Happy new year 2026

We wish you a happy new year 2026. See you at the next conferences in summer.
And in September, the MBS Plugin for FileMaker will turn 20, before in December our Xojo Plugins turn 25 years old. What a run!

Three days till year's end

The year 2025 will end in around three days. Do you need some more licenses?

• You can order licenses for 2026 or later and have delivery plus payment done in 2025.
• And of course you can order updates for several years in advance for all your MBS products.
• As all Xojo plugin, LibXL and DynaPDF licenses are per developer, you should check if you got a new developer in your team this year and adjust licenses to match team size.
• For FileMaker please check if you have enough license for the number of seats or servers you have in use.

Especially if you run on a budget and you want to spend some money in 2025, you can buy updates for several years in advance.

Merry Christmas

Frohe Weihnachten und ein gutes neues Jahr!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année

Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo


Franziska, Sebastian, Michael, Monika & Christian Schmitz

MBS Xojo Plugins, version 25.6pr4

New in this prerelease of the 25.6 plugins:

• Updated LibXL to version 5.0.1.
• Improved Translation classes to work mostly on macOS 15 and iOS 18, too.
• Added SetPassword method for XLBookMBS class to read encrypted Excel workbooks.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.302.
• Added Saxon example for to visualize electronic Invoices (ZUGFeRD, Facture-X, XRechnung or EN16931-1:2017.).

New functions in documentation

Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip

Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.

You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

Enhance your XML powers in Xojo with our Saxon classes

You may have a license for our MBS Xojo XML Plugin, so you may be interested to use more XML features.

Since Xojo has only built-in XSLT 1.0 in XMLDocument.Transform function, you may enjoy the enhancements of XSLT 3.0 with way more options.

You can use the Saxon library in your projects with MBS Xojo Plugins to work on XML:

• XSLT 3.0 for transformations
• XQuery 3.1 for queries
• XSD 1.1 for document validation
• XPath 3.1 for navigation within documents

See our Saxon classes in the documentation.

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MBS Xojo Developer Conference Update

About four months until our MBS Xojo conference in Andernach starts.

We got a few more registrations, so we have over 30 people from 10 countries: 🇩🇪, 🇳🇱, 🇵🇱, 🇬🇧, 🇨🇭, 🇺🇸, 🇪🇸, 🇬🇷, 🇨🇦, and 🇫🇷.

If you signed up and you didn't receive an email from us, please contact us to check the status of the registration.

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Translation Framework in Xojo

Since macOS 26 (and iOS 26) you can use the Translate framework to perform on-device translation services. You can use this with the upcoming MBS Xojo Plugins, currently in beta test.

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MBS Xojo Plugins, version 25.6pr3

New in this prerelease of the 25.6 plugins:

• Merged the Verify plugin part into Encryption plugin.
• Merged FMAPI Plugin into CURL Plugin.
• Removed DisAsm functions in Util plugin.
• Fixed a problem with DASessionMBS class' constructor not working always.
• Merged SSH2 plugin part into CURL plugin.
• Merged RabbitMQ plugin into MongoDB plugin.
• Changed minimum iOS version for deployment to iOS 12.0.
• Added more constants for NSSegmentedControlMBS class.
• Updated Scintilla to version 5.5.8.
• Added more methods, properties and constants for Scintilla.
• Changed minimum Mac version for deployment to macOS 10.13.
• Added IndentSize property to JSONMBS class.

New functions in documentation

Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip

Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.

You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

Upcoming changes for 2026 in MBS Plugins

For 2026, we plan to change a few things and we let you know here:

Vertical Products for ProDeveloper licenses

We plan to ask people with a ProDeveloper licenses for our FileMaker plugin which vertical solution they use the plugin in, so we can know which developer to contact if their clients contact us directly. Currently we have no real overview and need to search manually the web or our emails.

Number of releases

Currently we do a release every two months. There may be the chance to optimize this and maybe do just 5 instead of 6 releases a year. For example the release in July always gets less feedback as clients are going to vacation. If we don't need to have something new to show for a summer conference, we may skip this. And the September release is often a smaller update because our team is regularly on vacation in August.

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With Xojo 2025r3 we got a new thing: Libraries

A library is a way to bundle project items for reuse as a binary file and give them to other developers to use them. Like a plugin, but of course not a plugin.

Build a library

You start by creating projects where you develop your library. For each target you need a separate project: Console, Desktop, Web, and iOS. The project may have some unit tests to run and some test functionality for you as developer to try your library functions.

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Three weeks till year's end

The year 2025 will end in less than three weeks. Do you need some more licenses?

