Lazarus 0.9.26 release notes
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This page gathers the changes of 0.9.25 for the coming release of 0.9.26.
This page is work in progress. There is no 0.9.26 yet.
LCL Interfaces major changes
win32/win64
- Lazarus 0.9.24: Encoding used for strings in the LCL is ansi
- Lazarus 0.9.26: Encoding used for strings in the LCL is UTF8
LCL major changes
LCL minor changes
IDE changes
- TPropertyEditorHook.GetMethodName now returns an ansistring, instead of a shortstring. AddHandlerGetMethods and RemoveHandlerMethodExists now need ansistring instead of shortstring.
Components
Miscellaneous
- lazbuild: Can now build the IDE with the parameter --build-ide=. You can build the IDE with parameters: ./lazbuild --build-ide=-gh. The installed packages will be rebuilt if needed.