RAD STUDIO 12.

1 PRODUCT FEATURE MATRIX

Each feature in the following table has an indication if it is available in Delphi and/or C++Builder . RAD Studio editions include both
languages. 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 CONTENTS
INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS APPLICATION PLATFORMS, INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS,
LICENSING AND TOOL MANAGEABILITY FMX APPLICATION PLATFORM (FIREMONKEY)
VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL) COM/DCOM SUPPORT
INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SUPPORT VISUAL LIVEBINDINGS
INTEGRATED BUILD TOOLS AND PROJECT SUPPORT RECENT C++ LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES
RECENT DELPHI LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES SHARED RUNTIME LIBRARY FEATURES
INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT SOURCE CODE MANAGEMENT
REFACTORINGS SEARCH AND NAVIGATION
INTEGRATED DEBUGGING INTEGRATED HELP
INTEGRATED UNIT TESTING DATABASE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT AND CONNECTIVITY
FIREDAC MULTI-DEVICE DATA ACCESS LIBRARY OTHER DATABASE TECHNOLOGIES
RAD SERVER WEBBROKER AND DATASNAP MULTI-TIER
DATABASE TOOLS INCLUDED DATABASE ENGINES
CLOUD SUPPORT REST CLIENT LIBRARY AND BAAS
XML AND SOAP FILE COMPARE WITH BEYOND COMPARE TEXT COMPARE
LOGGING WITH CODESITE EXPRESS IP*WORKS! COMMUNICATION COMPONENTS
TEECHART CHARTING COMPONENTS FASTREPORT REPORTING SOLUTIONS
SENCHA EXT JS PROFESSIONAL EDITION AQUA DATA STUDIO

PROFESSIONAL ARCHITECT
COMMUNITY1 ENTERPRISE
INTEGRATED COMPILERS AND TOOLCHAINS
Delphi 32-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc32)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Windows (dcc64)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for Linux Intel (dcclinux64)
Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS Intel (dccosx64)
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for macOS ARM (dccosxarm64)

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

INTRODUCED IN Delphi 64-bit compiler and toolchain for iOS Simulator on ARM 64-bit macOS
11.2 ALEXANDRIA (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 and
bcc32c). Classic Embarcadero C++ compiler and toolchain for Windows (bcc32)
C++ 17 64-bit Clang-enhanced compiler and toolchain for Windows (bcc64)
New C++ compiler for Win64. Based on Clang 15, UCRT for the C runtime, a mix of
NEW IN
12.1 ATHENS 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 can
purchase or use and on revenue derived from the product (see EULA for details) PROFESSIONAL
only

1
Community Edition is currently available for the 11.3 Alexandria release.
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Network named or concurrent licenses available PROFESSIONAL

only

Earlier version licenses included in network licenses (Delphi 2007–11, C++ Builder
2007–11). Delphi 7 and C++Builder 6 available separately PROFESSIONAL
only

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) PROFESSIONAL
only

APPLICATION PLATFORMS, INTEGRATED FRAMEWORKS, DESIGNERS AND SDKS

ENHANCED IN Support for Linux client-side applications using the bundled FMX Linux library*
12 ATHENS * Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager
FireMonkey Application Platform for creating 32-bit Windows applications and 64-bit
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS 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
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS ARM CPUs (M1), that run on macOS 14 Sonoma, macOS 13 Ventura, and macOS 12
Monterey, including support for universal binary
ENHANCED IN FireMonkey Application Platform for creating iOS ARM 64-bit applications for iOS 17
12 ATHENS and iOS 16
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS Delphi iOS Simulator support for ARM 64-bit macOS

FireMonkey Application Platform for creating native 32-bit and native 64-bit Android
ENHANCED IN ARM applications for Android 14, 13, 12, 11, and 10. Supports Android API level 34.
12.1 ATHENS * Android development requires the Android SDK from Google, which cannot be fully installed
without an Internet connection
ENHANCED IN VCL (Visual Component Library) for rapidly building 32-bit and 64-bit applications for
12 ATHENS Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 7; Windows Server 2022, 2019 and 2016
Windows MSIX package format deployment (providing support for deploying to the
ENHANCED IN Microsoft Store), including the management of additional files, MSIX packaging and
11.3 ALEXANDRIA code 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
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS 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 IN FireUI multi-device designer for visually building mobile and desktop applications and
11 ALEXANDRIA customize them at design time for different form factors and operating systems
FireUI multi-device designer ability to make changes on the main user interface that
are propagated to other device specific user interfaces and fine tune a device specific
form 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 the
devices.
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
NEW IN
12 ATHENS mapping of FireMonkey UI controls UI rendering via Skia. In general terms, Skia
improves the quality of the rendering and the performance.
NEW IN New FireMonkey Skia-based controls: TSkAnimatedImage, TSkLabel, TSkPaintBox,
12 ATHENS TSkAnimatedPaintBox, and TSkSvg
NEW IN Exclusive Skia features not found in the Skia4Delphi library:
12 ATHENS
● Vulkan Backend support for Android
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● Skia Shading Language (SKSL)

