Re: Testing required: pgAdmin 4 with new desktop runtime

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 11:46 PM Jack Royal-Gordon <jackrg(at)pobox(dot)com> wrote:

> I’ve only just installed and started using the new version, but I love it.
> Especially that it’s in it’s own window instead of just another tab in the
> browser window. Kudos!
>

Thanks for the feedback :-)

>
> On Jan 21, 2021, at 12:29 PM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 at 16:01, richard coleman <rcoleman(dot)ascentgl(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dave,
>>
>> Sounds promising, can the new beta be installed alongside the existing
>> version?
>>
>
> Only on macOS, due to the way appbundles work.
>
>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> rik.
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 10:56 AM Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> 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!
>>>
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>>> Twitter: @pgsnake
>>>
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