Release notes for EiffelStudio 25.12

Graphical environment

Improvements

• Resolved multiple issues related to importing debugger settings.
• Security: Fixed buffer overflow in GTK binding, memory corruption fixes

• Eiffel Web framework:
  • take into account reverse-proxy when computing the is_https and the server_url
  • Enhanced router with default handler support
  • Enhanced custom fallback page implementation
  • Improved file serving with automatic index.html handling
  • Better OPTIONS request and CORS support
  • Enhanced request information handling

• the Eiffel CMS platform:
  • Improved user management, and also user registration process.
  • simplify creation of landing page (using the "frontpage" css class).
  • Added PostgreSQL storage backend for the CMS Eiffel platform (Content Management System)
  • CMS API Key Authentication: Token-based authentication module with scope management
  • CMS Storage Browser: Database inspection and query execution module
  • CMS CLI Interface: Command-line administration tools with interactive shell
  • Magic Link Authentication: "Sign In With Email" passwordless login
  • Enhanced magic link system to ease integration with external service (for instance JS apps).
  • Improved modules: core, admin, admin mails handler, custom_block, ...
  • fixed various issues

• MySQL and MariaDB EiffelStore binding: updated to support latest C connector.
• SQLite: major update (updated the C driver)
• Updated a few libraries to get rid of the obsolete iteration cursor usage.

Libraries

• New support for POSTGRESQL in EiffelStore library (CRUD operations and transaction support).
• New s3_client library to access AWS S3 buckets or S3 compatible buckets (such minio)
• Updated Gobo libraries to Gobo 25.12 (langserver, storable, and thread libraries)
• Various bug fixes, and minor improvements.
• EiffelBase: updated signatures of type conformance test features. Potential breaking change: the class TYPE does not inherit from PART_COMPARABLE anymore.

Warnings

• Some .Net limitations exist in the current release that will be addressed in future updates. For detailed information, please refer to the Eiffel for .NET documentation.
• SCOOP is currently not supported by Eiffel .NET
• For Macos users on M1/M2 (arm) architecture, please read the specific notes about macosx

See change log for more details.