● Animated Codec: WebP Encoder
● Printer Support and Printing to PDF
FireMonkey for Windows now uses the same DP model (rather than Pixel model) of all
ENHANCED IN
11.1 ALEXANDRIA platforms, offering significant enhancement for the apps rendering on Windows
HighDPI and 4K monitors
Metal Drivers GPU Support for macOS and iOS
Mobile Biometric Authentication component, called TBiometricAuth, which provides a
INTRODUCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA means 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 IN New Styled Memo Implementation with enhanced IME support, available for all
12 ATHENS supported platforms
NEW IN FireMonkey TEdit now supports Undo functionality, using the recently added
12 ATHENS TUndoManager is shared between TEdit and TMemo
NEW IN Editing improvements with new Virtual Keyboard for iOS, better interactive text
12 ATHENS 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 book
changes 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 and
implemented using the IFMXAcceleratorKeyRegistryService platform service. There is
also a FocusControl property for the Label control to specify the focus target for the
label’s accelerator
Grid controls improvements including support for ImageList, AutoDisplacement and
CancelEditingByDefault 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 both
synchronous (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, web
link, other app)
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FireMonkey Behavior service for automatically adjusting UI properties to the target

operating system standards
MultiView component to create a UI that adapts to the form factor, from mobile to
tablet, from portrait to landscape. Now with specific support for Windows 10 UI,
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
MapView component for mobile platforms (iOS and Android) supporting platform
specific interactive mapping libraries (respectively, by Apple and Google)
ENHANCED IN WebBrowser component for Windows, with support for both the classic IE ActiveX
12 ATHENS 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 graphical
elements 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
Tint support for buttons and toolbars on iOS and Android (for control surface and
controls icons)
ENHANCED IN In-app purchase component for iOS and Android, to help monetize your applications.
11 ALEXANDRIA Android solution Google Play Billing Library Version 4
Advertising 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
Custom Pickers for iOS and Android, including Date Picker (DateEdit component) and
Time Picker, Time Picker for desktop platforms
Phone Dialer Support for iOS and Android. Enhanced in 11.3 with
ENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA IFMXPhoneDialerListenerService, 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 and
Android
Notification Center Component for using notifications in your iOS and Android
applications, including notification sound and now supporting also Windows 10
Notifications
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Gesture support for iOS and Android including swipe (pan), tap, tap and hold, double
tap and pinch & zoom
FireMonkey 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 and
Android 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 to
automatically 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 (and
when 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 and
sizing
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 and
password 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
5 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 and
Android 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 Inheritance

Use one shader language for all rendering libraries (OpenGL or 3D)

VISUAL COMPONENT LIBRARY (VCL)

Object-oriented, fully extensible and reusable visual component library (VCL) and
applications architecture for Windows development
ENHANCED IN VCL Form Designer to visually build native Windows applications, with live snap-to
11 ALEXANDRIA 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 New VCL Skia-based controls: TSkAnimatedImage, TSkLabel, TSkPaintBox,
12 ATHENS TSkAnimatedPaintBox, and TSkSvg
Support for full HighDPI and VCL styles in MDI applications. The MDI support in VCL
NEW IN
12 ATHENS has been reworked and expanded to overcome Windows platform limitations.
Includes an updated MDI form Wizard
NEW IN New TFormTabsBar control and IFormVisualManager interface to help build general
12 ATHENS tab-based UIs and a MDI tabbed forms architecture
VCL Styles support for High-DPI and 4K monitors, with support for multiple resolution
of 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

