Short version:
We're pleased to announce the next generation of the HPCC Systems® Platform. This exciting new release, version 9.8.0, takes everything you loved about the platform and elevates it to a new level. This release includes new Regex libraries, changes to user file lookup permission caching to make sure correct user credentials are used, Interactive ECL in our Language Reference web pages, Syntax checking in the ECL Watch Playground, and various security & performance enhancements.
For details, see the detailed version below.
Detailed version
We're pleased to announce the next generation of the HPCC Systems® Platform. This exciting new release, version 9.8.0, takes everything you loved about the platform and elevates it to a new level.
Highlights:
New Regex Libraries
Beginning with version 9.8, the HPCC Systems platform uses a new third-party library to support regular expression operations in the platform. PCRE2 will replace both Boost::regex and ICU in regular expression pattern parsing, compilation, and substring replacement.
This change brings more consistency to how regex works within ECL, better support for UTF-8 data and overall better performance. For more details, see: Changes to Regex Support in HPCC Systems 9.8.0
LDAP Caching fix can affect access to file scopes Default File Scope Permission Caching Fix
This change can affect LDAP-enabled systems. For details, see: https://hpccsystems.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/hpcc/pages/64061469/HPCC+Systems+9.8.x+Releases+Advance+Notice#Change-in-Regex-Support-Library Change in LDAP Support
Interactive ECL
To augment the learning experience, we have made many of the ECL code examples on our ECL Language Reference web pages interactive.
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