RAD Studio 12.3 has been a fantastic release—a true milestone for our team and our community.
I’m incredibly proud of the team’s work to deliver what our users want, and the community’s response has been amazing.
We’re also beginning to take some bold, essential steps to embrace AI. AI offers a once-in-a-generation opportunity for Delphi and RAD Studio applications to reinvent themselves. This is one of the most exciting moments for our community in decades. And I can feel the energy—the team and the broader community are mobilizing to seize this momentum.
Meanwhile, development on RAD Studio 13 is already underway. It will continue our transformation, helping developers modernize their apps and create brand-new ones. I believe every app can be improved—even transformed—with the help of AI. That makes a massive opportunity for all of us. And when I talk to people trying to rewrite Delphi apps in another language, I often think: why bother? If Delphi is “legacy,” so is everything else 🙂. What matters is the impact of the solutions being built—and there’s no doubt that native apps are back in style.
As always, one of our most enjoyable traditions is picking a city theme for our releases. These themes celebrate the global reach of our community—from Seattle to Berlin, Tokyo to Sydney, and of course, Athens. After Athens, returning to our classical roots, we thought it only fitting to look to Italy for the next step. And what better setting for a release focused on reinvention?
We landed in two incredible cities: Syracuse and Florence. Each one is rich with history and deeply symbolic. Syracuse—closely linked to Greece—was the second Athens and the home of Archimedes, one of history’s greatest mathematicians and inventors. Florence—the birthplace of the Renaissance—gave the world Leonardo da Vinci. Both cities capture the spirit of the Delphi developer: inventive, elegant, and visionary.
We invited many of our trusted partners to vote on the name. The results were extremely close, and the debate brought out not only deep passion—but also unexpected lyricism.
This message from our Italian MVP, Fabrizio Bitti, truly moved me:
“As an Italian, both Florence and Syracuse hold a special place in my heart, each a gem shining with its own unique light.
Florence is the cradle of the Renaissance—an open-air museum where beauty breathes through every stone, every dome. It gave us Leonardo and Galileo, my childhood heroes, whose genius still echoes in the streets and skies of the city.
Yet, it is Syracuse that speaks to the deeper chords of my soul.
There, the spirit of Ancient Greece still lingers in the wind. Its grand theater, carved from living rock, continues to host timeless performances under the stars, as if the past had never truly left. The sea embraces Syracuse, adding a sense of magic, a rhythm, a breath that is both eternal and intimate.
And then there is Ortigia—an island within the city, a dream within reality. Time seems to have paused within its walls, preserving whispers of ancient myths and the scent of salt and stone.
Syracuse, as you already said, was also the home of Archimedes, the brilliant mind who bent the rules of nature with insight and imagination. In many ways, he is a kindred spirit to today’s Delphi developers—curious, inventive souls who continue to create the extraordinary through elegant logic and inspired design.”
Thank you, Fabrizio! Now, it’s time for you, the community, to weigh in. Delphi developers are inventors. They are renaissance spirits. Which city speaks to you?
[EDITOR – we have closed the vote now – we’ll announce the winner shortly] Click here to record your choice of name
You can find out which city won in this blog post: https://blogs.embarcadero.com/rad-studio-13-florence-or-syracuse-we-have-the-results/
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You should rather fix RadStudio 12 before moving on the the next major version. RS 12 didn’t deliver what it promised on its initial release (C++17). Only after 3 patches it is at best mostly functional.
The worst in my opinion is that customers had to pay with an update subscription for the last patch, only to get the promised features mostly working. And there are still hundereds of issues to fix.
I now fear that XE12 will be abandoned completely in favor for XE13 which will be a new full price product and all prior update subscriptions are worthless.
So what I (and I guess a lot of other people) would like to hear from Embarcadero is: What’s planned for the future of XE12? Will it still receive fixes (which it REALLY needs) or will it be abandoned, letting its users starve at arm’s length ?
There’s nothing more to say about it! I hope a patch finally makes bcc64x usable in 12.3. Despite all the problems, I remain hopeful 🙂
Florense symbolizes the renaissance of Delphi!
Setting up a poll for the next code name is a great idea. But why only two choices? Why not an open poll and see where it goes?
Also, considering that we already had Greece/Athens why not choose a special name for this “30 Years of Delphi” release? Like Paris or Kopenhagen?
Paris is where Philippe Kahn is from, Kopenhagen stands for
Anders Hejlsberg (and not to forget Niels, Ole and Mogens).
Without that gang we wouldn’t have Delphi today 😉
And yes, Florence is a beautiful city and has one of the best if not the best cuisines in the world. Maybe for version 14 😉
Garanhuns.
Para terminar de envergonhar de vez com a cidade que nos deu o maior bandido produzido pela humanidade. Que através do partido “13” está acabando com o Brasil.
Vergonha!!!!
Can I offer a third option: Klendathu
🤣