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Issue: 19.5 (September/October 2021)
Author: Paul Lefebvre
Author Bio: Paul Lefebvre is a Xojo Software Engineer. He has been using Xojo and its prior versions since 2001.
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Though Xojo 2021 Release 2.1 shipped in July and was primarily a bug fix release, it did have a few new notable features.

First, there were a couple of new items for iOS: PDFDocument support and Remote Notification server on Xojo Cloud for sending out iOS notifications.

You can now use the PDFDocument class to create your PDFs in your iOS apps. This uses the same API as the other platforms. As you know, PDFs are, of course, a great way to present information, so we are pleased that it is now also available for iOS.

General notification support was added to iOS last year in 2020r2. Creating local notifications does not require external support, but sending out general notifications to everyone does require that you have a Remote Notification Server that works with Apple's API. You could always set up your own server following Apple's docs or purchase a server from various providers, most of which charge by the message.

But now you can also use Xojo Cloud as an Apple Remote Notification server. This integrates nicely with your Xojo iOS apps and is much easier than trying to set things up yourself. And if you send out a lot of messages, it could also be a lot less expensive than other services.

Another new feature is Binary Enumerations. These are enumerations that work using binary math so that you can combine enumeration values to get new values. This is particularly helpful with "bit flags" that require various values to be combined.

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