New Features in RAD Studio 12.3
Enhanced in 12.3!
Smart CodeInsight: AI Powered Coding
New open architecture for AI plugins, with support for OpenAI, Gemini, Claude and Ollama. With Smart CodeInsight, users decide if and how to use AI, and can even create additional plugins as long as they offer a public REST API. 12.3 adds a new extension to the UI for enhanced chat experience. Chat window supports Markdown, and Smart CodeInsight configuration dialog offers a list of available models retrieved from the AI engine. (RAD Studio)
Enhanced in 12.3!
64-bit Version of Delphi Windows Compilers
RAD Studio 12.3 includes the 64-bit binary version of Delphi Win32 and Win64 compilers for building very large applications as a single executable. Originally available in Enterprise and Architect editions, RAD Studio 12.3 extends 64-bit compiler to Professional edition. (Delphi)
Enhanced in 12.3!
Modernized Clang-Based C++ Compiler and Toolchain
Update to the new Clang-based C++ compiler for Win64, including consumption and production of runtime packages, support for all RAD Studio component packages and parallelized CPU-saturating batch compilation for incredible compile performance. The new release offers even better compiler performance and additional quality and code safety improvements. (C++Builder)
Enhanced in 12.3!
New WebStencils Template Library
WebStencils, a server-side script-based integration and processing of HTML files to WebBroker and RAD Server technologies for developing modern websites powered by data from RAD Studio server-side application. Also acts as the foundation for use of HTMX. Extended with access to nested objects and sub-tables in nested datasets, and improvements in handling UTF8 characters. (RAD Studio)
New in 12.3!
64-bit IDE “Initial Release”
RAD Studio 12.3 introduces Initial Release of a 64-bit IDE. Initial Release does not yet feature-match 32-bit IDE, and is limited to support only for 64-bit Windows target platforms, but offers near-unlimited memory space for the IDE, for components, designers, and integrated compiler. 64-bit IDE also allows design-time access to databases offering only a 64-bit client driver. New native Delphi debugger experience based on LLDB for 64-bit IDE in development. The Initial Release of the 64-bit IDE is installed side by side with the 32-bit IDE. Developers can use either or both at once.
Updated!
Target The Latest Platform Versions!
Delphi 12.3 offers official support for iOS 18, macOS 14 Sequoia, and Android 15. Delphi 12.3 also supports Ubuntu 24 LTS, and both Delphi and C++ Builder target Windows 11 and Windows Server 2025. Delphi compiles for Android API 35 and macOS M-series processors.
Enhanced in 12.3!
FireDAC and Database Support
Improvements to the filtering of SQL query from the TFDTable component and support for migrating from IBX to FireDAC with the Refind utility. Specific support for 64-bit drivers access in the 64-bit IDE. RAD Studio now officially supports Microsoft SQL Server 2022, MongoDB up to version 8.0, MySQL 8.4, and Oracle DRCP. (RAD Studio)
Enhanced in 12.3!
Delphi LSP And CodeInsight
Delphi LSP powering CodeInsight expanded with core groundwork and feature requests, and a 64-bit version of the DelphiLSP engine with no memory limits supporting large codebases. Both 32-bit and 64-bit IDE can use the 64-bit version of DelphiLSP engine for Windows targets. 64-bit version now available in all editions - Professional, Enterprise and Architect. (Delphi)
New!
Android API Level 35 and Improved Deployment
RAD Studio 12.3 updating to Android API Level 35 for Delphi for Android, a requirement for Google Play Store apps by August 2025. Changes encompass multiple technologies and include new NDK target, support 16 KB page sizes, new provisioning options and permissions. (RAD Studio)
Enhanced in 12.3!
Delphi RTL, VCL, and FireMonkey Quality
Improvements to core Delphi RTL and to both VCL and FireMonkey UI libraries, including quality work around VCL styles, HighDPI and other general UI quality improvements in VCL controls, enhancements to the TImageCollection editor, a new tool to generate FireMonkey styles from VCL styles, an upgraded Skia4Delphi version, along with improvements to TMemo, dynamic style loading on non-Windows platforms, and Z-Order Manager on Windows.
Enhanced in 12.3!
BLE and Bluetooth
The 12.3 release improves the quality of our Bluetooth and BLE support across all RAD Studio target platforms. The changes include also a new event, called when the BLE transmission configuration changes (RAD Studio)
Enhanced in 12.3!
RAD Server
WebStencils integration adding web development to RAD Server's Web Service development capabilities; extension of Swagger Documentation support with custom metadata, API filtering, YAML format, and Delphi multiline string literals. 12.3 improves date and time formatting in JSON responses, includes option to obfuscate values for MasterSecret and Appsecret in emsserver.ini, and adds instance-wide custom variables. (RAD Studio)
Features Available Since RAD Studio 12
Editor-Only Focus Mode and Scrollbar Annotations
New Focus Mode leaves IDE with the editor(s) only. New scrollbar annotations show at a glance the sections of the code which have been modified, or have bookmarks, errors or warnings. Quality improvements to Split Views, Toolbar and HighDPI. (RAD Studio)
Expanded C++Builder Visual Assist Integration
Visual Assist integration expanded with three new refactorings - Introduce Variable, Create From Usage and Extract Method - along with significant quality and stability improvements. (C++ Builder)
Debugger Performance
Improvements to Delphi debugger to correctly handle repeated inline variables with the same name, error handling and remote debugger communication timeouts. (RAD Studio)
Improved Mobile Development, External Libraries Linking
Improvements for Delphi mobile development, for both iOS and Android. Updated Linker for Apple platforms, options to Compress Dex files and Compress native library files in toolchain, ability to import Android libraries ('.aar' files) for Android. (Delphi)
Improved VCL and FireMonkey Libraries
Improvements to VCL and FireMonkey libraries for higher-quality performance and rendering quality and UI controls across all target platforms
Split Editor Views in RAD Studio IDE
The RAD Studio 12.1 IDE supports several split editor views, allowing editing of the same file in multiple locations and keeping both a design and a code view on screen
Use RAD Studio on 4k+ Screens!
RAD Studio 12 offers high-DPI support to the IDE, enabling developers to work on larger, high-resolution screens. Full support for the latest 4k+ high-resolution monitors improves daily developer activities with cleaner, sharper fonts and icons, and high-resolution support throughout the IDE windows, including in the VCL and FMX form designers and code editor.
Use VCL Styles at Design Time!
VCL Styles now provides design-time support: Prototype stylish UIs even faster by seeing immediately at design-time how your styled forms and controls will look when running. Viewing at design time how styles will impact the UI at runtime improves the design and testing process for modern UIs. Creating better UIs faster is especially useful when working with per-control styles.
SKIA Support for UI Design in FireMonkey
New foundation improves performance and quality in rendering graphics and UI controls across all target platforms
More Windows APIs Ready to Use in Object Pascal
Comprehensive set of all Windows API headers converted to Object Pascal, to make it easier for Delphi developers to call any Windows platform API
Use Biometric Authentication!
RAD Studio 12 offers a new Mobile Biometric Authentication component for FireMonkey mobile applications
Deploy Embedded InterBase Dev Edition!
RAD Studio 12 ships with the recently released InterBase 2020 Update 5 Developer edition and IBLite/ToGo edition
