9.6.0

Stable

September 28, 2021

Mendix Studio Pro is our low-code IDE for professional developers. It's a powerful visual model-driven development environment to build apps on the Mendix Platform. With Studio Pro you can easily create, change, integrate, test and deploy your applications, all in one place. Moreover, you can manage branch lines and security as well as extend your app with custom code using the built-in editors. Click 'Download Studio Pro' to get the installer for free (Windows OS required*). Learn more about the installation and the Studio Pro capabilities in our documentation. Not a professional developer? Learn How Mendix supports different developer profiles .Before installing, please read the Release Notes to learn about improvements, bug fixes, backwards compatibility, breaking changes and known issues. *If you are using a Mac, check out these instructions first.

Release Notes - **Release date: September 28th, 2021** ### New Features * We have made the **Change workflow state** microflow activity available, which allows you to add, abort, restart, continue, pause, and resume actions for a [workflow](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/workflows) and control workflow instances. * As of this release, it is possible to start apps on the Git edition of the Team Server through Studio Pro. For more information on how to enable this feature, see [Preferences](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/preferences-dialog#new-features). This feature is currently in [Beta](https://docs.mendix.com/releasenotes/beta-features/). #### Updated Studio Pro Look & Feel We are continuously improving your Studio Pro experience, and we made a big step with version [9.0](https://docs.mendix.com/releasenotes/studio-pro/9.0) to modernize the UI. This release contains further major improvements. When you start Studio Pro, there is a new UI to make selecting and managing your versions more intuitive and simpler. We also have a redesigned place for your apps. Next to that, we did a full overhaul of the [Toolbox](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/view-menu#toolbox). Besides the current list view to display widgets, microflow actions, and other items, there is now a tile view which shows larger icons. This makes it easier to recognize the actions and adds more consistency with [Mendix Studio](https://docs.mendix.com/studio/). We have also revised the widget categories of the **Toolbox** in the page editor, removing the suffix "widgets" and aligning the naming with Mendix Studio. Finally, for building blocks, the tile view will show a preview of the building block, which gives a better impression of it. In your **Toolbox**, you can easily switch between the list view and the tile view based on your preference. Finally, we have redesigned the [App Explorer](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/project-explorer) with a new visual hierarchy that will help you find your documents even faster and that provides a modern and consistent look and feel. ### Improvements * We have improved the speed of garbage collection by up to 100x in some cases. (Ticket 125380) * We expanded the logging of published OData services on the debug and trace levels so that headers and content are logged as well. * You can now use the [tab container](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/tab-container) widget inside a [containment or repeatable containment](https://docs.mendix.com/apidocs-mxsdk/apidocs/pluggable-widgets-property-types#widgets) pluggable widget. * You can now drag a microflow from the **App Explorer** into the editor and it will create a new system task automatically. * We renamed the **Image** and **Image Viewer** core widgets to [Static Image](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/image) and [Dynamic Image](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/image-viewer), respectively. * We fixed an issue in the runtime of a [publised REST service](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/published-rest-services) where an unparsable header resulted in a "500 internal server" error. It now returns a "400 bad request" error. * You can now define an error handler microflow for [consumed OData services](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/consumed-odata-services). When the service returns a failure or does not return a response at all, this microflow decides which message to show the user. * We now show which services are validated in the [Data Hub pane](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/data-hub-pane). This corresponds to the services that are marked as validated in the [Data Hub Catalog](https://docs.mendix.com/data-hub/data-hub-catalog/). * We now have a redesigned tree style that is already active in the **App Explorer**, **Toolbox**, [consumed web service](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/consumed-web-service) page, and general selectors. * We now execute queued tasks in a context equivalent to the one in which they were created. Executing in the system context is deprecated, and a one-way project setting has been introduced for this. * We added the `reload()` method to the [List Values API](https://docs.mendix.com/apidocs-mxsdk/apidocs/pluggable-widgets-client-apis-list-values#listvalue-reload) to fetch the underlying data source again. * We now show an icon on microflow and Java action calls when they run in the background. ### Fixes * We fixed a [known issue](https://docs.mendix.com/releasenotes/studio-pro/9.0#ki-2036) where you could not use Ctrl + Tab to switch between open tabs unless you had already selected a tab. * We fixed a [known issue](9.3#ki-315) with the exporting of user metrics that resulted in the [User Accounts and Login