8.54 PreRelease Notes Available

The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has announced the availability of the PreRelease notes for 8.54:

Some observations as I skimmed the document are:

• Oracle Linux 6, Win 2012, and Win 2012 R2 support added, Win 2008 (R1 not R2) dropped
• Client OS Windows 8.1 added, Windows 7 (32 bit) dropped
• WebLogic 12.1.2 added, 10.3.6 dropped
• Oracle 12, MSSQL 2014 added, Oracle 10.2.0.5, 11.2.0.3, and MSSQL 2008 dropped
• Current browsers available added (Chrome, Firefox, IE 11, Safari), IE 8 Firefox 17 dropped
• Tuxedo 12.1.1.0 added, Tuxedo 11gR1 dropped
• Still uses Java 7
• SES is 11.2.2.2, SES 11.1.2.2 dropped
• Excel 32-bit dropped
• New Fluid User Interface: moves away from ridge page layouts enhancing the use of CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript.  Supposed to “scale gracefully between devices”.  Fluid page definitions are maintained within App Designer.  Adds Fluid Homepages, Tiles, Notification Framework, PeopleSoft Navigation Bar
• Mobile Application Platform: Similar to the Fluid User Interface but utilizes RESTful web services
• 64-bit Development environment!  App Designer, Data Mover, Change Assistant, the whole lot of them all now 64-bit.  Explains the dropped Win 7 (32-bit).
• App Designer will have improved search functionality (reference, text), code auto-completion for PeopleCode, and new toolbar buttons to improve productivity
• Enhancements to App Engine tracing: split files, naming convention, program section trace, combined output of PeopleCode and SQL into the AE trace file
• Portable PS_HOME: Hard-coded paths and sym links within PS_HOME have been removed to further consolidate and allow a single PS_HOME to be shared across multiple environments
• Two new metaSQL enhancements for Oracle added.  %SqlHint and %SelectDummyTable
• Also you can now use Oracle Global Temporary Tables, Materialized Views, and the new 12c container/pluggable databases which allow multiple PS databases in the same instance, some may have used GTTs and Materialized Views in the past, but now App Designer will handle them.  Also, App Designer can now be used directly to partition tables and indexes on Oracle.
• Domain caching changes allowing automatic monitoring and adjusting?  I’ll have to look into that one more.
• A Push Notification Event Framework, maybe we can finally broadcast a message to all users via the system.
• Several security enhancements, Oracle Secure Files for the report repository is one that jumped out at me.
• There’s a lot of other stuff, Just go read it !

Read the foll post here, or find the notes directly on MOS here