Building on VAST's support for ARM®-based Linux® distros, VAST is now officially supported on Windows® 11 ARM devices. Notably, this also extends to superior performance on Apple® computers with M-series processors where VAST 2023 can run virtualized without any emulation. 

Instantiations is keeping VAST ahead of the curve, so as ARM processors become more common (and perhaps predominant) in laptops, IoT devices, and cloud instances, VAST can continue providing a wide variety of deployment options to optimize efficiency and cost savings.

Instantiations continues to deliver more Unicode capabilities and deeper integrations of Unicode into the VAST Platform.

Updates to NeoJSON, NeoCSV, and STON now provide comprehensive Unicode support in VAST when using these data interchange formats.

Because of the existing optimizations in our Unicode framework, working with these formats continues to be fast and efficient, even with the added overhead of Unicode.

Instantiations is committed to currency in Unicode to ensure we keep ahead of the curve when it comes to language support.

The latest version of Unicode (released Sept. 2022) is now integrated into VAST. This provides support for 4,489 new characters including: 2 new scripts, 20 new emojis, and 4,193 CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) ideographs.

See our Unicode documentation for a full review of this libraries' capabilities.

The user experience of the 3-Way diff has been dramatically improved. 

Our standard Scintilla-based code editing and highlighting has been introduced to all panes more better readability and functionality.  Resizing of each of the panes is now possible, and the overall window can now be resized proportionally.

Additional updates include: text pane zooming, a "Next Difference" feature in the Scintilla contextual menus, and stream number labeling within the panes.

The Profiler has also had look and feel improvements. It's now using Hi-DPI aware fonts and Scintilla-based code editors.

Additionally, an "Export Results" feature has been added to save the profiling output for sharing and further analysis.

Further improvements have occurred in the Windows table widget for better row and column data support in your application.

In addition to column resizing as introduced in VAST 2022, it's now possible to drag and drop columns to change their order.

Programmatic sorting is now supported, and updated APIs for this widget offer greater functionality and more possibilities.

MQTT is a lightweight communication protocol that’s a close relative of IBM® MQSeries. With many Instantiations customers already using MQSeries, it was a logical choice to bring the power of MQTT to VAST Platform 2023. 

Our new enterprise-grade and extensible MQTT client, written in pure Smalltalk, has support for version 3, 3.11, and 5 protocols. All protocol details are handled internally by the software and run over traditional TLS or non-TLS native sockets. Even VAST's new asynchronous streams are already integrated for easy consumption of publish/subscription updates.

New options exist to limit the number of results in a query. Avoid retrieving unnecessary data from the network, or raise exceptions if the number of results exceed your defined limit.

Secure LDAP is now supported. By leveraging our existing OpenSSL® 3.0 capabilities, LDAPS over SSL/TLS is now possible.

This release of Tonel Tools includes improved support for ENVY access control when dealing with multi-owner/developer applications. 

Better prerequisite calculation and change detection has been added to avoid loading or writing unnecessary changes.

Additionally, some minor updates and fixes were made. 

See the full list on GitHub.