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 and
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS supporting 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 a
ENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA high-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,
ENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENS 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 pane
for editing common control properties faster, and several other additions to the IDE
designer experience
NEW IN New property editors: string list editor and multiline string editor (originally part of
12 ATHENS KSVC, Konopka Signature VCL Controls)
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NEW IN Quick configuration dialogs for buttons, radio groups and panels (originally part of
12 ATHENS KSVC, Konopka Signature VCL Controls)
Windows components fully integrated with the classic Windows API and the modern
WinRT API
A new set of units with the complete Windows API headers converted to Object
NEW IN Pascal. This API conversion includes 311 Delphi header files* with 41 MB of code,
12 ATHENS 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 your
applications, and fully understand the library behavior Limited in
COMMUNITY
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 protocol
enhancements, 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 for
styling 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 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
VCL Styling improvements, including support for styling common dialogs and the
TWebBrowser component
INTRODUCED IN TRichEdit Component updated to RichEdit 4.1 (MSFTEDIT.dll) with support for
11 ALEXANDRIA transparency, URL detection, spell checking, text attributes and more
ENHANCED IN Small enhancements to TMemo, TDBMemo, TGroupBox, TComboBox, TCoolBar,
11 ALEXANDRIA TNumberBox and other components.
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA TTreeView support for CheckBoxes
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA New TLabelDBEdit component, a data-aware version of the TLabelEdit component
Integrated gesturing framework with multi-OS support for Windows 8. Gesture
Designer enables full control of all gesture design and interaction; Gesture
components (TGestureListView, TGesturePreview, TGestureRecorder) to build gesture
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creation and management into VCL based applications; Interactive multi-touch

gestures for pan, zoom, rotate, tap, double tap, tap and hold (requires multi-touch
enabled OS)
ENHANCED IN TTouchKeyboard a virtual keyboard for enhanced non-keyboard interface interactions
11.3 ALEXANDRIA 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

Support for Windows Imaging Component (WIC) including JPEG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, BMP,
ENHANCED IN and HD Photo image formats. RAW camera formats (such as NRW, NEF, CRW, CR2,
11 ALEXANDRIA 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

Standard components including frame, edit, menu, button, label, checkbox, list box,
combo box, panel and action list
ENHANCED IN Additional components including graphical buttons, image, shape, scroll box, splitter,
11 ALEXANDRIA buttoned edit, tabs, panels, action toolbar, and color map
ENHANCED IN Windows common controls including page control, image list, rich edit, progress bar,
11 ALEXANDRIA 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 also
offering dual WebView 2 support)
Task dialog component and enhanced Windows dialog components for file open and
file save

COM/DCOM SUPPORT
Full 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 database
application 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 as
components

INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) SUPPORT

Native Bluetooth APIs (on platforms that fully support the technology) for FireMonkey
and VCL applications
Bluetooth framework improvements and TBluetooth component for classic Bluetooth

Bluetooth 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® like
layers, 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 from
the visual LiveBindings Designer view and enable/disable Wizard option in right-click
menu

INTEGRATED BUILD TOOLS AND PROJECT SUPPORT

IDE support for building and managing projects for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows

IDE support for building and managing projects for 64-bit Linux
IDE support for building and managing projects for 64-bit macOS, for Intel and ARM
ENHANCED IN (M1), including universal binary generation, macOS App Store support and integrated
11.3 ALEXANDRIA 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 or
command 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
Define Android application settings, including supported orientations, and use the
Entitlement 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
ENHANCED IN Integrated installation of Eclipse Temurin JDK OpenJDK 17 (Hotspot) JVM, required by
11.1 ATHENS Android SDK tools
IDE support for adding Java classes to an Android app classes.dex library and
customizing it
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
SdkTransform tool to convert Objective-C / C++ headers to Object Pascal headers
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Define info.plist application settings including supported orientations in the IDE

Deploy apps to the iOS Device (Debug/Ad Hoc/App Store), doing iOS device
provisioning during the deployment process – including Auto Bundle identifier and
support for executing an application from the IDE using the AdHoc target
Single App Icon Wizard, a comprehensive tool integrated within the RAD Studio IDE,
NEW IN
12 ATHENS designed to streamline the process of generating icons and splash screens for user
applications across the supported platforms
ENHANCED IN Deploy apps to Android devices (Debug/Play Store). The process has been improved
12.1 ATHENS and optimized in 12.1, with the adoption of newer Android platform tools.
ENHANCED IN Platform Assistant for deploying and debugging across platforms, including an
11 ALEXANDRIA 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 of
Platform 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
ENHANCED IN
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 all
compiler, linker options, and platform support
Named option sets to save and apply build configurations to any project; Share
option-sets between build configurations and between projects
Multi-select files in the Project Manager
ENHANCED IN Build Events for pre-build and post-build on project and file levels. Enhanced with
11 ALEXANDRIA security 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

