PowerBuilder Chronology

PowerBuilder Chronology

An Historical Perspective!

PowerBuilder Release History

 Owner, Release Number, Date, Key New Feature Highlights ....

    

• 1.0    July 1991 .... Beginning of a historic run
• 2.0    June 1992 .... OO support, Painter Improvements
• 3.0    May 1993 .... Bundled DB (Watcom), Version Control
• 4.0    November 1995 .... Reporting, Data Pipeline, OLE 2.0
• 5.0    July 1996 .... Machine code compilation, Distributed PowerBuilder, three-tier support
• 6.0    December 1997 .... Window ActiveX, CORBA, DataWindow HTML generation, DataWindow synchronization
• 6.5    August 1998 .... COM and Java component generators, separate Unix, Macintosh, and Unicode SKUs, internationalization via Translation Toolkit 

   

• 7.0    October 1999 .... New IDE, new layouts and look/feel, Jaguar integration (aka EAServer) — build, create, and deploy COM and MTS components (Component Theme)
• 8.0    June 2001 .... Web Targets, Web DataWindow (integration of PowerSite functionality into PowerBuilder) (Web Development Theme)
• 9.0    February 2003 .... .NET phase 1: Web Services, XML, Java Server Pages
• 10.0    July 2004 .... .NET phase 2: DataWindow .NET, Fully Unicode
• 10.5    March 2006 .... .NET-based Web Services engine (Visual Enhancements Theme); large and small UI and core client/server enhancements, including TreeView DataWindow, RichText Edit Control (Unicode)
• 11.0    July 2007 .... .NET phase 3: NVOs as .NET assemblies, ASP.NET Web Forms, Windows Forms (.NET Theme, Web Services Theme)
• 11.5    September 2008 .... DataWindow enhancements, Oracle 11g and SQL Server 2008 support, improved graphing (Visual Enhancements Theme)
• 12.0    April 2010 .... .NET phase 4: WPF applications, WPF DataWindow, improved DataWindow graphing, Visual Studio isolated shell
• 12.5    November 2013 .... Window transparency, DW Table Blob feature, User drawn controls DW, Rich Text expressions in DW, Share Data Sources with .NET
• 12.6    June 2014 .... oData support, 64bit Applications, Oracle 12C support and Dockable Windows 

  

• 2017    June 2017 .... Windows 10 compliance, Cloud Licensing, Standalone Compiler, Native PDF support, and PowerServer Mobile (Universal Edition) included.
• 2017R2    January 2018 .... Native Git/SVN Source Code interface, RESTful Web Service Client, HTTP Client, JSON Parser and JSON Generator.   (All Editions)
• 2017R3    July 2018 (Planned) .... JSON Update, RESTFul Synchronization, Cryptography Functions, oAuth2 support, SQL Server 2017 support, and PowerServer Web* (included in Universal Edition).

          * - PowerServer license purchase required for production use

I hope that you enjoyed the history lesson!

Regards ... Chris