GeneXus 18 Upgrade 5

This article is an overview of GeneXus 18 Upgrade 5 features (compared to GeneXus 18 Upgrade 4) and what needs to be taken into account to adopt it.

It was released on August 29.

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https://www.genexus.com/en/developers/downloadcenter?data=5996

Overview

UX of generated applications is improved in this upgrade, since now it adds Accessibility support in Angular apps, and UIs can show responses that APIs send in chunks, which is particularly useful when interacting with Generative AI APIs. In addition, it has the new Event Messaging API, a step forward to broader support for Event-driven scenarios. For GXflow users, the adoption of new upgrades is simplified because the installation of non-standard platforms is now automated.

Below is a list of other interesting features in several areas:

Design

• Design System Styles brings your experience closer to the functionality of the Theme object, by displaying and configuring CSS properties and gx-properties in the Properties Editor. More information in HowTo: Configure Design System Class Properties.

Modeling

• Suggest supports loading data from Data providers.
• UI Controls in Panels now have specific properties for modeling Accessibility.

Angular

• HttpClient data type support was added.
• Accessibility support was added (Accessible Name property, Accessible Role property,Accessible Name Custom property, Accessible Name Control property).
• Several improvements in Tabular Grid control, including Paging support.

Backend generation

• .NET
  • Event Messaging API for Azure Event Grid.
  • Azure Functions can now be triggered by Blob Storage.
  • GeneXus Office Module is now available in .NET too.
  • Support for PDF/A in PDF reports.
• Java
  • Support for chunked messages in HttpClient data type.

GXflow

• New database version that requires database reorganization.
• Automatic installation of non-standard platforms (such as .NET/DB2, Java/Oracle, etc.). 

DevOps

• Impact Analysis Report: New message informs when the reorganization cannot be done just with scripting.

GXtest

• Set As Expected button is available in the Assertion comparer tab.
• Improved HTML Report.
• Improved SDT and SDT collections initialization when using Create Unit Test option.
• Enabled filtering by test results in the Tests Results window.

Installation and Compatibility aspects to take into account:

• GXflow:
  • New database version that requires database reorganization.
  • New minimum version supported for MySQL (5.7.0).

All Details (Features, more Compatibility aspects, Issues)

Please check these links for additional features, compatibility aspects, issues, and details:

GeneXus: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;4;V18;5;V18;4;
GeneXus Server: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;6;V18;5;V18;4;
GXflow: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;3;V18;5;V18;4;
GXtest: https://www.genexus.com/developers/rn?data=0;7;V18;5;V18;4;