RAD STUDIO 12.2 PRODUCT FEATURE MATRIXEach feature in the following table has an indication if it is available in Delphi
and/or C++Builder. RAD Studio editions include bothlanguages. Each column covers multiple, similar editions, with any difference specifically called out. Some of the features are only available
for download from the IDE in the GetIt Package Manager, requiring an Internet connection and an active Update Subscription. Community
Edition1 is available only for single languages, has a limited license, and doesn’t include the bonus features available in the GetIt package
manager.
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS
LICENSING AND TOOL MANAGEABILITY
VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SUPPORTAPPLICATION PLATFORMS, INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS,FMX APPLICATION PLATFORM (FIREMONKEY)
COM/DCOM SUPPORTVISUAL LIVEBINDINGSINTEGRATED BUILD TOOLS AND PROJECT SUPPORTRECENT DELPHI LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURESINTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENTREFACTORINGSINTEGRATED DEBUGGINGINTEGRATED UNIT TESTINGFIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY
WEB BROKER AND WEBSTENCILSDATASNAP MULTI-TIER
CLOUD SUPPORTXML AND SOAP
LOGGING WITH CODESITE EXPRESSADDITIONAL COMPONENTSAQUA DATA STUDIORECENT C++ LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURESSHARED RUNTIME LIBRARY FEATURES
SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENTSEARCH AND NAVIGATIONINTEGRATED HELPDATABASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND CONNECTIVITYOTHER DATABASE TECHNOLOGIESRAD SERVER
INCLUDED DATABASE TOOLS AND DATABASE ENGINESREST CLIENT LIBRARY AND BAAS
FILE COMPARE WITH BEYOND COMPARE TEXT COMPARE
IP*WORKS! COMMUNICATION COMPONENTSSENCHA EXT JS PROFESSIONAL EDITIONPROFESSIONAL
COMMUNITY1NEW IN12.2 ATHENSINTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS
Delphi 32-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc32)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc64)
64-bit binary versions of the Delphi 32-bit (dcc32) and Delphi 64-bit (dcc64) commandline compilers, offering a very large memory address space
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Linux Intel (dcclinux64)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS Intel (dccosx64)

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIADelphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS ARM (dccosxarm64)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for iOS devices (dcciosarm64)

INTRODUCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIADelphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for iOS Simulator on ARM 64-bit macOS(dcciossimarm64)
Delphi 32-bit compiler and toolchain for Android ARM devices (dccaarm)
Delphi 64-bit ARM compiler and toolchain for Android 64-bit platform (dccaarm64)
C++ 17 32-bit Clang-enhanced compiler and toolchain for Windows (bcc32x andbcc32c). Classic Embarcadero C++ compiler and toolchain for Windows (bcc32)
C++ 17 64-bit Clang-enhanced compiler and toolchain for Windows (bcc64)

ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSNew C++ compiler for Win64. Based on Clang 15, 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)
LICENSING

Licensing suitable for larger teams with no restriction on the number of licenses you canpurchase or use and on revenue derived from the product (see EULA for details)

1

Community Edition is currently available for the 12.1 Athens release, which doesn’t include all of the features in 12.2.

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Network named or concurrent licenses available

Earlier version licenses included in network licenses (Delphi 2007–11, C++ Builder
2007–11). Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6 available separately
Access to licenses and downloads for earlier versions with purchase of standalone
product licenses (Delphi 2007–11, C++Builder 2007–11, Delphi 7, and C++Builder 6)
APPLICATION PLATFORMS, INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS, DESIGNERS AND SDKS
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSFireMonkey Application Platform for creating 32-bit Windows applications and 64-bit
Windows applications for Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7 (SP1+); Windows
Server 2022 and 2019
FireMonkey Application Platform for creating 64-bit macOS applications for Intel and
ARM CPUs (M1), that run on macOS 14 Sonoma, macOS 13 Ventura, and macOS 12
Monterey, including support for universal binary

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSFireMonkey Application Platform for creating iOS ARM 64-bit applications for iOS 17
and iOS 16

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS

Delphi iOS Simulator support for ARM 64-bit macOSENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENSENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIAENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSFireMonkey Application Platform for creating native 32-bit and native 64-bit Android
ARM applications for Android 14, 13, 12, 11, and 10. Supports Android API level 34.
* Android development requires the Android SDK from Google, which cannot be fully installed
without an Internet connection

VCL (Visual Component Library) for rapidly building 32-bit and 64-bit applications for
Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7; Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016
Windows MSIX package format deployment (providing support for deploying to theMicrosoft Store), including the management of additional files, MSIX packaging andcode signing automatically invoking the platform SDK. The Windows signing support
in the IDE since 11.3 includes support for the time stamping of MSIX files. (This feature
requires running RAD Studio on Windows 10 Anniversary Update or above)
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

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11 ALEXANDRIANEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENSFireUI multi-device designer for visually building mobile and desktop applications andcustomize them at design time for different form factors and operating systems
FireUI multi-device designer ability to make changes on the main user interface thatare propagated to other device specific user interfaces and fine tune a device specificform factor without affecting other views; support for adding additional custom views
to the designer
FireUI App Previews lets you preview your FireMonkey application on iOS, Android,
desktop targets as you are designing the app. Changes made in the FMX Designer are
broadcasted in real time to connected devices using the appropriate Styles for thedevices.
Several dozen UI controls for building FMX applications, covering the most common
UI guidelines and including also 3D support, for rapidly building multi-device
applications
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.
New FireMonkey Skia-based controls: TSkAnimatedImage, TSkLabel, TSkPaintBox,
TSkAnimatedPaintBox, and TSkSvg
Exclusive Skia features not found in the Skia4Delphi library:● Vulkan Backend support for Android● Skia Shading Language (SKSL)● Animated Codec: WebP Encoder

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only

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11.1 ALEXANDRIA● Printer Support and Printing to PDF
FireMonkey for Windows now uses the same DP model (rather than Pixel model) of all
platforms, offering significant enhancement for the apps rendering on Windows
HighDPI and 4K monitors
Metal Drivers GPU Support for macOS and iOS

INTRODUCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIANEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENS

Mobile Biometric Authentication component, called TBiometricAuth, which provides ameans of authorization to use an application or some specific features via Biometrics(e.g., Face ID on iOS devices or Fingerprint on Android devices).
New Styled Memo Implementation with enhanced IME support, available for all
supported platforms
FireMonkey TEdit now supports Undo functionality, using the recently added
TUndoManager is shared between TEdit and TMemo
Editing improvements with new Virtual Keyboard for iOS, better interactive text
selection, caret point management and finger gestures on Android
TBufferedLayout Component for faster rendering of child controls
Support for iOS Launch Storyboard

NEW IN
12 ATHENS

Split screen app support (side-by-side apps) for both iOS and Android

NEW IN
12 ATHENS

Android’s adaptive icons
Automatic iOS Theme check and theme change notification
Address Book component for iOS and Android, allowing access to and extensive
modification of device contacts and groups and including monitoring of address bookchanges by other applications
Google Firebase Push Notification support for the Android platform, with
IDE-integrated configuration and updated Google Play services
QuickEdit designers for FireMonkey, including a pane for editing common control
properties faster and several other additions to the IDE designer experience
Extended clipboard service support, with IFMXExtendedClipboardService interface,with support for querying and working with text, images, and custom formats
Support for accelerator keys on Windows, compatible with other platforms andimplemented using the IFMXAcceleratorKeyRegistryService platform service. There isalso a FocusControl property for the Label control to specify the focus target for thelabel’s accelerator
Grid controls improvements including support for ImageList, AutoDisplacement andCancelEditingByDefault options, and StringGrid supports for glyph and currency
columns
ListView item designer, providing an interactive way to work with ListView items;
Touch animation support for TListView
Enhanced TFont and TFontStyle to support multi-weight, multi-style fonts
Improvements to MessageBox, ShowMessage and InputQuery offering bothsynchronous (blocking) implementation and asynchronous (non-blocking)implementation
Mouse-over Hints support for FireMonkey visual controls on desktop
FireMonkey zOrder support for Windows and native style presentation for Windows
for Edit and Memo platform controls
FireMonkey zOrder support for Android and native style presentation for Android for
Edit, Calendar, Switch, and Multiview controls
Touch animation for Android platform
FireMonkey apps can receive Android intents, regardless of the source (email, weblink, other app)
FireMonkey Behavior service for automatically adjusting UI properties to the target
operating system standards

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options to manage borders appearance, and alignments for docked panel mode
Multi-Threading support for TBitmap, TCanvas and TContext3D
Unification of Delphi and Java threads on Android
Radiant Shapes controls collection** Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

Specific TSwitch behavior for Windows 10 UI
Edit and Calendar ability to dynamically render a platform native UI control on iOS;
Memo platform controls for iOS for highest input fidelity
TGrid, TListView, TCalendar, TSwitch and TScrollBox platform controls for iOS

