Xojo 2025r1
A few days ago Xojo Inc. released their first 2025 version of Xojo. Download, Release Notes and Announcement.
We switched to using MacBooks with Apple Silicon years ago and actually run VMs there with Linux. But these VMs use the ARM version of Ubuntu, not the Intel one. While there are ways to use Rosetta for translation inside the VM, it never worked well. With Xojo 2025r1 you can install the Linux version of Xojo into a VM running Linux in the ARM version. That is great to use the debugger there and test things on Linux.
With Xojo you can now directly build and upload to the App Store for iOS and Mac applications. As they do code signing for you, the new log file helps to find the reason for any issues with code signatures. Since you need to add property list values for the application, Xojo got an editor for that. Here you can declare a lot of things like the permissions your application needs.
I dislike the changed shortcut for building. You need to go to preferences and assign Command-B to be build again. Or change your muscle memory to also press the shift key.
For macOS there is the option to get the AppKit Window menu. If you do cross platform development, you ned to make your own. But there is a feature request to get it for Windows and Linux, too. Issue 78776
Windows 10 was released in 2015. Already 10 years and time to let Windows 7 and 8 go. The new Xojo version requires you to have Windows 10 at least. The advantage is that they started to use the unicode DLLs coming with Windows 10 instead of bringing their own. This saves a lot of disk space for your applications. But this change actually makes Windows 10 1703 the minimum, not the original Windows 10 from 2015!
Check out the new JSONOptions class to specify how JSON gets formatted.
For MBS Xojo Plugins, just make sure you have a recent version and everything should work fine. Enjoy the update!
