Welcome RAD Studio, Delphi and C++Builder 13 Florence

Embarcadero released the new 13 Florence version on September 10, 2025.

This is an exciting release with many new features and quality enhancements. Check what’s new and improved below:

Key New Features in RAD Studio 13

New Ternary Operator and Other Delphi Language Extensions

RAD Studio 13.0 offers a number of improvements to the Delphi language, starting with what has been the top requested language extension, a ternary operator. Implemented using the “if” keyword, the ternary operator added to Delphi resembles the same feature in many programming languages and offers a shorter way to express a condition directly in an expression.  Delphi 13 also introduces other syntax improvements.

C++ 23 Support Introduced in C++Builder Windows Modern Toolchain
The C++Builder Modern Win64 compiler has been updated to Clang 20, which introduces C++ 23 support. This is a significant further upgrade to the C++ Modern toolchain Embarcadero delivered in RAD Studio 12.x.

64-bit IDE for the Windows 64 target platform
RAD Studio 13 includes our first full featured 64-bit IDE for the Windows 64 target platform, offering customers a much larger memory address space in the IDE and integrated debugger for their most complex applications, plus the ability to use 64-bit database drivers at design time.

SmartCore AI Component Pack – Your Gateway to AI inside Your Apps
RAD Studio 13 introduces a new set of core AI components designed to help our customers add AI features to their apps or build brand new AI-focused apps with Delphi or C++Builder.

This is a building block and a foundation for the future: It’s a core architecture our customers and 3rd party vendors can build on and extend to integrate with additional AI engines and UI controls.

A new AI connection component uses specific drivers to communicate via REST with different AI engines (including OpenAI, Claude, Gemini and Ollama). Part of the component pack is a set of AI request components for different data types (like text, images, structure data) which can be associated with prompts and can be bound directly with UI controls to display the results.

Session Management and other WebBroker and WebStencils enhancements
Following the success of the WebStencils web template library, the new release offers extensions to both WebStencils and the WebBroker foundation for RAD Studio web applications. WebBroker adds sessions management, better Apache integration, Nginx web server support, and logging. WebStencils brings support for session data, global variables, a switch statement, sessions authentication and authorization, direct access to dataset properties.

GetIt Packages Versioning
In this release, GetIt (RAD Studio’s package manager) adds versioning support. This allows Embarcadero and our partners to publish and offer multiple versions of the same package and offers users the ability to pick a specific version their applications relies on.

RAD Studio IDE Search Features
This release adds extensive and configurable search features in many IDE panes, including the Project Manager, the Structure View, the Message pane and Events log. For the Message Log, there are also additional highlighting and grouping options.

RAD AI Companion Website
Embarcadero is launching a RAD Studio tailored chat bot, offering the ability to query an AI specifically trained on our product and its libraries or to ask it to generate application source code. Try it yourself at https://www.embarcadero.com/RADAICompanion.

Key Quality Improvements in RAD Studio 13

• Improved Platforms Integration for Windows APIs, the WebView 2 control, iOS API headers, and an improved Java2OP importer for Android.
• VCL includes UIAutomation Microsoft interfaces, introduces TitleBar styling, and ActionMainMenuBar scrolling.
• FireMonkey offers highly improved stability and smoothness of animations, a new MaskEdit control, and a new ApplicationEvents component, improved FMXLinux integration, and an updated version of Skia4Delphi.
• FireDAC expands support for Unsigned Big Integer database fields and includes  new features for Oracle, FireBird, and PostgreSQL.
• RAD Server enhancements include a more flexible Swagger-based API Documentation, tenant-specific configuration, and API Versioning.
• Delphi and C++ Code Tooling now include again the old “Classic” Delphi CodeInsight engine for code completion, a Delphi Upgrade Advisor wizard, and a reworked Visual Assist integration.
• IDE and Debugger Quality were expanded, moving to version 20 of LLDB and making improvements to Smart CodeInsight (our AI for developers).