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Launchpad will be replaced by openSUSE build server

Binary packages of Gambas will now be created by the openSUSE build server.

Only a daily build of the master has been implemented, but the next stable version of Gambas will be packaged the same way.

Instructions for adding the repository for your distribution are available here.

The following distributions are supported at the moment: ArchLinux, Debian 11, Debian 12, openSUSE Tumbleweed, openSUSE Leap 15.6, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 24.10.

Both x86-64 and aarch64 architecture are supported, except for ArchLinux that only provides x86-64.

And other distributions like Fedora may be supported in the future.

Launchpad does not work anymore :-(

Since Nov. 7th, Launchpad unexpectedly disabled the Gambas GitLab repository mirroring for no reason. Consequently, the Gambas daily and Gambas stable PPA are frozen, and no new package can be generated.

A ticket was opened on the Launchpad bugtracker, but the only answer at the moment was spam.

Are Launchpad and Ubuntu following the process of enshittification?

We are studying an alternative solution using the OpenSUSE Build Service, but it will take some time to implement it.

Gambas 3.19.6 has been tagged on GitLab, but the release will not be official until that problem finds a solution.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Release of Gambas 3.19.5

This release fixes important bugs discovered since the 3.19.4 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.19.4

This release fixes important bugs discovered since the 3.19.3 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.19.3

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.19.2 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.19.2

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.19.1 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.19.1

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.19.0 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Gambas 3.19.0 has been released.

As usual, there is a thousand of changes in this release.

The main features are:

• Huge interpreter optimizations, making it faster than Python, Perl and Java interpreters in all benchmarks!

• Support for the russian e2k architecture.

• Many enhancements to the IDE image editor.

• The IDE can generate AppImage packages.

• The IDE project tree filter is a lot faster.

• A global shortcut to LinkedIn, following KDE merge request #1731.

• Support for computed GOTO and GOSUB.

• New Dec and Base$ functions for converting integers in any base.

• The database component now can retrieve the contents of a newly inserted record, provided that the database driver supports it.

• The gb.desktop component now uses the freedesktop portal by default if present.

• A new default icon theme named gambas-thin.

• Better Wayland support in GUI components.

• A new syntax highlighter component based on definition files: gb.highlight.

• Wayland support to the gb.media and gb.media.form components.

• Support for the dict:// protocol in the gb.net.curl component.

See the Release Notes for all the details.

Release of Gambas 3.18.4

This release includes some more or less important bug fixes made since the 3.18.3 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Gambas now can generate AppImage executables

For example, download GameOfLife-1.0.0-x86_64.AppImage, an AppImage generated from the GameOfLife example.

Creating AppImage from the IDE relies on the appimage-builder tool and on apt. So you usually can create them only on Ubuntu or Debian and its other derivatives. But the resulting AppImage should run anywhere!

Please report any problem!

Gambas now compiles and runs on e2k architectures.

The Elbrus 2000, E2K (Russian: Эльбрус 2000) is a Russian 512-bit wide VLIW microprocessor developed by Moscow Center of SPARC Technologies (MCST) and fabricated by TSMC.

Release of Gambas 3.18.3

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.18.2 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.18.2

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.18.1 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.18.1

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.18.0 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Gambas 3.18.0 has been released.

Happy new year! Here is a new release of Gambas.

There are almost one thousand of changes in this release since the 3.17.3 version.

The main features of this release are:

• Many interpreter optimizations making it faster.

• The debugger interface was moved to the left panel of the IDE.

• A project browser was added to the IDE that allows to browse the project data files.

• A DBus browser was added to the IDE.

• Bool@(), Byte@()... functions can be the target of an affectation now.

• Integer arithmetic and conversion now raise an error if overflow is detected. This can be disabled at runtime for backward-compatibility.

• Properties can be write-only now.

• The database component now allows to define connection options specific to the underlying database server.

• The FileView control view modes have been redesigned and file preview has been enhanced.

• Many stock icons have been added.

• gb.hash is a new component that implements the Md5(), Sha1(), Sha256() and Sha512() functions, thanks to BusyBox.

• Many enhancements and fixes to the Web application development component.

See the Release Notes for all the details.

Release of Gambas 3.17.3

This release fixes may bugs detected since the 3.17.2 release.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.17.2

This release fixes a blocking regression in the IDE form editor introduced in 3.17.1, and a few other minor bugs.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.17.1

This release includes important bug fixes made since the 3.17.0 release, and a few new features.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Gambas 3.17.0 has been released.

This is a huge release again, with more than 1,200 changes, optimizations and bug fixes.

The main features of this release are:

• A new lightweight HTML viewer component, gb.form.htmlview, based on the litehtml library.

• Namespace support for exported symbols.

• Support for static variables local to a function.

• The IDE now can debug a process that run on another computer through ssh.

• The debugger now can stop each time the value of an expression changes.

• The profiler can now profile the code of the components loaded by the project.

• Serialization now does not duplicate objects anymore, and so deal with any complex object structures even with circular dependencies.

• Shr, Shl, Asr, Asl, Lsl, Lsr, Rol and Ror can now be used as operators.

• Text highlighting has been redesigned to support different color names by file types.

• Support for right-to-left language in GUI controls has been enhanced.

• The new gb.gtk3.opengl component bring the GLArea OpenGL control to the GTK+3 component.

• The gb.web.gui component has been enhanced with a tree control, keyboard events, global shortcuts and better focus management.

See the Release Notes for all the details.

Release of Gambas 3.16.3

This release fixes the bugs detected since the release of Gambas 3.16.2.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.16.2

This release fixes many bugs detected since the release of Gambas 3.16.1.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Release of Gambas 3.16.1

This release fixes most of the bugs detected since the release of Gambas 3.16.0.

Binary packages are available for Ubuntu on the Gambas stable PPA.

See the Release Notes for the details.

Gambas 3.16.0 has been released.

This is a huge release, with more than a thousand of changes, optimizations and bug fixes.

Here are some of the main features:

• GTK+3 and QT5 components now support Wayland.

• GTK+3, QT4 and QT5 new web browser components using the same interface.

• GTK+3 component is now on a par with QT5 component, allowing the development environment to run with GTK+3!

• IDE compressed files are not stored in the project anymore. They are generated when the executable is made. Projects are automatically converted at opening.

• Array access is now about 15% faster.

• Add binary search methods to the array classes.

• Date localization support has been redesigned, so that complex formats of languages like Chinese are supported. The new design should be backward-compatible with the old ones on western languages.

• Compiler is now faster by using all the CPU cores.

• Scripter has been redesigned, cleaned-up, enhanced and optimized.

• Label, TextLabel, MovieBox, Frame and Separator controls are now written in Gambas.

• A lot of new stock icons were added and updated.

• The ODBC database driver works far better.

• zstd compression format support.

• aarch64 architecture support.

See the Release Notes for all the details.

Release of Gambas 3.15.2

This release provides important bug fixes since the release of Gambas 3.15.1.

See the Release Notes for the details.