This is the common basis for all Theobald Software products. It contains low-level technical changes that typically not directly relevant to the users.

We recommend to check for updates at least every three months. If there is at least one newer release available with medium or high update priority, please download the latest version from the customer portal and deploy it to your test environment.

Definition of Version Numbers #

Format: A.B.C [X]

  • A is incremented with major changes. Additional steps might be necessary when upgrading to this version.
  • B is incremented when an important feature is added, modified, or removed.
  • C is incremented when a bug is fixed, or a small feature is added, modified, or removed.
  • [X] defines the recommended priority for updating:
    • H - High: Install immediately.
    • M - Medium: Install within your usual update interval.
    • L - Low: Install only if advised by the support team.
Version Date Component Description
2.23.0 [L] 2023-03-29 Licensing Internal changes due to changed licensing model for TableCdc component.
2.22.1 [L] 2023-03-23 General VC++ 2013 setup was replaced by directly used DLLs (msvcp120.dll and msvcr120.dll)
2.22.0 [L] 2023-03-15 General Added ByteSerialization and ByteBufferManager classes(Release note)
2.21.15 [L] 2023-03-07 General Increased the number of iterations for PBKDF2. Implemented constant time byte array comparison. Added test cases for constant time array comparison.
2.21.14 [L] 2023-02-15 General Logging cleanup & refactoring
2.21.13 [L] 2023-01-31 General Method for JSON serialization of empty array
2.21.12 [L] 2023-01-30 General Updated librfc32 64-bit to 753 PL700
2.21.11 [M] 2023-01-30 General Updated NW RFC SDK to 750 PL11
2.21.10 [L] 2023-01-15 General Support for writing ULEB128 encoding of 64-bit unsigned integer to byte array
2.21.9 [L] 2023-01-15 Licensing Added Table CDC as new LicenseComponent
2.21.8 [L] 2023-01-06 General Made ReadJsonProperty() and WriteJsonFields() public
2.21.7 [L] 2022-12-14 General Introduced a new type for ergonomic handling of the logger. Extended JSON writer to write ulong types. Introduced a new interface for the LicenseLoader.
2.21.6 [L] 2022-12-13 WPF Fix for XtractDataGridRowHeader style
2.21.5 [L] 2022-12-01 General Added a 64bits version for the Fnv1a hash generator
2.21.4 [L] 2022-11-14 General Moved SlimXml + Language Key to ERPConnect
2.21.3 [L] 2022-11-05 General Moved Abap* classes to ERPConnect
2.21.2 [L] 2022-11-05 General Added more date/time ABAP types
2.21.1 [L] 2022-10-19 General Introduced ILog interface to reduce coupling with specific log implementations.
2.20.6 [M] 2022-10-13 General Packed numbers that exceed the precision of System.Decimal throw an exception instead of being rounded
2.20.5 [L] 2022-09-07 General Updated gacutil
2.20.4 [L] 2022-07-20 General Support for writing Date/Time JSON array elements
2.20.3 [L] 2022-07-19 General Updated NWRFC SDK to 7.50 Patch-Level 10
2.20.2 [L] 2022-07-08 General Non-blocking (async) versions of the IO helper functions were added
2.20.1 [L] 2022-07-01 WPF Added extractions limit on about window
2.20.0 [M] 2022-06-24 General JSON serialization for date/time
2.19.2 [L] 2022-06-23 Licensing Fixed Bug around License Business Rules for YunIO licenses.
2.19.1 [L] 2022-06-14 Licensing Added new field Extractions to ProductLicense and updated Tests and LicenseBuilders accordingly. Moved shared code from License creation applications to Common.
2.19.0 [L] 2022-06-08 Licensing Removed support for legacy DLL licenses
2.18.0 [L] 2022-06-03 Licensing Added new field Extractions to ProductLicense. Fixed property Sources not to be nullable anymore. Moved common code from Licensing Tools to Theobald.Licensing
2.17.15 [L] 2022-05-31 WPF The progress dialog now always runs the work load on a background thread.
2.17.14 [L] 2022-05-18 General Fixed a bug where the CsvLineReader would return lines multiple times if the buffer is small enough.
2.17.13 [L] 2022-05-11 Licensing Added integration tests for real-world ProductLicenses
2.17.12 [L] 2022-05-06 Licensing Added overload to ProductLicense.Sign which allows to specify a CreationDate.
2.17.11 [L] 2022-03-28 WPF About window was refactored
2.17.10 [L] 2022-03-23 General Added a LoggerTrace which logs to the Debug Console. That allows to debug GUI applications because they don’t have a console to write to.
