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A Summary of Year 2024 for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder

February 2023 Delphi 29th Anniversary April 2024 Embarcadero released RAD Studio 12.1 Athens, primarily focuses on enhancing the features in RAD Studio 12 but also including the first official release of new C++ Win64 Clang–based compiler and toolchain, Delphi Android API Level 34 support, improved Visual Assist Integration for C++Builder, Split Editor views, and more The new Embarcadero…
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InterBase ADO.NET Driver Version 10.0.2

Embarcadero has just released version 10.0.2 of the InterBase ADO.NET driver and its related Entity Framework support. This release updates the primary driver and the EFCore support up to the 10.x version of the equivalent Firebird driver, including: Primary driver supports…
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RAD Studio 12.2 Athens Patch 2 Available

This patch for RAD Studio 12.2 addresses two issues in C++Builder and provides missing MacOS RTL Delphi source files. This patch is about 30MB to download. This patch is delivered using the patch installer and should be applied exclusively to RAD Studio 12.2 Patch 1 (build…
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RAD Studio 12.2 Athens Inline Patch 1 Available

October 17, 2024 RAD Studio 12.2 Patch #1 provides quality improvements to the 12.2 release, focused on RAD Studio IDE, FireMonkey, the bcc64x Win64 Modern toolchain, RAD Server, and the 64-bit versions of the Delphi compiler. The patch also fixes a package binary compatibility issue that prevents using packages built in RAD Studio 12.2 in RAD Studio 12.1 and 12.0, mostly affecting third-party…
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Using AI LLMs in the RAD Studio IDE with Smart CodeInsight

As I wrote in the RAD Studio 12.2 announcement blog post, “leveraging AI LLMs for coding is becoming increasingly popular and the quality of these tools is getting better. For this reason, RAD Studio 12.2 introduces an open architecture for AI plugins, offering…
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RAD Studio Web Development Reimagined with the WebStencils Template Engine

RAD Studio 12.2 introduces WebStencils, a server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files, often called a template engine. This and its component can be used in WebBroker and RAD Server, but also for DataSnap and even in non-Web applications to produce HTML, JSON, YAML, comma delimited files, or any other file in which you need to merge specific data. The application code can be…
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Delphi 12 And C++Builder 12 Community Editions Released!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of Delphi 12 Community Edition and C++Builder 12 Community, two full-featured, free versions of our renowned Delphi IDE and of our flagship C++Builder IDE. The Community Edition versions are designed to empower startups, students, and…
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InterBase ODBC Driver on GitHub

Embarcadero just released the source code of the most recent version of the ODBC driver for the InterBase relational database. This is an open source driver which has been available for long, but it’s the first time it is officially hosted in a public repository, at: https://github.com/Embarcadero/InterBaseODBCDriver  The source code includes recent fixes to add support for catalog/tables…
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