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I am quite satisfied this time. From the issues in QP created by me there are 17 closed as Fixed in Delphi 11. The oldest is from Feb 2017, but most are from 2020 and 2021. Counting over all Delphi versions in QP there are 53 from 78 issues of mine fixed now. Not that bad.

Irrelevant. Good products are cohesive. Different aspects work with each other and support each other. Funny. Binary literals, digit separators and avx512 asm. That's the entirety of new language features. That's a pace that can only be described as glacial. Cant be hard to get the old formatter to work. If it's an arse for them to do it, tough. Their adult for building up so much technical debt. Honestly, look at the quality of what comes out of Emba and compare to other mainstream IDEs.

Finally - everything seems to be working with my network license. I updated my recent blog post with 3 possible fixes for license issues when installing RAD Studio 11. ('Update' your license in License Manager, Delete/Re-Import in License Manager, and Manually Host in ELC for network licenses.) https://www.ideasawakened.com/post/quick-fix-for-for-rad-studio-11-license-failure-during-installation

Arbitrary formats - are also supported in v 11. Timezeone-aware datetimes - there is no such report in quality.embarcadero.com

ICS V8.67 has packages for Delphi and C++ 11.0, currently only available from SVN and the overnight zip, with a final release due next week. http://wiki.overbyte.eu/wiki/index.php/ICS_Download There was a major new OpenSSL 3.0 release this week, just finishing testing and integration with V8.67. Currently, many older ICS icons appeared incorrectly with a magenta background in Delphi 11.0 due to transparency being ignored, these will be fixed for the final release. Angus

I have now adapted several forms to look OK in Delphi 11, using Uwe's "hack" with a wrapper interface so I don't have to repeat too much code, but it's still too much copy and paste for my taste. I have also added Delphi 11 support to some experts that need to know about the new version (e.g. the IfDef editor expert). Given that even quite a few of the IDEs own forms look way too small on a 4K monitor, I think that's quite some progress. It's still not finished and there will be bugs. But I'll call it a day now.

Seriously, wtf...

Why is nobody else reporting this issue?

You can uninstall GExperts from within the IDE using the Experts Manager expert.

You obiously haven't learned yet that this is pretty routine if you're in a super-hurry to install an update as soon as it's released. I used to enjoy playing with beta code. But these days, I usually won't bother to install a new update until their first patch is released. Just too many problems to be in such a hurry.

Rather, it seems that their implementation of the Messages pane is flawed. (Line height not fitting the font size).

Irrelevant. Good products are cohesive. Different aspects work with each other and support each other. It's definitely relevant when you have limited resources and a lot of purchased legacy code. There's a business decision to be made - keep throwing money at something you know you are going to replace, or not. They are choosing to add language features knowing that their tooling doesn't fully support it. I'm sure it's a hard decision. I'd like to think I would have decided differently but I don't know the internals. I would assume you would build a well-defined language spec for the current implementation, build the tests to validate that current implementation matches the spec, correct or replace the tooling to support that spec while validating the tools with tests of their own, and then add new features while extending all of your tests. But that would take a lot of up front effort while yielding no immediate revenue which is probably why they took the path they did. I should probably be more empathetic to their situation, but at the end of the day CTRL-D doesn't do what CTRL-D is supposed to do.

Thanks for doing this, this is one place the community can help. Your efforts might inspire others to contribute.

What I want to say, is that icons and overal look is really awesome 😍. As well as the splash screen. This is the first time when splash screen produce "wow effect", I think, since Delphi 4.

StrToDate in v11 supports MMM in date formats.

You're welcome - it is just a slightly improved version of what Aleksandr Sharahov already wrote years ago. Surprisingly they never used his purepascal code which compiles to almost the exact same code as the x86 asm version was doing. There are more than a dozen other improvements in the RTL that I have worked on - I cannot fix their compiler but I can certainly improve some suboptimal RTL code.

You guys might want to watch the webinar replay.... They mentioned a surprising number of little tidbits like these, most of which I didn't bother to make a mental note of. What I was left with was they were primarily focused on the high-DPI stuff; the ARM-64 code generation; the ability to split out a separate window that can be toggled with the main window to swap the code editor and form deisgner; and a bunch of other stuff that's really of no interest to me. Oh ... I almost forgot ... they finally updated the RichEdit VCL control to use the features Microsoft introduced about 14 years ago. So now you don't have to use whatever 3rd-party lib you bought years ago to get past basic Win XP features. (TRichView anybody?) Note: it ONLY affects VCL (b/c it's based on a Windows control). And there was some talk about the new web browser control. (Also Microsoft specific.) I really hate the fact that they have their licensing set up such that if you find insufficient value to "reward" them with a license upgrade, they double the fee then double it again. There's not enough here to justify the cost of this upgrade to me. I get 10x the value from my TMS All-Access pass for 1/3 the renewal price. And with WebCore, you don't even need to use the Delphi IDE any more! HA! VSC Code does all you need. (Oh, there's a VSC Code plugin so you can use it to edit your Delphi code. Can't compile it. And the editor they spent a bunch of money to acquire still isn't integrated into the IDE.) What I want to know is ... what is their Marketing Dept doing to grow and expand the market for all of this useless technology they keep creating while ignoring stuff existing developers want? TMS is going gangbusters! Delphi's Marketing team seems to be asleep at the wheel. There are have only been two jobs on Dice this past couple of weeks for Delphi devs and they were both back on the East Coast of USA. The world is moving towards the web and distributed computing via SaaS resources, and Delphi seems to be just standing around getting fitted with another batch of designer clothes to look better to a shrinking audience. Delphi has turned into the Kardashians of the software world -- it's all about the looks.

As a Turbo Pascal user from the first hour, I am still following the development of Delphi with interest. I got out with Delphi XE and am amazed to find that people are still struggling with the same problems as they were 30+ years ago. Problems that also occur at other companies, but are completely fixed after a few weeks. Nothing gets better at "Borland".

it looks that embarcadero fired all programmers ... it shouldn't be called 11 but maybe 10.4 patch 5 what about something useful for programmers, like code profiler, usable debugger, usable code navigation, code refactoring, and so on ... where are features from roadmap like language extensions? how desperate they had to be when you see "Rich Edit component update removes XP dependencies " in the changelog

With Delphi 11 release a few minutes ago, MMX Code Explorer is already supporting it: Change log V15.0.44

hm, is there a new, 3rd installer type available? Manual hacking?