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS

MapView component for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) supporting platform
specific interactive mapping libraries (respectively, by Apple and Google)
WebBrowser component for Windows, with support for both the classic IE ActiveX
and the new Microsoft WebView 2 control (Chromium-based Edge).
WebBrowser component for macOS based on WKWebView platform API
Improved mixing of platform and styled components, with platform styling options for
iOS and controls Z-order improvements (with ControlType property for non-platform
controls)
ImageList component for FireMonkey, for storing and manipulating multiple images
and sub-images in a single component; several components can pick their graphicalelements from the ImageList, rather than a standalone image
Multi-monitor support for desktop platforms
Splash screen support for Android, with specific project options matching the iOS
ones
Form-level multi-touch support for all available platforms

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11 ALEXANDRIA

Tint support for buttons and toolbars on iOS and Android (for control surface andcontrols icons)
In-app purchase component for iOS and Android, to help monetize your applications.
Android solution Google Play Billing Library Version 4Advertising component for Android, including AdMob support based on the Google
Mobile Ads SDK (updated to version 7.0 in RAD Studio 10.2.3), also to help you
monetize your mobile applications
Advertising component for iOS, including AdMob support based on the Google
Firebase SDK
Push notifications support for mobile platforms, to receive remote notifications even if
the app is not running (including Firebase support for Android and iOS clients)
FireMonkey support for AppTethering across desktop and mobile applications,
including both Wifi and Bluetooth support, with protocol enhancements, including
encryption hooks and events to handle when a profile is connected or disconnected
Native message alerts for iOS and Android

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11.3 ALEXANDRIA

Custom Pickers for iOS and Android, including Date Picker (DateEdit component) andTime Picker, Time Picker for desktop platforms
Phone Dialer Support for iOS and Android. Enhanced in 11.3 withIFMXPhoneDialerListenerService, implemented for Android. The service is intended for
tracking changes in the state of the phone system service (Calls, Carrier, CallState).
Built-in text editing mode for Edit and Memo controls on Android and iOS, including
Cut/Copy/Paste/Zoom; Spell Check Support for text input controls on iOS andAndroid
Notification Center Component for using notifications in your iOS and Android
applications, including notification sound and now supporting also Windows 10
Notifications
Gesture support for iOS and Android including swipe (pan), tap, tap and hold, double
tap and pinch & zoom

4RAD STUDIO 12.2 FEATURE MATRIXFireMonkey Mobile Application Wizard with header/footer, tabbed, and master detail
templates
Full set of native iOS and Android styling options for buttons, toolbars, list boxes,
sliders, switch controls
Swipe-to-Delete and Pull-to-Refresh on iOS and Android with the ListView
component; search filtering for ListView
WebBrowser component for loading and displaying web content in your iOS andAndroid applications (with corresponding desktop component)
Extended ListBox capabilities for iOS and Android, including header/footer/grouped
styling, embedded search and expanded LiveBindings support
Support for various keyboard types on iOS and Android
TMagnifier component for easily zooming in on images and text
TCameraComponent component for accessing the front and back camera, the flash,and more device camera features
TabControl with settings for using tabs as views and a PlatformDefault tab position toautomatically adapt tab layout to the current mobile platform, support for TabControl
tab icons on Android (Delphi only), slide transition action for TTabControl
FireMonkey Frames for designing portions of the UI and repeating them on multiple
forms
Toggle Device Skin to show/hide mobile device background in the multi-device
designer
FireMonkey Save State feature for persisting the forms status between sessions (andwhen the program is stopped by the operating system)
macOS Full screen Mode
Use of IFMXDragDropService to drag data to another applications on macOS
Actions and ActionLists for FireMonkey for better separation of the application logic
from the user interface
Ready-to-use action for accessing the camera application and for accessing images
from the camera roll on iOS and Android
Share Sheet support on iOS and Android for sharing content via Messaging, Mail,
Facebook, Twitter etc.
FireMonkey control anchors for flexible positioning and sizing of the visual controls;
Layout Managers (Flow Layout, Grid Layout) for flexible child controls positioning andsizing
Location Services component for GPS or triangulation, including geocoding support
Orientation sensor (gyroscope/compass) on iOS, Android, and on Windows (requires
compatible hardware)
Motion Sensor component for accelerometer access on iOS, Android, and on
Windows (requires compatible hardware)
3D File Import Support
Non-Client Area Application Styling for Windows and Mac (Delphi only)
Support for Windows gestures. On-screen keyboard support for Windows touch
devices
Edit control with styleable glyph with built-in style support for search bar andpassword control
Animated progress glyphs, including Windows ring
StyleLookUp support with preview of available designs for the selected component
Shared external redistributable bitmap style designer for VCL and FMX
Premium FireMonkey multi-device styles* with theming support for all supported
platforms* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

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Bitmap Style Designer enhancement, including templates for Windows, Mac OS andAndroid styles, ability to create blank styles for different platforms, and to adjust
objects for different graphic resolutions. Some platforms are Delphi only.
Significantly improved integrated FireMonkey Style Designer, and enhancement to the
TStyleBook component to support a collection of styles for various platforms
Bitmap Links editor, to modifying TBitmapLink properties directly inside the IDE
Native UI and custom UI control styles
FireMonkey Visual Form InheritanceUse one shader language for all rendering libraries (OpenGL or 3D)
VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)

ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

Object-oriented, fully extensible and reusable visual component library (VCL) andapplications architecture for Windows development
VCL Form Designer to visually build native Windows applications, with live snap-to
hints and layout guidelines
Visual Form Inheritance and Form linking to reduce coding and simplify maintenance;
Frames for building and reusing compound components
Object Repository for storing and reusing forms and Data Modules
Object Inspector to set component properties and events

NEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENS

New VCL Skia-based controls: TSkAnimatedImage, TSkLabel, TSkPaintBox,
TSkAnimatedPaintBox, and TSkSvg
Support for full HighDPI and VCL styles in MDI applications. The MDI support in VCL
has been reworked and expanded to overcome Windows platform limitations.
Includes an updated MDI form Wizard
New TFormTabsBar control and IFormVisualManager interface to help build generaltab-based UIs and a MDI tabbed forms architecture
VCL Styles support for High-DPI and 4K monitors, with support for multiple resolutionof graphical elements, automatic scaling, and improved element sizing on different DPI
configurations
A dozen of ready to use High-DPI optimized VCL styles
Per-control VCL styling support

NEW IN
12 ATHENS

Extended TFont VCL class with DPI-related and improved scaling support
Custom Title Bars and the TitleBarPanel Component
TVirtualImage component with support for images with multiple resolutions

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIAENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENS

TEdgeBrowser Component integrating Microsoft’s Chromium-based Edge WebView2
component and changes to the TWebBrowser component to support both IE and
Edge-- now based on Microsoft release version of Edge WebView2 component andsupporting custom cache folders, with support for the UserDataFolder and the
ExecutableFolder configurations. Enhanced in 12.0 with new properties and methods,
mapped to new features in recent versions of the WebView 2 control (like UserAgent,browsing data management)
VCL TControlList control, a flexible and virtualized list control, designed as ahigh-performance control for very long lists and a modern look and feel. Added
support for the selection of multiple items in 11.3.
VCL TNumberBox control, a modern-looking numeric input control, for integer,
floating point numbers, and currency values. Enhanced in 12.1 with better support for
negative values and scientific notation
QuickEdit designers for VCL, including additional items in the designer menu, a panefor editing common control properties faster, and several other additions to the IDE
designer experience
New property editors: string list editor and multiline string editor (originally part ofKSVC, Konopka Signature VCL Controls)

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Quick configuration dialogs for buttons, radio groups and panels (originally part ofKSVC, Konopka Signature VCL Controls)
Windows components fully integrated with the classic Windows API and the modern
WinRT APIA new set of units with the complete Windows API headers converted to Object
Pascal. This API conversion includes 311 Delphi header files* 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)

Complete VCL library source code to help writing custom components, debug yourapplications, and fully understand the library behavior
TImageCollection and DPI-aware TVirtualImageList components to manage
multiple-resolution images and improve application support for high-DPI monitors
and application form scaling. Includes design time support with an Image Collection
editor and a Virtual Image List editor.
Support for Windows 10 “Per Monitor V2” mode in application manifest and enhanced
system metrics API support (requires Windows 10 Creator’s Update, build 1703)
High-DPI Awareness and 4K monitor support, plus Windows 8.1/10 multi-monitor
support for VCL applications
Custom VCL controls corresponding to some of the Windows 10 UI controls, which
can also be used on previous version of Windows
DatePicker and TimePicker VCL controls; StackPanel and CardPanel VCL controls
ActivityIndicator, SearchBox, RelativePanel, ToggleSwitch, SplitView VCL control;
modern looking SelectDirectory function
CalendarView and CalendarPicker VCL controls
VCL Font Scaling improvements for higher DPI and higher resolution monitors
Updated Konopka Signature VCL Controls (over 200 additional Windows UI controls)** Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

VCL sensor components for Windows tablets
VCL support for AppTethering across desktop and mobile FireMonkey applications
written in Delphi, with Wifi and Bluetooth support with extensions and protocolenhancements, including encryption hooks, including events to handle when a profile
is connected or disconnected
Taskbar component with progress bars, overlay icons, custom buttons, and multiple
previews; JumpList component for adding custom menus to taskbar buttons
VCL Styles: Create VCL applications with enhanced GUI, with additional Windows 10
Styles for VCL and including Windows touch tablets optimized styles; support forstyling of main menus, popup menus, and system menus
Windows 10 specific VCL styles, to build applications matching Microsoft’s Modern
look and feel; Premium styles including TabletLight, Sky, and Glow VCL styles
10 Premium VCL Windows styles* that users can apply to their Windows applications* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

Create your own custom styles with the VCL Style Designer

ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIAVCL Styling improvements, including support for styling common dialogs and the
TWebBrowser component
TRichEdit Component updated to RichEdit 4.1 (MSFTEDIT.dll) with support fortransparency, URL detection, spell checking, text attributes and more
Small enhancements to TMemo, TDBMemo, TGroupBox, TComboBox, TCoolBar,
TNumberBox and other components.

