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Release Notes

Version 3.3 (April, 2026)

  • Improved: Usage in CI environments or building by command line.

  • Fixed: The "working folder" option in tms.config.yaml worked only if the working folder was outside the root folder where tms.config.yaml is. Now it can also be a folder inside the root folder

  • Fixed: The build-only library paths wasn't working properly. When trying to compile another project that depended on a component with a build-only path, the build-only path would also be passed to that project, resulting in duplicated dcus.

Version 3.2 (April, 2026)

  • New: SBOM generation support. There is a new tms sbom-generate command that can generate CycloneDX SBOMs for the installed components

  • New: SmartSetup will now automatically read "tms.config.local.yaml" files for added local configuration.

  • New: license and license url fields in the tmsbuild.yaml definition file. Those fields, if filled, will be included in the SBOM.

  • Breaking: We rewrote the parameters for the (tms restore)(xref:SmartSetup.Command.Restore) command. Now you need to specify if you want to restore with registering or not, and -with-versions is now the default, with a new -latest parameter to restore to the latest versions, instead of the versions in the snapshot.

  • Improved: When compiling in Delphi CE, we now rewrite the dprojs of components which have them incomplete, avoiding a "do you want to save changes" dialog for them.

  • Improved: Added a new "Reference" section in our documentation where we explain every command in detail. Also added guides about how to use versioning and how to use SmartSetup in a Continuous Integration environment.

Version 3.1 (March, 2026)

  • New: Support for the Windows on ARM EC (WinARM64EC) platform in Delphi 13.1

  • Fixed: In SmartSetup 3.0 we switched to the Windows Credential Manager to store the credentials, and in some cases we could hit the 1280 char size limit. Now the credentials are stored in a more efficient way that should never trigger a size limit error.

  • Improved: When installing in Delphi Community or Trial Delphi versions, we now compile in a clean registry entry, to avoid crashes with installed packages. This will make Delphi CE installs much more solid.

  • Improved: Better support for building modern C++ applications. The newest C++ releases have some differences in precompiled headers and other areas and weren't compiled properly.

Version 3.0 (March, 2026)

  • New: Versioning support. You can now install any available version of any product

  • New: Snapshots. You can get a list of every component and version installed at any point in time, and restore that snapshot

  • New: Pinning support. You can now pin a product to a specific version, and it won't update until you unpin it.

  • New: Support for unregistering products. Now you can do tms build -unregister in folder A, and tms build in folder B, and you can work with the components in folder B. IF you want to switch back to using folder A, just unregister B and build A again. The switch is instant, no need to wait for products to build.

  • New: Support for dependencies for products in the community server. Now products in the community server can depend in other products in any other zipfile server.

  • New: "working folder" configuration option. It allows you to keep the working folder for SmartSetup (where logs, products, etc go) in an arbitrary folder, not necessarily at the same folder where tms.config.yaml is.

  • New: Now your tms credentials will be stored in the Windows Credential Manager, and apply to the whole machine. There is no need to enter the credentials for every folder where you use smartsetup anymore.

  • New: Dark mode support in tmsgui

  • New: tms doctor can now check for duplicated bpls.

  • New: new tms spec command allows to create tmsbuild.yaml file for new products that you want to add to smartsetup.

  • New: New -cmd parameter in tms config-write shows the parameters in the syntax you need to use when using the -p parameter.

  • New: There is a global parameter -add-config:<config-file-name> that you can use to override the properties set in tms.config.yaml.

  • New: tmsgui has a new column showing the status of the products.

  • Improved Now the "excluded folders" in the config file apply also to fetching and uninstalling. Before, those products were only excluded from a build.

  • Improved Better lazarus support for products that depend on other products.

  • Improved Support for building in machines where IDEFixPack/FastDCC is installed. Older SmartSetup would detect an invalid compiler and compile as if this was a Rad Studio trial or community version.

  • Fixed: Products in the community server were failing to update some settings in corner cases.

  • Fixed: Unified behavior between API and Community servers. Before, API servers would stop if some operation failed, but Community servers would skip the errors and try to build anyway. Now all servers stop if there is a fetching error.

  • Fixed: Better detection of .zip/.tar.zstd files. The built-in TZipFile.IsValid doesn't work reliably.

  • Fixed: Compilation for Dn+ packages on Rad Studio Trials/Community Editions. The "+" packages use the same package for different Rad Studio versions, and rely in the $(ProductVersion) macro being set by Rad Studio. But rad studio doesn't set this macro, so we needed to workaround it.

