Nickenich, Germany - (January 13th, 2026) -- Monkeybread Software today is pleased to announce MBS Xojo Plugins 26.0 for macOS, Linux and Windows, the latest update to their product that is easily the most powerful plugin collection currently available for Xojo. MBS Xojo Plugins have been updated and now includes over 3000 classes and 83,000 documented features, and the versatile plugins have gained more new functions:
On macOS and iOS, you can use Apple’s Translation framework to perform fully local, on-device translations. Users must download the required languages in System Settings. Our Translation classes can then start a session with a selected language pair and perform translations directly within your Xojo applications.
We updated the Scintilla control to the current upstream library. This improves compatibility with macOS Tahoe and adds many new properties, constants, and methods.
The CADisplayLinkMBS class provides a timer object that allows your application to synchronize drawing operations with the display’s refresh rate. Our StoreKit2MBS module can now initiate refunds for in-app purchases. Use the RequestAgeRange method to ask for the user’s age range and conditionally enable adult-only functionality.
We added two new Saxon examples:
- Use XSLT transformations to visualize electronic invoices (ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, XRechnung, or EN 16931-1:2017).
- Use Saxon classes to validate the XML structure of invoices and apply business rules to verify their content.
The XLBookMBS class now includes a SetPassword method, allowing you to open encrypted Excel workbooks by providing a password. LibXL 5.0.1 supports multiple hashing and encryption algorithms.
The JSONMBS class gained new properties to control the characters used for formatted JSON output, including configurable indentation. You can also generate multiple linked barcodes using the StructuredAppend parameter and export them as images.
We reduced the amount of debug information included in the libraries and merged several components. This reduces the total download size by more than 300 MB.
CURL can now display SFTP command paths in debug logging and uses Apple’s SecTrust framework to verify certificates. This replaces the older UseSystemCertificates method.
For NSURLRequestMBS and related classes, we added new properties to control cellular access, ultra-constrained networks, expensive networks, and constrained connections. This allows macOS and iOS to make better decisions about whether your application may use satellite or mobile data connections.
Finally we update the CURL library to version 8.18.0, DynaPDF to 4.0.102.302, GraphicsMagick to 1.3.46, lcms2 to 2.18, LibXL to 5.0.1, mongo-c-driver to 2.2.0, Scintilla to 5.5.8, SQLAPI to 5.4.1, Xcode to 26.1.1 and the Xojo SDK to version 2025r3.
See release notes for a complete list of changes.Download here
Recently LibXL 5.0 was released and we include this update in our upcoming MBS Plugins 16.0 for FileMaker and 26.0 for Xojo.
Version 5.0.1 (2025-12-22)
- added the support of one more encryption algorithm
(LibXL supports ECMA-376 standard and agile encryptions with SHA-1 and SHA-512 hashing algorithms)
- added password verifications with the error message "incorrect password"
- added the Book::loadInfoRaw() for loading only information about sheets from the workbook in memory buffer
- fixed an issue with decrypting password protected xlsx files on Linux and Mac
Version 5.0.0 (2025-12-05)
- added the support of password protected xlsx files (only loading)
- fixed a performance issue with reading cells from some large non-typical xlsx files that don't use "r" attributes in rows
- fixed issues with reading and writing code units above U+FFFF
- fixed an issue with Valgrind warning "Invalid read of size 1"
- fixed an issue with copying sheets with space characters in the name (xlsx)
- fixed issues with using LET, LAMBDA, BYROW and BYCOL functions (xlsx)
- fixed issues with reading some dates
New methods:
The new password feature was often requested and we add the matching password parameters to our Load functions, so you can pass it to the plugin.
LibXL is a powerful library to create, read, edit and write Excel documents in older and newer Excel file formats and without the need to install Microsoft Excel. It allows the developer to automate a lot of tasks related to Excel spreadsheets within your solution or application.
Learn more on our LibXL for FileMaker and LibXL for Xojo pages.
When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to validate the XML file in your Xojo application. You certainly don't want a surprise later when you get a tax audit.
You can use our DynaPDF plugin functions to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML, you can do some automated validation. We leverage the XSL and XSD files coming with the ZUGFeRD 2.3 download. They provide a way to check both the structure with the XSD file as well as the content with the XSL file. The XSL file is based on the schematron file with all the business rules, but converted to a stylesheet for using it with the XSLT function in SaxonMBS module. While the schema check makes sure you have the right nodes in the right places, the business rules define what can go in a field and how fields are related.
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New in this prerelease of the 25.6 plugins:
- Updated CURL library to version 8.18.0.
- Updated Xojo SDK to version 2025r3.
- Fixed a crash with WindowsMidiInputMBS and WindowsMidiOutputMBS events in 64-bit applications.
- Fixed a possible crash in the DDEMBS class with events passing back pointers.
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.
When you receive an electronic invoice in the formats ZUGFeRD, Factur-X, X-Rechnung or UBL, you may need to visualize the XML file in your Xojo application. You can use our DynaPDF classes to extract the XML from the ZUGFeRD invoice. Once you have the XML for one of the formats UBL or Cross Industry Invoice, you may want to convert it to HTML and show it in a HTMLviewer.
We leverage the XRechnung Visualization Transformators project from GitHub. This project has a couple of XML stylesheets to convert our invoices to HTML. For this they first convert the UBL or CII XML to an intermediate XML and finally convert that to XML with a second transformation. There is also an alternative output to produce a XML for Apache FOP to make it a PDF file.
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The January/February (24.1) issue of
xDev Magazine is now available. Here's a quick preview of what's inside:
AI Whispering by Michelle Parker
Just a few months ago it was impossible to use AI to create a Xojo project from start to finish, but things are changing fast. Read about how Michelle used Cursor AI to create her Xojo app. She calls it AI whispering because AI is a teammate she consults with.
A Raspberry Pi Open Text File Dialog by Eugene Dakin
There are many features of Raspberry Pi that can’t be obtained via built-in methods. In today’s example, Eugene uses declares to create an open text file dialog.
Shortcuts AI by Marc Zeedar
Did you know Apple offers AI models in MacOS 26 that you can use in your apps for free? You could use declares or a plugin to access these, but Marc shows how to access them in Xojo via Shortcuts! Read about how to offer proofreading, image analysis, and more!
Token-Oriented Object Notation (TOON) by Tim Dietrich
You may be familiar with using JSON to send data to AI processing. But JSON is a human-oriented protocol. Tim explains how TOON is designed for AI and is far more efficient, using fewer tokens for processing. TOON can save you money!
Plus: Xojo 2025r3, XojoScripts, watermarking PDFs, and more!
New in this prerelease of the 25.6 plugins:
- Improved SaxonMBS classes to add slash to CWD path if needed.
- Added StructuredAppend property for BarcodeGeneratorMBS class and ZintStructuredAppendMBS class for the JSON used with Barcode.GenerateJSON to create barcodes with sequence information.
- Updated SQLAPI to version 5.4.1.
- Deprecated OptionKRBLevel property in CURLSMBS class as CURL library deprecated that option.
- Enabled Apple SecTrust for CURL to validate SSL certificates on macOS and iOS. Unless you opt-out of SSL validation checks with OptionSSLVerifyHost and OptionSSLVerifyPeer properties.
- Updated CURL library to version 8.18.0rc3.
- Fixed Available function in FoundationModelsMBS to not raise an exception if raised on an unsupported platform. Now returns false.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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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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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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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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.
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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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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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.
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.
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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