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

TTreeView support for CheckBoxes

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIANew TLabelDBEdit component, a data-aware version of the TLabelEdit component

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

Integrated gesturing framework with multi-OS support for Windows 8. Gesture
Designer enables full control of all gesture design and interaction; Gesturecomponents (TGestureListView, TGesturePreview, TGestureRecorder) to build gesture

Limited in
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11.3 ALEXANDRIA

8creation and management into VCL based applications; Interactive multi-touchgestures for pan, zoom, rotate, tap, double tap, tap and hold (requires multi-touchenabled OS)
TTouchKeyboard a virtual keyboard for enhanced non-keyboard interface interactions
that support multiple locales and languages, enhanced with better VCL styling support
Modern VCL Components: TCategoryPanelGroup, TButtonedEdit, TLinkLabel,
TBalloonHint
Full support for PNG image format in TImage and TImageList
TDBImage direct support for JPEG and PNG graphic formats

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11 ALEXANDRIASupport for Windows Imaging Component (WIC) including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP,
and HD Photo image formats. RAW camera formats (such as NRW, NEF, CRW, CR2,
RW2, ARW, SR2, SRF, ORF, PEF, and DNG) also supported with manufacturer supplied
codecs. Now with multi frame support.
Import Component wizard to import a type library, ActiveX control or .NET Assembly
Component wizard to create the unit for a custom component

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11 ALEXANDRIAStandard components including frame, edit, menu, button, label, checkbox, list box,
combo box, panel and action list
Additional components including graphical buttons, image, shape, scroll box, splitter,buttoned edit, tabs, panels, action toolbar, and color map
Windows common controls including page control, image list, rich edit, progress bar,date time, calendar, toolbar, tree view and list view
System components including timer, paint box, media player, OLE container and DDE
Dialog components including open, save, open/save picture, open/save text, font,color, print, printer setup, find, replace and page setup
Data Access Controls via datasource and the use of data-aware controls
Data Controls including DBGrid, navigator, text, edit, memo, image, listbox, combo
box, checkbox, radiogroup, lookup and rich edit
TWebBrowser support, wrapped on the Microsoft IE ActiveX component (now alsooffering dual WebView 2 support)
Task dialog component and enhanced Windows dialog components for file open andfile save
COM/DCOM SUPPORTFull COM/ActiveX support enabling transparent access to IDL and code, source control
friendly, and allowing total control over implementation of COM and ActiveX objects;
DCOM support
Wizards support wrapping existing VCL components as ActiveX controls
Import .NET assemblies as COM objects in Win32 VCL applications
Legacy support for DataSnap/MIDAS COM/DCOM based multi-tier databaseapplication framework
Advanced Type Library Editor that manages IDL, making COM development
completely transparent; Support for Automation Object event handling
Create reusable native 32-bit and 64-bit dynamically linked libraries (.DLL), COM
controls (.OCX), and standalone COM executable
COM Object Wizard; Microsoft ActiveX® Control Data binding; Import COM servers ascomponents
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SUPPORTNative Bluetooth APIs (on platforms that fully support the technology) for FireMonkey
and VCL applications
Bluetooth framework improvements and TBluetooth component for classic BluetoothBluetooth LE component (on platforms that fully support the technology)

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Proximity support based on the “beacons” technology (including the iBeacon and
AltBeacon standards) for all supported platforms
Beacon enhancements with support for EddyStone format, change of AdvertiseData
parser to include all fields, improved Beacon scan performance, Android scan modes,
and WinRT Bluetooth API integration, StartScan method on Android. Android support
is Delphi only
TBeaconDevice class for turning a device on one of the supported platforms into a“beacon”
VISUAL LIVEBINDINGS

Optimized Visual Live Bindings RTTI integration for better performance
VCL and FMX controls bound to a TDataSet and TField now respect some of the TField
properties like Alignment, EditMask, DisplayWidth
Visual LiveBindings Designer, to visually connect component properties and data
Easily replace prototype data with real ClientDataSet data with one click
Context sensitive LiveBindings Wizard supporting both dbExpress and FireDAC
Support for QuickBinding components, ability to visually add and bind to additional
component properties
Color coded component properties easily identify bindable members
Zoom control for Visual LiveBindings Designer and ability to save image of current
LiveBindings Designer layout; Hide visual elements on right-click
Integrated Layers Management system for LiveBindings Designer with Photoshop® likelayers, allowing you to visually organize and hide set of elements in the LiveBindings
Designer
Tools Options support for LiveBindings Designer to show/hide certain components fromthe visual LiveBindings Designer view and enable/disable Wizard option in right-clickmenu
INTEGRATED BUILD TOOLS AND PROJECT SUPPORTIDE support for building and managing projects for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
IDE support for building and managing projects for 64-bit LinuxENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA

IDE support for building and managing projects for 64-bit macOS, for Intel and ARM(M1), including universal binary generation, macOS App Store support and integrated
Apple Notarization support updated in 11.3 to the new process Apple introduced in
XCode 14
Flexible build system leveraging MSBuild with identical build process from the IDE orcommand line. Use MSBuild externally from the IDE to compile very large projects
with the stand-alone Delphi and C++ compilers.
The stand-alone Delphi compilers can use the large memory address space.
The IDE shows Header Dependencies when building with bcc32c

ENHANCED IN
11.1 ATHENSENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENS

Define Android application settings, including supported orientations, and use theEntitlement lists to include advertising and notifications support in an app
IDE support for creating Android App Bundle (AAB) including both 32-bit and 64-bit
binaries for store submission
Integrated installation of Eclipse Temurin JDK OpenJDK 17 (Hotspot) JVM, required byAndroid SDK tools
IDE support for adding Java classes to an Android app classes.dex library andcustomizing it. In 12.2 we added options to Compress Dex files and Compress native
library files, configure targetSdkVersion of the Android manifest file, and added theability to import Android libraries ('.aar' files).
Support for Android Services in the IDE, including wizards to create Android Services
and to add them to an existing Android app
Java2OP (Java to Object Pascal bridge) API headers translation tool (for Android),
improved to reduce dependency between units

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SdkTransform tool to convert Objective-C / C++ headers to Object Pascal headers
Define info.plist application settings including supported orientations in the IDE

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12 ATHENSENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENSENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

Deploy apps to the iOS Device (Debug/Ad Hoc/App Store), doing iOS device
provisioning during the deployment process – including Auto Bundle identifier andsupport for executing an application from the IDE using the AdHoc target
Single App Icon Wizard, a comprehensive tool integrated within the RAD Studio IDE,
designed to streamline the process of generating icons and splash screens for user
applications across the supported platforms
Deploy apps to Android devices (Debug/Play Store). The process has been improved
and optimized in 12.1, with the adoption of newer Android platform tools.
Platform Assistant for deploying and debugging across platforms, including an
updated macOS client (Delphi only)
Platform Assistant (PAServer) for Linux; Deployment Manager: Deploy to Linux
Platform Assistant Manager macOS tray app that helps managing multiple versions ofPlatform Assistant (PAServer)
Deployment Manager: Deploy to Windows
Deployment Manager: Deploy to iOS, Android, macOS
Automatic inclusion of project files (like media files and resource files) to the
Deployment Manager
Project Manager view menu for directory (nested), directory (flat) and list view of files
in a project and with an enhanced status bar for more file information.
File manipulation and creation through the Project Manager facilities

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12 ATHENS

Delphi 1 through 11 project import and C++Builder 2007 through 11 project import
Build Configurations provide flexibility to organize multiple build settings for allcompiler, linker options, and platform support
Named option sets to save and apply build configurations to any project; Shareoption-sets between build configurations and between projects
Multi-select files in the Project Manager

