As an industrial user, it is a big hassle to have breaking changes from the software. Whenever there is a breaking change from software version upgrade that makes current flow non-functional, then the team has to go through lots of QA, and customers will have to invest lots of resources on the bre…

Unfortunately, the major issue we have with UIBUILDER is the frequent breaking changes from version upgrades. We love to see improved performance and more features from version upgrades. Frequent breaking changes cause serious overheads for industrial applications.

Yes I totally agree with you that some times, breaking change is unavoidable to move forward. That's why we waited until DB2 is more mature. We will start working on software based on DB2 again, and hopefully see less breaking changes in the path forward.

[image] davidz: But after a DB2 upgrade several months ago, the "ui-form" stopped working normally. So not a major problem really.. It's always wise to check the changelog for changes before updating, then you can head off any such problems.

[image] davidz: UIBUILDER is the frequent breaking changes from version upgrades ??? The last breaking change before the recent one was 2 years ago! Hardly "frequent". UIBUILDER is now 10 years old and so breaking changes are pretty rare. Even in the v7 release, the main change was to use …

If we release the software to customers, then it means that the customers won't be able to use newer version software, unless they upgrade the dashboard software too. This is fine for small number of customers. For large amount of customers, then it is very costly.

Unfortunately, the latest breaking changes of UIBUILDER just happened on September 1: [image] star2 UIBUILDER Major Release v7.0.4 - Yes, it’s here! The latest major version of UIBUILDER Share Your Nodes This major upgrade of UIBUILDER has been some 9 months in preparation…

[image] davidz: Unfortunately, the latest breaking changes of UIBUILDER just happened on September 1: But have they broken anything for you? I'd really like to understand. Most of the changes are certainly not breaking and those that might be won't affect many people at all. If you are using…

[image] davidz: This is fine for small number of customers. For large amount of customers, then it is very costly To minimize breaking changes, a company should have their own software development under full control. Here is a delicate balance, providing a commercial product while riding on …

[image] davidz: For large amount of customers, then it is very costly Ok my personal advice here for ALL companies that earn money by selling free open source software to a large amount of customers. I completely understand that those customers expect quality after have spend money to your c…

We have been following the change logs of uibuilder for a long time, and see frequent breaking change notes. That's why we did not use uibulder in the first place. Yes Nodejs updates regularly. But we use the long-term stable functions and it is not a problem.

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Unfortunately, the latest breaking changes of UIBUILDER just happened on September 1:

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