August 20, 2009 The 2009 International Olympiad in Informatics has been won by the 14 years old Henadi Karatkevich using Free Pascal. For this contest only the gcc and Free Pascal compilers were allowed. Lazarus was available as editor.

June 25, 2009 During the last months a lot of work on the embedded support of Free Pascal has been done. So FPC can be used now to program microcontrollers without any operating system. The current status, an explanation how to use it and the supported controllers (only a few so far) can be found in the FPC Wiki.