Release Notes

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Items requiring attention
  • Color theme
    8.6.0
    The color category "Primary" and its color variables have replaced several existing color variables. If the system uses a custom color theme the color category "Primary" must be saved manually without changes to update all shades of the primary color for each custom theme.
  • Database Designer
    8.6.0
    If there are any pending changes in Database Designer, they must be either applied or reverted.
Changed functionality
  • Export bundles
    8.6.0
    Export bundles are now divided into two separate menu items, "Partial deploy bundles" found under the "Deploy" menu group, and "Copy bundles" found in the "Admin" menu group.
  • Links
    8.6.0
    Links with invalid visibility procedures will now throw an error instead of hiding the link. Project inspection will now also warn for such links.
  • Login Links
    8.6.0
    Login links can no longer be used to auto log in an administrator without having to enter their password. The API procedures will crash if it is attempted and any existing links will be invalid. All login links for normal users, and login links of other type than "auto login" for administrators are not affected.
  • Pivot Grid
    8.6.0
    Cells in a Pivot Grid that contain cell links are now highlighted when hovered over.
  • Sidebar
    8.6.0
    The sidebar has received an updated design.
New functionality
  • Chat
    8.6.0
    A new component for chatting has been added.
  • Database Designer
    8.6.0
    Columns with foreign keys can now be created and dropped.
  • Database Designer
    8.6.0
    Indexes can now be created, altered and dropped.
  • Database Designer
    8.6.0
    Tables can now be assigned to alternative function blocks belonging to the same schema.
  • File Manager
    8.6.0
    File manager now supports partial file reading, using the new columns "Offset" and "Length".
  • Grid
    8.6.0
    Grid columns can now have a prefix and suffix to be displayed along with the value.
  • HTML View
    8.6.0
    The HTML View component has a new column "Markdown", which displays Markdown text as HTML.
  • InfoSQL
    8.6.0
    InfoSQL box links can now be disabled using the "BoxLinkDisabledReason" column.
  • InfoSQL
    8.6.0
    InfoSQL has a new column "Markdown" which can be used to display Markdown text as HTML.
  • InfoSQL
    8.6.0
    InfoSQL values can now be displayed with a prefix and suffix.
  • Markdown
    8.6.0
    A new component "Markdown" has been introduced, enabling conversion from Markdown text to HTML.
  • Menu Group
    8.6.0
    Menu groups can now be grouped together using "Menu group headings".
  • Textbox
    8.6.0
    Textbox fields and parameters can now have a prefix and suffix to be displayed along with the value.
  • Time
    8.6.0
    The Time control has a new setting "Validate time" which can be used in combination with Minimum/Maximum time.
Bug fixes
  • Chat
    8.6.0.2
    Trying to create a Chat menu item caused an error.
  • Checkbox
    8.5.0.2
    The validation message and the checkbox description would overlap if the description was long enough.
  • Column manager
    8.5.0.2
    Long titles did not truncate properly.
  • Controls
    8.5.0.4
    Fields placed to the right of another field would sometimes get hidden if other fields in the same section became hidden.
  • Deploy
    8.5.0.1
    This version required a patched deploy core to deploy.
  • Editable Grid
    8.5.0.5
    Using the dynamic field information columns FieldInfo or FieldInfoId to apply the same field information to multiple editable columns would cause an application error.
  • Editable grid
    8.6.0
    Editable grid would not display an error message when inputting an invalid date format.
  • Export bundles
    8.5.0.2
    The menu group visibility procedure binding would not be scripted.
  • Field information
    8.6.0
    Fields using "to the right of" would sometimes be displayed incorrectly on older versions of Safari.
  • File Manager SFTP
    8.5.0.2
    The List command only retrieves the size of files; directories, symlinks, and other non-file types will have NULL in the SizeInBytes column. To improve compatibility with SFTP servers that do not reliably report item types, it will now also return the size for items whose type cannot be determined.
  • GenAI
    8.5.0.2
    Forward links were not selectable for the GenAI component.
  • GenAI
    8.5.0.2
    GenAI did not support setFieldValuesFromWebService.
  • GenAI
    8.5.0.2
    GenAI did not work as a job or event.
  • GenAI
    8.6.0
    The description of a model would not update in edit-mode.
  • Grid
    8.6.0
    Grid field groups would not display their tooltip.
  • Grid
    8.6.0
    Grid would incorrectly disable component content links with selected items.
  • Grid
    8.5.0.6
    Any special characters in CheckboxDisabledReason would be both HTML encoded and then escaped, instead of showing the end user the desired character.
  • InfoSQL
    8.5.0.2
    The "AI Generated"-setting on field info would affect affect the first field if multiple fields had the same name.
  • InfoSQL
    8.6.0
    Hovering the AI indicator for a field with HTML content would hide certain elements.
  • Inline popup
    8.6.0
    Inline popup when used inside a popup would cause the menu item to behave as if it wasn't in a popup when exiting the inline popup.
  • Link Cards
    8.6.0.3
    The background of Link Cards would become too dark when hovered or focused making the text hard to read.
  • Link list
    8.5.0.2
    There would be line breaks in the badge count number if the item text was long.
  • Multipart
    8.6.0
    Cid nexus would not work when linking from a multipart part inside a multipart with Cid nexus "self" to the same multipart.
  • Node graph
    8.5.0.3
    Node graph would crash when trying to move labels without a fixed position.
  • Project inspection
    8.6.0
    Project inspection would ignore custom values for the @Id parameter when inspecting a Multirow, Textbox with Autosearch or Textbox with Popup.
  • SoftadminApi.DeployScript_Insert
    8.6.0
    The procedure would crash if @UserId was NULL.
  • Web service publishing
    8.6.0
    An invalid DateTime in the setting 'WebServiceLoggingDateTimeTo' would prevent the web service from starting.