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Project History

Chronology of the FreeBASIC project.

Chronology
2004 September
  • Project started by Andre Victor T. Vicentini, written in VBDOS
2004 October 22
  • Project Registered on SourceForge.net
2004 November ???
  • FreeBASIC compiles itself, becoming a self hosting compiler.
2004 November 30
  • Version 0.01 released

2004 December ???
  • Version 0.02 released

2004 December 2
  • Version 0.03 released

2004 December ???
  • Version 0.04 released

2004 December ???
  • Version 0.05 released

2004 December 7
  • Version 0.06 released
2004 December 9
  • Version 0.07 released
2004 December 15
  • Version 0.08 released
2004 December 31

2005 January 8
  • Version 0.10 released
2005 January 31

2005 March 4
  • Version 0.12 released

2005 April 14
  • Version 0.13 released
2005 July 27
  • Version 0.14 released
  • Full debugging support
  • Function overloading
2005 December 6
  • Version 0.15 released
  • Support for Unicode strings
  • Complete WinAPI headers
2006 June 11 - 19
  • Version 0.16 released
  • Namespaces
  • Implicit scope blocks
2006 July 15
  • FBHELP "help viewer" 0.1 released, some bugs present, fixing in following months
2006 July 30
  • First 0.17 "testing" version
  • addition of KeyPgPpmacro macro support, which would be later used in the compiler itself

2006 August 1
  • DOS graphics bug fixed (worked never before), "unofficial" patch provided

2006 September - December
  • Heavy rewrite of FreeBASIC, neither "stable" nor "testing" releases
  • introduced CompilerDialects compiler dialects qb, deprecated, and fb, along with a new -lang compiler switch (no fblite dialect yet)
  • beginnings of OOP
  • Introduction of the BFD library from the GNU binutils, providing additional link-time information in libraries.

2006 November
  • Started providing CVS versions of FB, Win and Linux, later also DOS

2006 December 08
  • FBHELP "help viewer" 0.5 released, pretty mature now
2007 January - April
  • Types (structures) allow member functions, operator overloading, properties, constructors and destructors.
  • Graphics library has capabilities for screen control, events, and alpha blending.
  • Built-in support for 64 bit file operations.
2007 May 2
  • The next 0.17 "testing" version, very much new.
  • Shortly after this release, the version number in CVS was increased to 0.18, but before any full release of 0.17 had been made.
2007 May 14
  • Version 0.17 released, similar to previous testing releases, but complete with installers.
  • Because the 0.17 sources can only be compiled with a version 0.16+2006-July-Testing combination, a release was made to allow users to install and compile FreeBASIC without applying any patch.
  • Major installation problems on the Linux release, so an additional Linux release was made a week later to correct the problems.
  • Some users found minor installation problems on DOS/Windows and workarounds made available.
  • First full release with graphics working (almost) with DOS target also
  • The major change in this full release compared to version 0.16, was that all procedure parameters now defaulted to passing BYVAL.
2007 June 7
  • The FreeBASIC source code moved from CVS to SVN.
2007 August 16
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.1 full release uploaded.
  • No ground breaking additions, only minor fixes compared to previous version 0.17.
  • Strings and UDT's are passed BYREF with other data types being passed BYVAL.
2007 October 12
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.2 full release uploaded.
  • many, many bug fixes
  • MILESTONE: PCOPY in text mode added ( dos/window only )
  • QB Compatibility improvements for RND, SCREEN, ERASE
  • Changed default field alignment to 4 bytes on DOS and Linux such that the BFD in binutils-2.17 compatibility problems should finally be resolved for DOS and Linux users.
2007 December 29
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.3 full release uploaded.
  • Various bug fixes (graphics, threading)
  • QB compatibility mode further restricted compared to FB mode, and improved compatibility to QB
  • Experimental serial port driver for DOS added
2008 March 27
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.4 full release uploaded.
  • INSTRREV added
  • Many bug fixes in various areas
  • More OOP, finalizing dialect split into -lang fb and -lang qb, added -lang fblite
  • Fixed Linux packages
  • Fixed old shell/path/spawn trouble in DOS
2008 April 18
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.5 full release uploaded.
  • Bugfix release. Linux: packaging, Win32: graphics, DOS: GDB
2008 August 10
  • FreeBASIC 0.18.6: unexpected bugfix release, only Win32 gfx related bugs.
2008 August 11
  • FreeBASIC 0.20 full release uploaded.
  • Many bugfixes
  • re-allowed GOSUB&RETURN in -lang fblite
  • some graphics enhancements, SSE, GET, ...
2010 July 23
2010 August 11

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