{"id":843,"date":"2012-01-19T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T02:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:12:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T03:12:45","slug":"xe2-update-4-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/843\/","title":{"rendered":"XE2 Update #4 On The Horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span>

The release notes for Update #4 have appeared online<\/a>, signalling the imminent arrival no doubt of the update itself.
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\nThe good news if you are using FireMonkey is that this is a significant update, including functionality for printing.<\/p>\n

The bad news is that like update #1, this update is not an incremental patch but seemingly will require a full uninstall and reinstall.<\/p>\n

For update #1 there were legal\/licensing issues that made this necessary. What is the excuse this time I wonder ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Estimated Reading Time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minutes]<\/span><\/span> The release notes for Update #4 have appeared online, signalling the imminent arrival no doubt of the update itself.<\/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":[4,143],"tags":[292,144,136],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1TKYv-dB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":815,"url":"https:\/\/www.deltics.co.nz\/blog\/posts\/815\/","url_meta":{"origin":843,"position":0},"title":"Something the XE2 Un\/Installer Should Tell You…","date":"30 Sep 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"If you are about to install update #1 for Delphi XE2, the first thing you will need to do is uninstall your current version. 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