What's New from Liquid Technologies?

Liquid Studio 21 is a Free upgrade for all users with an active support plan.

Liquid Technologies have announced the availability of Liquid Studio v21 and Liquid XML Data Binder v21, providing many new features and enhancements plus general performance and stability improvements.

The new release extends and improves on the existing functionality by introducing other new tools and technologies that our users have requested in order to continue to make Liquid Studio the best value XML development environment available.

Liquid Studio Framework

• NEW Blue Theme
• NEW looking Dark Theme
• NEW Rendering for Windows 11 styling for graphical elements such as scrollbars and window docking
• Improved support for High DPI monitors
• Improved all user settings are stored when upgrading product versions
• Added all Wizards to the Tools Convert Menu
• Added .jschema to file filters
• Added information bar when Design and Source Code views need refreshing
• Security Vulnerability Fix: Removed use of deprecated DotNetZip library

Liquid Data Mapper

• NEW BSON to JSON Component
• NEW Fast Infoset to XML Component
• NEW JSON to BSON Component
• NEW XML to Fast Infoset Component
• NEW Create Time Span Component
• NEW FTP Get Component
• NEW FTP Put Component
• NEW Read Binary File Component
• NEW Write Binary File Component
• NEW XSLT support for Set Timezone Component
• NEW XSLT support for To Local XSLT Component
• NEW XSLT support for To Utc XSLT Component
• NEW XSLT 3.0 Code Generation Option
• Improved Text Reader Wizard when using Fixed Length Fields

Liquid Data Mapper C# and VB.Net Runtime Nuget

• NEW .Net Runtime support for .Net 9.0 and .Net 8.0
• Security Vulnerability Fix: Upgraded Newtonsoft.Json Nuget dependency to prevent Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions resulting in Denial Of Service (DoS).
• Security Vulnerability Fix: Removed dependency of deprecated ClosedXML.Signed Nuget.
• Improved Performance in .Net Runtime
• Removed unnecessary dependency on RedGate.SmartAssembly.Attributes Nuget.

XPath, XSLT and XQuery

• NEW Integration with Saxon-HE v12.5
• NEW Added XSLT 3.0 option to XSLT Wizard
• Upgraded XSD 1.1 validation with Xerces v2.12.2
• Improved XPath Query Builder to store XPath for individual files
• Fixed initialisation timeout errors in XSLT and XQuery Debuggers

Web Service Testing

• NEW OpenAPI (REST) Web Service Call Testing for OpenAPI 3.1 Web Services
• NEW Bearer Token Credentials option
• NEW JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Credentials option
• NEW Custom Headers at Web Service Connection Level

JSON Editor

• NEW BSON to JSON conversion
• NEW JSON to BSON conversion
• NEW JSON to YAML conversion
• Improved OpenAPI JSON to YAML conversion with options for OpenAPI 2, 3, and 3.1
• Fixed issue where Infer JSON Schema from JSON Wizard always used default file

XML Schema (XSD) Editor

• Improved editor to allow Pattern Facet to store multiple values

YAML Editor

• NEW YAML to JSON conversion
• Improved OpenAPI YAML to JSON conversion with options for OpenAPI 2, 3, and 3.1

NEW Graphical Markdown Editor with Split View and Design and Source Code Views

• NEW Markdown to HTML conversion

HTML Editor

• NEW HTML to Markdown conversion

RelaxNG Editor

• Improved Validation

XML Data Binder

• NEW .Net Runtime support for .Net 9.0 and .Net 8.0
• Improved all user settings are stored when upgrading product versions
• Improved Command Line Parameter checking

XML Data Binder C++ Runtime

• NEW Linux C++ Runtime support for gcc 14.2, 13.3, 12.4, 11.5, 10.5
• NEW Linux C++ Runtime support for PCRE2
• NEW Windows C++ Runtime support for PCRE2

XML Data Binder C# and VB.Net Runtime Nuget

• NEW .Net Runtime support for .Net 9.0 and .Net 8.0
• Improved Performance in .Net Runtime

Liquid XML Objects

• NEW .Net Runtime support for .Net 9.0 and .Net 8.0

Liquid XML Objects C# and VB.Net Runtime Nuget

• NEW .Net Runtime support for .Net 9.0 and .Net 8.0
• Improved Performance in .Net Runtime
• Removed unnecessary dependency on RedGate.SmartAssembly.Attributes Nuget.

