News
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New LMD 2021.0 installer are available now in customer and public download areas. Please note that almost all executable demos in public download area were updated and several demos were added (e.g. precompiled Anylogger demo in VCL Complete section). GIT access for LMD VCL Complete 2021 user is available now - please make sure using the new repository URL (available in your customer area).
Major changes in this release are full rework of core and common packages (made possible by supporting XE2 or better only); better support of newer VCL features (TVirtualImageList DPI scaling support, 32bit glyph support); new controls like TLMDFontImageList with auto dpi support; further improved high dpi and multimonitor support (e.g. DockingPack); many fixes and enhancements based on customer feedback; unified installers for NG and LMD products; new democenter and extensive updates for demo projects (e.g. overworked DB demos); extensive update for NG ConnectionPack (supporting many more Google services).
A list of all changes can be found on LMD VCL What’s new page.All eligible customers with active subscription already received their 2021 licenses. Please contact sales if you don’t see updated license in your customer area.
Please make sure that a previous LMD release (pre 2021) is completely uninstalled before using the new 2021 installer (especially LMD-Tools and VCL Complete user - otherwise you might receive messages about missing package files (e.g. TextPack) which were available in former releases and which are moved now to a legacy package (but controls are certainly still available)). In case of problems please check the Updating to LMD 2021 platform or higher section in our wiki.
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Any customer with valid subscription on 01-March-2021 received a free update to the LMD VCL 2021 license of the corresponding product. Check your customer portal to retrieve new license and download new LMD 2021 installer. Please contact sales if you don’t see your updated license.
If you own active subscription and you renew now, we grant additional 6 months of subscription period.
If your license expired less than one year ago and you update your license via your customer portal, we grant additional 3 months of subscription period.
If you own an older LMD license or your license expired more than one year ago - please visit the special LMD 2021 update offer page for discounted update prices.
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As announced, the LMD 2021 platform release only supports Delphi / C ++ Builder / RAD Studio XE2 or higher.
We would like to point out that, in contrast to previous version changes, the previous version 2020 will be supported until further notice and we will publish hotfix versions (no feature updates) at least until the end of 2021. Subscription customers of the VCL Complete versions can still receive them afterwards (GIT repository or via source code deliveries).
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A current license always includes access to earlier versions (e.g. 2020 to get support for compilers up to Delphi / C ++ Builder 6). If necessary, contact sales with the required product version. This will then be activated also in your customer account. -
New LMD 2021 Beta 5 installer are available now in customer download areas. Please note that a valid LMD 2021 license is required. This beta release is now feature freezed, this beta focuses on:
- Several bugfixes and enhancements based on your beta feedback
- Recreation of project files for all Delphi/C++ demos. Please check them and report your feedback.
This might be the final beta for final release. Major changes till initial public release will be rework of db demo projects (e.g. some still used the BDE) and refinements for major demos like AnyLogger application.
Before downloading please review major changes of this release on LMD VCL What’s new page.
Please report any problems ASAP to support mail or in our forum.Please make sure that a previous LMD release (pre 2021) is completely uninstalled before using the new 2021 installer (especially LMD-Tools and VCL Complete user - otherwise you might receive messages about missing package files (e.g. TextPack) which were available in former releases and which are moved now to legacy package). In case of problems please check the Updating to LMD 2021 platform or higher section in our wiki.
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New LMD 2020.10 installer are available now in customer download areas.
Review changes of this release on history page. This is a minor service release which contains an important workaround for a VCL bug in themed environments. Besides that Delphi/C++Builder 10.4 binary releases were recompiled with the latest 10.4.2 release.
.General changes of the LMD 2020 platform release can be found on LMD VCL What’s new page.
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New LMD 2021 Beta 4 installer are available now in customer download areas. Please note that a valid LMD 2021 license is required. This beta release is now mostly feature freezed, this beta focuses on:
- NG ConnectionPack 2021 major update features (see news page for infos)
- Bug fixes from beta test
- (Supported) Standalone Packs are available now for beta testing
- Inclusion of new democenter demo (Delphi + LMD-Tools only)
- Update and review of other demos
Before downloading please review major changes of this release on LMD VCL What’s new page.
If you find out any problems, please report them ASAP to support mail or in our forum.Beta Releases are not recommended for production code. For production releases, please use the latest 2020.X release till 2021 release is made final
Besides that please make sure that a previous LMD release (pre 2021) is completely uninstalled before using the new 2021 installer (especially LMD-Tools and VCL Complete user - otherwise you might receive messages about missing package files which were available in former releases).