A 64-bit IDE for 64-bit Windows, a new Ternary Operator for Delphi, initial support for C++23, IDE Search capability, an AI component pack, an AI companion website, an upgrade to the WebStencils web development library, GetIt package versioning, and quality improvements to VCL, FMX, the IDE, the debugger, RAD Server, and Delphi & C++ code tooling.

All this and more awaits you in RAD Studio 13, Delphi 13 and C++Builder 13, available as of 10 September 2025.

Here’s a complete list of all the new and enhanced features available in the new version of your favorite IDEs.

 

RAD Studio 13 New Features

INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS

New! C++ compiler for Win64, based on Clang 20, UCRT for the C runtime, a mix of LLVM and MinGW for the C++ runtime, and LLVM’s libc++ STL. The new toolchain is fully integrated in the product (bcc64x). New version updated from Clang 15.

FIREMONKEY APPLICATION PLATFORM

New! New Display Link Service offering highly improved stability and smoothness of animations

New! New MaskEdit component

New! New IFMXSpellCheckerServiceEx interface

New! New ApplicationEvents component

VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)

New! Integration of the UIAutomation Microsoft interfaces, which can be used to support accessibility and to build automatic UI testing.

AI POWERED FEATURES

New! SmartCore AI Component Pack – Your Gateway to AI inside Your Apps: a new set of core AI components designed to help our customers add AI features to their apps or build brand new AI-focused apps with Delphi or C++Builder.* * Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

New! The AI-engine agnostic connection component will use specific drivers to communicate via REST with different AI engines (including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and Ollama). The configuration is managed via an easy-to-use AI connection wizard.

New! A set of AI request components for different data types (like text, images, structure data) which can be associated with prompts and can be bound directly with UI controls to display the results.

New! A set of AI request components for different data types (like text, images, structure data) which can be associated with prompts and can be bound directly with UI controls to display the results.

RECENT DELPHI LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES

New! Delphi ternary operator, implemented using the “if” keyword, matching the semantic of the ternary conditional operator found in other programming languages

New! NameOf intrinsic function, to get the string representation of identifiers in code

New! New {$PUSHOPT} and {$POPOPT} compiler directives, for taking a snapshot of the current compiler directives and applying them again

New! New language operators: “is not” and “not in”

New! New “noreturn” directive for procedure declaration

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

New! Extensive and configurable search features in many IDE panes, including the Project Manager, the Structure View, the Message pane and Events log

New! Additional highlighting options in the Message Log and grouping for compiler hints and warnings in the same source code file.

New! New Delphi Upgrade Advisor wizard, which allows developers to identify meaningful changes to project configuration and code that can significantly improve the compilation time and code tooling experience.* * Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

Reintroduced! Delphi Classic CodeInsight for code completion, available again.

INTEGRATED DEBUGGING

New! Attach to Process dialog box redesigned to include additional columns that display information about processes

INTEGRATED HELP

New! New RAD AI Companion Web Site, a RAD Studio tailored chat bot, offering the ability to query an AI specifically trained on our product and its libraries or to ask it to generate application source code.

DATABASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT

New! Expanded support for Unsigned Big Integer database fields

WEBBROKER AND WEBSTENCILS

New! WebBroker sessions management

RAD SERVER*

*Enterprise editions include free RAD Server Lite (RSLite) deployment and a single site RAD Server deployment license, while Architect editions include a multi-site deployment license

New! Add support for server API versioning (that is, having a server offering multiple versions of the same REST APIs for older and newer client applications)

RAD Studio 13 Enhanced Features

INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS

Enhanced! Delphi 32-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc32)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc64)

Enhanced! 64-bit binary versions of the Delphi 32-bit (dcc32) and Delphi 64-bit (dcc64) command line compilers, offering a very large memory address space.

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Linux Intel (dcclinux64)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS Intel (dccosx64)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS ARM (dccosxarm64)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for iOS devices (dcciosarm64)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for iOS Simulator on ARM 64-bit macOS (dcciossimarm64)

Enhanced! Delphi 32-bit compiler and toolchain for Android ARM devices (dccaarm)

Enhanced! Delphi 64-bit ARM compiler and toolchain for Android 64-bit platform (dccaarm64)

LICENSING

Enhanced! Earlier version licenses included in network licenses (Delphi 2007–12, C++ Builder 2007–12). Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6 available separately (Professional only)

Enhanced! Access to licenses and downloads for earlier versions with purchase of standalone product licenses (Delphi 2007–12, C++Builder 2007–12, Delphi 7, and C++Builder 6) (Professional only)

APPLICATION PLATFORMS, INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS, DESIGNERS AND SDKS

Enhanced! FireMonkey Application Platform for creating 32-bit Windows applications and 64-bit Windows applications for Windows 11, Windows 10; Windows Server 2025 and 2022

Enhanced! FireMonkey Application Platform for creating 64-bit macOS applications for Intel and ARM CPUs, that run on macOS 15 Sequoia and macOS 14 Sonoma, including support for universal binary

Enhanced! FireMonkey Application Platform for creating iOS ARM 64-bit applications for iOS 18

Enhanced! FireMonkey Application Platform for creating native 32-bit and native 64-bit Android ARM applications for Android 16, 15, and 14. Supports Android API level 35. * Android development requires the Android SDK and NDK from Google, which cannot be fully installed without an Internet connection

Enhanced! VCL (Visual Component Library) for rapidly building 32-bit and 64-bit applications for Windows 11, Windows 10; Windows Server 2025 and 2022

Enhanced! Microsoft Windows SDK support for Windows 11, 10 and 7 APIs. Includes support for calling both classic Win32/Win64 APIs and enhanced support for WinRT APIs; required for the Windows App SDK (aka Project Reunion)

FIREMONKEY APPLICATION PLATFORM

Enhanced! FireMonkey Skia support including direct APIs, specific UI controls, and the automatic mapping of FireMonkey UI controls UI rendering via Skia. In general terms, Skia improves the quality of the rendering and the performance. Skia4Delphi has been updated in 13.

Enhanced! WebBrowser component for Windows, with support for both the classic IE ActiveX and the Microsoft WebView 2 control (Chromium-based Edge). Updated in version 13.

VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)

Enhanced! TFormTabsBar control and IFormVisualManager interface to help build general tab-based UIs and a MDI tabbed forms architecture

Enhanced! Custom Title Bars and the TitleBarPanel Component, enhanced in 13 with support for TitleBar styling

Enhanced! TEdgeBrowser Component integrating Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge WebView2 component and changes to the TWebBrowser component to support both IE and Edge– based on Microsoft release version of Edge WebView2 component and supporting custom cache folders, with support for the UserDataFolder and the ExecutableFolder configurations. Enhanced in 13.0 with additional properties and methods, mapped to features in recent versions of the WebView 2 control.

Enhanced! VCL TControlList control, a flexible and virtualized list control, designed as a high-performance control for very long lists and a modern look and feel, with support for the selection of multiple items and other enhancements.

Enhanced! Set of units with the complete Windows API headers converted to Object Pascal. This API conversion includes 311 Delphi header fi les* with 41 MB of code, covering the entire platform API provided by Microsoft. * Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

AI POWERED FEATURES

Enhanced! Smart CodeInsight offers AI Powered Coding helpers. Smart CodeInsight is an open architecture for AI plugins. Smart CodeInsight UI elements in the IDE include a chat pane (with Markdown support since version 12.3) and an editor menu with direct commands on the selected code. Smart CodeInsight offers an OpenTools API and developers can write plugins for additional LLM engines and APIs. Includes a new Test Connection feature in the configuration dialog.

INTEGRATED BUILD TOOLS AND PROJECT SUPPORT

Enhanced! Java2OP (Java to Object Pascal bridge) API headers translation tool (for Android), improved to reduce dependency between units and leveraging updated platform tooling

Enhanced! Deploy apps to Android devices (Debug/Play Store). The process has been improved and optimized in 12.1 and further in 13, with the adoption of newer Android platform tools.

RECENT C++ LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES

Enhanced! Updated Win64 C++ Clang 20 compiler, introducing support for C++23 language specification, and including all of the features previously available for Clang 15

Enhanced! Updated Win64 C++ Clang 20 STL using libc++, including RTL, C RTL, and toolchain including LLVM-20-based linker. C++Builder 13 also introduces versioned shared libraries.

RECENT DELPHI LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES

Enhanced! Custom managed records with the ability to define custom Initialize, Finalize and Assign operations, executed when a record is allocated, de-allocated, and copied. Improved in 13 with implicit “Self” parameter declaration in record class operators Initialize and Finalize.

Enhanced! Support for calling WinRT APIs, with over 50 specific Object Pascal interface units. The set of headers has been updated in version 13

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Enhanced! RAD Studio 64-bit IDE, offering support for the Windows 64-bit targets platform. The 64-bit IDE is installed side by side with the 32-bit IDE, which is still the default version. Now including: code tooling for C++ via Visual Assist; support for COM, ActiveX and Type libraries; Live Templates (Ctrl+J) and the Surround menu, and quality improvements.

