I'm happy to announce a new release of West Wind Web Connection today. It's been a bit and Web Connection is turning 8.0! After six years of incremental improvements it's time to rev Web Connection to its next major version.

For the last few years, the focus of Web Connection has been on continuous, smaller incremental feature enhancements and improvements around the development and administration process. So rather than huge, disruptive major releases updates, there have been gradual updates that come integrated one small piece at a time to avoid the big version shocks. This version rollover release has a bit more in the update department, but still follows the incremental improvement model and other than a single breaking change with the new FtpClient classes, this release has no breaking changes from recent v7 releases.

Some of the features highlights from the v8.0 Release Post are:

• COM Server Management Improvements
• Improved Web Connection Server Error Logging
• New FTPClient Classes
• New wwZipArchive Class
• REST Service Token Authentication Support
• wwRestProcess.lRawResponse Helper Property
• wwDotnetBridge Improvements
• wwCache Improvements

Links and Upgrades

Web Connection 8.0 is a paid upgrade for registered users of previous versions and upgrades are available in our online store. As always there's also a shareware version available to download and check out features with.

Here are the links for the latest release, purchase and upgrade links

• Web Connection Home
  You can find the download for the Shareware version here.

• Buy a Web Connection License
  Purchase a full developer and 1 server license for Web Connection.

• Buy a Web Connection Upgrade (from any version)
  Purchase an upgrade for any version of Web Connection. All versions back to 1.x are allowed.

If you purchased Web Connection 7.x on or after July 1st, 2023 you can upgrade for free until the end of 2024. Use promo code: FREE_UPGRADE.

Runtime licenses don't have specific upgrade SKUs, but can still be upgraded at 50% of the full price. For upgrade runtime license purchases pick the full runtime license and then apply the Promo Code: RUNTIME_UPGRADE if you qualify.

Note: Upgrades are always verified and these promo codes apply only to the specific upgradable item. So if you upgrade with these codes make sure to place an order with only those items that the promo code applies for.

For more detailed information on the feature updates, please check out the release post:

• Web Connection 8.0 Release Post

+++ Rick ---