Delphi 12.2 is now available

The latest version of Delphi has been released today as part of RAD Studio 12.2.

Hot from the release webinar, the new features in Delphi and the IDE that most appeal to me are:

  • The Delphi compiler & tools are now available as 64 bit executables that can be used as an option when using MSBuild. These can be used for Windows 32 and 64 targets. This means mega size applications can be built as single application files. Happy, happy!

  • In the Delphi RTL: 

    • TParallelArray - faster parallel operations.

    • TOrderedDictionary - I've been wanting this for a while. I had one written on XE, but it broke of Delphi 11!

  • Smart CodeInsight: AI coding support using OpenAI, Gemini & Claude. These are all online, so you need to trust them and you may need to pay any service fees. There's also Ollama which is offline, free of change, and apparently sends no data through the net. These are all off by default. You can add other AI tools if you have the rights to use them.

  • Focus mode: see only the code editor with most UI chrome removed. This is configurable: use Ctrl+Alt+Z to activate. Split editors can be used.

  • Scroll bar annotations to enable jumping to modified code, errors etc. Happy to see this: I like this feature in VSCode.

  • Quality improvements are always welcome!

There are plenty of changes to C++ too. I didn't take much notice because I never use it.

To check out all the changes see Embarcadero's RAD Studio 12.2 release announcement or, for more details, the DocWiki 12.2 release page.

I'm off to download the new version soon. Just as soon as I can build a new release I've got open in Delphi 12.1 right now.


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