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 C/C++ libs for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12)

November 18, 2013 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat C/C++ libs for Visual Studio 2013 (VC12) downloads are ready: 32-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86-vc12.zip 64-bit: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-x86_64-vc12.zip

Chilkat v9.5.0 pre-release for iOS arm64 / x86_64 is Ready

October 9, 2013 in Uncategorized

A new build of Chilkat v9.5.0 supporting the arm64 and x86_64 iOS architectures is available: http://www.chilkatsoft.com/preRelease/chilkat-9.5.0-ios.zip The static libraries are provided differently than before. Chilkat provides static libs for each architecture slice: i386 (for the simulator), armv7, armv7s, arm64, and armv6 (for older versions of iOS). The libs are located in the directories as shown […]

Understanding EncryptStringENC and DecryptStringENC in Python and C/C++

September 16, 2013 in Uncategorized

Chilkat provides API’s that are identical across a variety of different programming languages. One difficulty in doing this is in handling strings. Different programming languages pass strings in different ways. In some programming languages, such as Python or C/C++, a “string” is simply a sequence of bytes terminated by a null. (I’m referring to “multibyte” […]

Email “Received” Headers

August 30, 2013 in Uncategorized

When an email is sent, it should contain no “Received” header fields. Each time the email is processed by a mail server along the delivery route, a new Received header field is prepended to the email. The very first Received header is added by the SMTP server that the SMTP client (such as your app […]

v9.4.1.44 Added Http.AwsEndpoint Property

August 21, 2013 in Uncategorized

The AwsEndpoint property is the regional endpoint (domain) to be used for Amazon S3 method calls. The default value is “s3.amazonaws.com”. This can be set to any valid Amazon S3 endpoint, such as “s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com”, or the endpoints for S3-API compatible services from other different providers. This is a pre-release feature. Pre-release builds are made available […]

v9.4.1.43 Fixed FTP2 XCRC Problem

August 21, 2013 in Uncategorized

Fixed an FTP2 XCRC issue. If the AutoXcrc property was turned on, Chilkat FTP2 was not computing the CRC of the local file (or data) uploaded to the server. This caused the CRC comparison to fail after the XCRC command was issued. Note: This fix only applies when using AutoXcrc in conjunction with a server […]

Chilkat 64-bit DLL for Delphi XE4 Now Available.

August 20, 2013 in Uncategorized

The 64-bit build of the Chilkat DLL for Delphi XE4 has been added to the v9.4.1 SP1 distribution. See http://www.chilkatsoft.com/delphiDll.asp The 32-bit DLL is named ChilkatDelphiXE.dll and is valid for Delphi XE2, XE3, and XE4  (and will likely be valid for future Delphi releases). The 64-bit DLL is named ChilkatDelphiXE4.dll and is valid for both […]

Chilkat v9.4.1 SP1 Release

August 20, 2013 in Uncategorized

The Chilkat v9.4.1 SP1 Release (August 2013) contains the following fixes. Note: The versions and dates in the following list are the pre-release versions and the date the pre-release was provided to a customer that reported the problem. The version is what is found in the “Version” property of a Chilkat object/class. 9.4.1.42, 15-Aug-2013, SP1 […]

Helpful Hints for Monitoring Progress in iOS Applications

August 20, 2013 in Uncategorized

This is some advice from an iOS application developer using Chilkat FTP2.  It is about monitoring the progress of an FTP upload or download, but it’s a technique that can be considered for updating the UI for any long-running operation that provides percent-done event callbacks: “It took me a while to avoid all the problems […]