Release also includes improvements to Reports and Forms editors, faster full-text search for ValentinaDB and more.
Release 18.2 follows a major update to the Valentina Platform with Release 18. Release 18 added full-text search to ValentinaDB, introduced a new Chart control to Valentina Reports and Valentina Forms, expanded the Valentina Forms toolbox, enhanced productivity features of Valentina Studio SQL Editor and Data Editor and the ability to use AI Ask and Agent modes with Valentina Forms.
Valentina Studio
Valentina Studio is the popular, free database and data source management suite of tools from Paradigma Software. Valentina Studio PRO adds advanced features to the Studio toolbox, including Report Designer and Forms Designer. Valentina Forms is your solution for building and deploying desktop-based database management systems for custom data-tracking applications with graphical user interfaces with free, royalty free local and server based deployment. Users can work with Forms projects on Linux, macOS and Windows. This release includes:
- [New] [VCLI] Valentina Command Line Interface incorporates a utility for exporting and importing ValentinaDB databases (see Valentina Command Line Interface)
- [New][Start Page] Added an option to show an indicator next to projects and objects that are currently open.
- [New][Appearance][Panel buttons] Choose where the panel buttons appear under Preferences → Appearance
- [New][Appearance][Tabs] Choose how open tabs are displayed (Windows, Linux)
- [New][Appearance][Window controls] Choose where the window controls appear (Windows, Linux)
- [New][Appearance][Window menu] Choose how the application menu is displayed (Windows, Linux)
- [New][Bookmarks] Added bookmark folders and colors
- [New][Form Editor][Chart] Added a Rounded option for Chart.js controls.
- [New][Report Editor][Chart.js] Added support for rounded bar corners and rounded legend markers
- [Imp][Bookmarks] Improved connection-state feedback and bookmark actions
- [Imp][Form Editor][Script Editor] Added breadcrumb selectors for navigating forms and scripts inside a project
- [Imp][Form Editor] New forms now store an explicit Forms API version to support reliable format migration in future releases
- [Imp][Scripts] Code editors now validate supported language syntax in the background.
- [Imp][Scripts][Autocompletion] Improved JavaScript and Python code completion.
- [Imp][Scripts] Pressing Enter in the code editor now preserves the current line's leading indentation.
- [Imp][Scripts] The Home key now switches between the first non-whitespace character and the beginning of the line. Shift+Home extends the selection.
- [Imp][Script Editor] Integrated the Execute action into the script editor's standard toolbar.
- [Imp][Scripting API] Added more ways to construct QPixmap values from dimensions, files, and byte arrays. QImage and QPixmap values can now be converted to PNG byte arrays.
Valentina Studio is free. Valentina Studio PRO costs $199. Available on Linux, macOS and Windows. See the full announcement for other changes, fixes and more.
Valentina Server
Valentina Server is a 5-in-1 solution that includes Valentina Reports Server and Valentina Forms Server, as well as three internal database servers: ValentinaDB Server, Valentina DuckDB Server and Valentina SQLite Server. Valentina Reports Server and Valentina Forms Server work with all major data sources, such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and others, as well as the internal database servers. Valentina Server is available as a standalone, single deployment solution, or as a developer OEM solution that allows developers to redeploy unlimited copies of Valentina Server to their customers.
- [New][VCLI] Added the vdump database export and import utility alongside vcli (see Valentina Command Line Interface)
Valentina Server is available in a free evaluation version, a single deployment version (starting at $299.99) and through the OEM developer program Valentina Developer Network (starting at $599.99). Available on Linux, macOS and Windows. See the full announcement for other changes, fixes and more.
ValentinaDB
ValentinaDB is the advanced, post‑relational, extensible columnar database system deployed by ISVs, SaaS, cross-platform developers and vertical solution providers for over 20 years, that require an extremely fast data platform. ValentinaDB 18 introduced powerful, elastic-search-like full-text search as well as other improvements. This update includes:
- [Imp][FTS] Speed of searches are up to 20 times faster dependent on the size of the database
- [Imp][JavaScript UDF] Sequence objects exposed to QuickJS now provide the standard JavaScript length property.
ValentinaDB is available in several products. Database ADK (starting at $199.99) is the database engine that developers can embed into their applications and deploy royalty free and available for all major development environments including: C, C++, Objective-C, .net (C#), Java, Python, Ruby and others. Some versions of Database ADK may also support DuckDB and SQLite. ValentinaDB Server is a part of Valentina Server, available as a single deployment ($299.99) or in the OEM redistribution Valentina Developer Network (starting at $599.99). See the full announcement for other changes, fixes and more.
Valentina Command Line Interface
Valentina CLI support is automatically installed along with Valentina Studio and Valentina Server.
- [New][Vdump] Introduced vdump, a command-line utility for exporting and importing ValentinaDB databases
- [Imp][Output] Added automatic output formatting and made it the default for vcli
- [Imp][Output] Improved vertical headers, wrapped line endings, and terminal-width handling
- [Imp][Options] Reorganized vcli help and shared option parsing and validation between vcli and vdump
All products are immediately available for download from the Paradigma Software website.
About Paradigma Software
Paradigma Software, Incorporated is an advanced data technology company founded in the late 1990s with the introduction of ValentinaDB, a post‑relational, columnar database engine. The company delivers high‑performance, developer‑focused tools for building modern data‑driven applications. Its products are used by developers, DBAs, and data professionals who need powerful and flexible database and reporting solutions. Valentina Studio provides database administration, reporting, and visual forms with support for Python and JavaScript, while Valentina Server offers a deployment platform supporting ValentinaDB, SQLite, and DuckDB. Together, these technologies enable organizations to design and manage sophisticated data solutions across desktop, server, and embedded environments.