Xojo 2016 Release 1.1 hit the web today and this version should be the one you’re using from now on. This dot release fixes a number of critical and important things.
First off, web app compile times just got much better. Building a 64 bit Linux web application went from five minutes in 2016 R1 to just three minutes in 2016 R1.1 (both versions had to recompile the plugins so take two minutes off that for an average time). This is a marvelous and unexpected surprise in R1.1.
The Web Page Layout editor that was a dog in R1 is much improved. A complex web page with multiple containers and controls is now nearly flawless when dragging controls around on the page. This one feature alone is the worth upgrading to R1.1.
The MySQL plugin no longer crashes when a closing the database connection.
BMP’s with a mask dragged into a Linux project long longer throws an out of bounds exception when the app is launched. Xojo.Net.HTTPSocket was also updated.
In Windows, the SaveAsDialog no longer returns the wrong name if anything in the file path has a period in it. Xojo.Crypto.RSAGeneratePair no longer crashes. The new Language Reference no longer has high CPU usage and the Windows IDE no longer crashes when a remote debug app quits.
Besides the web page editor, the IDE also received a few fixes. Perhaps most important is that searching the project no longer results in a crash for some developers.
Read about all of the R1.1 changes in the release notes.
All-in-all R1.1 is a welcome version and I recommend that you update to it immediately. What do you think?