What's New - NEO Pro 8.04 Build 8240 / 8241 - 24 February 2021
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Applies to NEO Pro 8.04 |
Welcome
This describes the changes in the following release:
Version: 8.04 Build 8240 (x86 for 32 bit Outlook)
Version: 8.04 Build 8241 (x64 for 64 bit Outlook)
Released: 24 February 2021
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 8240/8241:
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 a first update to the released version of NEO Pro 8
- Several instability issues have been resolved
Issues resolved
- Catalog rebuild was occassionally hanging making it impossible to rebuild the catalog
- Active Mail was not cleaned up after removing the Active Mail flag from the message (primarily in Conversation View)
- Sorting of message list on column with icons were not preserved with switching view
- After start-up 2nd message list not always showing right column configuration
- Closing the catalog has been improved
- Reset of folder counts with emptying folders has been further improved
- Improvements for error 'Message summary record not found'
Known issues
- To ensure database integrity it is advised to rebuild the catalog after starting this version
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)
NEO Pro 8.0 Build 809x (21 September 2020) - first release
- 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)
- T1244 - What's New - NEO Pro 8.0 Build 822x (6 December 2020)
Last updated: 24 February 2021