[Freedos-user] Announcement: lDebug release 10

[E. C. M. <pu...@ul...>]

Hello!

After more than a year since the last release, today I created release 
10 of lDebug (that's a small L) [1], the advanced 86-DOS debugger based 
on FreeDOS Debug/X. Most of the news are listed in the manual's news 
section [2].

Some of these news, in order of addition:

  * In the FAT32 boot sector loader do a proper LBA check
  * Open file handles with no-inherit flag
  * Allow kernel command line to start with a semicolon
  * Allow idle HLT in DPMI protected mode by clearing a new DCO2 option
  * Use LZEXE-based compression format for help pages and ELD library
  * Bootloaded: Cache a FAT sector during seek operations
  * Fix crash after immediate write using a memory R command then Ctrl-C
  * Allow a comma before THEN keyword of IF command
  * Set RC (Return Code) specific error variable more, such as L and W
  * Add IF EXISTS EXT command construct
  * Update lDOS boot revision used, with multi-sector reads in iniload

The full history of the project is available in the Mercurial (hgweb) 
repos, including for lDebug [3] and ldosboot [4]. The three types of 
packages (native, FreeDOS, and SvarDOS) can be loaded from our server [5].

As mentioned on the pushbx blog [6] the next step for lDebug will likely 
be to allow building the main debugger executable using a WarpLink step 
in the build process. This is interesting mainly for folks who want to 
re-build the debugger on their own rather than use one of the builds 
that we prepare.

Suggested FreeDOS news blurb:

After more than a year since the last release, there now is release 10 
of lDebug (that's a small L). This is an advanced line-oriented debugger 
based on FreeDOS Debug/X. The new release contains some bugfixes and a 
few added features. It newly uses an LZEXE-based compression format for 
its online help pages and the packed Extension for lDebug (ELD) library. 
The freedos-user list has a longer announcement [x]. Get it from the 
project's web page [1] or from the ibiblio mirror [y].

Regards,
ecm


[1]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/web/#projects-ldebug
[2]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/doc/ldebug.htm#news-r10
[3]: https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/ldebug/
[4]: https://hg.pushbx.org/ecm/ldosboot/
[5]: https://pushbx.org/ecm/download/ldebug/
[6]: 
https://pushbx.org/ecm/dokuwiki/blog/pushbx/2026/0215_early_mid_february_extensions_to_warplink#ldebug