Sessions](https://docs.mendix.com/developerportal/operate/trends-v4#Trends-appmxruntimesessions) graph being empty for apps deployed to the Mendix Cloud. * We fixed an issue in the Marketplace where the **Show** filter setting was not taken into account when searching. (Ticket 93566) * We fixed a bug in native mobile where list views with on-click events required two taps to trigger the event when the keyboard was visible. (Ticket 120695) * We fixed a NullPointerException that occurred when the same project MDA was deployed with reduced permissions in SQL Sserver. (Ticket 122465) * We removed the option to use the Japanese (Imperial calendar) language in new apps, as it was not supported by our dates library. (Ticket 123609) * We fixed an issue where opening the edit dialog box for a [cross-module association](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/associations#creating) threw an error when one of the associated entities was deleted. (Ticket 127847) * We fixed an issue that occurred on a reference selector that used a microflow for the selectable objects and contained an explicit parameter mapping to a page variable. (Ticket 128047) * We fixed the failing synchronization that occurred when a one-to-one or many-to-one association was renamed to an existing association that was removed. (Ticket 128052) * We fixed an issue where calling a microflow failed if `$currentUser/System.owner` was used in an expression. (Tickets 128550, 128870) * We fixed an issue where a list view widget did not update the listening widgets when the item selection changed through key presses. (Ticket 129128) * We fixed an issue in the JSON exporter where a "null" string was exported as a JSON null value. (Ticket 129742) * We fixed an issue where you could not commit because of a security error. (Ticket 129493, 129605, 129902) * We fixed an issue where the [Call microflow](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/call-microflow) task in the workflow editor lost values when a new parameter was added to the underlying microflow. * We fixed an issue where a role-based conditional visibility was ignored for the tabs of the [tab container](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/tab-container) widget in native apps. * We fixed an issue where adding an association to an external entity from the **Association** tab of that entity gave an error message. * We fixed an issue where [MxAssist Logic Bot](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/mx-assist-studio-pro) displayed slightly stale recommendations if calls to a microflow were recently added or removed from another microflow. * We fixed an issue in the MXP006 [MxAssist Performance Bot](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/mx-assist-performance-bot) recommendation to convert a microflow to a nanoflow in which the microflow being converted *directly* used a variable that was not available when converted to a nanoflow. * We fixed a crash that occurred when opening an uninitialized app from the [Most Recent](https://docs.mendix.com/developerportal/#my-apps) apps list. * We fixed an issue with range validations in which a bound was based on an attribute. If either the attribute or the range bound attribute was of type Decimal and the other was of a different numeric type, the validation always failed. ### Breaking Changes #### Modifications to the Workflow Data Model We introduced workflows as a Beta feature in Studio Pro [9.0](9.0) and have received great feedback from our community. You were eager to test it out and provide us with your point of view on how to further improve the functionality, and we have made improvements in this release. ##### System Module Changes * **WorkflowInstance** entity is renamed to **Workflow**. * **WorkflowTaskDefinition** is renamed to **WorkflowUserTaskDefinition**. * All related associations are renamed. * **WorkflowAdministrator** user role is removed. * The **WorkflowContext**, **SystemTask**, **WorkflowTaskInstance**, and **WorkflowVersion** entities are removed. * You are now able to create specializations of the **Workflow** and **WorkflowUserTask** entities. ##### Workflow Design Changes * Each **Workflow** now requires its own specialization of the **Workflow** entity. * **Workflow context** is now a regular entity that has to be associated to the **Workflow** entity. * Each user task now requires its own specialization of the **WorkflowUserTask** entity. * Security for the **Workflow** and **WorkflowUserTask** entities are now configured at the entity level. ### Deprecations * We will drop support for [PostgreSQL 9.6](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/system-requirements#databases) after Studio Pro version 9.8. The exact date will be coordinated with migration of our [Mendix Cloud](https://docs.mendix.com/developerportal/deploy/mendix-cloud-deploy) environment to a newer version of PostgreSQL. ### Known Issues * When you update a [consumed OData service](https://docs.mendix.com/refguide/consumed-odata-service) with a new version from [Mendix Data Hub](https://docs.mendix.com/data-hub/) but close the document without saving, the blue arrow icon will no longer be shown to notify you about the available update for that service. * Workaround: Closing your app and opening it again fixes this issue. * In the **Properties** pane, you cannot copy, paste, or delete using keyboard shortcuts. * Workaround: Perform the same operation using your mouse and the context menu. * The main line is incorrectly detected when a branch other than the default branch is downloaded. This bug also broke the check to determine if a branch was already present on disk, causing it to be re-downloaded from the version control server instead of being opened when switching branches in the **Branch Line Manager**.