FileMaker Cloud Release Notes

Version 2.20.1.4

Compatibility

For information about compatibility with FileMaker Platform clients, see Claris FileMaker 2023 Technical Specifications.

Addressed issues

• This update provides important security fixes and is recommended for all users.

Version 2.20.1.3

Compatibility

For information about compatibility with FileMaker Platform clients, see Claris FileMaker 2023 Technical Specifications.

New features and enhancements

• In Admin Console > Backups > Hosted File and Deleted File, you can now restore backups by filename. You can choose which database to restore, then select which timestamp to restore.

Version 2.20.1.215

Compatibility

For information about compatibility with FileMaker Platform clients, see Claris FileMaker 2023 Technical Specifications.

Addressed issues

• In FileMaker Cloud Admin Console, downloading a FileMaker Pro file failed when the filename contained a double-byte character, such as a Japanese, Korean, or Chinese character.

• Downloading FileMaker Pro files in Admin Console stopped working after a few successful downloads.

Version 2.20.1.2

Compatibility

For information about compatibility with FileMaker Platform clients, see Claris FileMaker 2023 Technical Specifications.

New features and enhancements

• The Subscription tab in FileMaker Cloud Admin Console is removed. To manage your subscription, use the Subscription tab in Claris Customer Console.

Addressed issues

• The label for preserved backups inadvertently displayed Arabic characters.

Version 2.20.1.1

Compatibility

For information about compatibility with FileMaker Platform clients, see Claris FileMaker 2023 Technical Specifications.

New features and enhancements

Functions and scripts

• The ReadQRCode function is now available to use on FileMaker Cloud.

• The Execute FileMaker Data API script step now supports the dateformats parameter.

• Scripts run on FileMaker Cloud now support the Set Error Logging script step.

• The Save Records as PDF script step is now supported for the FileMaker Data API.

• FileMaker Cloud now stores the script events in the scriptEvent.log file instead of the Event.log file. You can view and download the scriptEvent.log file using the Logs tab in Admin Console.

Java

• Vaadin has been updated to version 8.18.0. Java has been updated to use version 17.

• Ubuntu: The Java Development Kit (JDK) 17 is now installed instead of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE).

OData

• SchemaVersion is now included in the $metadata response. The $schemaversion query option can now be used to determine whether the schema has changed, since a request for a non-current schema version will be rejected.

• OData now supports the PUT/POST/PATCH/DELETE $ref operations. It also supports aliases.

General

• New client connections are now blocked for databases in the process of being closed.

• You can now filter and sort the list of script schedules in Admin Console.

Addressed issues

FileMaker WebDirect

• Summary parts occasionally were not displayed when sorting records if there were no Body parts on the layout.

• List View objects didn't refresh when there were no records in a found set.

• In List View, the Footer part occasionally wasn't displayed during the initial layout load if a Navigation part existed.

• A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability is resolved.

FileMaker Data API

• Table names were missing from responses to the FileMaker Data API layout names requests.

• The FileMaker Data API returned the incorrect foundCount and returnedCount values for portals when the initial row setting in the portal was greater than the number of records in the portal.

• The FileMaker Data API returned incorrect metadata about layouts with repeating fields.

OData

• Some OData query options returned errors if table names or field names contained Japanese characters.

• Line feeds in fields were not returned as "\n" and caused JSON parsing errors.

Performance

• Using the Set Session Identifier script step heavily to change session names caused the fmshelper process memory to increase unnecessarily.

General

• When a schedule failed, the timestamp for the Last Run value incorrectly reflected the last time the schedule completed successfully instead of the last time the schedule failed.

• Summary field content was missing when the hosted file data sources were set from the content of a global variable.

• Serial numbers were incorrectly incremented during a reverted transaction, and then serial numbers ceased to increment for normal record creation.

• Script triggers such as OnRecordCommit were not executed when called while a script transaction was running.

• Scheduled FileMaker scripts failed to run when a FileMaker scripts folder and a FileMaker script used the same name.

• Indexes created during transactions failed to include deleted records, even if the transactions were reverted.

• The GetContainerAttribute function returned a different date format than expected when performed on the server.

• Some trailing characters in fields were not exported when creating CSV files with FileMaker Cloud.

• Records failed to import from CSV files containing Shift JIS encoded data.

• The GetContainerAttribute function was unable to return photo details when calculated from the server.

• The Admin Console sign-in page didn't automatically refresh the browser after a version upgrade.

• The Hosts page in Admin Console didn't change the status of the instance to Online after clicking Restart Cloud Compute Temporarily.

• Admin Console: An exception occurred when the client IP address was not accessible.