Appeon is dedicated to continuously evolving PowerBuilder to serve your long-term application development needs while protecting your existing investments. New features and enhancements are delivered in agile 10–12 month release cycles, and each release prioritizes key areas that matter most to customers:
Dev Productivity
Empowering developers to simplify application development, reduce repetitive tasks, and write better code faster.
Compatibility
Ensuring your applications continue to run seamlessly on the latest operating systems, databases, and hardware, including support for technology shifts.
Security
Strengthening application security with best practice features and technologies to address the latest threats and compliance needs.
Interoperability
Enabling open integration with third-party services, external systems, and APIs, using dominant open standards and technologies.
Planned Features
Appeon typically introduces major new features in major versions of our products. We then revise a major version, based on customer feedback, a few times to enhance its key features, introduce new minor features, and arrive at a long-term support version.
The upcoming features we are disclosing is our minimum plan that is subject to change without notice. We are not able to publish a complete or detailed feature list, especially for revisions, since customer feedback has significant impact on our product plans. So use this information to gain a sense of what may possibly come in the near future, and you can see our progress in agile 10-12 month cycles.
Focus Area: Dev Productivity 
Enhance the editor
- Better code readability: Error and warning marks, formatting document/selection, call hierarchy, setting bookmarks, displaying URLs as links, custom-defined collapsible code blocks.
- Improve editing efficiency: Virtual space, code selection in box mode, moving selected lines up/down, navigating backward and forward to previous insertion point, finding references in the code base.
- AutoScript: Displaying code completion lists in more cases, refactoring code.
- Jump support: Navigation to the definition of variables, functions, and classes, and adding support for the jump shortcut key (Ctrl + Click).
IDE Flat Style and Dark Theme
Enable a flat, dark theme for the IDE to make it easier on the eyes.
Enhance New compiler
Continuously improve the new compiler and the text-format solutions based on user feedback.
Git Rebase Support
Provide direct Git Rebase support within the IDE.
Enhance Debugging and Error Handling
- Generate detailed log information during IDE operations.
- Automatically create dump files when critical IDE errors occur.
Focus Area: Security Advanced Executable Security
Incorporate advanced executable security features, including CFG (Control Flow Guard), ASLR (Address Space Layout Randomization), DEP (Data Execution Prevention), and SafeSEH (Safe Structured Exception Handling), to enhance the overall security of applications.
Support IPv6
Enable full support for IPv6 addresses in HTTPClient and other HTTP related objects.
Windows Authentication Support
Enable Windows authentication for HTTPClient (when calling Web APIs) and PowerServer, streamlining user authentication by leveraging Windows credentials.
Focus Area: Compatibility Enhance High DPI Support
Support dynamic DPI switching, ensuring optimal UI display across multiple monitors and when users adjust the DPI settings on their device.
Enhance ADO.NET Support for ODBC Connections
Support additional database types (such as MySQL) through ADO.NET for ODBC, enabling applications to work more effectively with a broader range of database environments.
ARM Processors
Add support for ARM processors on Windows, enabling developers to build and deploy apps for ARM-based machines.
Latest Windows and DB Versions
- Stay updated on supporting the latest Windows OS and database versions.
- Upgrade the third-party software /embedded in the product to the latest stable versions.
Focus Area: Misc SVG Format Images
Add support for SVG format images to deliver high-quality, scalable graphics that display optimally across all screen resolutions.
DataWindow Data Type Compatibility
- Add support for DateTime2 and 7-digit time precision in DataWindows.
- Enable support for binding parameters of the datetime type in the datawindow.update function for supported databases.
Enhance SaveAs Excel in InfoMaker
Support saving Excel headings as they appear in the 'SaveAs Excel' function.
Review Release History to Learn All the New Features!
You can expect to receive PowerBuilder releases in agile 10-12 month cycles.