Delphi 13 Community Edition brings the free edition forward from 12.1 with a ternary operator and a 64-bit IDE

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Summary: The post by Marco Cantu, dated 2026-08-11, states that the free edition is now based on Delphi 13 Florence and carries the language, IDE, and platform work from 12.2, 12.3, and 13.0. Named language additions are a conditional expression using the if keyword, a NameOf intrinsic returning an identifier's name as a string, is not and not in operators, {$PUSHOPT} and {$POPOPT} compiler directives, a noreturn directive, generic type constraint improvements, and an implicit Self parameter in the Initialize and Finalize operators of custom managed records, alongside the new 64-bit IDE and a 64-bit Delphi language server. Mobile targets move to Android API level 35 with 16 KB memory page support and to iOS 18 including the Simulator on Apple Silicon, and the terms are unchanged in shape: a one-year term licence, limited commercial use, and eligibility capped at 5,000 US dollars of annual revenue and five developers.
Why it matters: The free edition had been sitting on 12.1, so unpaid Delphi work moves to the current compiler, the 64-bit IDE, and current mobile target requirements.