RECENT C++ LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES

ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Win32 C++ Clang-enhanced compiler (with C++ 17 language support)
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Win64 C++ Clang-enhanced compiler (with C++ 17 language support)
NEW IN
12.1 ATHENS New Win64 C++ Clang 15 compiler (This feature was available as a preview in 12.0)
NEW IN New Win64 C++ Clang 15 STL using libc++, plus new RTL, new C RTL, and new
12.1 ATHENS toolchain including LLVM-based linker (This feature was available as a preview in 12.0)
ENHANCED IN C++ runtime library (RTL) built with the updated Clang-enhanced compiler for Win32
11 ALEXANDRIA and Win64, including 2018 edition of Dinkumware STL
Improved C++ and Delphi ABI and header compatibility
Improved C++ and Delphi code interoperability to assist using Delphi and C++ projects,
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA including string_view support for Delphi strings, easy C++/Delphi string assignment,
and string to/from conversion methods for common Delphi RTL types
ENHANCED IN Support for using our C++Builder compilers to build CMake projects on the command
11 ALEXANDRIA line 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
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The Clang-enhanced compilers are large-address aware and can take advantage of
additional 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 as
a header guard
[[deprecated]] attribute to flag constructs as deprecated

Secure C library functions

Custom evaluators for C++ Strings types

INTRODUCED IN Using C++ smart pointers (std::make_unique and std::make_shared) on Delphi-style
11 ALEXANDRIA classes
ENHANCED IN C++ RTTI compatibility with Delphi, with C++-compatible RTTI generated for Delphi
11 ALEXANDRIA types, including using typeid() on Delphi types
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Updated edition of the Dinkumware STL with C++17 headers for Win32 and Win64

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 to
address heap errors

RECENT DELPHI LANGUAGE AND CORE RTL FEATURES

Long string literals and multiline string literals, limited by triple quotes, to allow
NEW IN
12 ATHENS embedding of SQL, HTML, JSON, XML and similar text within an application source
code
NEW IN Weak type alias definition for NativeInt, do help write code that works better across
12 ATHENS 32-bit and 64-bit compilers.
Support for generating a GraphViz file with the uses unit graph, to help detect circular
NEW IN
12 ATHENS uses reference and visualize the overall structure of the dependencies across the
modules of an application
NEW IN
12 ATHENS Support for NaN comparisons for floating point numbers, as required by IEEE 754
INTRODUCED IN Binary literals and digit separator support. Inline assembler support for AVX
11 ALEXANDRIA instructions (AVX-512)
Custom managed records with the ability to define custom Initialize, Finalize and
Assign operations, executed when a record is allocated, de-allocated, and copied
Standard functions for low-level bit processing operations: CountLeadingZeros,
CountTrailingZeros, CountPopulation
Inline variables declaration, supporting local scope, direct initialization, and type
inference; inline constants declaration
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Type inference for inline variable declarations (the type is inferred from the value
assigned to the variable)
ENHANCED IN Support for calling WinRT APIs, with now over 50 specific Object Pascal interface
12 ATHENS 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 constant
and dynamic arrays
String-like operations on dynamic arrays including + operator concatenation, Insert
and Delete
Class, record, and intrinsic types helpers
ENHANCED IN Predefined helpers for core types such as string, char, integer, other ordinal types, and
11 ALEXANDRIA floating point types. Now also for TDateTime and Currency data types.
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA RTTI 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 char
manipulation
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 Linux
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Delphi 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 faster
multi-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
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Delphi RTL for macOS 64-bit (Intel and ARM M1)

Delphi and C++ RTL for iOS, iOS 64-bit API headers and RTL integration
Delphi RTL for 64-bit Android
Delphi and C++ RTL for Android, with support for Android API level 34, a coming
ENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENS Google requirement for the Play Store app submission. In recent versions, we added
support for the new “AndroidX” libraries
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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

Native zip file support. TZipFile class has a callback to use during the extraction
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA process to know the current progress, support added to extract ZIP files with
passwords. With Zip64 support and additional features.
ENHANCED IN Regular Expressions (Regex) library, supporting PCRE UTF-16 on Windows. PCRE is
11.2 ALEXANDRIA 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 high
performance 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 TJsonWriter
classes)
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)
New JSON mapping wizard, which can generate classes matching a JSON data
NEW IN
12 ATHENS structure and proper reading and writing code to read the JSON in a set of objects and
stream it out to a new file
ENHANCED IN System.NetEncoding RTL unit for Web encoding and decoding (Base64, HTML, URL,
11 ALEXANDRIA 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
ENHANCED IN NetHTTPClient and NetHTTPRequest components, offering easy access to the HTTP
11 ALEXANDRIA 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
Support for native HTTP(S) client libraries on Linux
HTTP client library improvements including support for asynchronous HTTP requests,
time-outs, and automatic decompression of gzip content
Support for localized resources
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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 and
Unicode strings

