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
2004 December ???
2004 December 2
2004 December ???
2004 December ???
2004 December 7
2004 December 31
2005 January 8
2005 January 31
2005 March 4
2005 April 14
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 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 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 Jun 7
- The FreeBASIC source code moved from CVS to SVN.
2007 Aug 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 Oct 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 Dec 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 Mar 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 Apr 18
- FreeBASIC 0.18.5 full release uploaded.
- Bugfix release. Linux: packaging, Win32: graphics, DOS: GDB
2008 Aug 10
- FreeBASIC 0.18.6: unexpected bugfix release, only Win32 gfx related bugs.
2008 Aug 11
- FreeBASIC 0.20 full release uploaded.
- Many bugfixes
- re-allowed GOSUB&RETURN in -lang fblite
- some graphics enhancements, SSE, GET, ...
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