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Build Events for pre-build and post-build on project and file levels. Enhanced withsecurity warnings.
Project dependency checking, Project level build ordering, Build/Make from here –Make or build current project and all later projects
Additional command line tools include Microsoft Resource Compiler, TDump utility to
structurally analyze EXE, OJB, and LIB files, GREP tool, and MAKE tool

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Win32 C++ Clang-enhanced compiler (with C++ 17 language support)

ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIAWin64 C++ Clang-enhanced compiler (with C++ 17 language support)

RECENT C++ LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURESNEW IN12.1 ATHENS

New Win64 C++ Clang 15 compiler (This feature was available as a preview in 12.0)

NEW IN12.1 ATHENS

New Win64 C++ Clang 15 STL using libc++, plus new RTL, new C RTL, and new
toolchain including LLVM-based linker (This feature was available as a preview in 12.0)

NEW IN12.2 ATHENS

New Win64 C++ Clang parallelised CPU-saturating batch compilation with –jobs

NEW IN12.2 ATHENS

New Win64 C++ Clang support for consumption and production of runtime packages

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C++ runtime library (RTL) built with the updated Clang-enhanced compiler for Win32
and Win64, including 2018 edition of Dinkumware STL
Improved C++ and Delphi ABI and header compatibility

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Improved C++ and Delphi code interoperability to assist using Delphi and C++ projects,
including string_view support for Delphi strings, easy C++/Delphi string assignment,
and string to/from conversion methods for common Delphi RTL types

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11Support for using our C++Builder compilers to build CMake projects on the commandline for Win32 and Win64, including deployment support
Improved optimizations for C++ Clang-enhanced compilers code generation (-O1 and-O2 and now also -O3 optimizations)
Simplified array initialization and construction for C++ Clang-enhanced compilers
The Clang-enhanced compilers are large-address aware and can take advantage ofadditional memory
Additional iterator wrappers over common Delphi RTL containers for all
Clang-enhanced compilers for use with C++11 range-for loops and non-member
std::begin() and std::end()
C++ functions for TPoint, TPointF, TRect, TRectF core types#pragma once support that allows for better compatibility with MSVC and also acts asa header guard[[deprecated]] attribute to flag constructs as deprecatedSecure C library functions
Custom evaluators for C++ Strings types

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Using C++ smart pointers (std::make_unique and std::make_shared) on Delphi-styleclassesC++ RTTI compatibility with Delphi, with C++-compatible RTTI generated for Delphi
types, including using typeid() on Delphi types

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Updated edition of the Dinkumware STL with C++17 headers for Win32 and Win64

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ANSI/ISO standard library Technical Report 1
Optimized string/memory handling functions, improved standard C++ heap manager
UnicodeString class and Unicode character types char16_t and char32_t
Move semantics with rvalue references
Explicit conversion operators
Static assertions
Full type trait support
Extern templates[[final]] and [[noreturn]] attributes
Decltype keyword
Linker error handling to improve memory management flexibility and resolution
Large-memory space support for C++ linker and improved resource handling toaddress heap errors
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11 ALEXANDRIALong string literals and multiline string literals, limited by triple quotes, to allow
embedding of SQL, HTML, JSON, XML and similar text within an application sourcecode
Weak type alias definition for NativeInt, do help write code that works better across
32-bit and 64-bit compilers.
Support for generating a GraphViz file with the uses unit graph, to help detect circularuses reference and visualize the overall structure of the dependencies across themodules of an application
Support for NaN comparisons for floating point numbers, as required by IEEE 754
Binary literals and digit separator support. Inline assembler support for AVX
instructions (AVX-512)

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Custom managed records with the ability to define custom Initialize, Finalize andAssign operations, executed when a record is allocated, de-allocated, and copiedStandard functions for low-level bit processing operations: CountLeadingZeros,
CountTrailingZeros, CountPopulation
Inline variables declaration, supporting local scope, direct initialization, and type
inference; inline constants declaration
Type inference for inline variable declarations (the type is inferred from the value
assigned to the variable)
Support for calling WinRT APIs, with now over 50 specific Object Pascal interface
units. The set of headers has been updated in 12[Weak] and [Unsafe] support for interface references[Volatile] attribute can be attached to a method parameters and local variables
Delphi compiler and linker performance improvements to improve compilation speed
for generic methods and generic methods in standard classes
Improved initialization for dynamic arrays, support for mixing and matching constantand dynamic arrays
String-like operations on dynamic arrays including + operator concatenation, Insert
and Delete
Class, record, and intrinsic types helpers

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Predefined helpers for core types such as string, char, integer, other ordinal types, andfloating point types. Now also for TDateTime and Currency data types.

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11 ALEXANDRIARTTI for indexed properties and RTL support, plus invoking methods using open arrays
Reflection support for exposure of Methods, Fields, and Properties to support dynamic
invocations and other meta-programming approaches (Enhanced RTTI)
Custom attribute support for most code elements – types, fields, properties, methods,
and parameters
Generics with full RTL list and collection support
UnicodeString type as the default string type and support for Unicode charmanipulation
Anonymous methods (or closures)Compiler option to treat warnings as errors
SHARED RUNTIME LIBRARY FEATURES

Unified memory management across all Delphi compilers and platforms, using classic
Delphi memory management also for mobile (and Linux, since RAD Studio 10.3)
Delphi RTL for 64-bit LinuxENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIADelphi and C++ RTL for 32-bit Windows and 64-bit Windows
Delphi and C++ packages support for 32-bit applications and 64-bit Windows
Support for Windows 10 Notifications using the NotificationCenter component
Support for Windows Store interaction via TWindowsStore component, with support
for paid applications, paid add-ons, and trial mode
Support for contracts, the system mechanism for sharing information with other
Windows 10 applications (apps can behave like contract sources) using the
SharingContract component
Parallel Programming library for easy development of asynchronous code and fastermulti-core applications, without coding threads manually
System.Threading unit supporting parallel for loops, tasks scheduling and futures
Optimized Unicode strings handling in iOS and Android ARM compilers
Support for all classic string types (including UTF8String, ANSIString, and
RawByteString) on iOS and Android

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Delphi RTL for 64-bit Android
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Delphi and C++ RTL for Android, with support for Android API level 34, a coming
Google requirement for the Play Store app submission. In recent versions, we added
support for the new “AndroidX” libraries
DirectX 12 support on Windows
OpenGL 4.3 support
Enhanced compiler switches for XML representation of source code
Extensible, cross platform, framework agnostic login credentials service

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11.2 ALEXANDRIANative zip file support. TZipFile class has a callback to use during the extraction
process to know the current progress, support added to extract ZIP files withpasswords. With Zip64 support and additional features.
Regular Expressions (Regex) library, supporting PCRE UTF-16 on Windows. PCRE is
now compiled with JIT enabled for faster regular expressions execution.
Object-oriented path, file and directory I/O classes
Buffered file read and write support, based on the TBufferedFileStream class, a highperformance TFileStream descendant based on an internal configurable buffer
TMemIniFile and TIniFile have Modified and AutoSave properties
TStrings enhancements including properties IsUpdating, TrailingLineBreak, UseLocale,
Options, plus overloaded TStringList constructors and AddPair fluent method
StringReplace and Pos speed optimization
Box2D physics engine, for manipulating on-screen objects according to the physics
rules
Object Pascal interfaces for the Box2D physics engine
TStringBuilder for easier and faster string concatenation, optimized and with flexible
growth strategy
JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) processing using a JSON.NET implementation for
JSON streaming with readers and writers (including base TJsonReader and TJsonWriterclasses)Specialized JSON readers and writers, including the TJsonTextReader and
TJsonTextWriter classes, the TAsciiStreamWriter class, support for Extended JSON,
better exception handling when reading not-well-defined JSON
Binary JSON (BSON) readers and writers support, as part of the same JSON.NET
architecture (including the TBsonReader and TBsonWriter classes)
JSON and BSON fluent method builders, including the TJSONArrayBuilder and
TJSONObjectBuilder classes
JSON and BSON fast forward-only iterator (TJSONIterator)

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11 ALEXANDRIANew JSON mapping wizard, which can generate classes matching a JSON data
structure and proper reading and writing code to read the JSON in a set of objects andstream it out to a new file
System.NetEncoding RTL unit for Web encoding and decoding (Base64, HTML, URL,
Base64URL)
System.Hash RTL unit, with hash functions to support the HTTP framework, now
including also method for files hashing
HTTP client framework, mapped to platforms libraries on all supported platforms,
including also platform HTTPS support (with no need to deploy the OpenSLL library),
with improved asynchronous support
NetHTTPClient and NetHTTPRequest components, offering easy access to the HTTP
client framework, now with HTTP / 2 protocol version support
Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on Windows
Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on macOS, iOS and Android

