Marketplace Release Notes

Last modified: November 20, 2024

These release notes cover changes made to the Mendix Marketplace.

2024

October 31, 2024

New Features

  • Components with the content type Solutions or Industry Templates now have a component details page.
  • On the component details page, you can now view information about the company that owns the component and the industry it belongs to.
  • The Releases tab on the component details page now includes two search bars, enabling you to search by release notes and Mendix versions.

Improvements

  • Videos previously located on the Documentation tab have been moved to the Overview tab on the component details page.
  • If you click Start with App on a component details page of a starter app, you will start the Create App flow.

Deprecations

  • The content types Banners and Solution Capabilities have been deprecated. You can no longer upload these two content types.

September 26, 2024

New Features

  • We added several new features to the Marketplace home page:
    • You can now search for marketplace content by component name or company name, and apply relevant filters.
    • Filters can now be easily cleared.
    • Pagination has been introduced for search results, making navigation more streamlined.

June 27, 2024

New Features

  • We released of a new label specifically for React Ready widgets in the Marketplace. This enhancement is designed to help developers and users easily identify and access a wide range of widgets that are optimized for React Client applications. You can find a React-Client label next to a version of the product when navigating to the Release tab of a product details page.

Improvements

  • We made significant improvements to the Studio Pro download page. The updated interface now provides a more intuitive and user-friendly experience, making it easier to find and download the latest or previous versions of Studio Pro. Each version of Studio Pro now has its own dedicated page, containing important links such as release notes, release blogs, and all relevant installers.
  • We improved the navigation menus of the Marketplace home page to enhance user experience.

March 7, 2024

New Features

This release focuses on improving the Marketplace Reviews feature and making it even better for our users.

  • We have improved the Review tab to give you tips when writing your review. This feature is available both on the Marketplace site and within Studio Pro.
  • We have decoupled ratings and reviews. You can now rate a component 4 or 5 stars without leaving a review. For 3, 2, and 1 star ratings, a review is mandatory.
  • You can now see additional information, such as reviews, on the Marketplace site without needing to sign in.
  • We have removed the “Company Reviews” page from Marketplace Home Page.
  • You can now to filter reviews based on specific criteria.
  • We have improved the Review tab to give you tips when replying to a review of your Marketplace component.

2023

November 30, 2023

New Features

  • We released the Content API for general use. This API allows you to retrieve information about both public and private company-specific Marketplace content.

September 7, 2023

Improvements

In the past, downloading a component directly from the web Marketplace could lead to compatibility errors. Now, downloading a component can only happen directly from the Marketplace in Studio Pro. For that reason, we replaced the Download button on the component details page for widgets and modules with the Use in Studio Pro button. This new button allows you to copy the content ID so that you can search for and use the component in Studio Pro. This lowers the risk of introducing compatibility errors and improves the experience of installing the Marketplace content you need.

August 5, 2023

Improvements

  • Categories are now Content Types. We have reduced the number of content types and made them consistent across the platform. To learn more about the different content types available, visit the Marketplace Guide.
  • Sub-categories have been replaced with Categories. When submitting a new component, you can apply between one and three categories. When searching in the Marketplace, you can use categories to filter the content and find the right component for your use case.

June 29, 2023

New Features

  • You can now configure your own proprietary license when creating a new public component. The license will be reviewed by Mendix alongside the review of the component. After the license has been approved, you and anyone within your organization can use the license for other components.

May 25, 2023

New Features

  • You can now reassign a draft to yourself if you have edit rights for the Marketplace component. The draft will be unassigned from the previous owner. This allows you to continue working on a Marketplace listing, even when your colleague is out of office.

Improvements

  • .mpk files are now uploaded asynchronously in the flow for adding Marketplace content, which means that you can continue to go through the onboarding wizard while the upload is in progress.
  • We aligned the Marketplace UI with the rest of the Mendix Platform.

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue with the notifications that are sent when a component update becomes available.
  • If a user’s email address contained an upper-case letter, they did not have access to private components in content groups. This issue has been fixed.

April 20, 2023

New Features

  • You can now filter Marketplace content for Public or Private components via the Visibility filter.

Improvements

March 23, 2023

New Features

On top of open-source community-supported content, we are introducing an additional layer of support through our Mendix Component Partner program. Partner members can now bring their components to the Mendix Marketplace under terms that guarantee full support to customers:

  • Partners are free to select an existing open-source license, or they can select a commercial option with the corresponding license and present that.
  • Partners commit to providing support to customers under an SLA (meaning, under terms specified by the partner). Customers can rely on this SLA for support if something goes wrong. A partner-supported component details page contains a reference to the partner’s support portal or the partner’s support contact email.

You can find and use partner-supported components on the Marketplace home page under From our partners and by selecting the Partner Support level in the search box. A partner-supported component details page has an explicit indicator (a crown), which makes it easy to distinguish from community-supported content.