2.17.9 [L] 2022-03-14 General Refactoring for the certificate pinning and TLS error handling interfaces
2.17.8 [L] 2022-02-25 WPF Fix for about window to display server or cluster info correcly according to the license
2.17.7 [L] 2022-02-09 WPF Added SnapsToDevicePixels=true to Style
2.17.6 [M] 2022-02-02 WPF Fix for ProgressDialog error handling
2.17.5 [L] 2022-02-02 WPF Added ControlNotInitializedException, marked TaskRunner as obsolete
2.17.4 [L] 2022-01-13 WPF Added text box icon.
2.17.3 [L] 2022-01-06 General Improvements for certificate enrollment
2.17.2 [L] 2021-12-21 Licensing Improvements from Code Review for License Creation logic.
2.17.1 [L] 2021-12-16 WPF Introducing style for readonly textboxes
2.17.0 [L] 2021-12-13 General Added Theobald.CertificateEnrollment
2.16.9 [L] 2021-12-02 General Support to have an instance of ProcessAsync
2.16.8 [L] 2021-11-22 Licensing Added method to ILicenseBusinessRule that indicates whether the Rule applies to a certain Property of a ProductLicense. This is helpful in a UI to highlight the input fields where a user has made bad inputs.
2.16.7 [L] 2021-11-12 Licensing Added static methods to ProductLicense which indicate whether a License CanHaveComponents and CanHaveDestinations based on LicenseProduct and LicenseKind. This is helpful for the new LicenseTools. Also added a class LicenseFileWriter which encapsulates some directory and filename logic which is shared beteen LicenseTool and AutomatedLicenseCreation.
2.16.6 [L] 2021-11-04 General 16-Bit character code points are now correctly displayed in JSON strings
2.16.5 [L] 2021-10-26 WPF Added folder browser.
2.16.4 [L] 2021-10-05 Licensing Added LicenseSerialNumber and tests to Theobald.Licensing. Contains all business rules to create a LicenseSerialNumber as it is used in CRM. For automation of the License File creation, this code should be centrally available.
2.16.3 [L] 2021-10-04 Licensing Added PersistedCounter to library to centralize all relevant code around License Creation into Theobald.Licensing.
2.16.2 [L] 2021-10-01 General Delimiter for rows can now be set in CsvReader
2.16.1 [L] 2021-09-30 General Add constructor to initialize NamedList from IEnumerable
2.16.0 [L] 2021-09-28 General Added WaitRegistration class
2.15.7 [L] 2021-09-28 General ProcessAsync flags set to create no console window
2.15.6 [L] 2021-09-28 General ProcessAsync added support for arguments
2.15.5 [L] 2021-09-22 General Fix for starving the threadpool while waiting for spawned thread
2.15.4 [L] 2021-09-20 WPF Added removeable drive icon.
2.15.3 [L] 2021-09-20 WPF Added drive icon, network drive icon, folder icon, red folder icon and open folder icon.
2.15.2 [L] 2021-08-12 Licensing Backward-compatibility for default destinations (new licenses on old XU versions)
2.15.1 [L] 2021-08-12 General Client handles of StdIn, StdOut and StdErr in the Process-Wrapper are now closed correctly on the server side after sending them to the client.
2.15.0 [M] 2021-07-08 General Start processes using P/Invoke instead of System.Diagnostics.Process
2.14.16 [L] 2021-07-01 WPF Introduction of ShowConfirmation4All message box
2.14.15 [L] 2021-06-10 General Byte token support for line reader Performance optimization for line reader
2.14.14 [M] 2021-05-20 WPF Fix for displaying messages when no possible window owner is found for the message dialog
2.14.13 [L] 2021-05-06 General Message box for showing certificates Webrequest wrapper for better tls error messages certificate pinning and tls error handling infrastructure
2.14.12 [L] 2021-05-03 WPF Added WarningConfirmation dialog to TheoMessageHelper
2.14.11 [L] 2021-05-03 WPF Added colored icons for custom message boxes
2.14.10 [L] 2021-04-16 WPF Fixed a bug which would cause the whole About Window to stretch together with the destinations list
2.14.9 [L] 2021-03-31 Licensing Added sources limit.