Enhanced! Visual Assist features include finding where your code is used with Find References or Find Symbol, refactorings which assist maintenance and active development in code, and navigation including the Go To Related feature. See the Refactoring section for more information. Available also in 64-bit IDE.

Enhanced! GetIt Library Manager for easy discovery, download and update of source code libraries, components, and other features from Embarcadero GetIt servers*. Enhanced in 13 with package versioning support. * Use of GetIt requires Internet connectivity. The feature is not available to off-line developers. A small selection of packages is available as a separate download and can be installed using the GetIt Local Packages support.

Enhanced! IDE ToolsAPI further extended in 13. In 12 it added direct access to editor content and more information about the editor display. Version 11.3 added support for painting in the code editor and highlighting elements of the source code, a foundation allowing developers to customize the editor.

INTEGRATED DEBUGGING

Enhanced! Debugger for C++ for Win64, based on LLDB, including formatters to evaluate common complex types like UnicodeString and AnsiString, C++ strings, vectors, deques, and more. Updated to LLDB 20.

Enhanced! Delphi Win64 LLDB-based debugger in the 64-bit IDE. Updated to LLDB 20.

FIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY*
*Some features are limited to local connections in Professional and Community editions

Enhanced! FireDAC Oracle driver to support v 19c and 128-character parameter names for Oracle Stored Procedures. Previous updates included, among many features, support for VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, and RAW data types up to 32K, native BOOLEAN in PL/SQL, 64-bit integers and unsigned INTs, identity / auto-increment columns, query change notifications, implicit ROWID fetching, implicit results, additional connection modes, network timeouts, and transaction state detection and synchronization. Since version 12.3, with support for Oracle DRCP (Database Resident Connection Pooling). Version 13 adds OAuth authentication for Oracle.

Enhanced! FireDAC Firebird 5 driver. Includes with VendorHome driver configuration, support for Firebird embedded and local connection protocol, FB$OUT package, long statements, little/big endian configuration, Firebird 4 data types, FDFBBackup parallel operations for Firebird 5. Enhanced with parallel backup operations support.

Enhanced! FireDAC PostgreSQL driver for PostgreSQL up to version 16. Past updates included PostgreSQL 15 specific performance improvements. support for PostgreSQL Stored Procedures, identity columns, macaddr8, password encryption and little/big endian configuration in connection parameters. Enhanced with support for array types.

WEBBROKER AND WEBSTENCILS

Enhanced! WebBroker library for HTTP server development and integration, supporting CGI, ISAPI libraries for Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server modules, and native HTTP servers based on Indy library. Extended in 13 with better Apache integration, Nginx web server support, and improved logging.

Enhanced! WebStencils server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files, to develop modern websites based on any JavaScript library, powered by the data extracted and processed by a RAD Studio server-side application. This is a sophisticated architecture introduced in RAD Studio 12.2, significantly extended in 13 with support for session data, global variables, a new switch statement, integrated WebBroker sessions authentication and authorization, direct access to dataset properties.

Enhanced! Use the WebStencils components, TWebStencilsProcessor and TWebStencilsEngine, to customize the template engine, control the file locations and the URL mapping, define URL parameters, and pass objects, datasets and collections to the scripts. The TWebStencilProcessor component implements the same interface of the old TPageProducer used in WebBroker and DataSnap and can replace it.

RAD SERVER*
*Enterprise editions include free RAD Server Lite (RSLite) deployment and a single site RAD Server deployment license, while Architect editions include a multi-site deployment license

Enhanced! RAD Server turnkey REST based middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access, and SQL Database access, with significantly optimized performance

Enhanced! RAD Server (EMS) multi-tenancy support and console app for managing tenants configuration (on Windows and Linux). Version 13 adds to the RAD Server Multi-tenancy support an option to integrate tenant-specific configuration.

INCLUDED DATABASE TOOLS AND DATABASE ENGINES

Enhanced! InterBase 2020 Update 6 Developer Edition. Includes a license for the upcoming InterBase 15 Developer edition.

FMX LINUX

Enhanced! FireMonkey for Linux UI library (FMX Linux), bringing any FireMonkey application to the Linux desktop platform* * Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

Enhanced! New enhanced integration with the RAD Studio IDE for FMX Linux

ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS

Enhanced! A number of exclusive components in the GetIt Package manager, for Dephi and / or C++. You can check https://getitnow.embarcadero.com/ to see what is currently available (some of the exclusive items might be limited to higher end SKUs).

For additional information about the new release, watch the RAD Studio 13 Launch Webinar Replay With Q&A here.