What's Next for the VAST Platform?

VAST Platform 2023 (12.0.0)

Coming Q1 2023

Deeper Unicode Integration

Unicode is being extended into various parts of VAST for greater multi-language capabilities

Windows 11 ARM Support

Use VAST natively on Windows® 11 ARM devices, like laptops and servers

3-Way Diff and Profiler Improvement

Enhancements are being made to existing tooling in VAST for a better user experience

MQTT Client

Get up-to-date MQTT communications protocol support for VAST, both v3 and v5

Websockets

Get two-way communication between browsers and servers to enable high performing applications

Windows Table Widget
Common Control

New integrations with the CommonWidget layer as well as WindowBuilder and Abt Parts

Hi-DPI Improvements

Further enhancements to Hi-DPI support for Windows environments

NeoCSV, NeoJSON, STON Updates

Updated to their latest version and added integrated support for Unicode

VAST Platform 2023 (12.0.0) README [In Progress]

Possible Features for Future Releases

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Language & Runtime

Native Apple M1/Intel and macOS Support
Support for new processor architectures like RISC-V

Core Libraries

Tar archive stream support
Further Unicode integration

Development Tools

Enhanced remote debugging support for runtime images
Updated code change detection and merge engine

User Interface & Visuals

GTK for Linux
Updated GUI icons for the VAST IDE

Communications & Web Dev

gRPC and HTTP/2
Improved REST framework (with native SST classes)
HTTP/sst timeout (to replace whenTimeoutMilliseconds)
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)
LDAP/LDAPS integration with Server Smalltalk

Databases

MySQL/MariaDB Support
NoSQL Support

Security

Pending review...

Version Control

Further Git functionality in VAST environment

Deployment

Packager enhancements to simplify deployment

Additional Libraries

Pending review...

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