{"id":1041,"date":"2012-08-10T08:52:28","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2012-08-10T08:56:28","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T20:56:28","slug":"whats-new-in-xe3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1041\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New in XE3 &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span><p>Somebody appears to have got their hands on <a href=\"http:\/\/bbs.2ccc.com\/attachments\/2012\/courage2008_20128992520.pdf\">a draft version of a &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; document for Delphi and C++ Builder XE3<\/a>.  Get it while it&#8217;s hot &#8211; it&#8217;s likely to get taken down with extreme prejudice quite soon.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Disclaimers:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I have no idea where this came from<\/li>\n<li>I have no idea how accurate or correct it is<\/li>\n<li>However accurate or correct &#8211; or not &#8211; it certainly appears incomplete at this stage<\/li>\n<p>\/ul><\/p>\n<p>Just how useful this might be, with official information due to be made available quite soon, is questionable, but then again imho this is the sort of information we should have had weeks or even months ago.  Especially given that some of the changes appear to (potentially) impact on existing code and it would be helpful to know what you could\/should perhaps be doing to prepare for it.<\/p>\n<p>But if you just can&#8217;t wait, it&#8217;s there (as of time of writing) if you are interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\">&lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes]<\/span><\/span> Somebody appears to have got their hands on a draft version of a &#8220;What&#8217;s New&#8221; document for Delphi and C++ Builder XE3. Get it while it&#8217;s hot &#8211; it&#8217;s likely to get taken down with extreme prejudice quite soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[4,163],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-gN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1138,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1138\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":0},"title":"Widening of Upgrade Eligibility in XE3&#8230;?","date":"03 Sep 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Having checked the online store listing for Delphi XE3 which is now up, it appears that the upgrade eligibility window for XE3 may have been nudged open ever-so-slightly wider. The eligibility window introduced by Embarcadero has previously, consistently, been current version and the two immediately prior versions. Additionally they generously\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":950,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/950\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":1},"title":"RAD Studio (XE3 Launch?) Event Announced in NZ","date":"02 Aug 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Just a few moments ago I received an invitation to register for what I presume to be the launch event of RAD Studio XE3. 28th August is the date for your diary! I have to presume this is the XE3 launch because \"XE3\" isn't actually mentioned. For that matter, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1062,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1062\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":2},"title":"No iOS in XE3 &#8211; Confirmed","date":"22 Aug 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"As was rumoured before the World Tour kicked off yesterday, the previous FPC\/Xcode infrastructure based iOS support has been removed in XE3 and nothing (yet) replaces it. I take no pleasure from being able to say \"I told you so\" to everyone who told me I was jumping the gun\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1047,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1047\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":3},"title":"&#8220;XE3&#8221; is Official, &#8220;New&#8221; HTML Builder but &#8220;No iOS Support&#8221; .. ?","date":"16 Aug 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The blog-o-sphere is abuzz with postings referencing the official RAD Studio World Tour announcement starting to hit the wires, and it contains something of potential interest. I have also seen claims starting to appear that XE3 will not have any iOS support at all. First, I have to mention again\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1166,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1166\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":4},"title":"XE3 Upgrade from Delphi 2009 &#8211; Only Until the End of the Year","date":"05 Sep 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I previously speculated that the upgrade eligibility window for XE3 might have been edged open ever so slightly. Sadly it seems this is not the case (German language forum). At least, not unless they extend another upgrade offer as they did with XE2. Here's the response, as translated by Google:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1133,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/1133\/","url_meta":{"origin":1041,"position":5},"title":"XE3 Released.  Available to Download Now for SA Subscribers","date":"03 Sep 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just got an email from Embarcadero announcing the availability of XE3 for download from the Maintenance Portal. Both a 51 MB web installer and a 3.1 GB ISO are available. I don't have any public links, and presumably anyone on SA will have received their notifications directly already. But\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Delphi&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}