INTEGRATED DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT

Editor split views: multiple editors side by side, above/below each other; split editors
NEW IN
12.1 ATHENS allow same file to be edited next to itself, keep both a design and a code view on
screen
New UX for the feature installer, used for the initial product installation or to add
NEW IN
12 ATHENS additional features and platforms from the IDE. Includes extended logging and easier
to access log files.
The RAD Studio IDE is high-DPI enabled (using perMonitor v2 Windows
ENHANCED IN configuration). All primary forms and panes have been enhanced, with new high-DPI
11.3 ALEXANDRIA enabled icons and toolbar button images, smooth IDE and editor fonts, and a full
high-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
ENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA designing applications in high-DPI. The VCL designer offers multiple configurations
and options for improved compatibility.
ENHANCED IN VCL styles preview in the designer offers the ability to design VCL forms using styles
11.2 ALEXANDRIA and enabling per-control and per-form styling. This feature is enabled by default.
ENHANCED IN Code and design a form at the same time in multiple windows, including moving the
11 ALEXANDRIA designer between windows
INTRODUCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA The IDE title bar shows when the it is running elevated, as administrator
Welcome Page with rapid access to commonly used features, including recent and
ENHANCED IN favorite projects, GetIt and YouTube feeds, patches notifications. The layout of the
11.2 ALEXANDRIA Welcome Page is highly configurable, offers background images, and supports adding
custom frames with a specific ToolsAPI.
INTRODUCED IN IDE support for Markdown documents, including Markdown preview, and a
11.2 ALEXANDRIA VCL-based HTML preview (replacing the Internet Explorer based one)
INTRODUCED IN FireMonkey designers guidelines and designer hints (component hints and position
11 ALEXANDRIA hints)
New Delphi Code Insight implementation (based on the Language Server Protocol
architecture, or Delphi LSP) for including Code Completion, Parameter Completion,
Error Insight, Find Declaration, and Tooltip/Help Insight. Enhancements include
ENHANCED IN support for include files, better lifetime management of the agent processes,
12.1 ATHENS numerous fixes, and increased performance. The classic engine has been removed. In
12, code completion includes again language keywords and code templates, plus many
other improvements. New in 12,1 is the ability to customize the behavior of specific
acceptance keys and an improvement in auto completion
ENHANCED IN Help Insight implementation, based on customizable XSLT and CSS configurations and
11.3 ALEXANDRIA displayed in a VCL-based HTML view
C++Builder integration of the Visual Assist, a plugin previously available only for Visual
ENHANCED IN
12.1 ATHENS Studio, offering better Code Insight including code completion, code navigations and
refactorings.
Visual Assist features include finding where your code is used with Find References or
NEW IN Find Symbol, refactorings which assist maintenance and active development in code,
12 ATHENS and navigation including the Go To Related feature. See the Refactoring section for
more information.
INTRODUCED IN C++ code formatter based on clang-format, including the ability to format as you type
11 ALEXANDRIA and several predefined formatting styles
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Support for using Delphi LSP in Visual Studio Code and other external editors
ENHANCED IN Enhanced editor tabs, including the ability to use different, customizable colors for the
11.2 ALEXANDRIA tabs 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 of
INTRODUCED IN IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA the same word you have selected, or the cursor is currently in, highlighted on the
screen.
Code editor status bar font zooming, syntax highlighter and file encoding selections
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NEW IN Syntax highlighting in many secondary windows, like Structure view, Error Insight
12 ATHENS messages, 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 of
locations 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 in
your 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)
Styled IDE UI, including ability to toggle and disable IDE styling and support for a dark
ENHANCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIA style. The IDE has a Light theme based around the blue color, a Dark theme and a
third 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 to
change and set the layout they want to use for each layout, including Startup
INTRODUCED IN The Messages view uses different colors for compiler errors, messages, and hints to
11.1 ALEXANDRIA better 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
location. If the IDE closes ungracefully (because of a system crash) the IDE will
attempt to recover the user’s unsaved work
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 the
description 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.
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 by
ENHANCED IN
language and the introduction of Local GetIt Packages*. Further enhancements in 12
12 ATHENS
include the ability to load multiple GetIt packages* at once and better logging.
* The us of Local GetIt Packages requires an active Update Subscription
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 team
productivity (optional and disabled by default)
Multi-paste support to let you perform the same paste operation on multiple source
code lines at once
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ENHANCED IN
Structural highlighting ; Flow control highlighting, to visually see the flow jumps in your
12 ATHENS
code 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 Project
Manager
Install experience based on the GetIt architecture; with the ability to select the
ENHANCED IN
platforms to install and add more platforms later from the IDE (which has a Platforms
11 ALEXANDRIA
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

ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA Code Formatter and beautification for source code including block formatting PROFESSIONAL
only

ENHANCED IN Command-line Code Formatter for integration with automated build processes,
11 ALEXANDRIA enhanced in 11 Alexandria with clang-format support for C++ PROFESSIONAL
only