  • Fixed: In some very rare cases, SmartSetup could ask for a token to the server, and the server be expired when returning, leading to a failure when downloading products from the api server.

Version 2.3 (October, 2025)

  • Fixed: error : failed to find / extract cached MinGW includes: PathAlreadyExists could happen when trying to compile in a newly installed Delphi 13

Version 2.2 (September, 2025)

  • New: Delphi 13 official support.

  • New: For security reasons, now SmartSetup won't run pre/post build events when installing. You can edit tms.config.yaml to allow pre/post build events for specific projects.

Version 2.1 (August, 2025)

  • New: The config file now comes with a yaml schema that provides autocompletion and syntax checking when you edit it in an editor with yaml scheme support like VSCode.

  • Improved Rewritten config-read command can now return the full configuration as a JSON object, and it can return from the full configuration to some sections, to a specific property.

Version 2.0 (August, 2025)

  • New: Smart Setup registry. This allows everyone to put new projects in Smart Setup.

  • New: Servers. You can now define multiple servers where SmartSetup will look for packages. A predefined "community" server comes built-in, and it is the registry mentioned above.

  • New: Support for different naming conventions in the packages. Now you can specify your own naming, like for example have the packages inside a folder "Delphi 11" instead of "d11" which was the only name allowed before.

  • New: Support for automatically creating packages for projects that don't have them.

  • New: Support for compiling a single package (with {$LIBSUFFIX AUTO}) into multiple Delphi versions. Now you can have a folder "D11+" and it will be used for Delphi 11 and newer.

  • New: Dcu Megafolders allow you to put the result of multiple products into a single folder. This way you can shorten the library path when you are installing tens of products.

  • New: Delphi 13 Florence beta support. This is a work in progress, but will allow you to test your components if you have been invited to the beta

  • Improved: Documentation. We added documentation about how to create your own SmartSetup bundles, and much more.

  • Improved: Breaking Change Two new options added to skip register section of tms.config.yaml. You can now skip registry(adding registry entries) and filelinks (linking files). If you were using a form of skip registering like skip register: [Packages, Start Menu] you might need to review it to add the new entries. The new syntax skip register: [All, -option1, -option2] helps prevent breaking in the future if we add more options.

  • Improved: Exe compilation. Now you can specify that you don't want to compile a "Debug exe", and also to use the latest or earliest Delphi version available to compile the exe, instead of compiling it with all available Delphis.

  • Fixed: Install and Uninstall buttons in tmsgui are now enabled when the product is in status available.

  • Breaking change: Removed repo-register, repo-unregister and repo-list commands. The functionality they offered is now replaced by servers

Version 1.10 (June, 2025)

  • Fixed: Command-line not accepting multiple product names, like tms install tms.biz.bcl tms.webcore (Regression).
  • Fixed: Smart Setup could report that a product had a skipped dependency when it hadn't it. (it should have been fixed in 1.9 but it wasn't)

Version 1.9 (June, 2025)

  • Fixed: Smart Setup could report that a product had a skipped dependency when it hadn't it. Reference.

  • Fixed: Configuration option build cores was not being enforced in some situations (even when build cores was, say, 1, it was using more than 1 core for the build).

Version 1.8 (June, 2025)

  • New tms doctor command allows to fix common errors in Rad Studio installations.

  • Fixed If a dependency of a product was compiled without debug dcus, and the product had debug dcus, the compilation would fail

Version 1.7 (April, 2025)

  • New: tms config-write command allows to modify the configuration file from the command line. For example, to alter the IDEs and platforms that smartsetup will install, you could write tms config-write -p:configuration-for-all-products:delphi-versions=[delphixe,delphi12] -p:configuration-for-all-products:platforms=[win32intel,win64intel]

  • New: tms config-read command allows to read the settings in the configuration file from the command line. For example, to read the IDEs that smartsetup will install, you could write tms config-read configuration-for-all-products:delphi-versions

  • Improved: Desktop icon "TMS Smart Setup Command Prompt" renamed to "TMS Smart Setup Console". The old name was causing Windows to suggest Smart Setup instead of regular built-in "Command Prompt" when users typed "command" in Windows search. The new name will hopefully prevent Windows from doing that.

Version 1.6 (February, 2025)

  • Improved: Now smartsetup will allow to preserve some registry keys like license information when uninstalling.

  • Improved: tmsgui now shows products sorted by status by default, meaning installed products will be listed first. Request #24608.

  • Improved: tmsgui icon looks better in dark backgrounds. Request #24614.

