Release Notes 2026-04-26
Version Information
OpenEdge Release | Version Information |
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11.7.21, 12.2.19, 12.8.9, 12.8.11, 13.0.0 | Release 11.7 #89094@2026-04-26 |
Retirement of OpenEdge 11.7
OpenEdge 11.7 has been retired by Progress Software on April 1st 2025. In consequence we urge all customers still using OpenEdge 11 to upgrade to OpenEdge 12.2 or 12.8 as soon as possible.
We are intending to drop the official support of the SmartComponent Library for OpenEdge 11.7 during the second half of the year 2025. We will then no longer ensure that new features of the framework will be usable with OpenEdge 11.7
Customers that are concerned by this intention, should reach out to us as soon as possible, so that we can discuss about a solution.
OpenEdge 13.0 support!
We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 13.0. We hereby declare OpenEdge 13.0 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of February 15th 2026.
OpenEdge 12.8 support!
We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.8. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.8 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of January 15th 2024.
OpenEdge 12.2 support!
We are pleased to announce that we are not aware of any issues using the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 12.2. We hereby declare OpenEdge 12.2 fully supported for the SmartComponent Library as of the release of April 09th 2020.
PASOE / OEMANAGER VS Code Extension
Our first VS Code extension is available in the VS Code marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ConsultingwerkApplicationModernizationSolutionsLtd.oemanager
The extension supports developers with PASOE related routine tasks during development:
checking agent or session status
trimming the PASOE agents
restarting a new agent vai the ping request
Introducing the SmartComponent Library developer forum
Got questions about using the SmartComponent Library? Wish to discuss feature requests with other users of the SmartComponent Library? To facilitate networking in the growing number of SmartComponent Library users and developers, we've added a developer forum on our new home-page. The developer forum can be found at: https://www.consultingwerk.com/support/forum
A login is required to participate in the forum. Don't be shy - create your account today!
Release Notes
Following the release of the OpenEdge 11.7 Release we have completed our testing of the SmartComponent Library on this release of Progress and are proud to announce formal support for the SmartComponent Library on OpenEdge 11.7 with the 2017-04-24 release of the SmartComponent Library. Generally we recommend customers on OpenEdge 11 to upgrade to OpenEdge 11.7 quickly. Starting the 2017-07-14 release we are supporting OpenEdge 11.7 Service Pack 1 (11.7.1).
Starting the 2015-10-09 release the Business Entity Designer will feature a start page with links to most recent release note articles on this site.
With SCL-751 we have adopted native Enums for OpenEdge 11.6. To activate this feature customers must add a definition to products.i. SCL-751 provides details for this.
With SCL-1113 we have modified the templates for SmartWindowForms and SmartTabFolderPages generated from the Business Entity Designer. We have removed the initialization of the viewer controls SmartTableIOState property (value was set to "NoDataSource" within the InitializeComponent method). Customers using their own set of templates should adopt the same fix to their templates.
New Versions of Proparse .NET Assemblies (30 December 2018)
We have updated proparse with further enhancements in this release (see https://github.com/consultingwerk/proparse/releases/tag/4.0.1.1177). Please download the .NET Assemblies ZIP file from our ESD and replace the proparse.net.dll in your environment with the latest one. The new assembly reference is:
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As proparse is used by our Business Entity Generator, this new version of the proparse.net Assembly is also relevant for customers not doing GUI for .NET development and require support for parsing new ABL language constructs.
This version of proparse provides additional debug information when errors are thrown from proparse.net.dll.
New Version of the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents Assemly (09 January 2019)
To support the new SmartFilterControl and the "Filter" link between the SmartFilterControl/SmartDynamciFilterControl and a SmartBusinessEntityAdapter or SmartDatasetChildAdapter we have updated the Consultingwerk.SmartComponents.dll. The new Assembly reference is:
<assembly name="Consultingwerk.SmartComponents, Version=2.2.0.49856, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=10603cb31df311b3"/>Customers need to update this Assembly in order to compile the latest releases of the SmartComponent Library.
Hybrid Realm now using IAuthenticationService
We've updated the SmartHybridRealm class used for http authentication to leverage the IAuthenticationService. It is therefor required that for AppServers requiring http Authentication (e.g. REST or Web) the correct IAuthenticationService implementation is registered (using service.xml files).
