GeneXus 16 upgrade 9

This article is an overview of GeneXus 16 Upgrade 9 features (compared to GeneXus 16 upgrade 8) and what needs to be taken into account to adopt it.

It has been released on April 30th, 2020.

Download

https://www.genexus.com/developers/DownloadCenter?,,,5885

Overview

Web

• New Smart Table control (CSS grid) to facilitate layouts definition and alignment of controls
• The standard classes used by the generated .NET and .NET Core applications are now open source on Github: https://github.com/genexuslabs/DotNetClasses!

Mobile

• HowTo: Augmented Reality in GeneXus applications
• Image Annotations
• Offline Data backup and restore
• Android 10 (API 29) support added
• iOS: XCode 11.4 support added, and generator and resources have been updated to corresponding Swift 5.2.2 language version

Security

• GAM
  • GAM backoffice distributed as binaries includes a security fix (SAC#47393).
  • Wechat Authentication type support for Android.
• GeneXus SFTP Module

GeneXus Server

• The Console added support for the Chinese Language.

Deployment

• Creation of Dockerfile without Docker for Windows

Testing

• Unit Testing on Business Components
• More information at Changelog GXtest

Compatibility

• XCode 11.4 is required Apple Requirements
• Alert: "Google Play will require that new apps target at least Android 10 (API level 29) from August 2020, and that app updates target Android 10 from November 2020." (ref.: Google Developers). This implies that you must use GeneXus 16 Upgrade 9 or higher to be able to deploy to Goolge Play from those dates on.
  
  More information at Android Requirements

All Details (Features, Compatibility aspects, Issues)

Please check these links for further features, compatibility aspects, issues, and details of the already mentioned.

GeneXus: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;4;V16;9;V16;8;
GeneXus Server: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;6;V16;9;V16;8;
GXflow: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;3;V16;9;V16;8;
GeneXus for SAP: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;8;V16;9;V16;8;