Delphi 10.2.1 "Tokyo" has been released!

Announcing Delphi 10.2.1 "Tokyo"!

Good news to all Delphi and C++ Builder developers! Embarcadero Technologies released RAD Studio , Delphi and C++ Builder 10.2.1 "Tokyo" today and are now globally available.

This is the first update (Release 1) to RAD Studio 10.2. RAD Studio 10.2.1 includes the following  new features, enhancements, and bug fixes:

• Delphi Linux server performance enhancements for both RAD Server and DataSnap.
• Delphi and C++ compiler and linker updates that resolve issues loading packages, especially when debugging, on Windows 10 Creators Update.
• Support for latest versions of iOS and Xcode (iOS 10.3 and XCode 8.3.2) when targeting the iOS App Store.
• FireDAC support for MSSQL 2012, 2014, 2016, and ODBC Driver 13.
• Significant C++ linker improvements pertaining to linking larger projects.
• Fixes and enhancements to the Runtime Library and VCL.
• Additional Android enhancements around control rendering and performance, and fixes for TEdit issues with Android N.
• FireDAC Support for InterBase 2017 Exclusive Isolation Level and Transaction Wait Time.
• Changes in DataSize for fields of type ftInteger and ftLongWord to avoid using the platform-dependent LongInt and LongWord type (the change affects only 64-bit Linux and 64-bit iOs platforms), and related changes for SetFieldData and GetFieldData
• Fixes for over 140 issues reported by customers in Quality Portal.

The download links for RAD Studio can be found here:

• RAD Studio 10.2.1 (EXE)
• RAD Studio 10.2.1 (ISO)
• RAD Studio 10.2.1 (GSA - ISO)

Here is an official blog post about the release: https://community.embarcadero.com/article/16556-rad-studio-10-2-1-released-today

You can also go and download the free Starter Edition of Delphi or C++ Builder.

Apart from the awesome release of RAD Studio 10.2.1 "Tokyo", I'm also releasing a brand new and free 4K resolution Delphi Programming For Absolute Beginners in FireMonkey Course (Find the blog post here).

CodeRage XI for Object-Pascal and C++ Developers

The 11th edition of the free online CodeRage sessions will kick off on the 15th of November 2016. It is dubbed as Productivity, Platforms and Performance.

The sessions will be available for replay after it is finished live, but you will only get a chance to participate in the Q&A if you attend the live sessions. The sessions is there for all skill levels. You can get ready for CodeRage XI by downloading a free trial of RAD STUDIO Enterprise, https://www.embarcadero.com/products/rad-studio/start-for-free

The following things will be talked about:

• How to manage Exif from graphic files with Delphi app.
• Debug logging in FireMonkey apps
• Using your old phone as a security cam
• Advantages of the Clang compilers
• Using Delphi containers like TList<> from C++
• C++ standard algorithms
• Unique_ptr: How to mix it with containers
• Mixing Delphi and C++
• Load and store FireDAC dataset data directly from/to dBase files with no BDE
• Access dBase data in your programs with no BDE
• Live Mobile Application Logging on Desktop
• FireMonkey Tips & Tricks
• Metadata assisted automatic DB form generation for cloud data
• InterBase - Customer Stories

You can really learn a lot by watching the upcoming CodeRage as well as the past CodeRage sessions from previous years. You can read more about it as well as register at https://community.embarcadero.com/article/technical-articles/16433-coderage-xi-productivity-platforms-and-performance


Here is a YouTube Playlist from previous CodeRage sessions about Delphi:


And here is CodeRage 9 YouTube Playlist for C++: