Delphi XE8 is out with version 22.0.19027.8951; Spring4D is almost ready.
Posted by jpluimers on 2015/04/09
A while ago I wrote about Delphi XE7 is out with version 21.0.17017.3725; Spring4D is almost ready, now I can repeat parts of it for XE8.
The download links for Delphi XE8, C++Builder XE8 and RAD Studio XE8 are there: ftpd and altd. A whopping 7,217,184,768 bytes (compare that to XE7 update 1 at 5,649,917,952 bytes: almost 30% increase) that has been seeded a few days ago with the version time stamped at the end of last month (like xe7), here is the version number: 22.0.19027.8951.
Before installing, note that in addition to the below documentation links:
Be sure to have at least 70 gigabytes of free disk space before you attempt to install.
This in addition to the almost 7 GiB ISO file (:
The download is fast as altd is on akamai: the 7 GiB downloaded in about 16 minutes. Google can do the math.
XE8 doc links
- XE8 Documentation root: RAD Studio.
- Installation Notes for XE8 – RAD Studio.
- What’s New in Delphi and C++Builder XE8 – RAD Studio.
Spring4D
On the Spring4D side, Stefan and Honza have added XE8 support, so a new release of that can be near.
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Victor said
How nice XE8 is out. And it has a killer innovation: “The offline help files delivered with RAD Studio are now in Microsoft Compiled HTML Help format, also known as CHM.”
Now perhaps, after all these years, a relevant help topic will appear without delay after pressing F1, instead of a useless piece of Microsoft SDK info that appears after 5 seconds!
stephane wierzbicki said
70Gb to install XE8 …. This is insane !!!
jpluimers said
No argument here.
Rich Shealer said
Can’t help but think of those original Turbo Pascal 360K floppies.
jpluimers said
Speaking of which: I still might have turbo Pascal floppies…
jpluimers said
A post with a tiny part of bookshelf history will follow next week.
David M said
I’m not sure a new release of S4D is near – AFAIK they release to feature, not for IDE versions. And they’re not yet done with the items they’re adding. Stefan pushed XE8 support from a dev branch to ‘develop’ because I asked, but ‘master’ may not be updated for some time. However, ‘develop’ is a perfectly fine branch to use :)