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Lasso Professional Server 8.5
Change Notes

Version: 8.5.4
Release: August 23, 2007
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- Introduction
- New Features
- Updated Features and Fixes


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Introduction
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Lasso Professional 8.5.4 is a free update to Lasso Professional 8.5 which is recommended for all users. This update includes a significant performance increase, an update to the Lasso Connector for FileMaker Server which improves compatibility with FileMaker Server 9, and SOAP enhancements. Consult the Lasso 8.5 Setup Guide and Lasso 8.5 Language Guide for information about the new features in this version.


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New Features
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- The Lasso Connector for FileMaker Server now supports two logical operators when working with FileMaker Server 9.  By default, one logical query is created which finds records that meet all of the criteria specified.  If -Or is specified then a new query is started and any records in the first query or the second query are found.  If -Not is specified then a new query is started and any records in the first query, but not in the second query are found.  As many -Or and -Not keywords can be used as necessary.

- [SOAP_DefineTag]  now accepts an optional -Username and -Password. If specified these are used for HTTP authentication on the remote SOAP server.

- Several new SOAP post-processing options have been added including [Proc_Lasso], [Proc_Find], [Proc_ForEach], [Proc_Join], [Proc_First], [Proc_Last].  See the documentation for details about these procedures.  The procedures [Proc_Null], [Proc_XML], and [Proc_Convert] can now be specified directly rather than requiring a tag escape (e.g. \proc_null).


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Updated Features and Fixes
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- Performance - This release shows a significant performance improvement over Lasso 8.5.3 on Mac OS X and Red Hat Linux. The performance should be comparable to earlier releases of Lasso 8.5.x. No change was necessary on the Windows platform.

- SOAP - Compatibility with Windows .NET has been improved. Clients should now be able to access Lasso-based procedures through Windows .NET clients.

- SOAP - Calling Lasso-based procedures from Lasso should now work.

- SOAP - Lasso will now include an empty header in SOAP procedure calls.

- SOAP - The list of simple types has been expanded.  Lasso now properly passes data for the simple types defined in the SOAP specification through to the procedure call without modification.

- SOAP - An issue where the sub-tag name was used for parameters of a SOAP procedure rather than the element name defined in the WSDL has been fixed.

- FileMaker - The [Database_FMContainer] tag now returns NULL for empty container fields rather than returning an error.

- Administration - The [Admin_CreateUser] and [Admin_ChangeUser] tags now properly specify and update the password of the user.

- Server Administration - An issue which could cause the Database Browser link presented in the Server Administration interface to be incorrect has been fixed.

- Lasso Reference - An issue which was preventing URLs like the following from finding all tags containing the word "field" has been corrected.

	http://reference.lassosoft.com?field


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