Release notes for version 14.5 - November 2024

New functions in 14.5 and Announcement in blog.

14.5 - 12th November 2024

• Added Overlay.AddWebViewer function.
• Added Barcode.DetectAsJSON function.
• Added some auto complete for custom functions for parameters and function names:
  • Table occurrences
  • Field names after ::
  • Operator names
  • Function names from function list
  • Parameter names
  • Get/Hole/Obtenir functions
  Invoke with fn-F5 in the dialog or we auto invoke it for you.
• Added a check to GMImage.Scale to return an error if width or height is > 99999.
• Added a field to database design dialog for tables to show comments. To add a comment, define a field _TableComment and put comment text there.
• Added Audit.BuildCaches function.
• Added CURL fix #15102 to fix a bug with FTP over SSL.
• Added CurrentTimeStamp field to the JSON for FM.TableStatistics, FM.RecordStatistics and FM.FieldStatistics functions.
• Added DynaPDF.ClearLicense function.
• Added DynaPDF.GetAnnotColor and DynaPDF.GetTextBBox functions.
• Added DynaPDF.GetAnnotTextAlign function.
• Added DynaPDF.GetGlyphIndex and DynaPDF.GetGlyphOutline functions.
• Added DynaPDF.Parser.DeleteAllImages, DynaPDF.Parser.DeleteImage and DynaPDF.Parser.ListImages functions.
• Added field comment text to the tooltips in the debugger for macOS.
• Added field comment to the tooltips for the export dialog.
• Added field value and comment tooltips to calculation dialog, script workspace and debugger for macOS.
• Added FM.UpdateRecord4, FM.UpdateRecord5, FM.UpdateRecords4 and FM.UpdateRecords5 functions.
• Added JSON.InsertRecords function to insert array of records in JSON.
• Added List.Intersection function.
• Added Math.Rate function.
• Added MYSQL_OPT_LOCAL_INFILE option for SQL.SetConnectionOption for use with MySQL connections.
• Added sample script into extras to launch two FileMaker on macOS, one with HTTP tunneling on and one with it being off.
• Added SharedMemory.DeleteValue function.
• Added Text.FilterSwissQRCode function.
• Added Vision.RectifyDocument function.
• Added WordFile.GetProperty and WordFile.SetProperty functions.
• Changed Archive.Content to skip GID, UID, Permissions, RDev, FileType and HardLink fields, if not set.
• Changed Barcode.Generate, Barcode.GenerateJSON and Barcode.WriteFile to use 4 as default scale.
• Disabled remembering column widths for FileMaker 21.1.1 since this feature is now built-in to FileMaker.
• Fixed a bug in the Gamutcheck for lcms2.
• Fixed a problem on Windows with shared memory objects not accessible for other users.
• Fixed a problem with Events.Reset with not clearing all cached events, so Events.RemoveEvent function failed.
• Fixed a problem with Preview, MapView, DragDrop and ImageView controls to avoid control disappearing.
• Fixed an edge case with plugin registration.
• Fixed an edge case with swiss keyboard layout for RemoteControl.PressKey function and the virtual key lookup.
• Fixed an issue in Window.PositionNextDialog function for Windows.
• Fixed an issue with GMImage.WriteToPDFContainer and Twain.Acquire on Windows.
• Fixed crash with running Python on Windows.
• Fixed CURL Multi functions, broken in 14.4.
• Fixed SharedMemory.GetValue and SharedMemory.SetValue functions to work with empty values.
• Fixes a crash in Python functions when using older Python 3.9.x version.
• Implemented Process.List for Linux.
• Improved auto complete when you are in the middle of text.
• Improved Barcode.Detect by using newer zxing library.
• Improved Container.ReadImage to read HEIC images on iOS.
• Improved custom function auto complete to cache table and field names.
• Improved DynaPDF.GeneratePreview, DynaPDF.ReadImageResolution, DynaPDF.ReadImageFormat, DynaPDF.InsertImage, DynaPDF.AttachFileContainer, DynaPDF.AddOutputIntentEx, DynaPDF.CreateICCBasedColorSpaceContainer and DynaPDF.OpenPDFFromContainer to return proper error if container is empty.
• Improved error handling for XML.ApplyStylesheet.
• Improved FM.QueryBaseTableNames to use newer API in FileMaker 21.0 and newer.
• Improved FM.TableStatistics function to ignore summary fields.
• Improved JSON.InsertRecord to be a bit faster and data type conversion to do numbers and texts, too.
• Improved script search to include comments.
• Improved styled text conversion on macOS to include better support for highlight, underline and strikethrough, e.g. for RichText.SetFormattedText and Clipboard.SetStyledText functions.
• Improved type detection for FM.InsertRecordCSV function.
• Improved Vision functions to better read HEIC images directly.
• Note: SSLv3 is disabled now.
• Optimized XML functions to better handle thread locking.
• Removed the dependency on VCRUNTIME140_1.DLL file.
• Updated CURL to version 8.10.1.
• Updated discount library to version 2.2.7d.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.94.265.
• Updated for next FileMaker version.
• Updated jpeg library to version 9.6.
• Updated libarchive to version 3.7.6.
• Updated LibXL to version 4.4.0.
• Updated OpenSSL to version 3.3.2.
• Updated plugin SDK.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.47.0.
• Updated to libxml2 version 2.13.4.
• Updated to libxslt version 1.1.42.
• Updated to Xcode 16.0.
• Updated unicode tables for removing accents for Text.RemoveAccents function.
• Updated zxing library to newer branch.

New in version 14.4  

More details in the Release notes and Announcement in blog.