Appeon are excited to announce that the PowerBuilder / PowerServer 2022 R2 version and the InfoMaker 2022 R2 version, build 2819, have been officially released and are available for downloading!
New Features and Bug Fixes
- Newly supported databases
- SQL Server 2022 (supports MSOLEDBSQL 19.3 using TLS 1.3)
- PostgreSQL 15.x
- Oracle 23c (supports TLS 1.3)
- PowerBuilder
- Supports TabbedView for MDI window.
- Supports Autocomplete for DDDW & DDLB.
- Provides SMTPClient and MimeMessage for native email support.
- New PDF Builder offers a full-set of objects and functions for generating and manipulating PDF documents with text, graphics, images, and interactive elements such as watermarks.
- Enhanced RichTextEdit control to support form fields, tables, and text frames, for which a list of new functions are added.
- Changed the WebBrowser engine from Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) to Microsoft Edge WebView2.
- Upgraded the ADO.NET database drivers to .NET 6 for more secure database connection.
For more new features and detailed information, please see here.
For bug fixes & known issues, please see here.
- PowerServer
- The PowerServer project deployment has been further simplified. Eliminates the need to deploy client apps and Web APIs separately. With just one click, you can deploy your app to an IIS server, saving time and hassle.
- Supports IBM DB2 UDB 11.x.
- Adds Cursory (ultra-fast) to allow developers to quickly validate fixes without waiting for a full build.
- Adds a new encryption type "Strict” to support TDS 8.0 in SQL Server 2022.
- Adds the UserExtensions object and the MaxSPCache setting to the PowerServer C# solution.
For more new features and detailed information, please see here. All the new features listed in PowerBuilder are also applicable to PowerServer.
For bug fixes & known issues, please see here.
- InfoMaker
- Adds the AutoCompleteMode property to the DataWindow object properties dddw.property and ddlb.property to support the following features:
- Supports automatic completion of data input in DropDownDataWindow & DropDownListBox.
- Supports filtering data according to the data input in DropDownDataWindow & DropDownListBox.
- Supports identity column for Oracle.
- Adds a new encryption type "Strict" to the Encrypt Data option in the DB profile. The "Strict" encryption type enables SQL Server 2022 to leverage TDS 8.0.
- It is now possible to enable NativePDF option for the entire application.
- Upgraded the ADO.NET database drivers to .NET 6 for more secure database connection.
For more new features and detailed information, please see here.
For bug fixes & known issues, please see here.
Upgrade Notes
For how to upgrade PowerBuilder applications, please see here. If your application uses WebBrowser, please read carefully the WebBrowser engine changes and evaluate the impact of the changes to your application before the upgrade.
For how to upgrade the PowerServer projects, please see here.
Downloads
To obtain either the new PB 2022 R2 or IM 2022 R2, please download either the PowerBuilder Installer or InfoMaker Installer from our Downloads portal.
Regards .. Chris
