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
