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Version 1.0 beta 3 (aka 0.99.12a) released !

From the announcement on the mailing list:

Hello,

Version 1.0 beta 3 (a.k.a. 0.99.12a) of the Free Pascal Compiler is available for the following OS-es:

Dos (Using the go32v2 extender)
Linux (Intel only)
OS/2
Windows 95/98/NT.

What's new?

Countless bugfixes
Binary assembler writer
Multi-language support for (in alphabetical order) Dutch, French, English, German, Hungarian, Russian and Spanish
Complete AnsiStrings support
Exceptions support
Classes model complete
Many Pre-compiled packages:
- API (Application Programmers Interface)
- FV (Free-Vision, a free Turbo Vision clone)
- Delphi compatible Sysutils unit
- Start of FCL : Free Component Library (e.g. Classes unit)
- Many more on linux:
  MySQl, Postgresql, GTK, X-forms svgalib, interbase, uncgi, ncurses...
Extended and Up-to-date documentation:
- More than 690 pages of documentation
- More than 350 examples
Availabe in HTML,PostScript, Adobe PDF, TeX and plain text
Man pages available now on Linux !!
New tool : PtoP the configurable pascal source formatter
Many more small new things.

Hit the download link to select a mirror near you and get your copy now!

After this last pre-release, the final race to version 1.0 has started. Planned are many bugfixes still, and the long-awaited free pascal IDE will be cleaned up and released at that time as well. We hope that the much-asked for FreeBSD port will also be ready and officially intergated by that time.