The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.2. This is a bugfix release.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.6 was built with FPC 3.0.0 too.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6.0_release_notes http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.6.2" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6_2

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.
Win98 and WinNT IDE needs FPC 2.6.4 and building with flag -dWIN9XPLATFORM.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.11, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6_2

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

El 15/11/16 a les 15:42, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus ha escrit:

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.2. This is a bugfix release. This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.

Is it supposed to work even with 2.6.4?
I have to investigate why but a TDBLookupComboBox doesn't work anymore (with fpc 2.64/win32).

Bye

El 15/11/16 a les 17:48, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit:

I tried under linux 64 bits/gtk, with fpc 3.0.0 the TDbLookupComboBox works, with 2.6.4 it doesn't.
The symptom is the same: the combobox has the correct number of options but all of them are blank.
If it's supposed to work with 2.6.4 I can file a bug report.

Bye

El 15/11/16 a les 18:46, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit:

transplanting lcl/include/dblookup.inc from lazarus 1.4 to 1.6 "fixes" the issue (which is funny, since the new one apparently has some ifdefs that only modify the behavior with fpc < 3.0.0).

Bye

El 15/11/16 a les 19:12, Luca Olivetti via Lazarus ha escrit:

OK, I'm using a TSdfDataset, maybe it has the same bug as TMemDataset as mentioned in dblookup.inc (but then I don't understand why it worked with lazarus 1.4).
FWIF, this appears to fix it:

===================================================================
--- lcl/include/dblookup.inc    (revision 53370)
+++ lcl/include/dblookup.inc    (working copy)
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@
    Bookmark := ListLinkDataSet.GetBookmark;
    //in fpc 2.6.4, TMemDataset does not supports BlockRead. Issues
26356, 27959
    {$IF FPC_FULLVERSION < 30000}
-  DatasetSupportsBlockRead := not IsClass(ListLinkDataSet, 'TMemDataset');
+  DatasetSupportsBlockRead := not IsClass(ListLinkDataSet,
'TMemDataset') and not IsClass(ListLinkDataSet, 'TFixedFormatDataSet');
    if DatasetSupportsBlockRead then
      ListLinkDataSet.BlockReadSize := 1
    else

Please open an issue about problem and attach:
1.Example project
2.Patch

zeljko

Thank you for your efforts - please send the patch to mantis so that DB maintainers don't oversee it!

Ondrej

El 15/11/16 a les 19:27, Ondrej Pokorny via Lazarus ha escrit:

Thank you for your efforts - please send the patch to mantis so that DB maintainers don't oversee it!

Done:

http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=30931

Bye

The main site seems to still serve the 1.6.0 download.

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Kostas Michalopoulos wrote

The main site seems to still serve the 1.6.0 download.

Yes there is always some delay, as different people are involved in all the steps.

El 15/11/16 a les 19:52, Kostas Michalopoulos via Lazarus ha escrit:

The main site seems to still serve the 1.6.0 download.

I usually update my copy from svn

http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6_2

Bye

Can this 1.6.2 release be installed over an existing 1.6.0 installation, or would I have to uninstall the 1.6.0 first?

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Can this 1.6.2 release be installed over an existing 1.6.0 installation, or would I have to uninstall the 1.6.0 first?

The dmg/deb/rpm/zip can be installed over an existing 1.6.0 without uninstall.
I didn't try the Windows installer. Martin?

Mattias

The installer had an "Uninstall" button to uninstalled the previous version. I used that then used Tools -> Build Lazarus with <blah> option to rebuild the IDE so that it'll have the packages i have installed and it worked fine.

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It should work.

The only issue that can arise (but usually between major releases) is, if units moved to another package. then old ppu can be problematic (build clean all, of the ide might help)

Hi,

I uploaded new Debian packages.
Our 'lazarus' packages clashed with the packages in the Debian repository. So I renamed them to lazarus-project_1.6.2.

Mattias

Hello!

Today I was and I saw that the default
download for debian based linuxes are 1.6.0 however 1.6.2 is out more than a month ago.

I did not test other systems.

Please fix if it is not by design.

2016-11-15 15:42 keltezéssel, Mattias Gaertner via Lazarus írta:

Thanks for the hint. Fixed.

Mattias