The Lazarus team is glad to announce the 0.9.26 release. This release is based on fpc 2.2.2. This release can be downloaded from the sourceforge download page. Highlights / Major changes: - The LCL now uses Unicode strings UTF-8 encoded on all platforms. There are docs, tools and functions to help converting old code. - The LCL internal graphic system was rewritten for more consistency, more flexibility, better Delphi compatibility, icon support, native image lists. - Lazarus now runs native under Mac OS X using the 'carbon' widgetset. - The IDE designer now allows to connect form components, like databases on TDataModule. This time there were more than 3900 improvements and bug fixes in 11 months. For comparison: 0.9.24 was about half the changes in 8 months. The list of changes can be found here. And several thousand fixes and minor improvements.