Free Pascal version 2.4.4 released
May 27, 2011
Version 2.4.4 of the Free Pascal compiler has been released by the Free Pascal team. 2.4.4 is the second and probably last fixes release from the 2.4 series.
The official announcement of the release can be found here. This is primarily a bug-fix release. Some highlights are:
- Many improvements to the database units.
- Many improvements to the XML units
- Specially sqlite got quite some fixes.
- Many improvements to the chm units.
- Including a commandline CHM compiler
- Many improvements to fppkg and fpmake for another round of testing.
- Fixes for multi-threading support in OS/2 RTL.
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