Release notes for version 8.5 - 27th November 2018

New functions in 8.5 and Announcement in blog (in German).

• Added SSH functions to create SSH tunnel, see SSH.Tunnel.Run.
• Added Text.MergeFields function.
• Added a lot of GameKit functions to work with Game Center on Mac and iOS.
• Added a workaround to avoid IsKeyWindow function to crash on MacOS 10.14 Mojave.
• Added App.CompactMemory function.
• Added Audit.Backup and Audit.Backup2 to add data to audit log without editing.
• Added check to FM.InsertOrUpdateRecord2 to detect duplicate fields passed.
• Added CNContactStore.Contacts, CNContact.UnifiedContacts and CNContact.IsUnifiedWithContact functions.
• Added CNContactStore.GroupHierarchy function.
• Added Command-Option-C shortcut to lists in FileMaker to copy content.
• Added CURL.FileInfos function to get file listings for FTP as JSON.
• Added CURL.SetOptionDOHURL, CURL.SetOptionUpkeepIntervalMS, CURL.SetOptionUploadBufferSize and CURL.Upkeep.
• Added CurrentTimeUTCMilliseconds to list of fields you can log for Audit.
• Added Debugger.CurrentLineNumber function.
• Added delimiter parameter for List.CSVSplit, QuickList.CSVSplit and FM.InsertRecordCSV.
• Added DragDrop.SetFrameWithControl function.
• Added DynaPDF.CheckFieldNames function.
• Added Encryption.CipherNames and Encryption.DigestNames functions.
• Added keyboard shortcuts command +, - and = to change magnification in any table. Great for presentations.
• Added Plugin.CallErrorScriptTrigger and Plugin.SetErrorScriptTrigger function.
• Added PortMidi.ClearDataAvailableHandler, PortMidi.SetDataAvailableEvaluate and PortMidi.SetDataAvailableHandler.
• Added separator parameter for QuickList.AddList and QuickList.AddMultiValue.
• Added sheet support for FileDialog functions: FileDialog.SetSheetScriptTrigger, FileDialog.GetUseSheet and FileDialog.SetUseSheet.
• Added SkipImage parameter for CNContact.JSON function.
• Added SmartCard.ReadFile and SmartCard.SplitValues functions to read data from various smartcards (e.g. Swiss Health Insurance Card or Belgian Identity Card).
• Added SyntaxColoring.GetRememberColumnWidths and SyntaxColoring.SetRememberColumnWidths functions.
• Added timeouts for ImageCapture functions so the plugin doesn't wait endless. 30s for opening session, 20s for closing, 30s to select unit, 60s to scan.
• Added Webview.ClearBrowserSession function.
• Added WebView.Screenshot and Window.Screenshot for iOS.
• Added Window.SetFocus function.
• Added work around to better receive emails from Mail on Drag & Drop.
• Changed Audit functions to query field names in AuditLog table by SQL instead of looking for an AuditLog layout. The AuditLog layout is now optional and can be renamed.
• Changed Audit functions, so FieldHash is optional now if you have FieldValue. FieldID can be used if you have no FieldName.
• Changed Files.FileName to work on Windows/Linux if last character in path is (back)slash.
• Changed FM.Loop to return empty text if you have forward going loop with EndValue 0.
• Changed FM.UpdateRecords and related to better return error if parameter count is too small.
• Changed Folders.UserDocuments to return FileMaker documents folder on server.
• Changed GMImage.NewImagesFromFile to reject .PDF file as GraphicsMagick doesn't really read PDF files.
• Changed GraphicsMagick functions to pass file name from container to image when reading, so we can save again with same name in output container value.
• Changed how timeout is passed to LDAP.Search function.
• Changed ImageCapture.RequestSelectFunctionalUnit to return error directly if you request an unavailable functional unit.
• Changed PDFKit.Print to automatically disable print dialogs when printing on FileMaker Server.
• Changed ProgressDialog functions on Mac to no longer keep progress dialog modal if app is in background.
• Changed SendMail functions to no longer turn TO to CC if you have several TOs.
• Disabled bitcode for MBSInit.framework.
• DynaPDF now uses FreeType library and dropped Mac 32-bit target. We still include latest 32-bit dynapdf library for your convenience, but that is now deprecated.
• Fixed bug in Font.CalculateTextWidth with loading font.
• Fixed bug in SQL.GetFieldValueList with empty texts being ignored in first field.
• Fixed bug in SSL initialization introduced in pr1.
• Fixed bug with SQL functions on finding the MySQL libraries.
• Fixed edge case for filename in CURL.GetResultAsContainer function.
• Fixed FM.SQL.Execute to clear lasterror on success.
• Fixed issue with Clipboard.GetText not returning last byte for text.
• Fixed parameter check for Events.Participant.Name and related functions.
• Fixed problem on Windows with Audit introduced in pr3.
• Fixed problem with ? not encoded for email subject line.
• Fixed problem with Encryption.EncryptAES function if byte size is not a multiply of 16.
• Fixed problem with SystemInfo.ComputerName returning extra characters.
• Fixed some bugs in contextual menus for script open command, so it works better for FMP 17.
• Fixed SystemInfo.UserName for Windows.
• Implemented Files.GetNodeID and Files.GetPathFromNodeID for Windows.
• Implemented Folders.UserPictures for Windows.
• Implemented WebView.Scrollbar.set, WebView.Scrollbar.getHorizontalPosition, WebView.Scrollbar.getVerticalPosition, WebView.Scrollbar.getHorizontalMaximum and WebView.Scrollbar.getVerticalMaximum for FileMaker 16+ on Mac and also for iOS.
• Implemented Window.Scrollbar functions for iOS and Windows
• Improve DynaPDF.Initialize to better reject invalid license keys.
• Improved Audit.Changed and related to set last error for SQL calls.
• Improved EmailParser.HTMLToPlainText to better filter JavaScript.
• Improved error handling for Files.CopyFile and Files.MoveFile.
• Improved handling of extra quotes in CSV text for List.CSVSplit function.
• Improved ImageCapture.RequestSelectFunctionalUnit to better track which unit is selected and skip the request if the device is already selected.
• Improved List.CSVSplit to handle empty fields better and ignore = before quotes.
• Improved Text.RemoveAccents to include greece characters.
• Improved XML.Import to better detect lists of XML nodes.
• Now we remember custom functions column widths, too.
• Rebuild with Xcode 10. Minimum MacOS version is now 10.9.
• Removed version number from plugin name to avoid trouble.
• Rewrote Files.CopyFile and Files.MoveFile for Mac/iOS to better overwrite files.
• Rewrote Folders functions for Windows to use newer API and work better.
• Updated Amazon S3 examples to include upload/download/list/delete.
• Updated Clipboard Helper to version 1.1 and 64-bit. Now on the website for download.
• Updated CURL to version 7.62.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.25.63.
• Updated Form Utility to version 1.5 and 64-bit. Now on the website for download.
• Updated OpenSSL to version 1.1.1 for all targets.
• Updated SQLAPI library to version 4.2.4 beta 2.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.25.2.
• Updated to newer plugin SDK.
• Updated to Xcode 10.1.
• Updated to zlib 1.2.11.
• Upgraded DynaPDF.WriteDemoText to use Unicode instead of Windows ANSI encoding for text.

New in version 8.4   New in version 9.0

More details in the Release notes and Announcement in blog.