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From: richard coleman <[email protected]>
To: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: pgadmin-hackers <[email protected]>
Cc: pgAdmin Support <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Testing required: pgAdmin 4 with new desktop runtime
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:01:14 -0500
Message-ID: <CAGA3vBu5yntsw8URc+E2_0mm3SHjodE_j-Yudb4VfRnDffXj1A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Dave,

Sounds promising, can the new beta be installed alongside the existing
version?

Thanks,

rik.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Dave Page <[email protected]> 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
>
>

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