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2 December 2002

• New submissions are not being accepted/processed at the present time. I've been taking a break from updating the site to see how Borland's own bug tracking system, QualityCentral, pans out. As of now, I don't have an estimate of when work on the site will resume. Sorry for any inconvenience.

1 May 2002

• Added MDI & TPageControl bug introduced in Delphi 6
• Added MessageDlg bug
• These bugs were fixed in Delphi 6(.02): 266 641

11 April 2002

• Borland's own bug tracking system, QualityCentral, is now open to the public for testing.
• These bugs were fixed in Delphi 6(.02): 619 621 622
• These bugs still exist in Delphi 6.02: 574 578 585 590 594 595 597 625
• Changed Delphi 6 status into Gotcha: 588

7 April 2002

• These bugs were fixed in Delphi 6(.02): 252 372 392 445 576 612 618
• These bugs still exist in Delphi 6.02: 11 129 148 371 416 419 436 451 452 469 494 504 512 516 530 545 580 582 611 612 617 673 674 677 683

18 March 2002

• Added bug that causes seemingly random access violations when moving the mouse over a dropped-down combo box
• Bug #592 was reintroduced in Delphi 6
• Bugs that still exist in 6.02: 652 657 661

28 February 2002

• Delphi 6 Update Pack 2 has been released. Here are the first results:
  • New bug: Apps compiled in Delphi 6.02 will no longer run on Windows 95/98 without DCOM 1.2 or later.
  • Bugs fixed: 575 681 684
  • Bugs not fixed: 556 560 616 623 629 645 653 678
• These documentation bugs were fixed in 6.0: 566 613

2 January 2002

• Added "shouldn't compile" bug

15 November 2001

• Added bug with debugger and 3DNow! instructions
• Added TJPEGImage bug
• Added compiler bug introduced in Delphi 6
• Bugs fixed in Delphi 6.01: 672
• Bugs not fixed in Delphi 6.01: 575 678

28 August 2001

• Added OwnerDraw TMainMenu bug
• Added TTreeView bug
• Added TRegistry.GetKeyNames bug
• Added gotcha with Copy function
• Bugs not fixed in Delphi 6: 435

8 July 2001

• Added new TIniFile bug
• Bugs not fixed in Delphi 6: 424

4 July 2001

• Added bug in Seek procedure when dealing with large files
• Added Kylix IDE bug
• Bugs fixed in Delphi 6: 80
• Bugs not fixed in Delphi 6: 617, 624, 644

19 June 2001

• Bugs fixed in Delphi 6: 502, 604, 607, 609, 632, 640, 654
• Bugs not fixed in Delphi 6: 47, 129, 225, 416, 452, 545, 575 (critical leak!), 635
• Added TryStrToSQLTimeStamp bug
• Added bug in IDE's action list editor

18 June 2001

• Delphi 6 is out! Here are the first results:
  • Fixed: 447 539 548 557 561 571 577 584 589 600 626 627 628 633 638 642 662 663 665 667
  • Not fixed: 104 266 371 494 504 512 516 556 560 580 582 595 616 623 629 631 648 649 652 653 656 657 658 660 664 671
• Bugs #113 was fixed back in Delphi 3.0x.
• Bugs that still exist in Kylix: 142, 148, 667

16 June 2001

• Added TDateTimePicker bug
• Bug #110 was fixed back in Delphi 4
• Bugs that have been fixed in Kylix: 447, 557, 580, 584, 589, 600, 618, 627
• Bugs that still exist in Kylix: 419, 499
• Bug #579 appears to have been fixed in Delphi 5.01

13 June 2001

• These bugs are still present in Kylix: 504, 556, 561, 582, 629, 656, 657, 660
• Not applicable in Kylix: 548 (updated description), 633 (feature removed), 664

11 June 2001

• Added workaround for entry #670
• Bug #502 is N/A under Delphi 1 and exists under Delphi 2.

10 June 2001

• Compiler bugs still present in Kylix: 586, 623, 642
• Compiler bugs fixed in Kylix: 539, 577, 628
• Other bugs still present in Kylix: 252 (but with slightly different behaviour), 371
• Added debugger gotcha about running/debugging console applications
• Added IDE gotcha about the loss of use of two IDE shortcut keys

7 June 2001

• As of today, The Delphi Bug List has room for Kylix bugs as well! Some compiler bugs that exists in Delphi 5.01 have been checked. Following are the first results:
  • Bugs still present in Kylix: 129, 416 (updated description), 451, 452 (updated description), 494
  • Fixed in Kylix: 502, 571
• Added IDE bug
• Bugs that still exist in Delphi 5.01: 266 539

21 May 2001

• Added bug in exception handling of console apps
• Added TComboBox gotcha
• Added compiler crash bug
• Bugs that still exist in Delphi 5.01: 557

3 May 2001

• Added bug in Delphi's debugger

24 April 2001

• Added "can't compile" bug with SetString
• Added TWebBrowser bug
• Added bug with SetPropValue function
• Bugs that still exist in Delphi 5: 104

13 April 2001

• Added THandleStream.Size gotcha
• Bug #99 was fixed in Delphi 4.0x

31 March 2001

• Bugs that reportedly still exist in Delphi 5: 11
• Bugs that reportedly have been fixed in Delphi 5.01: 401

24 March 2001

• Added compiler bug with Int64's
• Added TPrintDialog bug
• Bugs that reportedly still exist in Delphi 5.01: 252, 477, 494, 512, 537, 548
• Bugs that reportedly have been fixed in Delphi 5.01: 498, 505, 518

25 February 2001

• Unveiled new features in The Delphi Bug List:
  • The ability to post your own comments on the bug pages!
  • A built-in search facility. (It's somewhat crude at the moment; I hope to improve it in the future.)
• Added bug in UniqueString
• Added TRichEdit bug
• Added a "shouldn't compile" bug
• Bug #408 still exists in Delphi 5

4 February 2001

• Added bug concerning AutoScroll and BorderStyle
• Added MDI bug
• Bug #564 was fixed in Delphi 5.01
• Bug #586 still exists in Delphi 5.01

23 January 2001

• Added documentation bug
• Added BDE bugs: #650 #651
• Bug #158 still exists in Delphi 5 when using different steps to reproduce the bug
• These bugs still exist in Delphi 5.01: #53 #580

13 January 2001

• Added TRadioGroup bug
• Added IDE bug
• Added BDE bugs: #646 #647

2000:

More bugs added

1999:

More bugs added

1998:

Even more bugs added

1997:

And more bugs added

March-December 1996:

New bugs added

17 March 1996:

First version published