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The following features are planned for inclusion in VAST 2025, coming Q1 2025. Roadmap items are subject to change based upon customer need.
Virtual Machine Improvements
Code generator optimizations for ifNil:/ifNotNil:/ ifNil:ifNotNil:, upgraded command line argument processing, walkback dumping improvements, and an update to the most recent version of LLVM.
Unicode Library Enhancements
Inclusion of new string collation functionality, String/UnicodeString hashing improvements, and an update to the latest version of Unicode.
Full Unicode Integration in Seaside
Seaside to receive full Unicode functionality including, for example, both rendering and input of Unicode strings. Additionally, an update to the latest Seaside and Grease.
Better Unicode Dev Tool Support
When UTF-8 encoding is selected, the inspection and debugging of Unicode strings will be greatly improved.
Unicode support for XML
Proper management of Unicode within the XML libraries.
Official SQL Server Support via ODBC
While SQL Server was already accessible via ODBC, now, a full suite of tests will be used to validate functionality, and an SQL Server option for GLORP will exist also.
Multi-Monitor Support Improvements
Improvements continue to multi-monitor support for more productive usage of VAST.
OpenSSL Updated
Security improvements and updates will be included through an upgrade to the latest version of OpenSSL.
Dev Tool Enhancements
Select development tools are being enhanced to improve performance, usability, and productivity.
Integrate SortFunctions Library
Library that enables a user-friendly way to sort collections with a full set of utility classes and extension methods.
TableWidget Improvements
General improvements to the TableWidget as well as further integration with WindowBuilder Pro.
GTK Work Continues for Linux
Our multi-year effort to support GTK on Linux continues to progress.
Possible Features for Future Releases
Many of the below items were collected from the previous Instantiations survey, but if you were unable to participate or if a feature you want is missing, please contact us at: vast-support@instantiations.com
Language & Runtime
Native Apple M1/Intel and macOS Support
Support for new processor architectures like RISC-V
Core Libraries
Further Unicode integration (work in progress...)
Development Tools
Enhanced remote debugging support for runtime images
Updated code change detection and merge engine
User Interface & Visuals
GTK for Linux (work in progress...)
Updated GUI icons for the VAST IDE
Communications & Web Dev
Websockets
gRPC and HTTP/2
Improved REST framework (with native SST classes)
LSP support for connecting VAST to other dev environments like VS code
JOSE and JSON web tokens
Authorization/Authentication support (i.e. OAuth2.0, OpenID)