Code Formatter profiles allow users to create / save / load custom formatter options
sets PROFESSIONAL
only
.clang-format C++ code formatter configuration file support to automatically format
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA 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)
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 as
easy addition of fields and methods.
Resource Manager to simplify the addition of resources to projects
Live Code Templates – dynamic scriptable templates streamlines coding complex and
common structures and operations. Create or customize code templates and control
the behavior, code generation, and user experience of your templates. Surround
Templates 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 the
context 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
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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
Full-featured Open Tools API allows for customization of the IDE through wizards and
experts, operate on projects and their various modules, access to the editor and
designers, with improved style and theme support
IDE ToolsAPI extended in 12.0 with direct access to editor content and more
ENHANCED IN information about the editor display. Version 11.3 added support for painting in the
12 ATHENS code 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 and
dialogs, 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)
Subversion/History integration

A full default Diff viewer

Git version control integration into the IDE, including authentication, Push and Pull
changes to and from remote repositories
Mercurial version control integration into the IDE (supports cloning your remote
repository, commit changes locally, show log data)
Version Insight also available as an open source project

REFACTORINGS
Prototype synchronization – as you change the prototype for a function, you can use
this Change Params to synchronize the interface and implementation sections to
match
Extract method refactoring
ENHANCED FOR C++ Rename refactoring. In C++, provided by the integration of Visual Assist and now
IN 12.1 ATHENS including refactoring across code and designers
NEW FOR C++ IN
12 ATHENS Find References. In C++, provided by the integration of Visual Assist
NEW IN
12 ATHENS Find References granularity: entire project group, current project, or the current unit
Create Declaration and Create Implementation, to automatically create the matching
NEW IN
12 ATHENS method declaration or empty method implementation when only one is defined.
Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
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Add Include: adds the #include statement to include the header for a type used in
NEW IN
12 ATHENS code, for both user headers and system headers. Provided by the integration of Visual
Assist
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 case
sensitivity 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
Go To Interface and Go To Declaration: navigate to the declaration or implementation
NEW FOR C++ IN
12 ATHENS of 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 and
NEW IN
12 ATHENS properties of a type, including of the type of a variable. Provided by the integration of
Visual Assist
Find Symbol, to find any symbol defined in the project group and any headers
NEW IN
12 ATHENS including system and platform headers it includes. Provided by the integration of
Visual Assist
Go To Related: for #include files, to list and navigate to the headers included by the
NEW IN
12 ATHENS header 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
NEW IN
12 ATHENS descendant classes; go to the constructor, type definition, or type declaration; or go to
member. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: for methods, go to the base / ancestor methods a virtual method
NEW IN
12 ATHENS overrides, or the descendant derived methods that override a virtual method; go to
type member. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: for variables / parameters: go to the declaration of the symbol’s type,
NEW IN
12 ATHENS including portions of the type such as template and template parameter; go to type
member. Provided by the integration of Visual Assist
Go To Related: similar features for macros and properties defined using the __property
NEW IN
12 ATHENS keyword, including going to ancestor and descendant property redeclarations.
Provided by the integration of Visual Assist

INTEGRATED DEBUGGING
ENHANCED IN Full-featured debugger with color syntax highlighting for the call stack, debugger
12 ATHENS tooltips and other views
Debug remote and local 64-bit Windows applications
Debugger for C++ for Win64, based on LLDB 9, including formatters to evaluate
ENHANCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA 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
ENHANCED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA ARM debugger is based on the LLDB debugger architecture, and in 11.3 the Delphi
macOS 64-bit Intel debugger uses LLDB as well.
ENHANCED IN Remote iOS 64-bit device debugging (excluding iOS 17 devices, where debugging is
11.2 ALEXANDRIA currently unavailable)
INTRODUCED IN Debugging of apps on iOS Simulator on ARM 64-bit macOS (based on LLDB debugger
11.2 ALEXANDRIA architecture)
ENHANCED IN Debug Android 64-bit apps on device. The Delphi Android 64-bit debugger is now
11.1 ALEXANDRIA based on the LLDB debugger architecture,
ENHANCED IN Remote Linux 64-bit debugging. The Delphi Linux 64-bit debugger is now based on
11.2 ALEXANDRIA the LLDB debugger architecture,
Improved debugging support for Clang-enhanced C++ compilers for Win32
NEW IN Debugging support for the Preview Clang 15 Win64 C++ compiler, with support for
12 ATHENS PDB debug info
 RAD STUDIO 12 FEATURE MATRIX 19

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 for
Delphi Dynamic Arrays
Debugging visualizers to enable extended views of debugging data, enhanced with
support 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 and
understand 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

Close implicitly opened files after debugging

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

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
ENHANCED IN CPU view for low-level debugging, Starting with 11.2, the CPU View offers syntax
11.2 ALEXANDRIA highlighting
Breakpoint view with toolbar, in-place editing, and enable/disable checkbox.
Breakpoint Data Aware Triggers. Advanced breakpoints with Tooltips, actions, and
groups for complete debugging control
Watch view supporting in place editing, checkbox enable/disabling, and the watch
names 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

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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 Continually updated help system with diagrams showing class hierarchy and declared
12 ATHENS 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 or
available 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 and
FieldLifeCycle features.

