What's New - NEO Pro 8.04 Build 8220 / 8221 (6 December 2020) (T1244)

What's New - NEO Pro 8.04 Build 8220 / 8221 - 6 December 2020

Topic T1244

Applies to NEO Pro 8.04

Welcome

This describes the changes in the following release:

Version: 8.04 Build 8220 (x86 for 32 bit Outlook)
Version: 8.04 Build 8221 (x64 for 64 bit Outlook)
Released: 6 December 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 8220/8221:

New Features of NEO Pro 8

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.

New Features in this build

This is the official release version of NEO Pro 8
Several instability issues have been resolved

Issues addressed

Closing the catalog caused occassionally an Access Violation error; this has been resolved
Conflict in the NEO Pro Rules functionality caused the product to crash; this has been resolved
Reset of folder counts with emptying folders improved.

Known issues

Versions b8190/8191 or earlier may have resulted in inaccuracies in the new catalog; a catalog rebuild will resolve this.
Sorting of message list on column with icons not preserved when switching view.

Additional information on this release

Click here for full details of what's new in NEO Pro 8.
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)

T1234 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 809x (21 September 2020)
T1236 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 813x (27 September 2020)
T1239 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 815x (13 October 2020)
T1240 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 817x (19 October 2020)
T1241 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 819x (31 October 2020)
T1243 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 821x (24 November 2020)

Last updated: 6 December 2020