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Delphi 13 Community Edition Is Now Available
Embarcadero is pleased to announce the availability of Delphi 13 Community Edition, the latest free edition of our professional Delphi development environment.
Delphi 13 Community Edition is based on Delphi 13 Florence and brings the Community Edition forward from version 12.1. This gives students, hobbyists, independent developers, and eligible startups access to the Delphi language and framework improvements delivered in versions 12.2, 12.3, and 13.0—including updated support for today’s mobile platforms.
Delphi Community Edition is a full-featured, free edition of Delphi for building native applications with the Delphi language. It includes a professional IDE, visual designers, integrated compilers and debuggers, the VCL framework for Windows development, and the FireMonkey framework for creating native applications from a shared codebase across Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android.
It is designed for students, hobbyists, freelancers, and small teams that meet the Community Edition license requirements.
Moving from Delphi 12.1 Community Edition to Delphi 13 Community Edition delivers a substantial collection of language, IDE, framework, and platform improvements.
Delphi 13 introduces several useful additions to the Delphi language, available across the supported target platforms:
These additions make Delphi code more expressive while retaining the language’s readability and strong native-code foundations.
Delphi 13 Community Edition includes the updated 32-bit IDE and the new 64-bit IDE for developing and debugging 64-bit Windows applications. The 64-bit IDE provides a much larger address space, which is particularly valuable when working with large projects.
FireMonkey remains the foundation for Delphi multi-device development. Since Delphi 12.1, it has gained a broad set of enhancements, including:
Delphi 13 also advances the VCL framework for native Windows development with: