The Skyve 9.4.0 release marks another step forward for organisations using the Skyve platform. This update brings stronger security, a smarter user experience, and new productivity tools designed to make your applications easier to manage and more reliable over time.
Highlights include enhanced security measures to safeguard your systems, audit archiving to keep databases lean and high-performing, and user experience improvements that make interfaces cleaner and more intuitive. In addition, Skyve now features a system documentation generator, enabling teams to instantly create accurate PDF documentation directly from project metadata — saving time and ensuring consistency.
Together, these improvements make Skyve 9.4.0 more robust, secure, and productive, giving both business users and developers the confidence that their systems are built to last.
Enhanced Security to Protect Your Systems
Security remains a top priority, and Skyve 9.4.0 strengthens defences across the platform. Updates to core libraries ensure you’re running on the latest foundations, while stricter access controls and improved password handling reduce vulnerabilities.
Inactive users are now explicitly blocked even if an OAuth session is still active, further tightening control. Extra protections, like new Content Security Policy (CSP) headers and safeguards against CSRF attacks, provide additional peace of mind that your systems are better protected from common web threats.
Audit Archiving for Better Performance
Over time, audit logs — the records of system changes — can grow very large, slowing performance and increasing storage costs. Skyve 9.4.0 introduces audit data archiving, which automatically moves older records to disk, rather than keeping them in the database.
This keeps your database running smoothly and ensures your system stays responsive, even as usage grows. Administrators also have the flexibility to configure how old entries must be before archiving, where the archives are stored, and how often the process occurs.
A Smarter User Experience
User experience (UX) enhancements in Skyve 9.4.0 make systems easier and more enjoyable to use.
- Collapsible forms and panels let users keep their workspace tidy, while still having access to detailed information when they need it.
- Improvements to responsive layouts mean applications behave more consistently across different devices and screen sizes.
- Developers can define custom error messages for specific fields or views, giving end users clearer and more relevant guidance when input is missing or incorrect.
These updates create a cleaner, more intuitive experience for users, reducing frustration and boosting productivity.
Productivity Tools for Faster Delivery
One of the standout additions in this release is the ability to automatically generate system documentation. Using the new systemDocumentation feature in the Skyve Maven plugin, teams can produce a full PDF of their system’s documentation directly from the metadata that defines the application.
This means your documentation is always accurate, up-to-date, and easy to share — without the need for time-consuming manual work. Modules can also be selectively excluded, giving you control over what gets included in each version of the document.
For project teams, this saves time, improves consistency, and makes knowledge sharing much easier.
Why Upgrade to Skyve 9.4.0?
The Skyve 9.4.0 release delivers improvements that directly benefit both businesses and development teams:
- Robustness: audit archiving and routing improvements keep systems running efficiently.
- Security: stronger protections give you peace of mind.
- User Experience: cleaner, more adaptable interfaces improve day-to-day usability.
- Productivity: new tools like system documentation generation reduce manual effort and speed up delivery.
Together, these updates make Skyve more reliable, secure, and user-friendly — helping organisations get more value from their applications.
To explore all the details, read the full release notes here: Skyve 9.4.0 Release Notes.
