[Lazarus] Release preparations

[Vincent Snijders]

Vincent Snijders schreef:
> Hi,
> 
> We have started preparations for the upcoming Lazarus 0.9.28 release. 
> svn trunk has been branched to a fixes_0_9_28 branch, which be used to 
> create the release from. This branch has currently version 0.9.27. 
> Snapshots form this branch can be downloaded from 
> http://www.hu.freepascal.org/lazarus/ and can be considered release 
> candidates. Last night's snapshot with fpc 2.2.4 has been added to the 
> lazarus-testing Ubuntu repository too, for installation instructions see
> http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Getting_Lazarus#Getting_Lazarus_from_our_Ubuntu_repository 
> 
> 
> Of course you all have been following Lazarus development closely and 
> checked your applications regular with svn trunk or the 0.9.27 
> snapshots, but this is your last chance to do so before we create the 
> release. Depending on the amount of feedback we get we aim to tag 0.9.28 
> next week.
 >

In the last week a dozen bug fixes have been merged to the fixes_0_9_28 
branch to be included in the 0.9.28. Snapshots have been created and I 
have updated the lazarus-testing Ubuntu repository.

Current 0.9.27 snapshots can be considered a 0.9.28RC2.

> If you find regression (things that stopped working), you can report 
> your findings here on the mailing list and (preferably) in the bug 
> tracker, see for example http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=14400
> 

Vincent