Customers relying on the previous behavior should ensure that the Consultingwerk.SmartFramework.Authentication.AuthenticationService is regsitered as the IAuthenticationService. This implementation will auhtenticate users against the password stored in the SmartUser database table.
When users with no Login Company set should be able to login using the SmartHybridRealm, it's required to set the Login Company Tennant Domain (similar to the field in the Login Company Maintenance) in the .restapplicationsettings / .applicationsettings, e.g.:
"DefaultAuthenticationDomain": "consultingwerk" |
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This is required as the Hydrid Realm Interface from Progress does not provide the domain name to the authentication method.
Web Handler overview
This is an overview of the web handlers supported by this release
| defaultHandler=OpenEdge.Web.CompatibilityHandler
handler1=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogWebHandler: /Catalog/{EntityName}
handler2=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CatalogsWebHandler: /Catalogs/{PackageName}
handler3=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.CountWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/count
handler4=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceSubmitWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/SubmitData
handler5=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.InvokeMethodWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}/{MethodName}
handler6=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.ResourceWebHandler: /Resource/{EntityName}
handler7=Consultingwerk.OERA.JsdoGenericService.WebHandler.BusinessServicesWebHandler: /BusinessServices/{OutputFormat}/{PackageName}
handler8=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuWebHandler: /SmartMenu/{MenuStructureId}
handler9=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMenuStructureWebHandler: /SmartMenuStructure
handler10=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartRoutesWebHandler: /SmartRoutes
handler11=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}/{DetailTemplate}
handler12=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler13=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartGridWebHandler: /SmartViews/Grid/{CustomViewName}
handler14=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler15=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartViewerWebHandler: /SmartViewer/Viewer/{ObjectName}
handler16=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{EntityName}/{ViewName}
handler17=Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.SmartViewsHandler.SmartFormWebHandler: /SmartForm/{FormTemplate}/{ObjectName}
handler18=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartMessageWebHandler: /SmartMessage/{MessageGroup}/{MessageNumber}
handler19=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageWebHandler: /Image/{FileName}
handler20=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartValueListWebHandler: /ValueList/{ValueList}
handler21=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentsWebHandler: /Attachments/{Table}/{KeyValues}
handler22=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartAttachmentWebHandler: /Attachment/{Guid}
handler23=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionContextWebHandler: /SessionContext
handler24=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties/{PropertyName}
handler25=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ContextPropertiesWebHandler: /ContextProperties
handler26=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SessionInfoWebHandler: /SessionInfo
handler27=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.FileSearchWebHandler: /FileSearch/{FileName}
handler28=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteAblWebHandler: /ExecuteAbl
handler29=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartLanguagesWebHandler: /Languages
handler30=Consultingwerk.OERA.RestResource.RestEntitiesWebHandler: /Entities
handler31=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerWebHandler: /Swagger/{EntityName}
handler32=Consultingwerk.OERA.Swagger.SwaggerRestEntitiesWebHandler: /SwaggerEntities/{OutputType}
handler33=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck/{ObjectName}
handler34=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTokenSecurityCheckWebHandler: /TokenSecurityCheck
handler35=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartEntityTableMappingHandler: /EntityTableMapping/{EntityName}/{TableName}/{UiTypeCodes}
handler36=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeRootNodeWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeRootNode/{rootnodeid}
handler37=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartTreeChildNodesWebHandler: /SmartViews/TreeChildNodes/{parentnodeid}
handler38=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartSecurityCheckWebHandler: /IsRestricted/{SecurityRealmCode}/{SecurityItemGuid}
handler39=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.SmartFieldSecurityCheckWebHandler: /RestrictedFields/{TableName}
handler40=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.GetImageNamesHandler: /ImageNames
handler41=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.ExecuteQueryWebHandler: /ExecuteQuery
handler42=Consultingwerk.Web2.WebHandler.TranslationProviderWebHandler: /GetTranslation |
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UTF-8 based deployments available
Starting August 14th 2016 we ship our source code also as UTF-8 encoded. The ZIP files ending with _utf8.zip contain the source code encoded with that code page. The source code in the remaining archives is still encoded in ISO8859-1. Also on Github there is a new branch containing the OpenEdge 11 based source code in UTF-8.