General Improvements

• Along with the new features outlined above, existing features have also been enhanced and improved with functionality requested by our users.

Liquid Studio v20.1

Liquid Studio Framework

• NEW Option to run multiple files from the Project Window
• NEW Option to run XSLT from the command line
• NEW Option to run XQuery from the command line
• NEW Option to cancel opening a Database Connection
• NEW Option to cancel opening Web Service Connection
• Performance Enhancements for loading Database Connections
• Performance Enhancements for loading Web Service Connections
• Fixed High DPI issues

JSON Schema

• Enhanced XSD to JSON Schema converter
• Fixed issues with "definitions" and "$defs"
• Fixed issues resolving items

JSON Editor

• Fixed issues using relative paths to JSON Schema for JSON validation
• Fixed issues pasting large data
• Fixed issues with JSON spell checker

XML Schema Sets

• Enhanced Hierarchy Chart now opens as a Schema Set showing dependency graph
• Added ability to Print Preview Schema Sets
• Fixed issues with printing Schema Sets
• Fixed UI issues

XML Data Mapper

• NEW Support for Abstract Elements (xsi:type)

XML Data Binder

• NEW Linux Runtime support for gcc 12.2 / 11.3 / 10.4 / 9.5
• Fixed issue with default enum values in C# and VB.NET
• Fixed issue with Viewer Nuget linking to wrong Runtime version

XML Objects

• Added Nullable Reference Types (NRT) option to Data Binder Wizard
• Fixed issue with Nullable Reference Types (NRT) where declared type is required and abstract
• Fixed issue where the property cardinality changes when it is overridden
• Fixed issues with JSON serialization

Visual Studio Integration

• NEW XML Schema Set view with dependency graph

General Improvements

• Along with the new features outlined above, existing features have also been enhanced and improved with functionality requested by our users.

Liquid Studio v20.0

NEW Web Service Testing

• NEW OpenAPI (REST) Web Service Call Testing
• NEW Web Service Connection Explorer
• NEW Web Service Method Selection Control

Liquid Data Mapper

• NEW OpenAPI (REST) Web Services
• NEW Code generator option to target Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
• NEW Code generator option to target .Net 6.0 for C#

NEW YAML Editor

• NEW Convert YAML to JSON Wizard

XML Data Binder

• NEW Code generator option to target Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
• NEW Code generator option to target .Net 6.0 for C# and Visual Basic .Net
• NEW Code Generator support for Visual C++ 14.3
• NEW Linux Runtime support for gcc 11.2 / 10.3 / 9.4 / 8.5 / 7.5 / 6.5 / 5.5 / 4.9.4
• Added Digital signed Visual C++ 14.2 and 14.3 Runtime dlls with SHA1 and SHA256

Liquid XML Objects

• NEW Code generator option to target Microsoft Visual Studio 2022
• NEW Code generator option to target .Net 6.0 for C# and Visual Basic .Net

Liquid Studio Framework

• Added option to move quickly to Next (F8) or Previous (Shift+F8) error in Error Window
• Fixed issue with multiple Scrollbars appearing on resize in Dark Theme

Liquid Studio Text Editors

• Fixed issue printing in Dark Theme
• Fixed issue with always printing to default printer

JSON Schema Editor

• NEW JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 support
• Fixed issues with JSON Schema Validation

JSON Editor

• NEW Convert JSON to YAML Wizard

Large File Hex Editor

• Added Go to address, Insert Bytes, Paste Insert/Overwrite, Copy Address
• Added Ctrl-End, Ctrl-Home keyboard shortcuts to move to start and end of file
• Added Ctrl-Shift-End, Ctrl-Shift-home keyboard shortcuts to select to start and end of file
• Fixed issue with Hex address display for files greater than 4GB
• Fixed issue with Caret in header bar
• Fixed issue with Undo groups

Microsoft Visual Studio Integration

• NEW OpenAPI (REST) Web Service Call Testing
• NEW JSON Schema Draft 2020-12 support
• Fixed issue when saving a new Web Service Test document
• Fixed issue introduced by changes to the Visual Studio API

Liquid Data Diff Viewer

• Fixed invalid index issue with JSON Diff
• Fixed issue with JSON comments
• Fixed issue with Diff of identical JSON documents

General Improvements

• Along with the new features outlined above, existing features have also been enhanced and improved with functionality requested by our users.