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.  […]

SSH Tunneling (Port Forwarding)

February 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

SSH Port Forwarding (or tunneling) allows you to tunnel any TCP connection through an SSH server. For example, consider a database connection: A direct TCP connection: DbClient <—-TCP—-> DbServer An SSH tunneled connection: DbClient <—-TCP—-> SshClient <====SSH====> SshServer <—-TCP—-> DbServer In a tunneled connection, the application connects through an SshClient to an SSH server and […]

SSH direct-tcpip Port Forwarding (tunneling)

February 13, 2009 in Uncategorized

ASP: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) SQL Server: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C#: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C++: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) MFC: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) C: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via direct-tcpip channel) Delphi: SSH Tunnel (Port Forwarding via […]