Release Notes

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Items requiring attention
  • Multirow
    8.5.0
    The setting "Automatic new row" has been removed. The setting has to be removed from all field info before upgrading.
  • Users are logged out
    8.5.0
    Installing this version, or deploying it, will terminate all current user sessions in the target system.
Changed functionality
  • Autocomment
    8.5.0
    Changes to the format of object references in Autocomment.
  • Calendar
    8.5.0
    Calendar now supports component content links.
  • Colorpicker
    8.5.0
    Colorpicker will now open in a drawer on small screens.
  • Editable Grid
    8.5.0
    Validation messages have a new design in editable grid.
  • Performance Center
    8.5.0
    Performance center now includes menu group load times.
  • Planner
    8.5.0
    Planner will now display a date control in the day view, instead of separate fields.
  • SoftadminApi.User_UpdatePassword
    8.5.0
    Now takes the optional parameter "SendMail", which can be used to notify the user that their password has been changed.
  • User impersonation
    8.5.0
    The user impersonation dropdown will be changed to a textbox with autosearch when there are more than 10 options.
  • Web Service Publishing (raw mode)
    8.5.0
    Client accounts are no longer deployed. Now client accounts need to be created manually in the target system before or after deploy. This does not affect already deployed published web services.
New functionality
  • Admin menu items
    8.5.0
    A new menu item "Find object usage" has been added.
  • Azure Service Bus
    8.5.0
    Listeners can now read from the dead letter subqueue.
  • Components
    8.5.0
    A new component "GenAI" has been added, allowing for easier interaction with AI services.
  • Database Designer
    8.5.0
    System- and function-blocks can now be administered using Database Designer.
  • Database Designer
    8.5.0
    Tables can now be created using Database Designer.
  • Database Designer
    8.5.0
    Tables can now be dropped using Database Designer.
  • Database Designer
    8.5.0
    Table meta data can now be altered using Database Designer.
  • Edit menu item
    8.5.0
    Existing menu items can now be saved as a copy.
  • Graph link
    8.5.0
    Graph links now have support for conditional visibility.
  • Graph node group link
    8.5.0
    Graph node group links now support "depends on column" and "disabled reason column".
  • Grid
    8.5.0
    Grid has a new setting "Show toggle" linked to smallscreen mode.
  • InfoSQL
    8.5.0
    Timeline steps now supports a new status "Warning".
  • Performance Center
    8.5.0
    New diagram "Total server time by type" to overview what type of executions uses the most server resources.
  • Softadmin Assistant
    8.5.0
    Allows opening of edit object from Autocomment when using Softadmin Assistant for SSMS 21.
  • Web Service Call
    8.5.0
    Web service call in raw mode can now send extra parameters with the ContentType.
Performance
  • Enterprise Search
    8.5.0
    Better performance in Enterprise Search when roughly ten or more words are part of the search string.
Bug fixes
  • Calendar
    8.5.0
    The calendar setting "Week number culture code" affected the language of weekdays and the date format. It now only affects week numbering.
  • Color Themes
    8.4.0.1
    Deploy could fail if there were custom color themes in the target system.
  • Custom component
    8.5.0
    Errors would not include the SQL code executed when the procedure failed.
  • Date
    8.4.1.2
    The year label in the year picker found in the Date/Datetime/Date Range controls would have the same color as the background when the current year was selected.
  • Deploy
    8.5.0
    The files Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.x64.dll or Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.x86.dll may have been locked by the web server, which prevented deploy or upgrade from upgrading them to the latest version. The bug is now also fixed for Web Services, Web Snippets and Publish.
  • Deploy
    8.5.0.1
    This version required a patched deploy core to deploy.
  • Editable Grid
    8.5.0
    Pressing Escape would back out of the menu item instead of leaving edit mode.
  • Grid
    8.4.0.2
    Grids in multiparts with 'Compact mode in multipart' could render incorrectly.
  • Heading (Collapsible)
    8.5.0
    Heading (Collapsible)'s arrow would disappear if a field beneath it failed its validation.
  • InfoSQL
    8.4.0.2
    InfoSQL labels would center align with text spanning multiple rows, instead of top align.
  • InfoSql
    8.5.0
    The AI generated icon would not display when using labels to the left.
  • JavaScript buttons
    8.4.0.2
    JavaScript buttons on mobile did not claim 100% width.
  • Multi-listbox
    7.37.0.17
    In Chrome v.138 and Edge v.138, Multi-listbox would loose it's height after a control dependency fires.
  • Multipart
    8.5.0
    Infoboxes have parts of their content hidden in multipart at certain screen sizes.
  • Multi-picker
    8.5.0
    Visibility scripts depending on multi-pickers would not be updated if the multi-picker was updated by its default value.
  • Multirow
    8.4.0.3
    Multirow in small screen mode would trigger "integrity protection validation" errors if a mandatory dropdown was used.
  • Performance Center
    8.5.0
    Performance center timing data would only include data for the first menu item in forward chains.
  • Popup
    8.5.0
    Keyboard focus could end up outside popups and not be able to get the focus back. Focus can now not leave the popup.
  • Show details for log row
    8.4.0.1
    "Show details for log row" would crash for errors related to parameters and fields.
  • Sidebar
    8.5.0
    The toggle buttons between menu and favorites would wrap too aggressively.
  • SoftadminApi.Mail_Enqueue
    8.5.0
    Emails could get stuck in the SoftadminApi.MailQueue and never be deleted. Emails are now deleted 3 months (for privacy reasons) after it has failed to sent three times and no one has acted on the error logs.
  • Spinner
    8.5.0
    Spinner would not be displayed in popups.
  • Web Service Call
    8.4.1.1
    SOAP Web services could not be created without authentication.
  • Web service publishing raw mode
    8.5.0
    Errors that occurred when logging the request would not be logged in the error log.
  • Web service publishing raw mode
    8.5.0
    If the startup of the web service publishing raw mode application failed once it could not start unless a manual restart of the application pool was made. This could for example happen if the SQL Server was unavailable at application start. The application will now try to start again after 15 s.
  • Web service publishing raw mode
    8.4.1.3
    Web service publishing raw mode would sometimes fail to start up a service using query string parameters due to multithreading issues.
  • Version History
    8.5.0
    The arrows "next difference" and "previous difference" would press the back button.