Developer Productivity
- Last Updated: August 11, 2025
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- OpenEdge
- Version 12.8
- Documentation
The enhancements to ABL, object-oriented ABL, Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge, OpenEdge installer, and other development tools empower Developers to increase productivity and efficiency when developing OpenEdge applications.
This section details the capabilities introduced in the OpenEdge 12.8
LTS release.
- ABL
- ABL enhancements
- Dynamic Export and Import of Data
- Identify Memory Leaks
- Improve Performance by Concatenating Strings at Compile Time
- List collections in object-oriented ABL
- No quotes for references to .NET generic types
- New ABL AGGREGATE statement for server-side processing
- Override properties in object-oriented ABL
- Query expression evaluation behavior change
- Safe Navigation Operator (?:) in ABL
- SECPROP utility
- VAR Statement Enhancements
- Change to the FULL_TEXT_FORMAT of the ABL Logger
- Object-oriented ABL
- Optimize memory usage
- OpenEdge Installer and other tools
- Progress Developer Studio for OpenEdge