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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Deployment
Building evaluation applications
In previous versions of 4D, developers could request evaluation licenses for development purposes, but providing end users with evaluation versions of...
March 14, 2025
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Share Local Resources Between Users with Windows Remote Desktop Services
This new feature improves the local resources management of 4D Client merged applications executed with Windows Remote Desktop Services. Lets’ see how...
October 14, 2022
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Reduce your 4D apps’ size with these new features
In our ongoing effort to improve the building of 4D applications, we've added a few functionalities to 4D v19R5 that you'll certainly find useful. Th...
April 28, 2022
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Directory file management in merged server projects
Projects introduced the new directory.json file containing users, groups and permissions. It allows authentication, restrictions, permissions on sever...
April 27, 2022
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Disabling explorers on merged servers
You may want to restrict administrators from accessing the Data Explorer and the Runtime Explorer in your deployed merged servers. 4D v19 R5 enables t...
April 26, 2022
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Use duplicated merged client applications
As a publisher, you sometimes want to duplicate a merged client application to connect each of them to their dedicated 4D Server. Let's see how to do ...
January 12, 2022
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Simplified cross-platform client/server application building on Windows
The release of Silicon Macs had a great impact on the way 4D compiles applications. Before v19, 4D was compiling only for Intel architecture, using th...
October 6, 2021
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How to define sleeping timeout for remote 4D applications
To prevent session loss, 4D monitors the sleeping state of remote 4D applications. When a user is connected from a remote 4D application to a 4D Serv...
September 28, 2021
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Secure your app’s resources with a new algorithm
When generating .4dz files, 4D uses a standard zip format by default. If you are a software publisher, you'll be happy to know that 4D v19 R2 added a ...
September 23, 2021
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