This is an exciting month with important updates all around our platform. The much-requested workflow groups support is now available, making it easier to work with groups of people such teams or departments. Widgets have also received great updates, including the highly asked for multi-page selection feature, and the new Check Box / Radio Selector widget. GenAI resource packs is now General Available! And for building smart apps, you can now leverage MCP servers with the new MCP client module. These updates and more are waiting for you. Read on to learn all about them!
Prerequisites:
- Studio Pro
- Combo box: Enhanced filter input control
- Native mobile: Updated React Native version
- Mendix Cloud GenAI Resource Packs generally available
- Pipelines is now available for Mendix on Kubernetes and Azure
- Mendix Portal
Widgets
Multi-page selection for Data Grid 2 and Gallery
Now you can select rows across different pages of data without losing your selection when navigating between pages. This makes working with large datasets easier, especially when you need to perform actions on rows spread across multiple pages. You can now build your selection across several pages before executing actions like status updates, categorization changes, or batch processing.
This improvement is just the beginning, with an upcoming “select all” feature planned to allow selection across all pages (a highly anticipated idea on the forum for further simplifying your work with large datasets).
The new Check box / Radio selector widget expands the selection options for your application’s UI, offering a visual alternative to the Combo box. This widget adapts to your needs, automatically displaying as a radio button list for single selection scenarios or as a checkbox list when multiple selections are appropriate. It supports multiple data sources: using the current context entities or their associations, retrieving selectable objects from database, or static values defined directly in the widget.
You can enhance the user experience with custom content for each option, creating more informative and visually appealing selection interfaces. The widget is built with accessibility in mind, featuring proper ARIA labels and keyboard navigation to ensure all users can interact with your selections effectively.
The Combo Box widget now gives you greater control over the filtering experience with a new On change filter input event. This event triggers whenever users type in the Combo Box filter field, passing the current filter text as an action variable to your configured microflow or nanoflow. A configurable debounce setting lets you control exactly when the event fires, preventing unnecessary calls during rapid typing.
This addition opens up powerful new possibilities for your applications: implement dynamic filtering logic based on partial inputs, create custom search experiences, log search patterns to understand user behavior, or validate input as users type. The event provides the exact text being typed, allowing you to respond precisely to user interactions with the filter field.
At Mendix, we are committed to ensuring that the technology powering your applications remains modern, secure, and reliable. That is why we’ve updated React Native to version 0.77.3 in this release. This patch resolves a potential issue where apps could stop working after reloading a screen, improving stability and user experience. While this update is not expected to affect existing JavaScript implementations such as widgets or JS Actions, module developers may want to verify compatibility to ensure everything continues to run smoothly.
We’ve also backported this update to Mendix 10.24, so you can benefit from it without needing to upgrade to the latest version. We recommend updating your native mobile apps to 10.24.4 or 11.2.0 as soon as possible to keep them running smoothly.
Email connector revamp
To simplify working with the email connector, we’ve cleaned up the module and streamlined the UI significantly. This revamp makes using the module a lot easier, so developers can get to results faster. Download the module from the marketplace here.
Smart and Agentic apps
Mendix Cloud GenAI Resource Packs generally available
Mendix Cloud GenAI Resource Packs have now officially transitioned from limited availability to General Availability! It is now possible to get access to powerful AI Models like Anthropic Claude Sonnet, and Cohere Embed, as well as scalable, secure vector databases, all natively within Mendix Cloud.
This all runs fully managed in Mendix Cloud and works with Mendix Cloud Tokens. This makes it ideal for RAG, semantic search, embeddings, and much more.
Pipelines is now available for Mendix on Kubernetes and Azure
- Mendix Pipelines now supports automated build, test and deployment to Mendix on Kubernetes and Mendix on Azure offerings, boosting developer productivity.
- You can flexibly design your own pipelines directly in the Mendix Portal, with quality gates via Maia – helping improve app quality without deep DevOps knowledge.
