What's New - NEO Pro 8.03 Build 8130 / 8131 beta (27 September 2020) (T1236)

What's New - NEO Pro 8.03 Build 8130 / 8131 beta - 27 September 2020

Topic T1236

Applies to NEO Pro 8.03

Welcome

This describes the changes in the following release:

Version: 8.03 Build 8130 beta (x86 for 32 bit Outlook)
Version: 8.03 Build 8131 beta (x64 for 64 bit Outlook)
Released: 27 September 2020

For a listing of what is changed in this build version, please see below.

NEO Pro 8 moves from Btrieve to SQL
NEO Pro 8 introduces a new, modern SQL based database system for NEO's catalog. After migrating to NEO Pro 8, the Actian Btrieve 12 product is not needed anymore (and if so required can be uninstalled). The new database system is not requiring a separate license so the license of NEO Pro suffices to run the product.

What's new in this build 8130/8131:

New Features

Introduction of the new SQL based database system for NEO's catalog.
After starting NEO Pro 8 for first time, the Btrieve 12 database is migrated to the new SQL format; after this NEO Pro will force a restart followed by a rebuild of the catalog. Without this rebuild the new catalog cannot be used. Make sure to allow sufficient time to run the rebuild of the catalog. For this first migration NEO Pro 8 needs the Btrieve database engine - thereafter, Btrieve 12 will not be used anymore by NEO Pro 8.
NEO Pro 8 is not changing the Btrieve 12 database files used by NEO Pro 7. As long as the Btrieve 12 product has not been uninstalled, NEO Pro 7 can be used in parallel to (but not at the same time as) NEO Pro 8.
The new database system of NEO Pro 8 makes the product ready for the decades ahead.
Rebuilding of the catalog and searches are, depending on exact machine configurations, significantly faster (40% - 60% faster from the tests done on different systems).
Native 64 bit SQL configuration - no further need of the specially developed interface file to link 64bit NEO Pro to 32bit Btrieve.
Build 813x has an integrated option to record full logging to better enable error debugging; when needed by Caelo Support separate instructions will follow.

Issues addressed

Several changes to reduce occurrences of Access Violation errors
Errors when adding or updating dates into database have been resolved
Error when changing Correspondent Folder to Bulk and vice versa has been resolved
Some errors showed illegible error text; this is now resolved
Database errors related to (licensing of) the Btrieve 12 product will not occur anymore (a.o. database error 161).

Known issues

Emptying a folder from within NEO Pro is not always resetting the folder count correctly
Backup and restore function of NEO Pro is not yet functioning
Delete catalog feature is not yet removing the new catalog file

Beta version
Please note: this NEO Pro 8.03 build 8130/8131 is a beta release - please report back issues you are having with the new features listed above. Additional beta builds might be released over the coming weeks.

Additional information on this release

Click here for full details of what's new in the last major release NEO Pro 7.

NEO Pro 8.0 release history (build 8xx0 for x86 (32 bit) Outlook / build 8xx1 for x64 (64 bit) Outlook)

T1236 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 809x (21 September 2020)

Last updated: 27 September 2020