• You can order licenses for 2026 or later and have invoice, delivery and payment done in 2025.
  This way you secure the current pricing and the possibility to keep upgradeability for older licenses.
• And of course you can order updates for several years in advance for all your MBS products.
• As all our Xojo and DynaPDF plugin licenses are per developer, you should check if you got a new developer in your team this year and adjust licenses to match team size.
• For MBS FileMaker Plugin please check if you have enough license for the number of seats or servers you have in use.
  If you upgrade to unlimited seats or servers, the plugin won't need to check the usage counts.
• For LibXL you can check if you like to upgrade from individual developer licenses to the Enterprise level. We can assist and may apply a special upgrade price.

Especially if you run on a budget and you want to spend some money in the old year, you can buy updates for several years in advance.
If you need help to decide what Xojo, FileMaker or plugin license you need, we may be able to assist you.

MBS Xojo Plugins, version 25.6pr2

New in this prerelease of the 25.6 plugins:

• Reduced debug information included within libraries.
• Improved size of plugin libraries by partially stripping debug information for platforms the code doesn't get used. e.g. Windows Registry plugin includes function names for Windows, but not for Linux or macOS.
• Enabled QTAudioChannelDescriptionMBS and QTAudioChannelLayoutMBS classes for iOS.
• Enabled JPEG2000MBS class to work better on iOS.
• Disabled FoundationModels for macOS on Intel as they are not available there.
• Added SaltLength parameter and related constants for VerifyRSAPSS and SignRSAPSS methods in OpenSSLMBS module.
• Fixed a problem with DynaPDF dll exporting too many symbols.

New functions in documentation

Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip

Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.

You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.

Sign In with Apple in Xojo

Apple offers the possibility to use an Apple Account to sign-in to your service. They basically let the user authenticate and then provide you with a token linked to the user's Apple Account.

see Sign in with Apple and Implementing User Authentication with Sign in with Apple

To show the user, that they can sign-in with Apple, you can have a button in your window and use one of three designs:

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News from the MBS Xojo Plugins Version 25.5

In this article I want to introduce you the new functionalities from the MBS Xojo Plugins in version 25.5.

Llama

We have added a brand new section to our plugins: Llama. With the help of llama cpp integration, you can now load a local large language model (LLM) in Xojo with just a few lines of code, create a context, and generate text—all on-device, with optional GPU acceleration. The article Using llama.cpp in Xojo shows you what is possible and how to get started. Feel free to take a closer look.

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MBS Xojo Plugins, version 25.6pr1

New in this prerelease of the 25.5 plugins:

• Added Translation classes: TranslationSessionMBS, TranslationResponseMBS and TranslationRequestMBS.
• Added CADisplayLinkMBS class.
• Changed CURL to list paths in quoted SFTP commands.
• Corrected flags for DictionaryServiceMBS class as it is not available on iOS.
• Changed JSON formatting to use space instead of tab after object keys.
• Fixed a problem with reading comments in GraphicsMagick library.
• Updated GraphicsMagick library to version 1.3.46.
• Added LaunchingExternalUriScheme event to WebView2ControlMBS control.
• Updated to Xcode 26.1.1.
• Added allowsUltraConstrainedNetworkAccess property to NSURLSessionConfigurationMBS class.
• Added isiOSAppOnVision property to NSProcessInfoMBS class.
• Added NSURLRequestMBS allowsCellularAccess, allowsUltraConstrainedNetworkAccess, allowsExpensiveNetworkAccess, allowsConstrainedNetworkAccess to NSURLRequestMBS and NSMutableURLRequestMBS classes.
• Added requestAgeRange method to StoreKit2MBS module.
• Updated DynaPDF to version 4.0.102.301.
• Added DynaPDFParserContentDrawImageMBS class.
• Fixed a few bugs in DynaPDFMatrixMBS class.
• Fixed CalculateCRC16StringMBS and CalculateCRC16MemoryMBS to work better with reflected input.
• Added localizedDescription for OfferType JSON when returning transactions for StoreKit2.
• Added periodCount for SubscriptionOffer JSON returned for offers in products for StoreKit2.
• Added beginRefundRequest method to StoreKit2MBS module.
• Updated mongo-c-driver to version 2.2.0.
• Deprecated MaxMessageSize and MaxBSONSize properties in MongoClientMBS class.
• Rewrote CommandQuery function in MongoClientMBS class.
• Updated lcms2 library to version 2.18rc1.

New functions in documentation

Download Links: Download Mac dmg or Download Windows/Linux zip

Download: monkeybreadsoftware.de/xojo/download/plugin/Prerelease/.
Or ask us to be added to our shared DropBox folder.

You can subscribe to our Xojo mailing list to get notified for new pre-release and release versions.