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Bold for Delphi - Roadmap

This roadmap outlines the development direction for Bold for Delphi. It is a living document that evolves based on community feedback and contributions.

Current Version: Delphi 13 Status: Active Development

Vision

Make Bold for Delphi a modern, well-documented, and reliable ORM framework for Delphi developers who value model-driven architecture.

It should be easy to get a good understanding of what Bold is and in what cases it is useful.

Status Legend

Icon Meaning
✅ Completed
⬜ In Progress
📆 Planned
🤔 Under Consideration

1. Delphi Version Support

Status Version
✅ Delphi 11.3 Alexandria
✅ Delphi 12.1 Athens
✅ Delphi 12.3 Athens
✅ Delphi 13
📆 Delphi 14+

Goal: Support each new Delphi version within 30 days of release.

2. Documentation

Status Notes
✅ Quick Start Guide (quickstart.md)
✅ Example documentation in browser
✅ Add about dialog to Bold menu item in IDE
✅ Changelog (CHANGELOG.md)
📆 Complete API reference
📆 OCL language reference
📆 Component reference guide
📆 Video tutorials
📆 Searchable documentation website (GitHub Pages + MkDocs)

3. Database Support

Current Adapters

Status Adapter Database
✅ FireDAC SQL Server
✅ FireDAC PostgreSQL
✅ FireDAC Firebird
✅ FireDAC SQLite
✅ XML Not used
✅ FireDAC Oracle
⬜ FireDAC MySQL
⬜ FireDAC MariaDB
UniDAC (all supported databases) UniDAC 📆 Needs testing (Optional as UniDAC is commercial)

Planned

Status Comment
📆 Improve PostgreSQL-specific optimizations
📆 Document database-specific configurations

4. Testing & Code Quality

Testing Infrastructure

Status Comment
✅ DUnitX test framework migration
✅ Code coverage reporting with DelphiCodeCoverage for tests
⬜ Increase code coverage
🤔 Automated CI builds (GitHub Actions)
🤔 Automated test runs on pull requests
🤔 Performance benchmarks

Code Coverage Progress

Live tracking: Codecov.io Dashboard (since 2026-01-06)

Historical data (before Codecov integration):

Date Units Covered Not covered Total lines Coverage %
2025-12-22 153 15657 44318 59975 26.106%
2025-12-24 149 15629 40552 56181 27.819%
2026-01-01 149 20619 35624 56243 36.661%
2026-01-02 149 22481 33724 56205 39.998%
2026-01-04 156 22915 33991 56906 40.268%
2026-01-05 156 22944 33957 56901 40.322%

Code Quality

Status Comment
✅ Remove deprecated database adapters (ADO, BDE, DBExpress)
✅ Removed C++Builder-specific code
⬜ Fix warnings from Pascal Analyzer
📆 Consolidate duplicate code
📆 Use generics

Test Focus Areas

Status Comment
✅ OCL parser and evaluator (78.5% coverage, 117+ evaluation tests)
📆 Persistence layer
📆 SQL generation
📆 Subscription system

5. Examples & Demos

Status Comment
✅ MasterDetail demo (basic CRUD)
✅ XML persistence demo
✅ LogBridge demo (logging integration)
⬜ Building/Person demo (associations)
📆 REST API integration example
📆 Real-world application template

6. Core Improvements

Performance

Status Comment
📆 Generate BOLD_ID from Windows service instead of database
📆 Object synchronization from Windows service
📆 SpanFetch for efficient batch loading
📆 Lazy loading improvements
📆 Query result caching
📆 Parallel object loading

Model Editor

Status Comment
✅ Save and Generate All
✅ Save prompt on close
⬜ Working SQL-script generator
⬜ Search/filter in model tree
📆 Model Editor v2 using DevExpress grid with improved search

7. New Features (Under Consideration)

These features are being evaluated based on community interest:

Status Comment
🤔 JSON serialization for REST APIs
🤔 Async/await database operations
🤔 LINQ-style query syntax alternative to OCL
🤔 Entity change tracking/auditing
🤔 Soft delete support
🤔 GraphQL integration

8. Community & Ecosystem

Status Comment
✅ GitHub repository with issue tracking
✅ Discord community
📆 Contribution guidelines (CONTRIBUTING.md)
📆 Issue templates for bugs/features
🤔 Register boldfordelphi.org domain
🤔 Newsletter or blog updates

How to Contribute

  1. Report issues: Use GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests
  2. Submit PRs: Fork the repo and submit pull requests
  3. Documentation: Help improve docs and examples
  4. Testing: Report compatibility issues with different databases/Delphi versions
  5. Spread the word: Blog posts, conference talks, social media

Release History

Version Date Highlights
Community 25.12.0 2025-12-22 Delphi 13 support, improved examples, documentation
Community 25.10.0 2025-11-01 DUnitX migration, code coverage
Original 4.0.1.0 2004-04-01 Initial Boldsoft release

Feedback

Have suggestions for the roadmap? Open an issue on GitHub or discuss on Discord.