Related article (Progress K-Base): How to get Progress Developer Studio to save in UTF-8 encoding
New Feature Documentation
Download Link
http://esd.consultingwerkcloud.com/
https://github.com/consultingwerk/SmartComponentLibrary
Overview of included tickets
Added MCP Server for Repository Container maintenance
A new MCP Server has been introduced that exposes tools for maintaining Repository Container definitions. GetRepositoryContainerDetails returns selected details about a container, including GUIDs, instances, nested instances, and selected attributes. StoreRepositoryContainerDetails updates container details, adds and removes instances, moves instances to another container (for example, to a different group box in a viewer), and maintains attributes. Attributes are now annotated with a class-level priority (similar to TranslatableProperties), so the MCP Server returns only the relevant attributes per class - for viewer fields these include X, Y, Width, Height, EnabledOnAdd, EnabledOnCopy, and EnabledOnUpdate. Developers can use this MCP Server from AI-assisted tooling to inspect and maintain Repository Containers programmatically.
Added unit test verifying correct formatting of USING statements across SmartComponent Library class files
A new unit test Consultingwerk.StudioTest.SCL5107.UsingStatementsTest has been added. It validates all .cls files in the Consultingwerk folder of the ABL project and checks that USING statements are alphabetically sorted, start in column 1, have FROM keywords aligned in the same column, and include a FROM option (unless preceded by the @ignorefrom. annotation). Failing files are logged to Consultingwerk/StudioTest/SCL5107/report.txt and the test throws an exception naming the first failing class. The test supports a comma-delimited exclusion list (default: *_Generated.cls) matched via MATCHES, and uses FileHelper to enumerate files. No changes required in customer code.
JSON Rendering support added for the new Smart Multiselect component
The new class Consultingwerk.Web2.Services.Rendering.Components.MultiSelectWebRendering has been added to provide JSON rendering support for the Smart Multiselect Viewer/Frame component. Similar to ComboBoxWebRendering, it supports valueList, valueListPair and smartValueList options, with a configurable valueListDisplayText (Description, KeyDescription or DescriptionKey). The select mode (single or multiple) is rendered automatically based on the repository MULTIPLE attribute. Developers can use the new multiselect inputType in their Viewer/Frame JSON markup without any additional configuration.
Fixed: SmartHybridRealm logging now includes the company name in ValidatePassword output
The logging output produced by SmartHybridRealm when validating passwords now correctly includes the CompanyName value from the SmartLoginCompany record. No changes required in customer code.
FetchDataByKeyValues added to Business Entity for fetches based on an extent of key values
A new lightweight fetch method FetchDataByKeyValues has been added to the Business Entity, DataAccess, IDataAccess and TableModel classes. Developers can now pass a Consultingwerk.OERA.FetchDataByKeysParameter containing one or more Name...ValuesPair instances (Character, Integer, Int64, Decimal, Date, DateTime, DateTime-tz, Logical) that represent a field name and an extent of key values. Convenience constructors are provided for both single-key (Tables, Name, Values) and multi-key (Tables, array of Keys) scenarios. Internally the parameter is converted into a GenericFetchDataByKeyTableParameter, so the new API offers a much simpler way to retrieve records by an array of key values without having to build a temp-table manually.
YAML output format added to the Swagger / OpenAPI documentation page
The Swagger page generator now supports YAML as an additional output format alongside the existing JSON output. The SwaggerRestEntitiesWebHandler checks the OutputType path parameter and, when set to YAML, converts the generated Swagger JsonObject via Consultingwerk.Framework.Yaml.YamlConverter:Convert() (introduced in SCL-5220) and returns the response with an appropriate YAML content type (application/yaml). The new format is available for all Swagger/OpenAPI endpoints exposed by the SmartComponent Library, including RESTful entities, RestMethods, and JSDO. The default JSON output path remains unchanged.
Fixed: Swagger documentation for @RestMethod endpoints with parameter objects now matches runtime
Fixed an issue where the generated Swagger / OpenAPI documentation for @RestMethod endpoints on Business Tasks that take only a parameter object (without a dataset or temp-table input) and whose annotation did not set the request parameter incorrectly wrapped the parameter object's properties under an extra 'parameter' node. The Swagger generator now flattens these properties to the top level of the request body schema and example, matching the actual runtime expectation. Endpoints that explicitly set request="parameter" continue to be documented with the wrapped form. No changes required in customer code.