2022

October 25, 2022

New Features

We are excited to bring new changes to the Mendix Marketplace and improve access to Marketplace content in Studio Pro for our community. The new revamp of the Marketplace in Studio Pro presents a better UI with easier navigation, better search functionality, a faster content-discovery experience, and more control over category and filters. We have also included new filter that helps you select Platform-supported content.

The new view helps you to browse through Marketplace components and view component details more quickly, just as you can in the online Marketplace.

Finally, we introduced UI changes for pagination and points of entry to the Marketplace for a better user experience.

For more information, see How to Use Marketplace Content.

August 27, 2022

Improvements

  • We have added the My Drafts page, where you can access component drafts. We have also extended the actions you can perform on drafts. For more information, see the My Drafts section of Marketplace Home Page.

August 11, 2022

New Features

  • We have introduced a content curation feature, which allows Mendix Admins to curate Marketplace content for Studio. Mendix Admins can do the following from the Marketplace Content page in Control Center:
    • Limit available public Marketplace content in Studio
    • Approve and hide private Marketplace content in Studio

March 24, 2022

Improvements

  • We have made changes related to ad-hoc versioning and are now able to support more flexible version numbers as you create components. This means you can also publish components with version numbers that are backward-compatible.

February 24, 2022

New Features

  • There are now user trials available for Premium app services, such as Email Service and Speech to Text. This self-service experience helps you to evaluate the capabilities offered with these components and realize the value of premium content.
  • User trial subscriptions are now listed under My Subscriptions, and company trial and paid subscriptions are now listed under Company Subscriptions.
  • For new uploads of public components, you can now optionally share a virus scan report to speed up the governance process.
  • For solutions and solution templates, you can now add a use case relevant to the component. The use case is displayed in the component listing and includes header text and an external link.

Improvements

  • We made performance improvements for when a large source file is uploaded, specifically on the navigation steps.
  • We improved the UI for self-service uploading your component to the Marketplace.

February 10, 2022

Improvements

  • When you onboard a component now, the maximum number of screenshots is restricted to ten.
  • You can use form validations now when you navigate between steps during onboarding.

Fixes

  • We fixed an issue with the logo cropper. Now the ratio of a cropped image is 600 x 420 pixels.

2021

December 16, 2021

Improvements

November 18, 2021

New Features

  • We released Try for Free for premium app services (like Email Service).
  • You can now provide key capabilities, a banner, external links, and industry cloud details when sharing new Solution and Solution Template component types.

Improvements

  • You can now add release notes for your new component version without uploading a new source file.
  • You can now skip uploading a source file on the Package page for App Service and Solution Template component types if your component is not downloadable.

September 7, 2021

New Features

  • Marketplace filtering has been revamped. You can now find content faster by filtering by Industry, Content Type, and Studio Pro Compatibility.
  • We have made 15+ fully developed solutions and 10+ solution templates available to help you realize value even more quickly.
  • We have listed 10+ Premium app services, and we now support a self-service subscription experience using credit card for two app services in supported regions.

August 12, 2021

Improvements

  • We have replaced the Download button with the Start with Template button for the Create New App category.

July 29, 2021

New Features

  • We have implemented a UX refresh of Marketplace Home Page to be in line with other Marketplace pages.

June 3, 2021

Fixes

  • We fixed a bug in Studio Pro where certain components did not load properly.

May 31, 2021

Improvements

  • When adding new Marketplace content, you can now only set the Category in the initial version of your content. You cannot change this setting by updating the content later.
  • When you create a new component in the Solutions category, you will not be able to upload a source file, as solutions will no longer have downloadable content.
  • We have started supporting rich characters in the message describing what needs to be changed in your content for approval via the steps on the Publish page.

Fixes

  • We fixed some bugs in the flow for adding new Marketplace content.

May 28, 2021

New Features

  • We released support for the subscription to an app service (like MindSphere IIoT for Makers):
    • Automatic provisioning of the app service on subscription.
    • The Service Management Dashboard, where you can view the service instance to which you have subscribed and generate binding keys for your service instance.

May 4, 2021

Fixes

  • We fixed the issue with downloading the Windows Service.
  • We fixed a minor bug for anonymous users.

April 7, 2021

Improvements

Fixes

  • We fixed some performance issues where certain Marketplace sections were not loading properly. This also includes connection issues to the Marketplace within Studio Pro.

Known Issues

  • There is an issue with users having trouble downloading Windows Service.

March 23, 2021

Improvements

  • We added email notifications for several actions in the Marketplace. You can now receive emails if one of your components has changed, when a published component has received a review, and when you receive a reply to one of your reviews. You can unsubscribe from any of the notifications in Marketplace Home Page.
  • Developers can now reply to reviews of their components.

