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Version: v11.8.5

WaveMaker 11.8.0 - Release date: 29 July 2024

This release introduces significant enhancements across the platform. Key updates include upgrades to Angular 17 and Expo 50, along with new features like artifact sharing and improved SPA behavior. React Native developers will benefit from new Slider widget capabilities, SSL certificate pinning, and enhanced navigation.


New Features

Angular 17 Upgrade

We are upgrading our platform to Angular 17 from Angular 16 with better performance and user experience. With this upgrade, your projects will be automatically upgraded to Angular 17. To know more, see Say Hello to Angular 17.

New Modernized Studio Look

We've revamped our studio with a focus on simplicity, accessibility, and modernity. By drastically reducing the color palette and implementing design tokens, we've created a cleaner, more consistent interface, improving the visual appeal. Essentially, we've transformed the studio from a tool for building legacy apps to a platform for crafting modern, accessible applications.

Expo 50 Upgrade

Expo updated from version 49 to 50 for React Native apps. This includes an upgrade to React Native 0.73, new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

With performance improvements, the application build process is now faster. Debugging and resolving issues are more efficient with detailed error messaging and stack traces for component-based errors. To know more, see Expo 50 for React Native Released with 11.8.0.

Artifact Sharing Across Enterprise Environments - Beta

Introducing a new feature with which users can now share the artifacts across different environments. This feature enhances collaboration across environments.

A new Export option is added that will help to export the artifact from one environment. It is placed in the Marketplace of another environment. The users in another environment can consume the artifact for further use. To know more, see Arifact Management.

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Sharing Artifacts is supported for only WME users.

Built-in Single Page Application Experience

Introducing Single Page App behavior to improve the performance and page load experience of apps. With this feature, navigation between pages with the same layout does not require a page refresh.

Impact

This feature will be enabled by default for the newly created applications and needs to be enabled for the older applications.

To know more, see Enabling SPA Behavior.

Enhancements

Architectural Enhancements for Improved Performance

We have significantly overhauled our internal architecture to dramatically accelerate project load times. Experience a smoother and more efficient development workflow.

React Native Enhancements

Updating Date Format in i18N

Introduced support to update the date format for the Internationalization (i18n) service through JavaScript. In i18N, users can now update the date format not only using the date format option available under the Formats section in the Localized Messages dialog but also through JavaScript. To know more, see Localization Using Select Locale.

CSS Style Classes in Slider Widget

Added two new CSS style classes in the Slider widget,app-slider-track and app-slider-thumb, where

  • app-slider-track : To customize the slider track.
  • app-slider-thumb : To customize the thumb used in the slider track.

Navigation in Wizard Widget

Added headernavigation property in the Markup script in Wizard widget which can be set to false to disable navigation through Wizard stepper header numbers. To know more, see Wizard Widget Features.

Range in Slider Widget

Added support to set range in the Slider widget by using the Range properties. To know more, see Slider Properties.

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This enhancement is only introduced for mobile applications.

Wheel Date Picker

Enhanced the date-picking experience by adding iswheelpicker property in the Markup script. Users can set it to false to fall back to the modal date picker. To know more, see Calendar Properties.

SSL Certificate Pinning

Added support to automatically update the SSL domain certificate in APK without having the need to regenerate the APK or IPA files every time the SSL key value changes. To know more, see Auto-updating the SSL Hash Key.

Service Definitions

Introduced a provision to provide the service definitions locally instead of fetching them from the cloud. This feature would enhance the application performance by reducing unnecessary service definitions.

Bug Fixes

  • Fixed an issue with Date and Datetime widget where the user was unable to set the default time.
  • Fixed an issue with i18N binding to the table column in the Data Table widget.
  • Fixed an issue in the Data Table widget where multiple selected items were deselected when infinite scrolling pagination was applied. This issue also occurred when multiple pages were available in the Data Table and the user navigated to other pages after selecting items on one page.
  • Fixed an issue where XSS input and output sanitization were not being applied to the char type array in API requests and responses.
  • Fixed XSS output sanitization that was not being applied for the string type API response.
  • Fixed an issue with double encoding in the Database service patch API's response when XSS sanitization was set to input or both input and output.

React Native Fixes

  • Fixed an issue where the user was unable to preview the application when a slider widget was used.
  • Fixed an issue with the Form field where the conditional property in the advanced settings was not functioning properly.
  • Fixed an issue with the iOS build that failed when accessibility properties were added

Technology Stack


UI Frameworks

DescriptionJS LibraryVersion
JS Bindingjquery3.7.1
jquery-ui*1.13.2 -> 1.13.3
MVC FrameworkAngular16.2.12 -> 17.3.11
ngx-bootstrap9.0.0
Stylesbootstrap3.3.7
Chartingd37.8.5
nvd31.8.11
Built-in functionslodash-es4.17.21
Device support, gestureshammerjs2.0.8

Optimized jQuery-UI library excluding unwanted components like accordion, datepicker, dialog, progressbar, spinner, tabs, and all jQuery-UI Effects.

Backend Frameworks

DescriptionJava LibraryVersion
Spring Framework5.3.37
Security frameworkSpring Security5.8.13
Java JSON utilitiesGson2.11.0
DB Persistence libraryHibernate5.6.15.Final
Sample databaseHSQL2.7.3
JSON libraryJackson2.17.1 -> 2.17.2
Logging frameworkSLF4j1.7.36
Logging ImplementationLog4j22.18.0
Http client libraryHttpComponents - httpclient4.5.14
Servlet Framework4.0.4
Database Connection PoolingHikariCP5.1.0

Runtime Environment

DescriptionVersion
JDK11
WebSphere Liberty19.0.0.1+
JBoss Wildfly15+
Tomcat9.0.87
Cordova (mobile apps)
Android
iOS
12.0.0
12.0.1
7.1.0

This is the default Tomcat runtime support. Apps can be deployed to any standard Java Web Server running on JDK 11. For more information, see here.

Build Environment for Studio


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With the release of 11.4, we have ended our support for WaveMaker 10 projects. To know more, see Ending Support to WaveMaker 10 Projects.

Build Environment 11

React Native 11

DescriptionVersion
Java11
Node18.16.1
Maven 3.9.6 -> 3.9.8
npm9.5.1
Ant1.10.11

Angular Web and Mobile 11

DescriptionVersion
Java11
Node18.16.1
Maven 3.9.6 -> 3.9.8
npm9.5.1
Ant1.10.11

For more information about building projects with Maven, see here.