The Lazarus team is glad to announce that:


The release of Lazarus 2.0.4

has been scheduled for the week starting

5th August 2019

This release will be built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.2 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.2 (since 2.0.0):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve
this upcoming release. Please let as know in particular:
- Any fixes made to trunk, that you believe should still be merged to
the fixes branch (fixes that are not listed on the above wiki page)
- Any regressions that happened in fixes branch since the last release
- Other urgent matters, you believe we should know before the release.

Please attempt to provide your feedback by: 1st August 2019

More info on our release process can be found at (work in progress):
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_engineering

Information about the previous release:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5
(32 or 64bit).

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.4.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.2 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.0.4" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_4

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5 (32 or
64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_4

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

The Lazarus team is glad to announce:

The upcoming release of Lazarus 2.0.6

which has been scheduled for the

last week of October 2019

This release will be built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.4 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.4 (since 2.0.0):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve this upcoming release. Please let as know in particular:
- Any bug-fixes already made to trunk, that you believe should still be
merged to the fixes branch (fixes that are not listed on the above wiki page)
- Any regressions that happened in fixes branch since the release of 2.0
- Other urgent matters, you believe we should know before the release.

Please attempt to provide your feedback by: 23rd October 2019

More info on our release process can be found at (work in progress):
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_engineering

Information about the previous release:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

macOS:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5
(32 or 64bit).

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.6.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.4 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.0.6" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_6

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit), qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_6

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

FPC team has placed the first release candidate of the Free Pascal Compiler version 3.2.0 on their ftp servers.

You can help improve the upcoming 3.2.0 release by downloading and
testing this release. If you want you can report what you have done here:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Testers_3.2.0 or in the maillist.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0

Downloads are available at the main FTP server,

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/beta/3.2.0-rc1/

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team

For an overview of what is new see

https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_New_Features_3.2

The Lazarus team has scheduled

Lazarus 2.0.8
for April 2020 (estimated 14th to 20th)

This release will be built with FPC 3.0.4.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.8 (since 2.0.0):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch


We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve
this upcoming release. Please let as know in particular:
- Any bug-fixes already made to trunk, that you believe should still be
merged to the fixes branch (fixes that are not listed on the above wiki page)
- Any regressions that happened in fixes branch since the release of 2.0
- Other urgent matters, you believe we should know before the release.

Please attempt to provide your feedback by: 9th April 2020


More info on our release process can be found at (work in progress):
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_engineering

Information about the previous release:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4


The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:

Windows:
2k(*), XP(*), Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

macOS:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5
(32 or 64bit).


(*) requires install from sources

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.8.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.4.
The previous release Lazarus 2.0.6 was built with FPC 3.0.4 as well.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.0.8" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_8

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.15; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit), qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_8

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization) http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/

FPC version 3.2.0 has been released!

This version is a major new release and contains bugfixes and updates packages, new features and new targets. Due to the age of the FPC 3.0 branch (5 years!) it is recommended to upgrade as soon as possible.

There is a list of changes that may break backward compatibility. You can also have a look at the FPC 3.2.0 documentation.

Downloads are available at the download section. Some links might be stale but will be updated in the coming days.

The Lazarus team has scheduled

Lazarus 2.0.10
for July 2020 (estimated 4th to 11th)

This release will be built with FPC 3.2.0.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.10 (since 2.0.0):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve
this upcoming release. Please let us know in particular:
- Any bug-fixes already made to trunk, that you believe should still be
merged to the fixes branch (fixes that are not listed on the above wiki page)
- Any regressions that happened in fixes branch since the release of 2.0
- Other urgent (e.g. crashes/data-loss/...) matters, you believe we should know before the release.

Please attempt to provide your feedback by: 30th June 2020


More info on our release process can be found at (work in progress):
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_engineering

Information about the previous release:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0

The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:

Windows:
2k(*), XP(*), Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

macOS:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5
(32 or 64bit).


(*) requires install from sources

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.10.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0

Windows users should be careful with -O3 or higher optimization, due to bug https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37305.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.0.10" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_10

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
Cocoa (64bit) 10.12 to 10.15, Carbon (32bit) 10.5 to 10.14, qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_10

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/

The Lazarus team has scheduled

Lazarus 2.0.12
for February 2021 (estimated 22nd to 25th)

This release will be built with FPC 3.2.0.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.12 (since 2.0.0):
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch


We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve
this upcoming release. Please let us know in particular:
- Any bug-fixes already made to trunk, that you believe should still be
merged to the fixes branch (fixes that are not listed on the above wiki page)
- Any regressions that happened in fixes branch since the release of 2.0
- Other urgent (e.g. crashes/data-loss/...) matters, you believe we should know before the release.

