[Lazarus] Lazarus Release 1.6

[Mattias Gaertner]

The Lazarus team is glad to announce the release of Lazarus 1.6.

This release was built with FPC 3.0.0.
The previous release Lazarus 1.4.4 was built with FPC 2.6.4.

Here is the list of changes for Lazarus and Free Pascal:
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6.0_release_notes
http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/User_Changes_3.0.0

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

Choose your CPU, OS, distro and then the "Lazarus 1.6" directory.

Checksums for the SourceForge files:
http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=checksums#1_6

Minimum requirements:

Windows:
  98, 2000, XP, Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10, 32 or 64 bit.       
  Win98 and WinNT IDE needs FPC 2.6.4 and building with flag
    -dWIN9XPLATFORM. 

FreeBSD/Linux:
  gtk 2.8 or qt4.5, 32 or 64bit.

Mac OS X:
  10.5 to 10.11, LCL only 32bit, non LCL apps can be 64bit.

The svn tag is
http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/lazarus/tags/lazarus_1_6

Here is the list of fixes for Lazarus 1.6:
http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_1.6_fixes_branch

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