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Previous releases

Release notes for Thoroughbred releases before the current ones. For 8.9.1, 8.9.0 and 8.8.3, see Release notes. Manuals for earlier releases are in the manual archive.

8.8.2 · 2018-03

Enhancement release that added AES-256 encryption for auto-expanding Direct files, DUMP TCB, Remote Desktop Services support for the VIP Suite and faster downloads to Excel in TbredComm.

8.8.1 · 2016-02

Maintenance release for 8.8.0 with enhancements such as MySQL 5.5 to 5.7, MariaDB and Oracle 11 support, IPv6 in TbredComm and more secure Report-IV to PDF output.

8.8.0 · 2013-09

Enhancement release that added BREAK and CONTINUE to Basic and Script-IV, array copy, ODBC 3.0 compliance in TS ODBC DataServer and UPC barcodes in Report-IV to PDF.

8.7.1 · 2011-02

Maintenance release that resolved over 100 problem reports and added about 25 enhancements, including IBM AIX 6 and 7 support and journaling on Windows.

8.7.0 · 2009-02

Release with new installation procedures that introduced T-RemoteControl, Basic server-side sockets, XML conversion in TFF() and support for 64-bit memory models.

8.6.0

Release that introduced the T-WEB browser-based development environment and TS XML DataServer, and added the TFF() text formatting function to Thoroughbred Basic.

8.5.2

Fix release for 8.5.1 and VIP4 4.10 that also added TCP/IP client sockets in Basic, Oracle 9 support and secure connections for TS Network DataServer.

8.5.1

Extension of 8.5.0, released with VIP4 4.10, that added triggers for legacy files, a full Windows CE Basic and TS DataServer for MS SQL Server.

8.5.0

Release, with VIP 4.031, that introduced the TS (Terminal Server) Environment for Windows and removed hard-coded IDDBD channels, so Script-IV modules must be recompiled.

8.4.2

Release built around VIP 4.03, with Dictionary-IV date types for Year 2000 readiness and extended client-server capabilities for ODBC databases.

8.4.1

Release built around VIP 4.01, with Dictionary-IV date types for Year 2000 compliance and object-oriented definition maintenance from OPENworkshop and IDOL-IV.