On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:46 PM Jack Royal-Gordon <jac...@pobox.com> wrote:
> I’ve only just installed and started using the new version, but I love it. > Especially that it’s in it’s own window instead of just another tab in the > browser window. Kudos! > Thanks for the feedback :-) > > On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: > > Hi > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 16:01, richard coleman <rcoleman.ascen...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dave, >> >> Sounds promising, can the new beta be installed alongside the existing >> version? >> > > Only on macOS, due to the way appbundles work. > > >> Thanks, >> >> rik. >> >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote: >> >>> All, >>> >>> As you know, when run in Desktop mode, pgAdmin 4 uses a server process >>> which runs all the time and opens a browser window to display the UI. Very >>> early versions used a Qt based runtime that integrated the browser and >>> server which gave a much more "normal" application feel, but unfortunately >>> we found that the Qt browser components had performance issues. >>> >>> We've been working on a new runtime (based on NWjs, similar to Electron) >>> to allow us to get rid of the separate server process, and I'm please to >>> offer builds for testing at: >>> >>> https://developer.pgadmin.org/builds/nwjs-2021-01-21-1/ >>> >>> There you'll find an installer for 64 bit Windows, a DMG for macOS, and >>> RPM and DEB packages for Fedora 31, 32 & 33, RHEL/CentOS 7 & 8, Debian 9, >>> 10 & 11 and Ubuntu 18.04, 20.04 and 20.10. >>> >>> These builds are based on development code currently in git that will be >>> released as v4.30 next week. This includes phase 1 of our Kerberos support >>> (for logging into pgAdmin, but *not* the database servers), and the new ERD >>> tool. This code is still going through QA and final improvement, so please >>> bear that in mind. >>> >>> We're aiming to release v5.0 of pgAdmin 4 in late February, based on the >>> new runtime, so would appreciate as much help and feedback as we can get >>> prior to the release. >>> >>> Whilst I'm writing, I'd also like to give an update on platform support >>> changes; >>> >>> - As previously noted in release announcements, Windows 32 bit builds >>> are deprecated. v4.29 will be the last 32 bit Windows build supported. >>> >>> - Canonical have dropped support for Ubuntu 19.10, and now removed all >>> of the packages repositories. We have therefore had to drop support for it >>> as well; the last supported version of pgAdmin on Ubuntu 19.10 will be >>> v4.29. >>> >>> - Due to the age of the Python version it ships with, we've had to stop >>> producing builds for Ubuntu 16.04 (some of the security related Python >>> modules are no longer supported on older Python versions). v4.30 will be >>> the last version supported on Ubuntu 16.04. >>> >>> - Builds for Ubuntu 20.10 and Debian 11 (Bullseye/testing) have been >>> added for the v4.30 release onwards. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> -- >>> Dave Page >>> Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com >>> Twitter: @pgsnake >>> >>> EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com >>> >>> -- > -- > Dave Page > https://pgsnake.blogspot.com > > EDB Postgres > https://www.enterprisedb.com > > > -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com