GeneXus 17 upgrade 4

This article is an overview of GeneXus 17 Upgrade 4 features (compared to GeneXus 17 upgrade 3) and what needs to be taken into account to adopt it.

Upgrade 4 has been released on July the 6th, 2021

Download

https://www.genexus.com/developers/DownloadCenter?,,,5924

Overview

First of all, we are proud to announce that this upgrade ships the first official release of the Angular generator.

Furthermore, this upgrade includes overall stability and developer experience improvements in the IDE, for mobile app developers, testers, among others.  It ships also more power for UX customization of applications, improvements in security and performance. The following are some highlights

Angular Generator

• Angular Application Development

Chatbot Generator

• Integration with Telegram

Native Mobile Generators

• Firebase integration
  • Crashlytics > Enable Firebase Crashlytics property
  • A/B Testing > Remote Configuration in Native Mobile apps
• Maps
  • Support for calculating directions using waypoints with Google maps provider
• Android
  • Huawei Maps support
  • Mapbox maps support
• iOS
  • XCode 12.5 support added

Reporting

• New visualization added to support Maps in QueryViewer

Security Improvements

• Important Security improvements in upload mechanisms

Testing

• You can set test values for domains
•  Contextual menu options for running  unit tests
• Several other improvements for Developer Experience

Compatibility

Java

• JSON serialization fixes that may affect compatibility. More information at SAC 49145

Android

• Android
  • A new Android Flexible Client Deprecations page has been created, that lists the deprecated elements that will be removed in future versions.
• iOS
  • A new iOS Flexible Client Deprecations page has been created, that lists the deprecated elements that will be removed in future versions.
  • Objective-C support for creating External Objects and user controls will be dropped in future versions. See details.
• .NET (C#)
  • .NET Framework 4.6.2 is the minimum required version

Security

• The security improvements to upload mechanisms have some related compatibility issues: Security improvements in upload mechanisms

GXflow

• This upgrade is not compatible with GXflow + Informix. If you need to update your GXflow+Informix installation to this version, please contact the support team.

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;V17;4;V17;3;
GeneXus Server: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;6;V17;4;V17;3;
GXflow: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;3;V17;4;V17;3;
GXtest: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;7;V17;4;V17;3;
GeneXus for SAP: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;8;V17;4;V17;3;