MyConnect Plugin 4.0 released

MyConnect Plugin has been updated to version 4.0. This is a major update includes the following new features:

  • Added support for Apple Silicon based Macs.
  • Added support for pre-emptive multi-threading within 4D.
  • Added new commands MySQL Row To Object and MySQL Rowset To Collection.
  • Updated MySQL client libraries to version 8.0.28 with support of the latest authentication methods of MySQL.
  • Added support for the new non-blocking APIs of MySQL.
  • Major internal refactoring with many performance improvements.

For details see the section Version history of the documentation.

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NTK Plugin version 4.1 released

NTK Plugin has been updated to version 4.1. This version includes the following changes:

  • Added support for new Apple Silicon Macs
  • Added support for SOCKS5 proxy. See the proxy and proxy-port options of TCP Open.
  • Added support for PKWARE encryption. See ZIP Set Password.
  • Updated OpenSSL libraries to version 1.1.1k.
  • Demo timeout is no longer checked when calling NTK Register.
  • Fixed a memory leak in JSON Save As String.
  • Fixed a bug in multi-threading handling which could lead to a deadlock.
  • Fixed a crashing bug in NTK Seal Blob and NTK Unseal Blob.

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PostgreSQL Plugin 4.0 released

PostgreSQL Plugin has been updated to version 4.0. This major update includes many new features.

  • New commands PgSQL Row To Object and PgSQL RowSet To Collection.
  • Support for pre-emptive multi-threading.
  • Major internal refactoring because of reorganisation of common code libraries.
  • Data types are now cached upon opening a connection for better performance.
  • Increased performance for running queries using non-blocking sockets.
  • Updated PostgreSQL client libraries.
  • Support for code signing and notarisation on Mac.

Please refer to the section “Version history” of the documentation for a complete overview of the changes. Please note that 32-bit mode is no longer supported on Mac and Windows.

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NTK Plugin 4.0 released

NTK Plugin has been updated to version 4.0. This major update includes many new features.

  • Support for pre-emptive multi-threading.
  • New commands for reading and writing zip files.
  • New commands for working with One Time Passwords (OTP).
  • New commands for a MQTT client and server.
  • New commands for parsing URLs and parsing multi-part form data.
  • Improved commands for working with JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Support for JSON Web Keys (JWKS) has been added and extracting the key ID from a JWT.
  • New commands for encoding and decoding hex, base64, base32 and URL encoded values.- Various other minor features have been added.
  • Added support for notarisation on Mac.

Please refer to the section “Version history” of the documentation for a complete overview of the changes. Please note that 32-bit mode is no longer supported on Mac.

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SQLite Plugin 4.0 released

SQLite Plugin has been updated to version 4.0. This update includes the following new features.

  • 64-bit support on Mac
  • Updated SQLite libraries plus various SQLite extensions.
  • Support for JSON data / functions.
  • Full text search.
  • Fuzzy matching, approximate matching, spell fix
  • Transitive closures (hierarchical relationships within a single table)
  • Support for reading/writing CSV data
  • File I/O functions
  • Percentile function

Please refer to the section “Version history” of the documentation for a complete overview of the changes.

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NTK Plugin 3.1 released

NTK Plugin has been updated to version 3.1. This update includes more new features and some bug fixes.

  • New commands for working with JSON Web Tokens (JWT). Generate and validate JSON Web Tokens.
  • New JSON commands: JSON Copy, JSON Clear, JSON Update and JSON Equals.
  • Gzip Compress Blob now supports additional encodings such as gzip, deflate, zlib and raw.
  • Updated web server code with support for gzip compression, improved keep-alive support and dynamic allocation of workers in the thread pool (a big thank you to Aparajita Fishman).

Please refer to the section “Version history” of the documentation for a complete overview of the changes.

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