FPC 3.0.2 available

                        Free Pascal Compiler

                            Version 3.0.2

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                          What's New in 3.0.2

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Free Pascal 3.0.2 is a point release of the 3.0.x fixes branch.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.2 for a list of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

RTL:
* TRect, TPoint and similar types are now type compatible between Types and Windows unit, and are now advanced records.

Packages:
* googleapi and fcl-pdf packages.
* fcl-db and web packages synchronized
* unicode tables updated.

See http://bugs.freepascal.org/changelog_page.php for the list of reported bugs which have been fixed in this release.

                        Free Pascal Compiler

                            Version 3.0.0

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                          What's New in 3.0.0

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Free Pascal 3.0.0 is a new major release providing support for new architectures and targets and also many new features and compatibility fixes.

Please also see http://wiki.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0 for a list of changes that may affect the behaviour of previously working code, and how to cope with these changes.

Some highlights are:

Platforms:
* New processor architecture: MIPS (big and little endian variants)
* New processor architecture: i8086 (primarily focusing legacy MS-DOS)
* New "processor" architecture: JVM
* Revived support for Motorola 68k processors (previously available in 1.0.x series)
* Considerably extended supported range of ARM processor variants
* New platform: AIX/PowerPC
* New platform: AIX/PowerPC64
* New platform: Android/ARM
* New platform: Android/i386
* New platform: Android/JVM
* New platform: Android/MIPSEL
* New platform: AROS/i386
* New platform: DragonFly/x86_64
* New platform: Java/JVM
* New platform: Linux/MIPS
* New platform: Linux/MIPSEL
* New platform: msdos/i8086

Compiler:
* New support for codepage-aware strings (bringing improved compatibility to recent Delphi versions)
* Support for processor sub-architectures (mostly for ARM variants)
* Support for multiple memory models (i8086 - including memory models not supported with the last TP/BP compilers)

RTL:
* Partial support for codepage-aware strings and Unicode in the RTL including transparent character set conversion
* OS/2 RTL finally provides full support for UnicodeString handling when running under OS/2 versions including such support (OS/2 Warp 4 and up)
* Direct support for certain OS/2 API functions only available in later OS/2 versions while allowing the created binaries to run also on older versions

Packages:
* Big improvements of fpmake (fpmkunit) - all packages and utilities (actually everything except the compiler and RTL) are now built using fpmake which somewhat decreases dependency on external utilities.
* New packages rtl-* containing units previously included in RTL; this allowed streamlining the RTL and thus speeding up RTL building.
* New package fpwidestring - native implementation of Unicode string handling routines. This allows full support of UnicodeString also on targets not supporting Unicode natively or possibly on targets requiring linking to libc for such support.