to hide complex parts of the IDE
* New AggPas (Anti Grain Geometry for Object Pascal) package, now supporting FPImage and LCL. AggPas highlights: Subpixel rendering, 8-bit alpha channel, paths, platform independent rendering using pure pascal
* TAChart update, including: stacked and rotated series, 3 new types of series, axis transformations, interactive tools, 6 new demos and other improvements
And thousands of fixes and smaller changes. The detailed list of changes can be found here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_0.9.30_release_notes
Mattias