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Delphi 12.1

This is a major update to 12.0 and is binary compatible with the 12.0 Athens release.

New Windows 64-bit (Modern) Platform Target
An entire new toolchain with full IDE integration as a normal platform. The toolchain includes the new Clang 15 compiler, LLVM lld linker, libc++ STL, UCRT C runtime, and more
VCL and FMX support, DLLs, static libraries, and console applications

Some libraries, like SOAP, are not included in this toolchain. This is to reduce the testing matrix or focus on the most needed libraries for quality.
Dynamic package linking is not yet supported

Use multiple editors side by side, above and below each other, or a mix, all in the same window.
Includes dragging entire sets of tabs out to floating windows and back into the IDE.
You can access the Split Editor view by right-clicking a tab and choosing Split > or Move >. Split will create another version of the selected tab, while move will close the tab and open it in the selected place in your IDE.
Alternatively, you can use Split Editor by dragging a file from the Projects view into any open editor to open that file as a tab in that tab group.

Version 12.1 now installs among platform features and recommends Eclipse Temurin JDK OpenJDK 17 (Hotspot) JVM.
Version 12.1 updated the Command-line Tools Android SDK components from our default Android SDK installation.
The default targetSdkVersion manifest attribute is now 34.

Improved the functionality when the auto-invoke function is On, and code completion appears automatically, only pressing Tab and Enter accepts the currently selected completion
The auto-invoke feature is Off by default

Added FireDAC support for Firebird version 5. This includes support for parallel operation in TFDFBBackup for Firebird 5.
Added FireDAC support for PostgreSQL version 16.
TRestClient supports using certificates from the local machine list and not only from the current user list.

There is a brand new Quality Portal replacement online. This is a JIRA Service Desk portal and none of the old issues have been ported over. (And that migration will likely not happen, see RSS-616)
The old bug where Win64 path settings are still lost on an upgrade ... ensure you keep a backup of your registry settings. see RSS-475
Android deployment stopped working after upgrade to 12.1, see RSS-557
New feature issue: String with non-ASCII characters directly attached to a #xx or #$xx literal corrupts the final string see RSS-391 Note: fixed in Patch 1
Parnassus Navigator is not compatible with new split editor views feature, see RSS-483