Please attempt to provide your feedback by: 16th February 2021


More info on our release process can be found at (work in progress):
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_release_engineering

Information about the previous release:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.4
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0

The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:

Windows:
2k(*), XP(*), Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

macOS:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5
(32 or 64bit).


(*) requires install from sources

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 2.0.12.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.0

Windows users should be careful with -O3 or higher optimization, due to bug https://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=37305.

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.0.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.0_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.0.12" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_0_12

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
Cocoa (64bit) 10.12 to 10.15, Carbon (32bit) 10.5 to 10.14, qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_0_12

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/

Looking for testers for some updates to the GDB based debugger.

Anyone using Lazarus SVN on Windows (64 or 32 bit)

* Testing the current GDB (includes users on all other OS - if gdb is used)
- please update to rev 64877 or later
Ensure all works as before.


* Testing the NEW GDB
- please update to rev 64877 or later
- Download the new version of GDB (and cygwin1.dll) from
32Bit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Windows%2032%20bits/Alternative%20GDB/GDB%209.2/
64Bit: https://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/Lazarus%20Windows%2064%20bits/Alternative%20GDB/GDB%209.2/

- Place GDB exe and cygwin1.dll in a new Folder.
- Tools > Options > Debugger Backend
Choose the new gdb.exe

What are the changes.

The new version of GDB supports Unicode for
- Environment (any existing, as well as any env-var set under "Run > Run Param" can now contain Unicode)
- Command line arguments "Run > Run Param"
- Hopefully the Path of the current dir, and the exe name (though the latter is limited by what FPC can generate)
This does/should not affect inspecting variables, even if the contain Unicode.

All else should work as before.

Since the new gdb has a habit of showing directories as /cygdrive/c/path, the IDE now has code to correct that. Look out, if "/cygdrive/" is displayed anywhere by the debugger.

Thanks

Finally, the Free Pascal 3.2.2 release is available from our servers and from sourceforge.

Changes that may break backwards compatibility will be documented at:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.2

For an overview of what is new see the summary below

The website has been updated for the major targets and work is still being done for the rest.

All downloads are available at the main FTP server and sourceforge.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/freepascal/files/

ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/fpc/dist/3.2.2/

Enjoy!

The Free Pascal Compiler Team

----------------------------------------------------------------------------

Free Pascal Compiler

Version 3.2.2

******************************************************************************

Free Pascal 3.2.2 is a minor release of the 3.2.x fixes branch. As such, it
contains mostly fixes of bugs discovered in the previous version, plus some
updates for included packages. In this case a new target was also backported
from trunk.

Please also see https://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.2 for a list
of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and
how to cope with these changes.

The main highlights of this version:

Platforms:

New platform: aarch64-darwin
A new 32/64-bit combined installer for Windows.

Utilities:

fpcres provides support for compiling resources from *.rc files

Packages:

fcl-db extended with support for MySQL 8.0
fcl-passrc updates
pas2js updates
fpdoc updates

fcl-base includes new support for logging to StdOut and StdErr
rtl-extra includes improvements for Sockets

The Lazarus team is glad to announce that:
The release of Lazarus 2.2.0
with FPC 3.2.2

has been scheduled for around
July/August 2021
(fixes_2_2 branch has been created)

A first release candidate will be made available around
June/July 2021


The previous release was Lazarus 2.0.12 which was built with FPC 3.2.0.

The minimum supported version of FPC for this release will be FPC 3.2.0.
Due to some issues with optimized (-O2 and higher) code generated
by FPC 3.2.0 and 3.2.2, an extended support for compilation with FPC 3.0.4
has been added for the LCL.
The Lazarus IDE should be build with -O1. Anyone wishing to use
higher optimization may need to add -OoNOPEEPHOLE to avoid
crashes of the IDE.

Here is the list of new features for Lazarus 2.2.0:
https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.2.0_release_notes


We would invite everyone to provide their feedback to help us improve this upcoming release.
Please let as know in particular:
- Any regressions that happened since the last release.
- Other urgent matters, you believe we should know before the release.

The intended minimum requirements for the release will be:
Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.
FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.
Mac OS X:
10.5 to 10.12; Carbon (32bit), Cocoa (64bit, beta), qt and qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The Free Pascal and Lazarus teams are in the process of switching to Gitlab to manage their source code and issue reports.

In order to lower maintenance of their own infrastructure, a hosted solution
has been chosen, and an open source license was granted to the teams.

You can see the current progress at:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org

2 subgroups have been made:

https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/fpc
https://gitlab.com/freepascal.org/lazarus-ide

Several testconversions of the SVN history to a Git repository have been
done, with ever improving results. All repositories will be switched to git.

