Thoughts on the security issues of Log4j, what they imply for the developer community in general, and the specific effect on RAD Studio developers. Unless you live on a remote island with no Internet connection, you’ve certainly heard about the Log4j issues that affected so many applications and internet services over the last 10 days. The coincidental discovery of this critical bug in the…

Embarcadero has made available a new FireDAC driver for the SQLite Encryption Extension (SEE) database. The download is in GetIt and here are some details behind this decision. RAD Studio 11 Alexandria, like previous versions, ships with a FireDAC driver for the SQLite database offering two different approaches for delivery. One option is static linking, that is, to compile SQLite into your…

Today Embarcadero released a patch for RAD Studio, Delphi, and C++Builder 11 Alexandria. The patch addresses a few relevant issues in the most recent release and is available to active update subscription customers in the GetIt Package Manager (with a matching alert showing up in the new IDE Welcome Page) or on the my.embarcadero.com download site. Installing this patch is recommended for all RAD…

We are happy to announce that InterBase 2020 Update 2 has been released today. Building on the solid foundation of InterBase 2020, the new update includes a few new features and addresses some customer issues. For general InterBase information see www.embarcadero.com/products/interbase and www.interbase.com. InterBase 2020 Update 2 extends database support for Common Table Expressions by…