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Hello Uniface Community!
Welcome to your monthly Uniface newsletter where we'll be highlighting product updates, practical tips, innovations from your peers, and ways to connect with the Uniface community. Your success and satisfaction drive everything we do. Read on to learn, connect, and get the most out of your Uniface experience! — The Uniface Team
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Product Updates
- Enhancements
- We have enhanced the Uniface Documentation to include a visual preview of all DSP widgets, including UX widgets. This allows users to quickly compare and select the most suitable widget at a glance.
- Currencies
- OpenSSL has been upgraded to version 3.0.18 for improved security.
- CEF has been upgraded to version 141.0.5 with the corresponding Chromium version 141.0.7390.55, for improved security.
- Notes:
- This upgrade solved inconsistent scrollbar rendering in the IDE on Windows 11
- MSAA changes in the UHTML widget may affect your Windows GUI automation tests.
- As a result, the minimum system requirements have been revised:
- CEF now requires Windows 10 or newer or Windows Server 2016 or newer, running on an Intel Pentium 4 processor with SSE3 support.
- 8GB RAM: A good experience for typical users who use one instance of the IDE.
- 16GB RAM or more: Recommended for power users who want to run many IDE instances simultaneously.
Community, News, & Events
Upcoming Webinar: Observability Made Simple: How OpenTelemetry Transforms Uniface Applications
Join us on January 21 at 10AM ET where we will cover:
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Introduction to Observability in Uniface: Explore why observability matters for modern Uniface applications, especially in distributed and cloud-native environments.
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Leveraging OpenTelemetry: Learn how OTEL can be integrated with Uniface to collect traces, metrics, and logs for deep visibility into application behavior and performance.
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Real-world Implementation: See a live demo or walkthrough of instrumenting a Uniface application with OTEL, including exporting data to tools like Grafana or Jaeger.
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Benefits for DevOps and SRE Teams: Understand how observability enhances incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement in Uniface-based systems.
Register Now
Education Resources
Blog: Under the Hood: Uniface’s Chromium Framework Gets a Major Security and Performance Upgrade
Rocket Uniface has released a significant upgrade to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) in patch 10.4.03-028, which enhances security, performance, and developer flexibility for users of the HTML widget and IDE. The update shifts CEF from Chromium 123 to 141, delivering vital security patches, improved JavaScript APIs, and UI enhancements aligned with Windows 11. It also introduces new hardware requirements for optimal performance. This proactive move aims to reduce vulnerabilities, modernize the web experience in Uniface applications, and support developers and sysadmins in maintaining secure, efficient environments. Users are encouraged to review prerequisites, update their setups, and explore the new features to maximize benefits. Read the full blog.
New Short: How to Copy Data Using the Uniface IDE Command Prompt
Learn how to use Uniface’s copy data features from the command prompt. Watch now.
Support Corner
Bitness Mismatches After Migration: How to Detect and Prevent Issues
See how 32‑/64‑bit (“bitness”) mismatches between Uniface, DLLs, and database clients can cause startup, DLL load, and connectivity errors after migration, and learn simple ways to detect them using Windows paths, the file command, and registry checks, plus basic best practices to keep all components aligned. Read more.
Meet the Team
Gerton Leijdekker– Principal Software Architect
What’s your role within Rocket Uniface, and what do you enjoy most about it?
I am Principal Software Architect for mainly for the Uniface product. I design and have designed many features that are in the product, both the functional aspects as well as the architecture. Currently I focus more on the coaching aspect of the job, making sure that the next generation gets the skills needed to take over at some point. Working with the next generation is a lot of fun. It is interesting to see how they look at problems especially with AI becoming more and more relevant to what we do and how we do it.
As a Senior Technical Staff Member, I am also getting involved in other products too. Mainly to look and advise on how products can work together and find new commercial opportunities. These discussions happen at a totally different level and that's a lot of fun, too.
What’s one Uniface feature or capability you think customers should know more about?
I think many programmers, including customers, do not realize the importance of error handling. I see it too often that errors are ignored, seemingly resulting in error free code execution, but in reality the ignored error is often an indication something that went wrong. That ignored error might cause other problems later during code execution, which can then cause all sorts of problems varying from crashes to data corruption. Switching on Uniface's 'exception handling' feature is a simple way instruct Uniface to report all runtime errors allowing programmers to consciously deal with that error.
What’s something fun or unexpected about you outside of work?
What's fun for me is probably known by many already and that is that I am a fanatic musician and composer (not classical). I have been writing my own music all of my life. Interested?
- My band’s website: https://www.sote.nl
- And my personal area (still being enhanced every day): https://www.sote.nl/gerton/
