There is a new version of the Lazarus IDE for Free Pascal now available. Lazarus 0.9.16 has many bugfixes and a few new features. One of the most notable changes is the IDE Online Help feature that was first introduced back in 0.9.14 that is now online with about 50% of the IDE's documented help pages published. The full help pages are expected within the next few days.

The rest is mostly fixes and enhancements to aspects of the menu layouts and Qt interface, new features in the Source Editor and the LCL object library. A full list of the changes is available here.


Some of the improvements include but are not limited to:
  • IDE Online Help
  • Qt Interface
  • New IDE Menu Items
  • Source Editor
  • Win32 Interface.


Lazarus is available at Lazarus.freepascal.org!