2.14.8 [L] 2021-03-23 General Some additions for reading/writing JSON and file I/O
2.14.7 [L] 2021-03-02 General CsvReader overhaul
2.14.6 [L] 2021-02-22 WPF Introduced new messaging system(Release note)
2.14.5 [L] 2021-02-10 General Added custom Number struct and ReadNumber method to JsonReader
2.14.4 [L] 2021-01-28 Licensing Added new License Destination for Sql Server Reporting Services
2.14.3 [L] 2021-01-22 General 7Bit encoding stream extensions for i32 and BigInteger
2.14.2 [L] 2021-01-20 General Fixed a bug where the CSVReader would not correctly signal a new line, Fixed a bug where the CSVReader would ignore a line break after a quoted cell
2.14.1 [L] 2021-01-19 General Fix for writing TimeSpan on JsonWriter class(Release note)
2.14.0 [L] 2021-01-15 General CsvReader class which implements reading CSV data as specified in RFC4180. (Beta)
2.13.12 [M] 2021-01-13 General Fix for ambiguous timestamps during daylight saving time transition
2.13.11 [L] 2021-01-07 General JsonReader ReadBooleans() and ReadDoubles() added for arrays
2.13.10 [L] 2020-12-03 General Fix for CrLf handling in CharsToLines, including UnitTests; LineToCells for splitting CSV lines into the cells.
2.13.9 [L] 2020-11-30 WPF Added “refresh” icon.
2.13.8 [L] 2020-11-26 General Fix for creating lines from chars in specific condition where some lines could have their content overwritten by others’
2.13.7 [L] 2020-11-09 Licensing Added sources limit to license
2.13.6 [L] 2020-11-06 General Updated NW RFC libraries to 750 patch level 7
2.13.5 [L] 2020-11-03 WPF Added new icon.
2.13.4 [L] 2020-11-02 General IoHelper.OpenFileRetryWrite() now has FileMode parameter instead of bool
2.13.3 [L] 2020-10-26 General Added JSON support for ushort
2.13.2 [L] 2020-09-24 WPF Fix for a bug where the new progress dialog would pop up as the top most window instead of a modal dialog.
2.13.1 [L] 2020-09-24 WPF Added new ProgressDialog class for running tasks with a progress dialog.
2.13.0 [M] 2020-09-14 Licensing Added Google Cloud Storage to Licensing Enum
2.12.0 [L] 2020-09-11 WPF Generic about window created
2.11.0 [L] 2020-08-26 General Added generic read buffer
2.10.0 [L] 2020-08-13 General Added helper for processes
2.9.2 [L] 2020-08-13 General IoHelper.DeleteFileRetry no longer retries on DirectoryNotFoundExceptions
2.9.1 [M] 2020-07-29 General Updated NW RFC libraries to 750 patch level 6
2.9.0 [M] 2020-07-23 General Added basic support for bulky async data processing
2.8.0 [M] 2020-07-15 General Added TimeStamp data type (utclong)
2.7.6 [L] 2020-07-03 WPF Fix for cut off version numbers in the version history window.
2.7.5 [L] 2020-05-20 Licensing License forward compatibility improvement for supported components and destinations.
2.7.4 [M] 2020-05-04 General Added ReadDecimal, ReadDouble, ReadInt64 to JsonReader. Fixed double in JsonWriter
2.7.3 [M] 2020-04-28 Licensing Added Parquet destination to XU default destinations
2.7.2 [M] 2020-04-27 Licensing Added Parquet destination
2.7.1 [L] 2020-03-23 Licensing Fixed forward compatibility of licensed components.
2.7.0 [M] 2020-02-26 Licensing All XU licenses implicitly contain the default destinations now
2.6.0 [M] 2020-02-26 Licensing Added JSON destination to XU default licenses
2.5.0 [M] 2020-02-20 General Added retry logic for accessing files in use
2.4.1 [L] 2020-02-06 General Extended JSON Writer
2.4.0 [M] 2020-02-04 WPF Updated to .NET Framework 4.7.2
2.3.1 [H] 2020-01-16 General RemoveControlCharacters() accidentally removed everything except ASCII since version 2.2.1
2.3.0 [M] 2019-12-18 General Moved log splitting to LoggerMulti to properly support XU config / web server logs
2.2.4 [L] 2019-11-26 General New DeleteFile method in IOHelper(Release note)
2.2.3 [M] 2019-11-15 General Updated gacutil to 4.7.2558.0
2.2.2 [M] 2019-11-15 General Updated Installer for XIS/XRS
2.2.1 [L] 2019-11-15 General RemoveControlCharacters now also removes chars from the C1 range
2.2.0 [M] 2019-11-13 General Logger throws InvalidOperationException if used without calling Start()
2.1.0 [L] 2019-11-13 General Logging now supports 24h and more in one log (but still restricted to < 100h)
2.0.0 [M] 2019-09-23 General Updated to .NET Standard 2.0