What’s New in HydraExpress
HydraExpress provides a development and hosting framework for high-performance C++ web services.
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New Features
- Added support for Solaris 11 SPARC and x86. (HYEXPRESS-4847)
- Added support for Windows 11. (HYEXPRESS-4557)
- Added support for Visual Studio 2022. (HYEXPRESS-4556)
- Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10. (HYEXPRESS-4792)
- Added support for Visual Studio 2026. (HYEXPRESS-4910)
- Switched to system ICU on all supported platforms. The bundled ICU library has been removed. (HYEXPRESS-4909)
- Updated concurrency patterns in HydraExpress, reducing the use of explicit mutexes, busy-waits, and other critical sections. (HYEXPRESS-4887)
- Improved exception handling on Solaris by removing the limitation that prevented function names from being returned by
rwsf::Exception::getFunctionName(). (HYEXPRESS-4906) - Added support for the AJP13 CPing/CPong keep-alive protocol, allowing mod_jk workers configured with
ping_modeto communicate correctly with the HydraExpress AJP13 connector. (HYEXPRESS-4730) - Removed Apache Tomcat Connector (mod_jk) from distribution. (HYEXPRESS-4850)
- Dropped support for Windows 10. (HYEXPRESS-4925)
- Dropped support for Visual Studio 2019. (HYEXPRESS-4921)
- Upgraded to OpenSSL 3.0.20. (HYEXPRESS-4920, HYEXPRESS-4980)
Installer
- Both the installer and the uninstaller log files were restored to the system temporary directory. (HYEXPRESS-4559)
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New Features
- Usability improvements to both the Web Services and XML Binding components.
- Certified compatibility with the of SourcePro 2020.1.
Platform and Third-Party Support Updates
- RHEL 8 support.
- OpenSSL 1.1.1 support.
- IBM XL C++ 16 support.
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Back to topNew in HydraExpress 2019
New Features
- Usability improvements to both the Web Services and XML Binding components.
- Various bug fixes subsequent to the 4.9 release.
Platform and Third-Party Support Updates
- Visual Studio 2017 support.
- Visual Studio 2019 support.
- SLES 15 support.
- Java 8 support.
- GCC 7 support.
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