26.9.0

Installing

• TMS Smart Setup (free, from doc.tmssoftware.com/smartsetup/download: unzip the portable tmssmartsetup.zip or run the installer, which gives you tms.exe and tmsgui.exe). Then tms install bero.boldfordelphi; Bold is on the community registry. Smart Setup clones this tag, builds dclBold for Delphi 11, 12 and 13 and registers it in the IDE.
• Manual: install the attached dclBold280.bpl (Delphi 11.3), dclBold290.bpl (Delphi 12.3) or dclBold370.bpl (Delphi 13) through Component > Install Packages, and add the Source folders to the library path.
• DPM (free, installer from github.com/DelphiPackageManager/DPM/releases; it adds dpm.exe to the PATH and an IDE plugin). Then dpm install bero.BoldForDelphi <yourproject>.dproj (Delphi 11, 12 and 13, Win32) from the public feed at https://delphi.dev, or right-click the project in the IDE and choose Manage DPM Packages. DPM builds the design package into its cache and adds Bold's units to that project's search path.

Added

• collect(role) evaluates in the persistence layer: TBSS_collect is implemented and installed, so self.child->collect(parent) and the implicit self.child.parent translate to SQL instead of falling back to in-memory evaluation (#96)
• IBoldDatabase.ReleaseAnotherDatabaseConnection releases a connection obtained from CreateAnotherDatabaseConnection (#92)
• The UniDAC adapter tests compile through a stub-unit DebugUniDAC build configuration, so UniDAC is never required; they run on SQL Server and SQLite, against the vendored UniDAC 10.4 on Delphi 12 or UniDAC 11 on Delphi 13 (#89)
• Adapter-neutral persistence scenario tests run on every adapter (#88, #80, #89); end-to-end tests drive TBoldDbCopy and the database validator threads (#92, #93, #94)
• BOLD_TEST_ENGINE selects the test database engine without editing UnitTest.ini; UnitTest\run_matrix.ps1 runs the adapter x engine matrix (FireDAC and UniDAC on SQLite and SQL Server) with one summary table
• UnitTest\sync_gui_dpr.ps1 generates the GUI runner's unit list from the console runner, so TestInsight runs the whole suite (#84)
• Package-manager manifests for Boss and DPM, and a release checklist (#87)

Fixed

• Data corruption on FireDAC: with MultiRowInsertLimit = 1, PMCreate wrote the second new object's attribute values into the third and later objects saved in one UpdateDatabase, because the per-row reset cleared a parameter snapshot instead of the query's real parameters (#88)
• UseBatchQueries was broken on both FireDAC and UniDAC (#80); it is now refused on engines where batching is unverified instead of failing at run time (#95)
• Undo: the redo value space was orphaned when undoing a block with no changes, and DoUndoInTransaction used a block after freeing it (#86)
• UniDAC: cached queries leaked when a connection wrapper was destroyed (#90); CreateAnotherDatabaseConnection created a TUniConnection nobody freed (#91); GetDatabaseError raised its own exception for providers without an error-code table, hiding the real database error (#98)
• TBoldDbCopy and the database validator dropped the extra connection wrappers they obtained (#92); validator worker threads were never freed (#93)
• TBoldDbCopy failed silently on FireDAC: Prepare ran before the parameter types were known, worker exceptions were swallowed, the row-count query leaked; failures are now logged and reported through Errors (#94)
• FetchFromClassList fetched every invalid single link of the other-end class one by one, one SELECT each, when deriving a multilink from a current class extent; it now falls back to the single database query and leaves invalid members alone (#97)
• The design packages could not be installed from the IDE after LIBSUFFIX AUTO: a leftover LIB version in the project files made the IDE look for dclBold370.30.bpl while the compiler produced dclBold370.bpl (#87)
• The two ignored FetchRefetch tests are rehabilitated and pin the classic DbFetchOwningMember path; the suite has no ignored tests (#83)
• Three TestBoldOclEvaluation tests assumed the creation order of unsaved objects in a class extent; they sort first
• The Delphi 11.3 design package was built without a version resource: its Debug/Win32 configuration overrode VerInfo_IncludeVerInfo to false
• The 26.8.1 Delphi 12.3 package had lost NoObjectSpaceTransactions again (the define restored for #85 was dropped by the version-stamping commit the same day); all three packages now declare it in the same project group (#85)

Changed

• Design packages are named by compiler through LIBSUFFIX AUTO (dclBold280.bpl, dclBold290.bpl, dclBold370.bpl); the Delphi 12.1 CE package project is retired (#87)
• CanEvaluateInPS answers True for collect(role), where it previously answered False on every engine (#43, #96)
• Test suite at 2182 tests (2182 passing, 0 ignored, 0 failed); code coverage 58.5%

Packages: dclBold280.bpl (Delphi 11.3), dclBold290.bpl (Delphi 12.3), dclBold370.bpl (Delphi 13), FileVersion 26.9.0.0.