Take Control of Standard 4D Components
As a 4D developer, you often want full control over what gets included in your projects. Starting with 4D 21, you can now decide which components prov...
October 14, 2025
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For Admins
Operate, deploy, and maintain 4D environments with control and predictability.
ORDA – Constructor and touched event – Detailed behaviour through a network
In this previous blog post, you discovered that ORDA entities can now have a constructor, allowing entity instantiation to follow a complete object-or...
August 25, 2025
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Embed deployment license automatically into your applications
You’ve built the app. Now you need to ship it — fast, clean, and licensed. With 4D 20 R10, you can automatically embed your deployment license into yo...
July 18, 2025
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New Class to Perform UDP Communications
4D 20 R8 introduced the TCPConnection class, bringing an object-oriented, asynchronous way to handle TCP client connections. Then came 4D 20 R9 with t...
July 17, 2025
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Smarter Copy-Paste to Protect Your Data
You work across environments — test, production, staging — and you copy more than text. Sometimes it’s formulas. Sometimes it’s data that shouldn’t mo...
July 15, 2025
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Generate, share and use web sessions One-Time Passcodes (OTP)
Today, web applications have become integral to our lives, offering convenient features that save time and simplify everyday tasks. As an example, cre...
June 16, 2025
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Automatic Refresh of OEM Build Licenses
4D automatically refreshes development licenses when they reach their expiration date. However, OEM build licenses (4D Server OEM and OEM XML keys) st...
May 20, 2025
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New class to handle incoming TCP connections
In 4D 20 R8, we introduced the TCPConnection class, allowing you to initiate TCP connections to remote servers. With 4D v20 R9, we're excited to bring...
May 16, 2025
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Formulas in Label Wizard
Starting with 4D 20 R9, the Label Wizard component has received update to enhance your experience with formulas. This improves security by preventing ...
April 25, 2025
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Enhancing macOS Privacy and Security with Application UUID
With the Sequoia update, macOS now relies on the UUID of applications for various privacy and security controls, such as network access. This new feat...
April 25, 2025
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