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Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on LinuxHTTP client library improvements including support for asynchronous HTTP requests,
time-outs, and automatic decompression of gzip content
Support for localized resources
Expression evaluation in compiler directives
Custom variants with support of your own data types, complex numbers, safe arrays,
and passing variants through data sets; Variant support for Int64, unsigned types andUnicode strings
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Editor split views: multiple editors side by side, above/below each other; split editors
allow same file to be edited next to itself, keep both a design and a code view onscreen
New UX for the feature installer, used for the initial product installation or to add
additional features and platforms from the IDE. Includes extended logging and easierto access log files.
RAD Studio Focus Mode (aka ‘zen mode’) leaves the IDE with the editor(s) only, with
reduced, essential-only UI, so you can avoid interruptions to your flow of thoughts,
and do not become distracted by the many IDE panes and features
With scrollbar annotations, the editor scrollbar shows at a glance the sections of thecode which have been modified, have bookmarks, have errors or warnings, and muchmore. This is powered by an OpenTools API and can be enhanced by developers.
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 chatpane 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.
Smart CodeInsight ready-to-use support for three online solutions (OpenAI, Gemini by
Google, and Claude by Anthropic) and one offline solution (Ollama). AI plugins can beselectively enabled and configured in a specific Tools Options page, where you canalso set the default plugin for the chat and the editor.
The RAD Studio IDE is high-DPI enabled (using perMonitor v2 Windows
configuration). All primary forms and panes have been enhanced, with new high-DPI
enabled icons and toolbar button images, smooth IDE and editor fonts, and a fullhigh-DPI experience. It remains possible to run the IDE in low-DPI, classic mode.
Both the VCL and the FireMonkey designers have been enhanced to fully support
designing applications in high-DPI. The VCL designer offers multiple configurations
and options for improved compatibility.
VCL styles preview in the designer offers the ability to design VCL forms using styles
and enabling per-control and per-form styling. This feature is enabled by default.
Code and design a form at the same time in multiple windows, including moving thedesigner between windows

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Welcome Page with rapid access to commonly used features, including recent andfavorite projects, GetIt and YouTube feeds, patches notifications. The layout of the
Welcome Page is highly configurable, offers background images, and supports adding
custom frames with a specific ToolsAPI.
IDE support for Markdown documents, including Markdown preview, and a
VCL-based HTML preview (replacing the Internet Explorer based one)
FireMonkey designers guidelines and designer hints (component hints and position
hints)New Delphi Code Insight implementation (based on the Language Server Protocolarchitecture, or Delphi LSP) for including Code Completion, Parameter Completion,
Error Insight, Find Declaration, and Tooltip/Help Insight. Enhancements include
support for include files, better lifetime management of the agent processes,
numerous fixes, and increased performance. In 12.x, code completion again includes
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specific acceptance keys, while 12.2 has improvements in auto completion andnavigating symbols in the class interface and forwarded type declarations.
64-bit binary version of the Delphi LSP engine, to allow parsing a very large projectwith no memory constraints
Help Insight implementation, based on customizable XSLT and CSS configurations anddisplayed in a VCL-based HTML view
C++Builder integration of the Visual Assist, a plugin previously available only for Visual
Studio, offering better Code Insight including code completion, code navigations andrefactorings.
Visual Assist features include finding where your code is used with Find References orFind 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.
C++ code formatter based on clang-format, including the ability to format as you typeand several predefined formatting styles

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIASupport for using Delphi LSP in Visual Studio Code and other external editors

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Enhanced editor tabs, including the ability to use different, customizable colors for thetabs of files of different types and more options for the close button.
Editor ability to highlight matching words. This feature allows you to see instances ofthe same word you have selected, or the cursor is currently in, highlighted on thescreen.

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Code editor status bar font zooming, syntax highlighter and file encoding selections
NEW IN
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Syntax highlighting in many secondary windows, like Structure view, Error Insightmessages, and Navigation toolbar.
Modern IDE Title bar with integrated IDE desktop functionality (using the matching
VCL control)
IDE productivity tool: Bookmarks*, which extends the IDE’s previous marking oflocations in the code editor.
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

IDE productivity tool: Navigator*, which allows you to quickly jump to any location inyour unit through intelligent search (for Delphi), and adds a minimap to the code
editor.
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)
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Styled IDE UI, including ability to toggle and disable IDE styling and support for a darkstyle. The IDE has a Light theme based around the blue color, a Dark theme and athird Mountain Mist theme. Since 11.2 it’s possible to also use a custom VCL style.
Additional IDE Startup Layout for the Welcome Page, with the ability for users tochange and set the layout they want to use for each layout, including Startup
The Messages view uses different colors for compiler errors, messages, and hints tobetter highlights issues (the colors can be customized)
Delphi project option “Show general messages” to show info messages when building
a project
Method Toxicity Metrics; Bookmarks stack, Selection Expansion
IDE built with large memory address model, to provide significantly more memory to
the embedded compilers, integrated debuggers, and various tools executed in the IDE
process
Compiler unit caching mechanism, to free older units in case the available memory is
being filled up, when compiling project groups with multiple projects
Multi-monitor support in the IDE, with the ability to place most forms and panes on
different secondary monitors
Form designer option to hide/show non-visual controls icon (reducing form design
potential clutter)
Structure View Icons representing the corresponding component
Unsaved file auto-recovery – unsaved work is periodically saved to a temporary
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IDE Project Options to enable High-DPI Awareness in your applications, supporting
several execution levels affecting the project manifest file on Windows
Full customization of the Object Inspector layout, with the ability of hiding thedescription panel, the quick actions, and the filter panel
Object Inspector contents can be filtered to display specific elements
Shortcuts to increase/decrease the size of the font in the code editor
GetIt Library Manager for easy discovery, download and update of source code
libraries, components, and other features from Embarcadero GetIt servers*.
* 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.

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GetIt Library Manager with support for updates, sort by date, subscription only
packages, cached images, and an updated UI. Enhancements in 11.2 included a filter bylanguage and the introduction of Local GetIt Packages*. Further enhancements in 12
include the ability to load multiple GetIt packages* at once and better logging.
* The us of Local GetIt Packages requires an active Update Subscription

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Configuration settings migration tool to migrate configurations of older versions of the
product to a newer version, or between different installations of the same version
Project statistics information for activity tracking and to better understand teamproductivity (optional and disabled by default)
Multi-paste support to let you perform the same paste operation on multiple sourcecode lines at once
Structural highlighting ; Flow control highlighting, to visually see the flow jumps in yourcode directly in the editor; Code navigation toolbar with classes and methods combo
boxes at the top of the editor, with an additional option to hide it
Support for adding database files and simplifying their deployment in the ProjectManager
Install experience based on the GetIt architecture; with the ability to select theplatforms to install and add more platforms later from the IDE (which has a Platforms
Manager option in the Tools menu). Recent features include upfront language selection
and custom catalog repository folder, plus a faster parallel download and installation
Supporting unattended, silent installation both in online and offline mode.
A set of examples and demos to help new and existing developers get the most out of
the environment
Designer snapshots – copy form images to the clipboard
IDE Insight, the fastest way to find and execute commands in the IDE with 1-button
click also with object inspector property support

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Code Formatter and beautification for source code including block formatting

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Command-line Code Formatter for integration with automated build processes,
enhanced in 11 Alexandria with clang-format support for C++
Code Formatter profiles allow users to create / save / load custom formatter options
sets

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11 ALEXANDRIA.clang-format C++ code formatter configuration file support to automatically format
code following the per-project convention used by many open source projects, plus a
Embarcadero style
Search for Usages command available from the code editor and Delphi Class Explorer
context menus
Compilation can be done in a background thread
Support for C++ parallel building through batch compilation
Build a C++ project accelerated over multi-core with the TwineCompile addon* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not for Community Edition)

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Checkbox for Boolean types in the Object Inspector greatly enhancing readability
Class Explorer gives configurable hierarchical views of class libraries throughout the
project. Also enables fast navigation to declarations and implementations, as well aseasy addition of fields and methods.
Resource Manager to simplify the addition of resources to projects
Live Code Templates – dynamic scriptable templates streamlines coding complex andcommon structures and operations. Create or customize code templates and control
the behavior, code generation, and user experience of your templates. SurroundTemplates that can wrap around selected code or text.
Editor “Change Bar” indicates modified lines and saved modified lines“Smart” Block completion – anticipates and gracefully adds block closures as you type
Virtual form positioner for VCL designer and FireMonkey designer
Main toolbar with the addition of Run without Debug option
Ability to run selected applications with either Run or Run without Debug from thecontext menu in the Project Manager
Hot-key Tool Palette w/ Incremental search – find any component quickly
Gallery in Tool Palette – find gallery wizards when you need them
SyncEdit – block-edit multiple instances of a symbol simultaneously
History Manager with automatic multi-level file backups, file differencing and restore
Structure Pane that displays hierarchical view of source code and provides a VCL
Object Treeview for quick navigation and manipulation of objects in the VCL designer
Syntax Highlighting Open Tools API extension with built in support for JavaScript, PHP,
and INI files
Ability to individually customize editor options for particular file types

