Delphi 12.1 is available

[ŁukaszDe 38]

Links to Web installer and ISO are available in https://my.embarcadero.com

[Der schöne Günther 316]

But what's new? And why is the .iso just 730 Megabytes? 🤔

[Lars Fosdal 1791]

That is indeed a bit odd, since the 12.0 ISO was 7.13Gb.

[Lajos Juhász 293]

The page is wrong. I am downloading it and it is 7.2GB.

[Lars Fosdal 1791]

It downloads as 7.2Gb.

[Angus Robertson 574]

The D12.1 ISO I downloaded is 7.23GB.  There is a typo on the download page, 

 

Angus

 

 

[Stano 143]

I downloaded RADStudio_12_1_esd_61_7529b.exe. During and after installation it tells me Delphi 12. That doesn't seem right to me. Is it ok?

[Uwe Raabe 2057]

It is OK. The long name is Delphi 12 Update 1.

[Sherlock 663]

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Embarcadero® Delphi 12 Version 29.0.50491.5718

This is 12 patch 1 version info. They must have done something....

[Sherlock 663]

Just spent the last 30 minutes staring at the screen, waiting for progress. Task manager showed high load in MS Defender...so I finally killed that and now the web installer is running. I wonder what was amiss there....

[Lars Fosdal 1791]

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-12-1-athens/

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/12_Athens_-_Release_1

[shineworld 73]

Will be available as GetIt update ?

[Tommi Prami 130]

Remember to uninstall Parnassus-plugins before installing.

Web Installer failed because forgot to uninstall them first. Had to make installer to clean all settings.  

Takes some time to get all settings as needed because of that. 

 

-Tee-

[Lars Fosdal 1791]

@shineworld AFAIK, only patches and hotfixes come via GetIt.

 

@Tommi Prami Yes, the installer barfs on restarting the installation due to Navigator, but it should be able to recover. Mine did.

 

[shineworld 73]

So to get the new 12.1 I've to uninstall and reinstall all by zero?
1] I have got a lot of manually installed 3rd part libraries (13, ... uh...).
2] What happens with the Installation counter? Do they take into account that I've uninstalled it?

2nd question is important because I've two development PCs:
1] main office desktop PC to do work when I'm in the office.
2] A secondary portable notebook to do work when I'm at the customer's factory

They are used mutually exclusive, or 1 or 2, but I've already used 2 installations shoots.

[Lajos Juhász 293]

1 minute ago, shineworld said:

So to get the new 12.1 I've to uninstall and reinstall all by zero?
1] I have got a lot of manually installed 3rd part libraries (13, ... uh...).
2] What happens with the Installation counter? Do they take into account that I've uninstalled it?

1.) Usually the uninstall asks if you want to remove registry entries - you should choose not to do so and everything should stay.

2.) It should not increase the installation counter.

 

(I am going to test the upgrade process tomorrow or during the weekend.)

[Lars Fosdal 1791]

I've not had issues with this as long as I keep the old settings. I upgrade two VMs and my workstation.

If you run into installation counter issues, contact EMBT support.

 

As for GetIt installations - yeah... that is "fun".  I keep my IDE on a GetIt component low count diet.

[shineworld 73]

Ok, I'm trying...
Uninstall does not ask me anything but the new installation asks if to use an Already Existent License 😉

Before, however, I've clonezilled the C disk 🙂

 

[rudy999 2]

I tried to install the web installer and it said that it could not find BDS.EXE.

Then I tried to completely un-install, and now an install attempt says "The previous version is not removed. Unable to continue"

 

Am I screwed?

 

I can not install the original 12.0 web install either  -same message.

 

Would the ISO image be the next step?

TIA

[shineworld 73]

In the past, I was in trouble with web installation so I always downloaded the full iso image.

[rudy999 2]

"A Previous Version of RAD Studio 12 was found on your system" - How can I thoroughly clean up file(s) or registry setting to get past this?

"The previous version is not removed. Unable to continue"

TIA

Edited April 4 by rudy999

[Angus Robertson 574]

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"A Previous Version of RAD Studio 12 was found on your system"

I had that recently when reinstalling D12 in a test VM, the Windows uninstaller system thinks the old version is still installed, and the installer does not check if unins000.exe actually exists, look for this registry entry and remove all the keys:  This key is for Delphi 12, other versions will have different keys but searching for Embarcadero will find them.

 

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall{3CDF0089-74E4-454C-8A6C-BEE7ADFEF600}_is1

 

Angus

 

[Ian Branch 127]

Installed 12.1 over 12 without using the Web Installer issue.

It didn't install the latest Help (.chm) files. 😞

 

[rudy999 2]

OK, I am able to attempt to install now, but back to the original error where installation continues and 'registering entries' and copying files to ..\Embarcadero\Studio\23.0  but fails to install bds.exe. Looking at the 23.0\bin folder - folder structure folders and files are there but NOT bds.exe?!  I see bds.* files but not that one...

Any help is appreciated

[Stano 143]

https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/RADStudio/Athens/en/New_features_and_customer_reported_issues_fixed_in_RAD_Studio_12.1

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/announcing-the-availability-of-rad-studio-12-1-athens/