The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.4.4.

This release was built with FPC 2.6.4, same as the previous release Lazarus 1.4.2.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.4.4:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.4_fixes_branch#Merged_revisions_for_1.4.4

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

Important note for Mac OS X: OS X 10.10 Yosemite no longer supports the default debugging format of FPC 2.6.4 (-g stabs). Lazarus now uses -gw (dwarf) instead on darwin.

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.4.4" 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 and WinNT 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_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

Windows users with Windows 7 or up may in some cases need to change the debugger:

You may try the following setting:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/GDB_Debugger_Tips#gdb.exe_has_stopped_working

Or (32 bit) download an alternative GDB:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Windows%2032%20bits/Alternative%20GDB/

Is this new?

Should it be added to the announcement?

Mattias

Its been around for a while.

It seems that it depends on other software installed on those systems (mainly shell extensions => usually problems happen when debugging Open/Save-dialog)

Should it be added to the announcement?

Maybe

It is in the sourceforge Readme. But feedback indicates that it is not getting noticed there.

That is a lot of maybe. I would prefer something simple like

Windows 7 and above: If you get debugger errors see here ...

Mattias

Forgot to mention, checksums of the original files are on our website: http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums