
Today Claris International Inc. released the FileMaker Server in version 19.1.2:
Announcement,
Release Notes. This includes an rpm package for Linux!
If you have a license, just go to your electronic product delivery page and download the new version.
Linux for FileMaker has a few years of history. After Claris told us years ago to prepare a plugin for Linux, it still took a while till 2016 to get a plugin SDK. In fall that year we shipped version 6.5 of MBS FileMaker Plugin including 64-bit Linux support to be used with the FileMaker Cloud servers at that time. We kept updating our plugin for Linux, adding more Linux features over time and currently have over 2900 of our 6300 functions available on
Linux.
Claris got plenty of requests over the years to make the Linux server available stand alone. And in Hamburg at the FileMaker Konferenz in 2019 we had discussions with Claris staff about that and they let us know they are working on such an offering. As usual no time given. But FileMaker Server 19 was released with a Linux developer preview, so everyone with a license could test it. Over the months Claris made great progress and simplified the installation, improved the Admin Console and added a few Linux specific features. Today is finally the release date and we congratulate Claris to this new version. The Linux servers will quickly take over the world!
MBS FileMaker Plugin 10.x work fine on the Linux servers and we recommend to use recent versions to avoid running into fixed bugs.
We post a photo story with all the screenshots we made when we installed a Linux FileMaker server from scratch earlier today:
Installation of FileMaker Server in pictures
If you got the brand new FileMaker Pro version 19.1.3 on macOS installed and you use MBS Plugin for script workspace enhancements, please update to
version 10.5pr6 or later.
We fixed an issue where showing script IDs would cut away a lot of space for script names.
Please contact us if you continue to see an issue there.
PS: Seems like the problem exists without MBS Plugin, too? See
Community

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Add a zoom button for inspector palette to scale content to 125%.
- Updated LibXL to version 3.9.2.
- Added Matrix.CSVSplit function.
- Changed SQL functions to better work together with Actual Tech SQL Server ODBC Drivers.
- Added SystemInfo.CPULoad function.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.43.122.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

Did you know the MBS Plugin can run on all FileMaker versions from 7 to 19.1.2?
As of today the current 32-bit Windows version can load in ancient FileMaker Pro 7. We don't expect clients to use that, but we know that some still have 32-bit Windows and use FileMaker Pro 18 there to connect to FileMaker 18 and 19 servers.
For macOS we support currently macOS 10.9 and newer. If you need plugins folder older macOS versions or 32-bit FileMaker Pro, please let us know.
And of course we work hard to get our plugin ready for the future. MacOS Big Sur and Apple Silicon are coming sooner than later and we may need to adjust for those.

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.43.121. Includes web links for DynaPDF.WriteFText.
- Fixed printer name matching for Printer.SetDefaultPrinter function.
- Changed our Database Design Dialog enhancements to hide if the underlaying SQL queries fail.
- Changed ScriptID display in Script Workspace to hide column if we fail to query script names list.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.
Everyone developing a FileMaker solution for macOS should get the
MBS FileMaker Plugin and configure the toolbar contextual menu with our
Window.ConfigureToolbarMenu function:
As you see, you can configure the toolbar menu to remove the whole menu (mode 1) or hide only the entries to show/hide/configure.
For mode 1 we skipped the screenshot as simply no menu shows up.
If the user is allowed to configure the menu bar, he can enable commands you may have disabled via custom menus and work around your security concept. Like if you disable delete, import, export or print buttons and the user configures the toolbar to restore it.

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Added XL.Sheet.CellReadValue function.
- Fixed GraphicsMagick functions to not use clock_gettime function on macOS 10.11 or older, where it didn't exists.
- Added FM.SQL.JSONColumn function.
- Added CUPS.GetPrintersAsJSON and CUPS.GetJobsAsJSON function.
- Deprecated CUPS.GetPrinterCount, CUPS.GetPrinterDefault and CUPS.GetPrinterName functions.
- Deprecated CUPS.GetJobCompletionTime, CUPS.GetJobCreationTime, CUPS.GetJobFormat, CUPS.GetJobID, CUPS.GetJobIndex, CUPS.GetJobPrinter, CUPS.GetJobPriority, CUPS.GetJobProcessingTime, CUPS.GetJobSize, CUPS.GetJobState, CUPS.GetJobTitle, CUPS.GetJobUser and CUPS.GetJobsCount function.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.

New in this prerelease of version 10.5 of the MBS FileMaker Plugin:
- Added Animate parameter for macOS to Window.SetBounds function.
- Added AVPlayer.GetShowsSubtitles and AVPlayer.SetShowsSubtitles function.
- Added CNContactStore.ContactsMatchingEmailAddress and CNContactStore.ContactsMatchingPhoneNumber functions.
- Added DynaPDF.DrawNGon, DynaPDF.GetDefaultBarcodeParameters and DynaPDF.InsertBarcode functions.
- Added DynaPDF.GetAnnotationAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetColorSpaceAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetEmbeddedFileAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetFieldAsJSON and DynaPDF.GetFontAsJSON functions.
- Added DynaPDF.GetAnnotationsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetBookmarksAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetColorSpacesAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetDocInfoAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetEmbeddedFilesAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetFieldsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetFontsAsJSON, DynaPDF.GetImportDocInfoAsJSON and DynaPDF.SysFontInfoAsJSON functions.
- Added Files.ListAsJSON function to list files and return it as JSON.
- Added flags for JSON.GetArrayItem, so result can be JSON, reference or now value.
- Added FontManager.ImageWithSystemSymbolName function to query images for symbol names.
- Added List.FindDuplicateItems and QuickList.FindDuplicateItems functions.
- Added more TextView functions: TextView.GetSelectedStyledText, TextView.SetSelectedStyledText, TextView.GetSelectedHTMLText, TextView.SetSelectedHTMLText, TextView.GetSelectedRTF, TextView.SetSelectedRTF, TextView.GetSelectedPlainText, TextView.SetSelectedPlainText, TextView.GetSelectionStart, TextView.SetSelectionStart, TextView.GetSelectionLength, TextView.SetSelectionLength, and TextView.SetSelection.
- Added Realm Parameter for CURL.SetupOAuth function.
- Added WindowsML functions to do machine learning on Windows 10.
- Added XL.CopyColumn function.
- Changed JSON.ToXML to unpack attributes with just @ in front.
- Changed XML.ToJSON and added option for compacter attributes processing.
- Fixed an issue with EmailParser not converting email texts without iconv loaded.
- Fixed main thread warning for UNNotification.IsRegisteredForRemoteNotifications function.
- Fixed problem with script workspace where editing inline calculation would remove new line characters when updating coloring.
- Fixed SyntaxColoring.GetScriptHighlightColor to return empty result if no color was set.
- Improved App.GetDockBadgeLabel and App.SetDockBadgeLabel for iOS to not cause warning message.
- Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.42.120.
- Updated OpenSSL to version 1.1.1h.
- Updated SQLAPI to 5.1.2.
- Updated to Xcode 11.7.
Download at
monkeybreadsoftware.com/filemaker/files/Prerelease/ or ask for being added to the dropbox shared folder.