Which version is applicable to receive Delphi updates and upgrade versions?

[JohnLM 27]

License Specs: Delphi 11.2 Alexandria 11/2022

 

I finally and recently purchased a 1-yr 'support renewal', which ends nov/2024 so that I could get the 12.2 version.  However, I have not received any email confirmation with the new license/serials, and I don't see any updates to my

https://my.embarcadero.com/ account.  It is the same listing since 11/2022.  And when I tried to download the 12.2 iso it said that my update subscription expired and to request a renewal quote.

 

The one I recently purchased was this one: "Delphi Professional - Named - Support Renewal"

 

But I do see there are others mentioned here on these forums: 

* maintenance update -- 

* update subscription - - 

* support renewal -- the one I purchased. 

 

Did I purchase the wrong one? 

 

Edited September 13, 2024 by JohnLM
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[Brian Evans 129]

There are no new license/serials - you use the existing license. 

 

The My Registered Products at Registered Products Portal (embarcadero.com), the product+serial you did a support renewal for should have a new / extended Subscription End Date and a Subscription Status of Active.

The matching download should be available under My Downloads. 

 

With an active subscription 12.2 should be available - it is for me and the product line in my registered products is Delphi 10.2 Tokyo Enterprise Named User. first registered in 2018.

 

 

Edited September 13, 2024 by Brian Evans

[corneliusdavid 256]

4 hours ago, JohnLM said:

The one I recently purchased was this one: "Delphi Professional - Named - Support Renewal"

 

But I do see there are others mentioned here on these forums: 

* maintenance update -- 

* update subscription - - 

* support renewal -- the one I purchased. 

 

Did I purchase the wrong one? 

If you purchased "support" I think you may have purchased the wrong thing. Support is for Embarcadero to help you with programming questions. I think what you wanted is "Update Subscription" or maybe even "Maintenance Update" if that actually updates from an old version (which I didn't think they offer anymore).

 

You'll need to contact your sales rep and explain what you really wanted/need and ask for clarification of what you purchased; if it's not what you thought it was, I hope they'll let you change it to the subscription.

[JohnLM 27]

Update. . . Success!

 

I made contact with my sales rep and I am now able to download the 12.2 iso. 

[JohnLM 27]

Current Specs:  Delphi XE7, vcl, win7 and MD5 checksum decoding

 

Update. . . on other news.. regarding the MD5 checksum number given at the download page. 

 

I spent hours trying to find out how to do MD5 encode/decode, and finally found the answer I was looking for. 

 

I found this routine that worked in XE7 at least, but not tested for other versions old or newer.   

 

When run and fed the filename, it took several minutes to process and complete.  Happy to say that the checksum produced from the routine below matched the website's !!

 

I hope this code-snippet below, becomes useful for other users. 

///// 5a
// link; https://stackoverflow.com/questions/447985/file-md5-checksum 9.13.24.fri.0614pm
//
function MD5File(const FileName: string): string;
var
  IdMD5: TIdHashMessageDigest5;
  FS: TFileStream;
begin
 IdMD5 := TIdHashMessageDigest5.Create;
 FS := TFileStream.Create(FileName, fmOpenRead or fmShareDenyWrite);
 try
   Result := IdMD5.HashStreamAsHex(FS)
 finally
   FS.Free;
   IdMD5.Free;
 end;
end;
///// - end 5a -- this compiles successfully.

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var hash: string;
begin
  // 5a -- "F:\Delphi\Embarcadero\RADStudio_12_2_9782_9961F.iso"
  hash := md5file(edit1.Text);       
  edit1.Text := hash;
end;

 

[Cristian Peța 122]

3 hours ago, JohnLM said:

Update. . . on other news.. regarding the MD5 checksum number given at the download page. 

 

I spent hours trying to find out how to do MD5 encode/decode, and finally found the answer I was looking for. 

It is easily to generate MD5 with some tool like Notepad++.

[Brian Evans 129]

Can also use the command line utility certutil. Supports calculating MD2 MD4 MD5 SHA1 SHA256 SHA384 and SHA512 hashes.

certutil -hashfile <file> <algorithm>