Version 1.5 (January, 2025)

  • New: Now it's possible to define a "weak dependency" in the tmsbuild.yaml definition file. If a product A has a "strong" (regular) dependency on product B, it means product B needs to be installed for product A to be installed. Now you can define dependencies on specific packages of product A - for example, Package2 has a weak dependency on Product B. That means product A can be installed even without product B, in this case, Package2 will not be compiled/installed. If product B is installed, then Package2 will also be installed.

Version 1.4 (January, 2025)

  • New: tmsgui provides a "version history" popup menu option that displays the version history for the selected product. Request #24504.

  • New: tmsgui allows sorting the product list by clicking column heaers.

  • New: The YAML build definition now allows for defining registry keys to be created at install time.

  • Improved: tmsgui now displays error messages in a more intuitive way: the errors are displayed in a list box, and if a specific error is clicked, more details will be displayed in a text box below.

  • Improved: Better error message when uninstalling a product that was previously installed manually (without fetching from remote repository).

  • Improved: Better handling of products installed manually (without fetching from remote repository), it will properly handle if user tries to install the same product over the existing one.

  • Improved: The presence of $(PATH) macro in Delphi PATH environment variable override is now being checked. If not present, the BPL directory is added directly to the variable override. It avoids errors with "bad Delphi installations" like this: https://support.tmssoftware.com/t/error-installing-flexcel-for-macos64-and-macosarm64-on-macos-14-sonoma/22213/6.

  • Fixed: Conditional defines used in the .dproj package are now being preserved and used when building them.

  • Fixed: uninstall command was rebuilding unrelated products. Now it's smarter and rebuilds only products affected by the uninstalled products.

Version 1.3 (November, 2024)

  • Improved: Building a specific product (tms build <product_id>) was not properly recompiling dependencies and dependant packages. This was particulary affecting TMS GUI tool.

  • Improved: Internal file renaming mechanism now more resilient to antivirus and other monitoring software that might affect file operations.

  • Fixed: Improves iOS64 platform detection in Delphi 12. In some cases Smart Setup was wrongly assuming iOS64 platform was installed.

  • Fixed: Avoids duplicate "PATH" environment variable which caused issues to some users in XE5/XE6.

Version 1.2 (October, 2024)

  • Fixed: Fixed writing of dpk files with no pas files (it was generating an invalid file). Reference.

Version 1.1.1 (August, 2024)

  • Fixed: -json parameter output was not a valid JSON value (regression).

  • Fixed: tmsgui not working due to error "could not parse info result as JSON object" (regression).

Version 1.1 (July, 2024)

  • New: support for installing trials and binary packages.

  • New: support for .tar.zstd compressed bundles besides .zip, to get smaller file sizes.

  • New: support for compiling C++ builder cbproj files.

  • New: uncompress command allows to uncompress a tms bundle, zip or zstd.

  • Improved: now when you uninstall all packages, smart setup removes itself from the Windows Path.

  • Improved: the uninstaller could leave some C++ generated files when uninstalling.

  • Improved: the build process now uses shorter paths, to avoid running into MAXPATH limitations.

Version 1.0.31 (June, 2024)

  • New: commands repo-register, repo-unregister and repo-list allows for installing libraries directly from Git repositories.

  • Improved: visual progress indicators (progress bar, title, colors) in console when running from command-line.

  • Improved: Win64x (modern C++) compilation improved.

  • Improved: Installed packages are now removed from the list of IDE disabled packages.

  • Improved: GUI interface now displays per-product progress.

Version 1.0.29 (May, 2024)

  • New: Config file supports extra file paths for a specific platform

  • Improved: Extra file paths now being used during the build process.

  • Improved: Significant performance improvement when building some products. As example TMS Flexcel build time dropped by almost 90%.

Version 1.0.28 (May, 2024)

  • New: Support for Modern C++ platform.

Version 1.0.25 (February, 2024)

  • Improved: tmsgui enables "Install" button for installed products that are outdated, allowing updating to latest versions.

  • Improved: installing a specific product was rebuilding other unrelated products. Now it only builds the specific installed product and dependencies.

Version 1.0.24 (February, 2024)

  • Improved: tmsgui product list now shows uninstalled products in italic, and outdated products in bold.

  • Improved: tmsgui product list now shows remote version number even when listing only installed products. Request #22398.

  • Fixed: Packages flagged as design-time and runtime not being compiled for non-win32 platforms

Version 1.0.22 (December, 2023)

  • Improved: Several fixes and improvements since the previous version.

Version 1.0.0 (October, 2023)

  • New: First version released, beta stage.