A program has been written to convert Mantis bug reports to Gitlab issues;
it is very complete, and all available info will be converted.
You can see (partial) conversion results on the above projects.

The date for the final conversion has been established as the weekend of
17/18 july. People that wish to report bugs after that will have to create a
gitlab account in order to do so. (Those with a github account can normally
also use that account to log in with gitlab, see the gitlab login page.)

The conversion program will attempt to convert existing bugs using the
account of the new gitlab user. To map your gitlab user name (or ID) to the
mantis user, we ask that you file an issue in the mantis project of the
current bugtracker, assign it the category gitlab, and set the summary of
the bugreport to your gitlab account name or ID number (not both!).

All accounts that can be collected in this manner by 17 july will be used in the final conversion.

All necessary information to connect to gitlab will be collected in the FPC &
Lazarus Wiki. Several pages have already been set up:

https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_git
https://wiki.freepascal.org/FPC_git_concepts
https://wiki.freepascal.org/SVN_to_GIT_Cheatsheet

These pages will be updated with the correct URLS when the final conversion happens. The FPC & Lazarus websites will also be adapted with new instructions.

For the FPC & Lazarus teams,
Martin (Message originally by Michael)

FpDebug and LazDebuggerFp have reached version 1.0.

This means on Windows and Linux, the upcoming Lazarus 2.2 will use this as the new default debugger.

People who have configurations from prior installations already have config files containing the gdb based debugger. Those config files are not changed, and people are advised to change their debugger settings accordingly (once they upgraded)

GDB based debuggers are still fully supported, and for Windows a modified gdb of version 9.2 will be included in the installer.

None of those changes apply to Mac users.

EDIT

FpDebug works with Dwarf2 and Dwarf3.
Make sure to also compile packages with the correct debug info, if you need to debug them.

Dwarf3 should be preferred, but if you switch between FpDebug and Gdb, you may want to choose Dwarf2. Gdb does have some Dwarf3 related crashes.

As announced we will move to GitLab soon: https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,55121.0.html

If you have an account on our Bugtracker (Mantis) you should act now.

We will move all existing bugs from mantis to GitLab. If you have bugs that you reported:

Let us know your GitLab account

We can then import your bugs, with your GitLab account as reporter.

To map your gitlab user name (or ID) to the mantis user, we ask that you file an issue in the mantis project of the current bugtracker, assign it the category gitlab, and set the summary of the bugreport to your gitlab account name or ID number (not both!).

https://bugs.freepascal.org/bug_report_page.php?project_id=4

Deadline: Before 17 july

Please help us spread the word to other FPC/Lazarus related forums and channels.

This thread is only a reminder. For conversations on the topic join the original thread.

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the first release candidate of Lazarus 2.2.

This release was built with FPC 3.2.2.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.2.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.2.2

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 2.2.x:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_2.2_fixes_branch

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 2.2RC1" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#2_2_0RC1

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1 and 10, 32 or 64bit.

FreeBSD/Linux:
gtk 2.8 for gtk2, qt4.5 for qt, qt5.6 for qt5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
Cocoa (64bit) 10.12 to 11.4, Carbon (32bit) 10.5 to 10.14, qt and
qt5 (32 or 64bit).

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_2_2_0_RC1

Last trunk svn revision was r65398.

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge are mirrored at: ftp://ftp.freepascal.org/pub/lazarus/releases/

== Why should everybody (including you) test the release candidate? ==

In the past weeks the Lazarus team has stabilized the 2.2 fixes branch.
The resulting 2.2RC1 is now stable enough to be used by any one for test purposes.

However many of the fixes and new features that where committed since the release of 2.0 required changes to the code of existing features too. While we have tested those ourselves, there may still be problems that only occur with very specific configurations or one project in a million.

Yes, it may be that you are the only person with a project, that will not work in the new IDE. So if you do not test, we can not fix it.

Please do not wait for the final release, in order to test. It may be too late. Once the release is out we will have to be more selective about which fixes can be merged for further 2.2.x releases. So it may be, that we can not merge the fix you require. And then you will miss out on all the new features.

== How to test ==

Download and install the 2.2 RC1.
- On Windows you can install as a 2ndary install, that will not affect your current install:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#Installation_of_multiple_Lazarus
- On other platforms, if you install to a new location you need to use
--primary-config-path

In either case you should make backups. (including your primary config)

Open your project in the current Lazarus (2.0.x), and use "Publish Project" from the project menu. This creates a clean copy of your project.

You can then open that copy in the RC1. Please test:
- If you can edit forms in the designer
- rename components / change properties in Object inspector / Add new events
- Add components to form / Move components on form
- Frames, if you use them
- If you can navigate the source code (e.g. jump to implementation)
- Auto completion in source code
- Compile, debug and run
- Anything else you use in your daily work