UPDATE: According to Allen and Hallvard, that would be considered a breaking interface change, and is considered a BIG no-no. Read more about breaking interface changes.

The Delphi 7.1 Update has been out for some time. It fixes a lot of bugs, as described here.

One of the pet peeves with the Delphi 7.1 update I have is that the RTLVersion constant wasn't updated. It still read 15.00. The same with CompilerVersion. It still reads 15.00. If I remember correctly, these constants were declared, beginning with Delphi 6. If the RTL is updated, or the compiler is updated, why shouldn't these constants be updated?

A simple project, such as the following, shows.

program Project1;

{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  SysUtils;

begin
  WriteLn(Format('RTLVersion: %.2f', [RTLVersion]));
  WriteLn(Format('CompilerVersion: %.2f', [CompilerVersion]));
end.