[Lazarus] Lazarus 1.1.99 Pre Release

[Mattias Gaertner]

The Lazarus team would like to announce that it has started the release 
preparations for Lazarus 1.2.
The release process will consist of several steps which you can find here:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2_fixes_branch#Roadmap_to_1.2


We would like to invite people to test the Lazarus 1.1.99 pre-release.

You should treat this release with similar caution as the daily 
snapshots. If you wish to participate in the early testing, you should 
be prepared  to backup and restore your data.

If you do not feel experienced enough, please wait for the first release 
candidate in a couple of weeks. You can still join the testing then.

News in this Version
- http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2.0_release_notes
- On Windows the installer now allows 2 independent installations. 
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Multiple_Lazarus#Installation_of_multiple_Lazarus

What we are looking for:
- Crashes of the IDE
- Crashes of your app, provided identical code works flawless, when 
compiled with the official Lazarus 1.0 release or the official Lazarus 
1.0.12 release.
- Regressions compared to the official Lazarus 1.0 release or the 
official Lazarus 1.0.12 release.
   - Does your app behave different or unexpected, where it was working 
under the previous released Lazarus
   - Does the IDE react differently (disbehave) when you use it?

Before reporting please check the release notes for any documented changes.
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.2.0_release_notes#Changes_affecting_compatibility

The 1.1.99 is built with fpc 2.6.2.

The release is available for download on SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lazarus/files/

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.1.99 Alpha Prerelease" directory.

Minimum requirements:
Windows:       98, 2k, XP, Vista, 7, 8
FreeBSD/Linux: gtk 2.8 or qt4.5
Mac OS X:      10.5, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_1_99pre

For people who are blocked by SF, the Lazarus releases from SourceForge
are mirrored at: 
ftp://freepascal.dfmk.hu/pub/lazarus/releases/
and later at (after some time for synchronization)
http://michael-ep3.physik.uni-halle.de/Lazarus/releases/
and
http://mirrors.iwi.me/lazarus/


Mattias