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Full-featured Open Tools API allows for customization of the IDE through wizards andexperts, operate on projects and their various modules, access to the editor anddesigners, with improved style and theme support
IDE ToolsAPI extended in 12.0 with direct access to editor content and more
information about the editor display. Version 11.3 added support for painting in thecode editor and highlighting elements of the source code, a new foundation allowing
developers to customize the editor.
Symbol Insight – click to navigate to declarations and implementations
Code Folding configuration and properties
Updated support for Code Completion for the C++ language, with asynchronous
invocation support, based on the Language Server Protocol architecture
Custom IDE desktop layout profiles with enhanced support for docked windows
To-do lists keep your development on track
Help Insight – convenient tooltips provide help snippets as you develop
English, German, French, and Japanese translations available for IDE menus anddialogs, compiled units, resources, and source code
Easy switching between the available languages for the IDE menus, dialogs, and more
SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT

Version Insight – Integrated framework for supporting source code management
tooling inside the IDE
Subversion integration into the IDE, including change list labels, SVN merge dialog,
branches switching and more (requires a separately installed subversion client library)
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A full default Diff viewer
Git version control integration into the IDE, including authentication, Push and Pullchanges to and from remote repositories
Mercurial version control integration into the IDE (supports cloning your remoterepository, commit changes locally, show log data)
Version Insight also available as an open source project
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Rename Refactoring across code and designers for C++, provided by the integration ofVisual Assist
Three new refactorings powered by Visual Assist: Introduce Variable, Create From
Usage and Extract Method.
Find References, provided by Visual Assist. Configurable Find References granularity:
entire project group, current project, or the current unit
Create Declaration and Create Implementation, to automatically create the matching
method declaration or empty method implementation when only one is defined.
Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Add Include: adds the #include statement to include the header for a type used incode, for both user headers and system headers. Provided by the integration of Visual
AssistPrototype synchronization – as you change the prototype for a function, you can use
this Change Params to synchronize the interface and implementation sections tomatch
Extract Method refactoring, Rename refactoring across code and designers, Find
References
Delphi Declare variable, Declare field, Extract to resource string refactorings
SEARCH AND NAVIGATION

Find and Replace inline in the code editor, including incremental search
Find in Files, with the ability to search using a search term, including optional casesensitivity or for whole or partial words, or a regular expression across the current file,files in the project, project group, open files, or folders
Find Declaration: go to the declaration of a type or method
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12 ATHENSGo To Interface and Go To Declaration: navigate to the declaration or implementationof a method, including quick toggle shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Up/Down. For C++, provided
by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Member, to search and navigate through the member fields, methods andproperties of a type, including of the type of a variable. Provided by the integration ofVisual Assist
Find Symbol, to find any symbol defined in the project group and any headers
including system and platform headers it includes. Provided by the integration ofVisual Assist
Go To Related: for #include files, to list and navigate to the headers included by theheader in question, or the headers that include the header in question, as well as
opening the file or showing it in Explorer. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: for types, list and navigate to the ancestor base classes, or derived
descendant classes; go to the constructor, type definition, or type declaration; or go tomember. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: for methods, go to the base / ancestor methods a virtual method
overrides, or the descendant derived methods that override a virtual method; go totype member. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: for variables / parameters: go to the declaration of the symbol’s type,including portions of the type such as template and template parameter; go to typemember. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: similar features for macros and properties defined using the __property
keyword, including going to ancestor and descendant property redeclarations.
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Full-featured debugger with color syntax highlighting for the call stack, debugger
tooltips and other views
Debug remote and local 64-bit Windows applications

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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
Debug remote macOS 64-bit applications (Intel and ARM). The Delphi macOS 64-bit
ARM debugger is based on the LLDB debugger architecture, and in 11.3 the Delphi
macOS 64-bit Intel debugger uses LLDB as well.
Remote iOS 64-bit device debugging (excluding iOS 17 devices, where debugging iscurrently unavailable)
Debugging of apps on iOS Simulator on ARM 64-bit macOS (based on LLDB debugger
architecture)
Debug Android 64-bit apps on device. The Delphi Android 64-bit debugger is now
based on the LLDB debugger architecture,
Remote Linux 64-bit debugging. The Delphi Linux 64-bit debugger is now based on
the LLDB debugger architecture,
Improved debugging support for Clang-enhanced C++ compilers for Win32

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Debugging support for the Clang 15 Win64 C++ compiler, with support for PDB debug
info
Support for Delphi Unicode string evaluation, for evaluating properties and variants
and function call support when debugging iOS64 applications
CPU View support for iOS and Android application debugging along with support forDelphi Dynamic Arrays
Debugging visualizers to enable extended views of debugging data, enhanced withsupport for Delphi generics and C++ templates
Build debugger visualizers for your own custom data types
Debug visualizer for TStrings, TDateTime, TDate, and TTime types
Detach from “Debug session in progress. Terminate?” dialog
Multi-threaded-debugging the ability to selectively “Freeze” and “Thaw” threads
Multi-threaded-debugging the ability to set a breakpoint for a selected thread
Support for Wait Chain Traversal on Windows
Disassembly pane has “Show Opcodes” and “Show Addresses” local menu items
Debugger Options: “Scroll new events into view” and “Ignore non-user breakpoints”
Call Stack View shows a glyph indicating if the frame has debug info
CPU view panes can be opened individually outside of an editor tab
Integration between debugger views and panes making it easier to find andunderstand information
Call Stack view automatically syncs the Locals view when you double click an item
Evaluator tooltip hints go transparent when the CTRL key is pressed, allowing you to
see through them to the editor
Expandable tooltip expression evaluation
Expandable watches and local variables view
Selective symbol table loading
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Multi-select and copy to clipboard support in CPU view
Ctrl-Click in editor gutter to enable/disable breakpoints
Sort by load order in Modules view
Set Next Statement local menu item in editor

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Exception notification dialog: Break/Continue buttons, “Ignore exception type”
checkbox
Thread view displays status on all processes and threads under debugger control.
Multi-Process debugging for easy tracing through complex applications. Debug
spawned processes
CPU view for low-level debugging, Starting with 11.2, the CPU View offers syntax
highlighting
Breakpoint view with toolbar, in-place editing, and enable/disable checkbox.
Breakpoint Data Aware Triggers. Advanced breakpoints with Tooltips, actions, andgroups for complete debugging control
Watch view supporting in place editing, checkbox enable/disabling, and the watchnames separated from the values with columns
Multi-tab watch view for logically grouping variables
Attach to and debug any process, detach from any process
Run until return
Debug Inspector for easily monitoring properties while debugging
Event log view
INTEGRATED UNIT TESTING

Integrated unit testing with the DUnitX testing framework
DUnitX unit testing support for mobile platforms (iOS and Android)
DUnitX unit testing support for Linux
Runtime support for the DUnit testing framework
Unit test wizards for quick and easy unit test and unit test project creation
Execute unit tests from project manager
INTEGRATED HELP

Support for CHM help engine and updated IDE help structure
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS

Continually updated help system with diagrams showing class hierarchy and declared
members pages

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS

Online documentation available at https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/
DATABASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND CONNECTIVITY

Powerful cross-platform and multi-database DB access architecture, based on
TDataSet class, field definitions, fields and parameters managements
Support for multiple TDataSet descendant classes shipping with the product oravailable form third-party vendors
Support for display options for BlobFields
Direct GUID access for TField classes
Control of the automatic and persistent fields of a data set using the FieldOptions andFieldLifeCycle features.

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FIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY 2

Desktop platforms enterprise database support, including MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft
SQL Server, Oracle Database, InterBase, PostgreSQL, Informix, Sybase SQL Anywhere,
Microsoft Access, IBM DB2 Server, Firebird, Advantage Database, generic ODBC driver
Support for local databases, including Microsoft Access database, SQLite and MariaDB
database, IBToGo / IBLite, InterBase on localhost, MySQL Embedded, MySQL Server
on localhost, Advantage Database local engine, PostgreSQL on localhost, Firebird
Embedded, Firebird on localhost
Some features in this table marked as 2 are limited to local connections in Professional andCommunity Editions

NEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN
12 ATHENSLinux enterprise database support, including MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server,
Oracle Database, InterBase, PostgreSQL, Sybase SQL Anywhere, IBM DB2 Server,
Firebird, Advantage Database, MongoDB, generic ODBC driver. Includes also support
for local databases like SQLite database and IBToGo / IBLite.
FireDAC support for the classic QBE mode (Query-By-Example), making it easier to letcustomers create database table filters
FireDAC configuration (TFDSecurityOptions) to help developers improve databaseapplication security with options to filter allowed SQL command kinds, disable single
SQL statements with multiple commands, disable dynamic changes to SQL
statements, and verifying operations affect only one row.

ENHANCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIA

Improved FireDAC’s FDMonitor and FDExplorer tools

ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS

iOS and Android mobile database support, including SQLite, IBToGo and IBLite. IBLite
is not available also in the iOS Simulator
FireDAC Microsoft SQL Server driver, with support for the latest Microsoft ODBCDriver for SQL Server (version 18)
FireDAC MySQL driver, supporting MySQL v 8.0 and MariaDB v 10.6, MySQL Prepared
Statements API, internal BLOB streaming

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2

2

2

2

2

2

2

2

FireDAC ODBC driver 13, with support for data type mapping by data type name
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENSENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

Updated FireDAC SQLite driver with support for version 3.42 while maintaining theoption of using SQLite 3.31.1 with FireDAC encryption (FDE). Offers both static anddynamic linkage of SQLite engine. Includes support for SQLite SEE.
FireDAC InterBase with support for TRUNCATE command, transaction wait time andlittle/big endian configuration in connection parameters, which adds to the support forquerying the database service manager, real BLOB streaming and array data type
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, querychange notifications, implicit ROWID fetching, implicit results, additional connection
modes, network timeouts, and transaction state detection and synchronization.
TFDOracleAdmin service component

ENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENSENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENS

2

FireDAC Advantage driver with support for version 12 features like GUID data type,backup archive, default values phrase; improved support for encrypted tables,
improved TFDADSUtility component
FireDAC DB2 driver, with support for DB2 on AS/400, IDENTITY columns, and aconnection definition parameter
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.
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
FireDAC SQL Anywhere driver, with support for ToolHome property and
FDEventAlerter

Some features are limited to local connections in Professional and Community editions

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Updated FireDAC Informix driver with support for retaining update locks andpessimistic locking, plus ISAM error codes
Complete FireDAC support for the NoSQL MongoDB database, including a FireDAC
MongoDB driver, with TimeZone connection parameter
MongoDB API wrapping classes, including TMongoConnection, TMongoDatabase andTMongoCollection
MongoDB query, pipeline, update commands, with fluent methods builders
MongoDB specific datasets, including TFDMongoDataSet (which allows to attach
dataset to MongoDB cursor), TFDMongoQuery (which allows to execute queries to
MongoDB collection) and TFDMongoPipeline (which allows to execute pipelines to
MongoDB collection), and TMongoDocument Iterator method to iterate throughdocument items
FireDAC Teradata database support, based on the Teradata database ODBC driver
FireDAC support for InterBase Change Views
FireDAC support for change notifications, with additional support for Oracle andMongoDB databases
Tools and scripts to help migration of dbExpress code to FireDAC
FireDAC streaming support for blob fields and support for MSSQL file streams
Support for DBMS API command native timeouts
FireDAC connection parameters are now displayed in the Object Inspector as a record
IBLite specific FireDAC driver for desktop and mobile (Delphi only)InterBase encryption connection options
Windows and macOS (Delphi only) native driver for Informix database
Source code of the included database drivers
Comprehensive support for SQLite v3.+ database, including "smart" data type
recognition, supporting both dynamic and static linking
FireDAC ETL support (Batch move) with optimization and extension of the
TFDBatchMoveSQLWriter component, with support for MERGE / INSERT OR REPLACE
commands and for dmAppend, dmUpdate, dmAppendUpdate modes. Features the
JSON Writer support added in 10.2.2.
Easy to use TDataSet descendant classes
Unified Data Access API
FireDAC cached updates mode, offering AutoCommitUpdates property andcompatibility with ClientDataSet
FireDAC clients for DataSnap
High-performance in-memory dataset
FireDAC complete source code, including drivers source code
Live Data Window mode enabling fast bi-directional navigation through large datasets
Array Data Manipulation Language (DML) command execution and Command Batches
for batch applications and for minimizing network traffic
Direct support for asynchronous command execution, command execution timeout,
and command execution canceling
Cached updates mode with ability to track correlated changes for several datasetswith cascading updates
Full support for auto-incrementing fields, including those based on generators andtable triggers
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Data type unification with flexible and adjustable data type mapping
Easy to use TFDMemTable - in-memory dataset, highly compatible with
TClientDataSet, now including optimized JSON serialization and the ability to edit thedataset data at design time
DataSnap client support for HTTP, HTTPS and TCP/IP protocols and authentication
Local SQL with heterogeneous SQL commands to TDataSets, full SQLite SQL dialect
support, ad-hoc TDataSet lookup
OTHER DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES

TClientDataset for managing and manipulating datasets in-memory for Windows
ClientDataSet support for 64-bit Linux
ClientDataSet support for 64-bit macOS, iOS, Android
LiveBindings connect any type of data to any UI or graphical element in VCL and FMX
dbGO™ for ADO connectivity for Windows (MDAC 2.8)
InterBase Express (IBX) Components for Windows
InterBase Express (IBX) Components support for iOS and Android

WEBBROKER AND WEBSTENCILSWebBroker library for HTTP servers development and integration, supporting CGI, ISAPI
libraries for Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTP server modules, and native HTTP servers basedon Indy library
WebBroker deployment support in Linux, as stand-alone or Apache modules
INTRODUCED IN
11.1 ALEXANDRIANEW IN12.2 ATHENSNEW IN12.2 ATHENS

WebBroker deployment support for Android
WebStencils server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files, todevelop modern websites based on any JavaScript library, powered by the data
extracted and processed by a RAD Studio server-side application. This is a new,sophisticated architecture introduced in RAD Studio 12.2
Use the WebStencils components, TWebStencilsProcessor and TWebStencilsEngine, tocustomize 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 3

ENHANCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIAINTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIANEW IN
12 ATHENSNEW IN12.2 ATHENSRAD Server turnkey REST based middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access,and SQL Database access, with significantly optimized performance3
Freely, unlimited distributable*, limited-bandwidth, easy-to-deploy RAD Server Liteversion (based on embedded InterBase ToGo database)*Requires a free to redeem license key
The RAD Server engine is built with the FastMM5 memory manager, which improves
performance, specifically in heavy multithreading scenarios.
WebStencils integration in RAD Server by combining the existing TEMSFileResourcecomponent with a TWebStencilsEngine component
Build, test and deploy RAD Server packages on Linux
Create custom REST APIs for your business functionality and map them to custom URIs,
using loadable packages for RAD server
Integrated with FireDAC high-performance enterprise data access for Oracle, DB2,
Microsoft SQL Server, Informix, SQL Server, and many more database servers

3Enterprise 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

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EndpointProduce attribute to map MIME types (from Accept HTTP request header) to
GET endpoints; EndpointConsume attribute to map MIME types (from Content-Type
HTTP request header) to PUT, POST, PATCH endpoints
Ability to easily support a smart ID model (squids), using a standard library to define
better identifiers for resources exposed by the server.
HTTP Verb to Custom Method Name Mapping

INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIAENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA

Ability to Delegate Processing of a Request to a Custom Class or Component (sharing
response processing code)
TEMSFileResource and TEMSDataSetResource components for an extremely simplified
implementation of RAD Server endpoints mapped to file system folders access anddatabase tables and queries access, including support for paging and sorting
TRESTRequestDataSetAdapter component to simplify uploading a TDataSet (like a
TFDMemTable) to a server via JSON -- for use with the TRESTResponseDataSetAdapter
component on the server side
FireDAC database connection wizard, for generating a properly configured
TEMSDataSetResource components mapped to queries for one or more selected
database tables
RAD Server (EMS) multi-tenancy support and console app for managing tenantsconfiguration (on Windows and Linux)
RAD Server File Dispatching and multipart/form-data support
RAD Server Console UI redesign and migration to the Ext JS library
EMS Push Notifications server support for iOS and Android (updated to Firebase)
EMSClientAPI component to simplify EMS client side development

ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENS

User, groups, sessions, and API calls analytics and reporting using a web based interface
using the EMS Console (eventually filtered by tenant)Available RAD Server Console (RSConsole.exe) client application to manage user
accounts, edit the local configuration and run REST debugger-based requests against a
RAD Server instanceThingPoint provides developers with an enterprise access point between remote gadgets
and devices; a ThingPoint can locally store, filter, and compute vast amounts of IoT datacollected at the edge, while ensuring only critical data is synched with the central
repository, a RAD Server
Support for declaring and retrieving EMS metadata, based on the Swagger open API
initiative (http://swagger.io). This allows the use of the metadata language as YAML or
JSON for the representation of the EMS REST API. Initial documentation generation is
optional on the RAD Server module wizard. 12.2 adds support for custom metadata in
Swagger and API filtering.
Installers to deploy the RAD Server engine and all of the required files to Windows andLinux servers (Delphi only)** Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager

Support to deploy Delphi Linux applications in general and RAD Server applications inparticular to Docker.
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager
DATASNAP MULTI-TIER