February 9, 2021

Improvements

  • You can now download Windows Service and Server Distribution for the latest Studio Pro version using the Related Downloads button on the Get Studio Pro page.
  • Adding beta versions for components is no longer supported. Beta versions of published components and existing drafts have been automatically updated to remove the beta tag.

January 26, 2021

Improvements

  • You are now able to download Studio Pro versions marked as beta from a separate tab on the Get Studio Pro page named Beta Releases. The default download option (via the Release Notes tab) remains the latest stable release of Studio Pro.

Fixes

2020

December 15, 2020

Improvements

  • The Mendix “App Store” has been renamed to the “Marketplace” as part of the continued investment in new capabilities that is underway. This rename (and URL change) is only for the pages rebuilt so far listed above. Further implementation of this renaming is to follow in future releases.
  • We have implemented a UX Refresh to provide a fresh new look and feel for the Marketplace home, catalog, component details, and Studio Pro download pages.
  • We have enabled an enhanced navigation and undertaken some curation of published components to help you discover the components you require more easily.
  • We have enabled a more structured wizard-based flow that makes it a lot easier for you to share new content to the Marketplace.

May 27, 2020

Fixes

  • As of Studio Pro 8.10.0, you are able to download private content in the App Store again. This is not possible for Studio Pro 8.7 to 8.9.

May 6, 2020

Improvements

  • You can now download previous versions of App Store components from the Mendix Marketplace. This can be done in the All versions tab on the component’s details page. This can be used as a workaround for not being able to download private content from the App Store available in older versions of Studio Pro/Desktop Modeler due to the security issue described below.

Fixes

  • As of Studio Pro 8.6.4, you are able to download private content in the App Store again. This is possible for Studio Pro 8.6.4 and all further 8.6.x versions. It is not possible for Studio Pro versions below 8.6.4.

May 4, 2020

Fixes

  • As of Desktop Modeler version 7.23.14, you are able to download private content in the App Store again. This is possible for Desktop Modeler version 7.23.14 and all further 7.23.x versions. It is not possible for Desktop Modeler versions below 7.23.14.

April 7, 2020

Fixes

  • Downloading private content from the App Store available in Studio Pro/Desktop Modeler has been temporarily disabled due to a security vulnerability.
    • You will be able to download private content from the App Store available in Studio Pro/Desktop Modeler again once a fix is released in a future 8.x, 8.6.x, and 7.23.x release. This functionality will then only be available in those specific versions with the fix and subsequent versions. This functionality will not be available again for the App Store in Desktop Modeler version 6.
    • You can continue downloading the latest version of private App Store content from the Company Content page in the Mendix Marketplace and use it in the respective versions of Studio Pro/Desktop Modeler.

February 26, 2020

Improvements

  • We have updated the single sign-on functionality in the App Store to use the latest Mendix SSO. Now, the first time you visit any App Store page requiring authentication, you will see a screen asking you to authorize access to your Mendix account. Click Authorize to continue.

2019

November 14, 2019

Improvements

We are invested in maintaining Mendix Marketplace content to make it easier for you to find and use the widgets and modules that you need. To that end, we have cleaned up old App Store content where Mendix support is no longer possible and changed the support level from Platform support to Community support.

For more information on these support levels, see the Marketplace Content Support section of Marketplace Overview.

November 6, 2019

Improvements

  • You can now subscribe to receive emails when new versions of your favorite App Store content are published.

October 23, 2019

New Features

You can now create user groups for your company and assign your company’s App Store content to different groups. Management of user group content is restricted to only the members of the group. You can also add guest users to these groups and allow them to download selected private company content.

The former App Store Content Managers and External Downloaders groups have been removed. Members of these groups have been migrated to a new temporary user group called Migrated Data. Former “content managers” have been added as user group members, and former “external downloaders” have been added as guests.

Content that was marked as Protected as well as content marked as Shared with Others has been migrated to the Content tab of the Migrated Data user group. This makes all “externally shared” content protected for that user group.

October 1, 2019

Improvements

  • We now display the UUID of an App Store component in the Usage section of its details page.

September 11, 2019

Improvements

We added the flexibility to label your App Store content with a custom version number.