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 and
Community Editions
Linux 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.
NEW IN FireDAC support for the classic QBE mode (Query-By-Example), making it easier to let
12 ATHENS customers create database table filters
FireDAC configuration (TFDSecurityOptions) to help developers improve database
NEW IN application security with options to filter allowed SQL command kinds, disable single
12 ATHENS 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 iOS and Android mobile database support, including SQLite, IBToGo and IBLite. IBLite
12 ATHENS is not available also in the iOS Simulator

2
Some features are limited to local connections in Professional and Community editions
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ENHANCED IN FireDAC Microsoft SQL Server driver, with support for the latest Microsoft ODBC
11.2 ALEXANDRIA Driver for SQL Server (version 18)
ENHANCED IN FireDAC MySQL driver, supporting MySQL v 8.0 and MariaDB v 10.6, MySQL Prepared 2 2
11.1 ALEXANDRIA Statements API, internal BLOB streaming
FireDAC ODBC driver 13, with support for data type mapping by data type name
Updated FireDAC SQLite driver with support for version 3.42 while maintaining the
ENHANCED IN
12 ATHENS option of using SQLite 3.31.1 with FireDAC encryption (FDE). Offers both static and
dynamic linkage of SQLite engine. Includes support for SQLite SEE.
FireDAC InterBase with support for TRUNCATE command, transaction wait time and
little/big endian configuration in connection parameters, which adds to the support for 2 2
querying 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
ENHANCED IN VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2, and RAW data types up to 32K, native BOOLEAN in
11 ALEXANDRIA 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.
TFDOracleAdmin service component
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 a
connection definition parameter
FireDAC Firebird 5 driver. Includes with VendorHome driver configuration, support for
ENHANCED IN Firebird embedded and local connection protocol, FB$OUT package, long statements, 2 2
12.1 ATHENS 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
ENHANCED IN PostgreSQL 15 specific performance improvements. support for PostgreSQL Stored 2 2
12.1 ATHENS 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
Updated FireDAC Informix driver with support for retaining update locks and
pessimistic 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 and
TMongoCollection
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 through
document items
FireDAC Teradata database support, based on the Teradata database ODBC driver

FireDAC support for InterBase Change Views 2 2

FireDAC support for change notifications, with additional support for Oracle and
MongoDB 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)
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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 and
compatibility 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 datasets
with cascading updates
Full support for auto-incrementing fields, including those based on generators and
table triggers
SQL dialect abstraction through FireDAC escape sequences, conditional statements
and macros
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 the
dataset 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

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RAD SERVER 3
ENHANCED IN RAD Server turnkey REST based middleware stack that includes API hosting, data access,
11.2 ALEXANDRIA and SQL Database access, with significantly optimized performance3
Freely, unlimited distributable*, limited-bandwidth, easy-to-deploy RAD Server Lite
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA version (based on embedded InterBase ToGo database)
*Requires a free to redeem license key
NEW IN The RAD Server engine is built with the FastMM5 memory manager, which improves
12 ATHENS performance, specifically in heavy multithreading scenarios.
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
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
NEW IN Ability to easily support a smart ID model (squids), using a standard library to define
12 ATHENS better identifiers for resources exposed by the server.
HTTP Verb to Custom Method Name Mapping
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 and
database tables and queries access, including support for paging and sorting
TRESTRequestDataSetAdapter component to simplify uploading a TDataSet (like a
INTRODUCED IN
11 ALEXANDRIA 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
ENHANCED IN RAD Server (EMS) multi-tenancy support and console app for managing tenants
11 ALEXANDRIA configuration (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

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 instance
ThingPoint provides developers with an enterprise access point between remote gadgets
and devices; a ThingPoint can locally store, filter, and compute vast amounts of IoT data
collected 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.
Installers to deploy the RAD Server engine and all of the required files to Windows and
Linux servers (Delphi only)*
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager
Support to deploy Delphi Linux applications in general and RAD Server applications in
particular to Docker.

