--- title: Valentina Release 17.5.1 Improves Valentina Server... description: Valentina Release 17.5.1 brings improvements across Valentina Studio, Server, and the Xojo ADK. Key changes include new server INI settings for user extension... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/valentina-release-17-5-1-improves-valentina-server-extensions-management-8sihxbxy8 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Valentina Release 17.5.1 Improves Valentina Server Extensions Management | daily.dev og:description: Valentina Release 17.5.1 brings improvements across Valentina Studio, Server, and the Xojo ADK. Key changes include new server INI settings for user extension... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/valentina-release-17-5-1-improves-valentina-server-extensions-management-8sihxbxy8 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/8sihXBxY8.png og:image:alt: Valentina Release 17.5.1 Improves Valentina Server Extensions Management og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Valentina Release 17.5.1 Improves Valentina Server Extensions Management **[Paradigma Software](https://daily.dev/sources/paradigmasoftware)** · [@lynnfredricks](https://daily.dev/lynnfredricks) · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Valentina Release 17.5.1 brings improvements across Valentina Studio, Server, and the Xojo ADK. Key changes include new server INI settings for user extension folders (Extensions_VDB, Extensions_DuckDB, Extensions_SQLite) with automatic folder creation, a new Valentina.SetUserExtensionsLocation() API, DuckDB engine updated to v1.5.4, new Parquet cloud examples on the Start Page, Data Editor improvements including locale-aware number formatting and a Find Column shortcut, and new/updated Xojo SQLite and DuckDB examples. Linux ARM64 support is added while ARM32 is dropped. ## Content New Xojo examples, updated DuckDB support, Data Editor productivity & more. The DuckDB engine is also updated in all products to v1.5.4. Download : [Studio](https://valentina-db.com/en/studio/download) | [Server](https://valentina-db.com/en/download-valentina-server) **Valentina Studio** Valentina Studio is the free, all purpose database management tool suite. Valentina Studio PRO adds more powerful diagramming features, more powerful visual builder tools for databases, forms creation, reports designer and more. Improvements include: - [New][Start Page] Added Parquet cloud examples that are available for download from the Start Page. - [Imp][Schema Editor][ValentinaDB] The database creation dialog now remembers the last used settings. - [Imp][Data Editor] Large record counts are now formatted using locale-aware separators (e.g. 1,000,000). - [Imp][Data Editor] Find Column is now available from the Records→Find Column… menu item and by shortcut: Cmd+Shift+K on macOS, Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows/Linux. The column lookup dialog now supports Up, Down, and Esc keys. - [Imp][Schema Editor] Record counts are now formatted using locale-aware separators (e.g. 1,000,000) in the Property Inspector. - [Imp][Form Editor] Improved error handling when adding or updating records. - [Imp] Updated language translations **Valentina Server** Valentina Server is a powerful platform for building network or cloud based client-server or server-only solutions that integrates with 30+ developer platforms. Valentina Server includes three built in database servers: ValentinaDB Server, Valentina SQLite Server and Valentina DuckDB Server. With support for both internal data sources as well as external data sources (including MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, MongoDB and more), it also includes two other servers that can leverage all supported data sources: Valentina Reports Server and Valentina Forms Server. - [New] Added server INI settings for user extension folders: Extensions_VDB, Extensions_DuckDB, and Extensions_SQLite. Default folders are extensions_vdb, extensions_duckdb, and extensions_sqlite. Valentina Server creates these folders automatically at startup if they do not exist. Relative paths are created relative to the Valentina Server application folder. Absolute paths can point outside the Valentina Server folder and are created as specified, if the server process has permission. These folders are intended for user-installed extensions. **Valentina for Xojo ADK** Valentina Database ADK and Valentina Reports ADK are both available for Xojo. Xojo is a cross-platform development tool for the Desktop (macOS, Windows, Linux), Web, iOS (iPad/iPhone) and Raspberry Pi. - [New][Examples] Added a new SQLite BLOB example. - [Imp][Examples] Updated SQLite and DuckDB examples. - [Imp][Linux] Updated packaging: Linux ARM64 shared library is now included; Linux ARM32 shared library was removed as RPI 32 out of date. **ValentinaDB** ValentinaDB is Paradigma Software advanced, object relational database and available in ValentinaDB Server (a part of Valentina Server) and ValentinaDB ADKs (developer components for adding runtime database support to applications). - [New] [API] Added Valentina.SetUserExtensionsLocation( ) API for setting the user extensions folder before extension discovery. This release is immediately available on the [Paradigma Software website](https://valentina-db.com/en/). 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