August 30, 2019

Improvements

We renamed all the SAP-related connectors and app templates in the App Store to be consistent. The changes are:

Type Old Name New Name
Connector SAP Cloud Platform XSUAA Connector XSUAA Connector for SAP Business Technology Platform
Connector SAP Fiori UI Package UI Package for SAP Fiori themed apps
Connector SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation Connector Connector for SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation
Connector SAP OData Connector OData Connector for SAP solutions
Connector SAP OData Model Creator OData Model Creator for SAP solutions
App Template Fiori Blank Blank App for SAP Fiori themed apps
App Template SAP Northwind OData Northwind OData Service Master-Detail App for SAP solutions
App Template SAP Purchase Order Approval Tutorial Purchase Order Approval Tutorial for SAP solutions

August 26, 2019

Improvements

  • We updated the SAP OData Connector to support the Edm.Int64 data type. (Ticket 87284)

Fixes

  • We also fixed a java.net.SocketException: Broken pipe (Write failed) exception which occurred when sending a large request to the OData service endpoint. (Ticket 86680)

July 31, 2019

Improvements

  • We simplified the options available for formatting the Documentation section when creating new App Store content.
  • We made it possible to upload images into the Documentation editor - you can drag an image from your file explorer into the editor, or link to images via URL (Copy + Paste does not work due to browser inconsistencies).
  • We made some user changes and improvements when you create new content using GitHub as the source. For example, an easier-to-use selection screen when choosing your repository.
  • We also made some other minor bug fixes.

July 5, 2019

Improvements

  • We updated the SAP Logging Connector to allow the log level to be set via a constant instead of an enumeration. This means that you can change the log level with a restart, without needing to fully redeploy your app.
  • We solved an issue where the SAP Logging Connector had conflicts with the Community Commons module.

June 28, 2019

Improvements

We added a component in the App Store which, when configured in your app, allows you to use the logging format supported by SAP Kibana. For more information, see SAP Logging Connector.

June 6, 2019

Improvements

  • We fixed the issue with selecting specific app templates when creating a new app in Mendix Studio Pro (Desktop Modeler).
  • We fixed the problems with deep links for private apps.

April 29, 2019

Improvements

  • We created a new App Store menu structure, so it is now easier to navigate through your created content. If you are a Mendix Admin with certain permissions, you will see additional menu items to help you manage private and public company content.
  • For App Store administrators, you can now set content managers who are allowed to manage your company content by marking it as protected.
  • You can now share private App Store content with external downloaders from other companies.

February 15, 2019

Improvements

  • We now throw an error which you can catch in a microflow if the destination does not exist, or the app is running locally. Previously the error could not be caught.
  • We now provide OData Connector support for Mendix apps which use Oracle DB as their database.
  • We fixed some typos in the OData Connector actions.

January 24, 2019

Improvements

  • We released an upgraded version of the IBM Watson Connector Suite, which supports IBM Watson SDK version 6.11.0 and adds additional microflow actions.
  • We released an upgraded version of the IBM Watson Connector Suite Example Project, which includes the new IBM Watson Connector Suite.
  • We released an upgraded version of the IBM Watson Blank App app template, which includes the new IBM Watson Connector Suite.

January 21, 2019

Fixes

The Reviews section at the bottom of the App Store main page presents the latest published user reviews. We fixed an issue where clicking on a user’s name to view their profile caused an internal server error. You will now be redirected to the expected user.

2018

December 17, 2018

Improvements

We have noticed that when searching in the App Store (via the Search Mendix search bar), users frequently use keywords like Mendix, Modeler, Desktop, and Download as well as different Desktop Modeler versions. The search results did not provide the expected results based on these keywords (as in, they did not show the Modeler download page). With this update, it is now possible to search for the Modeler and all of its versions in the Search Mendix search bar, which will redirect you to the Desktop Modeler page in the Mendix Marketplace.

October 1, 2018

SAP OData Connector 4.0

This version of the SAP OData Connector allows you to use the destination services of SAP Cloud Platform. This simplifies configuration, authentication and endpoint management when integrating your application, running in SAP Cloud Platform, with SAP back end services. See SAP Destination Service.

The following authentication types are currently supported in SAP Destination Services:

  • PrincipalPropagation authentication and ProxyType on-premise (Connectivity Service/Cloud Connector/On premise back end)
  • Oauth2SALMAssertion authentication (For Neo Platform apps)
  • Basic and None authentication for public back ends

SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation Connector Version 1.0.0

This new connector allows you to consume Leonardo Machine learning services from both API Business Hub and SAP Cloud Platform by adding activities to your Mendix model.

The SAP Leonardo Machine Learning Foundation Connector is available in the App Store here: https://marketplace.mendix.com/link/component/107221/.

SAP Fiori Styling

The existing SAP Blank app template has been replaced by a new Fiori Blank app template. This new Fiori Blank app template has a new Fiori UI Package included. This is based on Atlas UI, which means that you can use either the Web Modeler or Desktop Modeler to build applications which give the SAP Fiori UI experience.

Breaking Changes

The new SAP OData Connector will break existing projects which are using the SAP Cloud Connector. The SAP OData Connector no longer supports the “Use Cloud Connector” attribute. This is now embedded in the destination service configuration. See SAP Destination Service for more details.

2017

June 21, 2017

  • Private company App Store content is now indicated in the Template browser with a lock icon.