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FPC 2.6.2 released (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 02.03.2013, 18:57

Emailed freedos-devel (and assume Jim sees it there) about the release. Also emailed CWS directly.

Mirrored to iBiblio (dos262 and dos262full). Will have to make newer FDNPKG one of these days.

Updated FreeDOS' online .LSM to say 2.6.2.

Seems installer was updated (and now w/ srcs) but haven't tested whether it fixes the FAT32 bug or not. (Need to try on my main desktop's FAT32 partition.) For other attempt (install to FAT16 RAM disk), it does seem to (harmlessly) whine if it can't find "ufppkgdos.zip" (though it's actually named ufppkdos.zip). But works okay.

IDE shelling out proxy bug seems fixed, but something else weird is going on. Seems restarting the IDE fails on second try. Reinstalling [sic] fixes it for one more run, but .... Not sure what's going on here.

Not sure about that bugtracker re: COFF reloc limits. That's been fixed in DJGPP ports of BinUtils 2.23.1 (thanks to Juan G.), is someone (Sergei G.?) planning internal linker for GO32V2?

P.S. 2.7.1 acts like it was "Released 2011-08-03", but that's never been an official release, has it? All I see are snapshots, e.g. last one (GO32V2, at least) is on FPC FTP dated from January 17, 2013. There are 20x more fixes for 2.7.1 than 2.6.[12]. Yes, I know you have different branches and release schedules. Just saying, it still seems (barely) funny.

Complete thread:

• FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 26.02.2013, 10:09 (Announce)
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 27.02.2013, 10:49
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 28.02.2013, 13:46
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.02.2013, 20:43
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 02.03.2013, 18:57
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 03.03.2013, 00:21
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 03.03.2013, 02:36
              • FPC 2.6.2 released - marcov, 04.03.2013, 22:23
          • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 14.03.2013, 17:16
            • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 28.03.2013, 00:35
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - rr, 03.03.2013, 21:08
  • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 18.03.2013, 12:00
    • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 19.03.2013, 00:08
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Arjay, 19.03.2013, 01:48
      • FPC 2.6.2 released - Laaca, 19.03.2013, 11:40
        • FPC 2.6.2 released - Rugxulo, 21.03.2013, 17:26