Create multi-tier database applications with DataSnap for Windows servers
Create multi-tier database applications with DataSnap for Linux servers
Deploy DataSnap servers on Microsoft IIS server (HTTP or HTTPS) using the WebBroker
architecture
Deploy DataSnap servers on Apache HTTP server (using HTTP or HTTPS) using the
WebBroker architecture. For Delphi available also on Linux.
DataSnap clients uses System.NET for HTTP and HTTPS, with no need to deploy the
OpenSLL client library (now both for REST connections and HTTP connections)
DataSnap server methods support TDBXJSONStream parameter for passing JSON
streams between client and server

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The REST URI is configurable using a new mechanism, based on a TDSMethodMapEventevent
HTTPS support in stand-alone DataSnap Applications
DataSnap server ability to terminate socket connection. Communication Timeout for
HTTP protocol
Specific DataSnap support for exposing FireDAC datasets and reconciling changes using
deltas (with the unit FireDACJSONReflect), with data compression for better throughput
optimization
Heavyweight callbacks support broadcasting to specific callbacks. Callback channel
events for servers and clients. DataSnap REST server support for multiple Callback
Tunnels
Authentication and role-based authorization.
Session Events for TCP/IP Protocol, Object support in DataSnap sessions
Monitor and control connections
DataSnap REST client connection (TDSRestConnection), for all platforms, with
SecureProtocols property
Allow query parameters in REST calls and store them
Proxy information support for HTTP connections
Session events for increased simplicity of a multi-tier implementation
DataSnap wizards from the Object Gallery to make server and client creation even easier.
DataSnap wizard source code enabling developers to build their own DataSnap server
wizards
Added support for REST(ful) interface and exposure from the Server and REST client
proxy generation
DataSnap Server Proxy generation for Object Pascal and C++ clients
Support for HTTP and HTTPS communication protocol beyond the local DataSnap(TCP/IP) approach; Added HTTP tunneling support for client code outside the firewall
Added Filter support for encryption and compression over-the-wireIncluded encryption PC1 and compression filters now included for quick enablement.
Lightweight Callbacks
Windows 32-bit and 64-bit native (DBX) clients and REST clients
macOS REST clientsREST / JavaScript client support for browser platforms
INCLUDED DATABASE TOOLS AND DATABASE ENGINES

Data Explorer support for FireDAC, optimized to add and manage database connections
and browse database schema, including primary keys, foreign keys and sequences orgenerators
Data Explorer optimized to add and manage database connections and browse DB
schemaDrag and Drop from FireDAC nodes and dbExpress nodes in the Data Explorer into forms
and data modules to speed development
Direct SQL manipulation for any FireDAC connection
ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSInterBase 2020 Update 6 Developer Edition – up to 20 users and 80 logical connections

ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSIBLite 2020 Update 6 for Windows with unlimited deployment license

ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSIBLite 2020 Update 6 for macOS, iOS, and Android, with unlimited deployment license

ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSFree InterBase ToGo Deployment License for mobile platforms. A yearly subscription for
unlimited deployment across desktop and mobile is available as a separate purchase.

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ENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENS

IBConsole, the integrated InterBase configuration and management tool, recently
updated to HighDPI and with an improved UIENHANCED IN
12.2 ATHENSAWS SDK for Delphi by Appercept*, with support for multiple AWS services, continually
expanded over time

CLOUD SUPPORT* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (requires an active Update Subscription)

Windows Azure components including AzureConnectionString, AzureBlobManagement,
AzureQueueManagment, and AzureTableManagment
Ability to manipulate Windows Azure blobs, queues, and tables
MetaData support for TAzureQueueManagement
ContinuationToken support for Azure Table
Azure support updated to the current Azure APIs
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) API
Amazon Queue Service API
Amazon SimpleDB APIAWS support updated to the current AWS APIs and a more flexible support for regions
Deploy to Amazon EC2 and Windows Azure
REST CLIENT LIBRARY AND BAAS

ENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIAREST Client Library for simplified invocation of REST services, with improvements in
MIME types handling, properties (RedirectsWithGET and SecurityProtocols) and events(OnNeedClientCert and OnAuthEvent)
Authorization support including Basic Authentication, Plan Authentication, OAuth1,
OAuth2. OAuth2 enhanced with automatic token refresh
TRestClient, TRestRequest, and TRestResponse components

ENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENSREST Debugger tool for testing REST calls and their parameters. Offers a new option tocopy values from the data grid preview.
Enhanced REST Request parameters, with support for list parameters, parameters
streaming, query parameters for all request methods, content body access
JSON reader and writers used in the REST client library
Backend as a Service (BAAS) architecture, with unified interfaces for the most common
operations like user management, file storage, objects storage, and notifications support
Integrated BaaS support for Kinvey and the Parse API
XML AND SOAP

TXMLDocument component working on all platforms
TXMLDocument component support for MSXML on Windows; native OmniXML libraryand native ADOM library on other platforms
Easier selection of the default XML engine for XML data processing
Easily create Win32, Win64 SOAP Web Services
Build client-side SOAP Web Services, including support for SOAP 1.2 clients and mobile
platforms
SOAP clients use the HTTP client library, with full support for the native SSL layer on eachplatform (with improved support for client certificates)
WSDL External Schema support
XML Transformation Tools and Components to exchange data between XML anddatasets

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Native Object Pascal and C++ XML bindings to simplify XML programming – access XML
documents using interfaces
SOAP runtime support for optional and unbounded elements
ADDITIONAL AND THIRD PARTY INTEGRATED TOOLSFILE COMPARE WITH BEYOND COMPARE TEXT COMPARE

Beyond Compare Text Compare integration
Compare and edit the contents of files with syntax highlighting, ignore changes inwhitespace and comments
Print reports of differences or save them as HTML or plain
Filter display to only show differences, optionally with a few lines of context
Built-in support for Object Pascal, C++, HTML, DFMs, and more
Adds a “Compare” menu to the IDE’s “Edit” menu and Project Manager, with commands
to compare against previous revisions, other editor tabs, and original files
Automatically configured for both differences and merges from the History view
LOGGING WITH CODESITE EXPRESSENHANCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIA

Raize Software CodeSite Express integration provides advanced application logging anddebugging capabilities** Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

Log all kinds of information without data conversions including strings, numbers, dates &times and even objects, string lists, exceptions, and much more
Log information from application code (including recursive functions and multiple
threads) without interrupting program execution or causing side effects
Emphasize important logging information through a variety of message types
Send logging messages to a CodeSite Log File for later review or to the CodeSite Live
Viewer for real-time analysis, or to both simultaneously
Utilize the extensive analysis tools in the CodeSite Viewers to analyze message logs andlocate problem areas faster
Filter message logs by application name, process id, thread name, computer name,category, and message text
Quickly organize the message log into multiple views by using the advanced CodeSite
Message Organizer
Control the amount of logging information generated by using additional CodeSite
loggers with their own Category instead of relying on arbitrary logging levels
IP*WORKS! COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS

The full version of /n software’s IP*Works! Components – A comprehensive suite ofcomponents for Internet communications including more than 40 individual components
covering every major Internet Protocol** Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

Royalty free commercial components for Internet development including ATOM, CalDAV,
FileMailer, FTP, HTMLMailer, HTTP, ICMPPort, IMAP, IPDaemon, IPInfo, IPMonitor, IPPOrt,
JSON, LDAP, Mcast, MIME, MX, NetClock, NetCode, NetDial, NNTP, Ping, POP, RCP, REST,
Rexec, Rshell, RSS, SMPP, SNPP, SOAP, Syslog, Telnet, TFTP, TraceRoute, UDPPort,
WebDav, WebForm, WebUpload, Whois, XMLp, and XMPPComponents are easy to use, with a uniform, intuitive, and extensible design; sharecommon interfaces across platforms and technologies
Components are fast, robust, and reliable with minimal resource consumption;lightweight and have no dependencies on external libraries
Detailed reference documentation, hundreds of sample applications, fully-indexed helps
files, and an extensive online knowledge base
ADDITIONAL COMPONENTS

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TeeChart Standard components including chart, DBchart, and a rich set of different
business graph types.
In addition, we offer 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 iscurrently available (some of the exclusive items might be limited to higher end SKUs)
SENCHA EXT JS PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Ext JS HTML5/JavaScript (Framework and UI Component Library) - Pro Edition
Cmd: Build Optimization Tool

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Ext JS Stencils: Design Kit

ARCHITECT ONLY

Architect: Visual App Builder

ARCHITECT ONLY

Sencha Themer: Styling Tool

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Register Servers/Databases, Database Navigator/Explorer
Query Analyzer (SQL editor) and Query Builder
Table Data Editor
Visual Analytics
Schema/Data/File Compare
Import/Export Data and DDL
ER Modeler

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ARCHITECT ONLY

ARCHITECT ONLY

ARCHITECT ONLY

ARCHITECT ONLY

ARCHITECT ONLY

Database Administration

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