3
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
 RAD STUDIO 12 FEATURE MATRIX 24

* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager

WEBBROKER AND DATASNAP MULTI-TIER

WebBroker library for HTTP servers development and integration, supporting CGI, ISAPI
libraries for Microsoft IIS, and native HTTP servers based on Indy library
WebBroker support for Apache HTTP server modules

WebBroker default encoding changed to UTF-8 rather than ANSI

WebBroker deployment support in Linux, as stand-alone or Apache modules

INTRODUCED IN
11.1 ALEXANDRIA WebBroker deployment support for Android

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
INTRODUCED IN The REST URI is configurable using a new mechanism, based on a TDSMethodMapEvent
11 ALEXANDRIA event
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-wire

Included encryption PC1 and compression filters now included for quick enablement.
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Lightweight Callbacks

Windows 32-bit and 64-bit native (DBX) clients and REST clients

macOS REST clients

REST / JavaScript client support for browser platforms

DATABASE TOOLS
Data Explorer support for FireDAC, optimized to add and manage database connections
and browse database schema, including primary keys, foreign keys and sequences or
generators
Data Explorer optimized to add and manage database connections and browse DB
schema
Drag 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

INCLUDED DATABASE ENGINES

ENHANCED IN
12.0 ATHENS InterBase 2020 Update 5 Developer Edition – up to 20 users and 80 logical connections
ENHANCED IN
12.0 ATHENS IBLite 2020 Update 5 for Windows with unlimited deployment license
ENHANCED IN
12.0 ATHENS IBLite 2020 Update 5 for macOS, iOS, and Android, with unlimited deployment license
ENHANCED IN Free InterBase ToGo Deployment License for mobile platforms. A yearly subscription for
12.0 ATHENS unlimited deployment across desktop and mobile is available as a separate purchase.

CLOUD SUPPORT
AWS SDK for Delphi by Appercept*, with support for multiple AWS services, continually
ENHANCED IN
12.0 ATHENS expanded over time
* 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 API

AWS 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

REST Client Library for simplified invocation of REST services, with improvements in
MIME types handling, properties (RedirectsWithGET and SecurityProtocols) and events
(OnNeedClientCert and OnAuthEvent)
ENHANCED IN Authorization support including Basic Authentication, Plan Authentication, OAuth1,
11.3 ALEXANDRIA OAuth2. OAuth2 enhanced with automatic token refresh
TRestClient, TRestRequest, and TRestResponse components
ENHANCED IN REST Debugger tool for testing REST calls and their parameters. Offers a new option to
12.1 ATHENS copy values from the data grid preview.
 RAD STUDIO 12 FEATURE MATRIX 26

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 library
and 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 each
platform (with improved support for client certificates)
WSDL External Schema support
XML Transformation Tools and Components to exchange data between XML and
datasets
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 TOOLS

FILE COMPARE WITH BEYOND COMPARE TEXT COMPARE
Beyond Compare Text Compare integration
Compare and edit the contents of files with syntax highlighting, ignore changes in
whitespace 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 EXPRESS

Raize Software CodeSite Express integration provides advanced application logging and
ENHANCED IN
11.2 ALEXANDRIA
debugging 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 and
locate problem areas faster
 RAD STUDIO 12 FEATURE MATRIX 27

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 of
components 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 XMPP
Components are easy to use, with a uniform, intuitive, and extensible design; share
common 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

TEECHART CHARTING COMPONENT

TeeChart Standard components including chart, DBchart, and a rich set of different
UPDATED IN
11.3 ALEXANDRIA business graph types.*
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

FASTREPORT REPORTING SOLUTIONS

FastReport VCL RAD Edition reporting tool *
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)
Exports to popular formats (PDF, RTF, HTML, BMP, JPEG, TIFF, GIF, TXT, CSV)

Grouping with drill-downs

Caching of the big reports(uses less memory)

Six levels in master-detail-subdetail relation

FastReport FMX RAD Edition reporting tool *
* Available for download in the GetIt Package Manager (not included in Community Edition)

SENCHA EXT JS PROFESSIONAL EDITION

Ext JS HTML5/JavaScript (Framework and UI Component Library) - Pro Edition

ARCHITECT ONLY

Cmd: Build Optimization Tool

ARCHITECT ONLY

Ext JS Stencils: Design Kit

ARCHITECT ONLY

Architect: Visual App Builder

ARCHITECT ONLY

Sencha Themer: Styling Tool

ARCHITECT ONLY

AQUA DATA STUDIO

Register Servers/Databases, Database Navigator/Explorer

ARCHITECT ONLY

Query Analyzer (SQL editor) and Query Builder

ARCHITECT ONLY
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Table Data Editor

ARCHITECT ONLY

Visual Analytics
ARCHITECT ONLY

Schema/Data/File Compare
Import/Export Data and DDL ARCHITECT ONLY

ER Modeler
ARCHITECT ONLY

Database Administration
ARCHITECT ONLY

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