Another release of the 1.x stable version Lazarus 1.0.10 has been released. It has FPC 2.6.2 like its previous version. It is generally a bugfix version. It is good to see Lazarus releasing more updates for the stable version.
Lazarus is having more bugfix releases. Which the Lazarus community agrees that even the paid Embarcadero / Delphi wasn’t able to do. It is better to have a more stable version in the development process because it will have more reliability on the IDE, rather than just ruthlessly pushing the new features to the already buggy version (just like Ubuntu now a days).
When the Lazarus gets more bug-free, the applications compiled with it gets bug-free too. Because Lazarus uses the same LCL (components) in the compiled executables used in the project. (We know that Lazarus is made with Lazarus itself, right?)
Thanks to the Lazarus Developers for their hard work in this valuable project.
What’s New
Look here for the bugs that have been squashed by the developers in this version!
Download
The release is available for download at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/
Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the “Lazarus 1.0.10” directory.
Minimum requirements:
Windows: 98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 32 or 64bit
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit
Mac OS X: 10.5, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit
Alternate Download
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/
How-to-Install Guide
You can click here for an installation guide for all Operating Systems.
Also see this post for an exclusive guide for installing Lazarus 1.0.10 in Ubuntu 13.04 (you can follow the same guide to install in previous versions, such as 12.04 LTS, 12.10 etc. or any other debian based OS).
