Release notes for version 14.4 - 17th September 2024

New functions in 14.4 and Announcement in blog.

14.4 - 17th September 2024

• Added JSON.InsertRecord and JSON.InsertOrUpdateRecord functions.
• Added JSON.UpdateRecord and JSON.UpdateRecords functions.
• Added JSON.DeleteRecord and JSON.DeleteRecords functions.
• Added Text.Tidy and Text.TidyErrorLog functions to tidy XML and HTML.
• Added XML.Tidy function.
• Added Text.HTMLtoJSON function.
• Added BaseFont as selector for DynaPDF.SysFontInfo function.
• Added BaseFont value to JSON for DynaPDF.SysFontInfoAsJSON function.
• Added ClearBuffer parameter to WebRequest.GetRawData function.
• Added DynaPDF.CreateExtGState and DynaPDF.SetExtGState functions.
• Added DynaPDF.CreateURIAction function.
• Added DynaPDF.GetInEncryptionInfo function.
• Added DynaPDF.TestPassword function.
• Added FieldName entry for FM.FieldStatistics function result.
• Added Flags parameter for DynaPDF.ExtractDocumentText function.
• Added FM.FieldStatistics function.
• Added MongoDB.CursorRecords function.
• Added OptionsJSON parameter for MongoDB.ReplaceOne function.
• Added Python.RunFile function.
• Added shortcut for layout editor to use Command-Option-Shift-F on macOS to jump to the objects search field.
• Added SyntaxColoring.AutoCompleteVariables.SetLocals and SyntaxColoring.AutoCompleteVariables.GetLocals functions.
• Added tooltips for specify field dialog to show field type.
• Added WebHook.GetTag, WebHook.SetTag, WebRequest.GetTag and WebRequest.SetTag functions.
• Added XL.Book.RemovePrinterSettings and XL.Book.RemoveVBA functions.
• Changed JSON.GetArrayItemsAsList to return empty result if JSON is empty.
• Changed linux version to include version number and build number for Get(InstalledFMPlugins).
• Changed plugin to return empty results as really empty and trace to log that as nothing. It makes a difference whether we return nothing or empty text.
• Changed tooltips to show container instead of binary, text instead of varchar.
• Disabled trace logging for MongoDB by default.
• Fixed a bug in FM.FieldStatistics function. Now properly quotes field names.
• Fixed a bug with Matrix.Text function where it would skip some columns if they were constants in SQL used to create the matrix.
• Fixed a memory leak in Clipboard.SetFileMakerData, Clipboard.DetectFileMakerDataType and XML.Import functions.
• Fixed a problem in Files.RenameFile function to rename folders on Windows if the path ended with a backslash.
• Fixed a problem with AVRecorder.AddPreviewWithControl positioning the layer for FileMaker 21.
• Fixed a problem with GMImage.NewFromFile and Japanese characters on Windows.
• Fixed an issue in SyntaxColoring.AutoCompleteVariables.SetGlobals function.
• Fixed crash in DynaPDF.GetFontsAsJSON function for font with missing values.
• Fixed DynaPDF.ImportPDFFile to return proper error message.
• Fixed incorrect returning of result for DynaPDF.SetRenderingIntent, DynaPDF.SetUserUnit and DynaPDF.SetLineWidth functions.
• Fixed possible crashes with Phidgets script triggers.
• Fixed thread naming to avoid renaming main thread.
• Improved Archive functions and UnZipFile.OpenContainer function to better read zip archives downloaded via Insert From URL script step.
• Improved check to XL.Initialize to return an error if the license key includes invalid characters like a space character.
• Improved CURL.GetResultAsEMailList function, so it includes In-Reply-To and References headers if you have them in the query.
• Improved GMImage.ReadContainer to better pick decoder based on file name.
• Improved JSON functions to return error if you pass non JSON parameters to JSON.AddItemToArray, JSON.AddItemToObject, JSON.Replace and related functions.
• Improved MapView.PlanRoute function to use less memory.
• Improved PDFKit.RestorePrintSettings to better read PDF from container.
• Improved Twain.Initialize to return better error messages on Windows.
• Reduced number of dependencies on Linux version of our plugin. Requires GLIBCXX_3.4.26 now.
• Updated CURL to version 8.10.0.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.92.261.
• Updated LibXL to version 4.4.0.
• Updated openssl to version 3.1.6.
• Updated SQLAPI to version 5.3.4 with DuckDB 1.0 support.
• Updated SQLite to version 3.46.1.
• Upgraded all linux compilers to newer versions.

New in version 14.4  

More details in the Release notes and Announcement in blog.