Chilkat v11.3.0 Release Notes

Pinned December 16, 2025

  The main features of this release focus on Chilkat’s Ai class, enabling interactive AI response streaming directly into embedded desktop application browsers. It supports Azure, custom base URLs for OpenAI-compatible providers, and local providers like Ollama. ✨ New Features Ai Real-Time Streaming AI Responses to Embedded Browsers in Desktop Apps — Stream AI responses […]

Chilkat v11.2.0 Release Notes

Pinned November 3, 2025

Previous Version: Chilkat v11.1.0 Release Notes The main addition in v11.2.0 is the Chilkat.Ai class, and the Chilkat.StringBuilder.MarkdownToHtml method. Ai: The Chilkat AI class provides a unified API for interacting with different AI providers: OpenAI, Google, Claude, xAI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek. It provides functionality for conversation management, multimodal inputs, and streaming mode. Markdown to HTML […]

Semantic Versioning Starting with Chilkat 10.0.0

Pinned September 26, 2024

Starting with the v10.0.0 release (end of September 2024), Chilkat moves to standard semantic versioning.   Prior to this release, for various technical reasons, Chilkat was stuck with versions 9.5.0.xx, where only xx changed. For this first leap to semantic versioning, where the major version changes to 10 (from 9), there are no backward incompatible changes.  […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.90 Release Notes

April 3, 2022 in release notes

Previous Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-89-release-notes/ Next Version: https://cknotes.com/chilkat-v9-5-0-91-release-notes/ Chilkat v9.5.0.90 Release Notes XmlDSigGen:  Added the AddObjectRef2 and AddSameDocRef2 methods to allow for a more precise specification of the transforms to be applied when signing. XmlDSigGen: Added the ability to include an EncapsulatedTimeStamp when signing. The SetTsa method was added to provide the URL for the timestamping authority. […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.89 Release Notes

December 1, 2021 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.88 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.89 Release Notes Http: Integrated Amazon Pay authentication into the Chilkat HTTP API to eliminate the need for the application developer to directly implement the computations for canonical request and signature. Http: Integrated Duo Security Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) into the Chilkat HTTP API to eliminate […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.88 Release Notes

August 31, 2021 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.88 Release Notes Smart Card/ USB Token support: Greatly improved internals for automatically recognizing and handling smart cards and USB tokens from many different vendors.  Smart Card – PKCS11 and Cert.LoadFromSmartcard now works on Linux and MacOSX systems. Also should work for Alpine Linux. Cert.LoadFromSmartcard […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes

March 1, 2021 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Added the SCard class, which is a wrapper around the Resource Manager API of the PC/SC architecture for smart cards. On Windows it is a wrapper around the WinSCard functions implemented in the winscard.dll. On other systems (such as Linux) it is […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes

February 13, 2021 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.87 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes 10-Feb-2021 Pdf: Immediately after releasing v9.5.0.85, it was discovered that many PDF’s had the following error when viewed in Acrobat DC after signing:  “”The signature byte range is invalid””.  It was deemed important […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes

October 26, 2020 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.86 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes 26-Oct-2020 Cert: Added the ExtendedKeyUsage property. 4-Nov-2020 XmlDSigGen: Fixed problem when X509Type property includes “SubjectName” AND the signing certificate has a subject name that includes the ‘&’ char. 4-Nov-2020 TLS 1.3: Fixed the […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes

October 1, 2020 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.85 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes 17-Jul-2020 CSR: Added the AddSan method to allow for 1 or more Subject Alternative Names to be added to the CSR that is generated. 25-Aug-2020 Tar: Added the ClearDirRootsAndFiles method. 10-Sep-2020 Email: Fixed […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes

July 5, 2020 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.84 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release Notes 25-Mar-2020 SHA3: Added the SHA3 hash algorithms: sha3-224, sha3-256, sha3-384, sha3-512. The SHA3 hash algorithms may generally be used in any property or method of any Chilkat class where a hash algorithm is […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes

December 17, 2019 in release notes

The next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.83 Release NotesThe previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes (Chilkat v9.5.0.81 was a hotfix specific to UWP (Universal Windows Platform) on NuGet.) Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes 1-Feb-2020 TLS 1.3:   TLS 1.3 can be optionally enabled by adding the “EnableTls13” keyword to the UncommonOptions property in various classes:  […]

Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes

August 9, 2019 in release notes

The previous version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.79 Release NotesThe next version release notes: Chilkat v9.5.0.82 Release Notes Chilkat v9.5.0.80 Release Notes 9-Aug-2019 Apple WatchOS: Added the static library for the arm64_32 architecture.  9-Aug-2019 iOS: Added an “iPad Apps for Mac” build.   This is a new set of Chilkat iOS libs built with Xcode 11.0 […]