The grid has a new property FilterType that can be set to ftHide (default setting) or ftSuppress. With the default setting, during a filter operation the filtered rows are effectively hidden/removed from the grid, affecting the row indexes of all rows.

When the FilterType is set to ftSuppress, the filtered rows are just made invisible and are not affecting the row indexes. So, if you want to keep accessing grid cells with row indexes independent of filtering, the new option FilterType = ftSuppress can be used.