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09/09/2026

Searching within blocks, especially the index blocks of large global variables, can take a material percentage of the time spent by application processes. The next release of YottaDB will include an enhancement to speed up searching within index blocks. You can read about it at https://yottadb.com/faster-index-block-searches/

You don't have to wait for the next release to try it in your development and test environments. Details are in the blog post.

Caching heavily used index blocks speeds up database access.

08/26/2026

is a powerful, open-source statistics package that can access data using its PostgreSQL connector. In his blog post "R Statistics on a Live VistA Instance" (https://yottadb.com/r-statistics-on-a-live-vista-instance/), Sam Habiel discusses using R and Octo to investigate a cohort of synthetic patients generated by and loaded into .

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08/22/2026

now supports "piece of piece" column definitions, e.g., a column which is the second "!" delimited piece of the third "^" delimited piece of a node. An example of this occurs in lab chemistry data in . Sam Habiel's blog post at https://yottadb.com/access-vista-lab-chemistry-data-from-octo/ discusses this, and has a link to Octo for mapping VistA lab chemistry results.

VistA chemistry lab data uses "piece of piece" data and is not accessible to Fileman. But you can access it from Octo using SQL.

08/03/2026

We recently added a new feature to the code base that will be in the next YottaDB release, a deviceparameter that allows a terminal $PRINCIPAL device to respond to SIGWINCH when the terminal size changes. Draft Release Notes are at https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/work_items/1247 and we would be interested in any feedback if you care to try it. You will need to rebuild from source (ydbinstall.sh will build and install YottaDB for you if you want).

This fixes one of my personal minor annoyances. Previously, if I did a show -segment in GDE, the lines wrapped, and I expanded the window size, a subsequent show -segment would still wrap at the old location. Now, it will use the new window size.

Please note that since this feature is in a code base that is under development, it should not be used in production till our next production release. Thank you.

Final Release Note Description

06/29/2026

We again welcome Lothar Jöckel to the YottaDB blog, with his second guest post, based on a talk he gave at about his software, . Modern web development is drowning in JavaScript fatigue, but there is a powerful alternative that allows you to build Single Page Applications (SPAs) with zero user client-side JavaScript. Read his post at https://yottadb.com/nimetic-zero-js-single-page-applications-with-nim-datastar-and-yottadb/

Nim and YottaDB are a powerful combination for Single-Page Applications (SPAs)

06/22/2026

I recently spent a week in , , with the DevOps team of Electronic Health Solutions ( ) and blogged about it at https://yottadb.com/a-visit-to-jordan/

I visited Jordan on the week of June 7 for training and to sign a support agreement extension

04/27/2026

YottaDB r2.06 provides a timely fix to a bug in r2.04, in which the compiler generates incorrect code for an unusual code pattern. We recommend that you use r2.06 instead of r2.04. https://gitlab.com/YottaDB/DB/YDB/-/releases/r2.06

YottaDB r2.06 Binary Distributions

04/22/2026

We welcome Jordan Lenchitz to the YottaDB blog with his post YottaDB as a Creative Platform: Experimental Video Art at Scale (https://yottadb.com/yottadb-as-a-creative-platform-experimental-video-art-at-scale/). It is truly a unique use of our software, one that we had never imagined. Thank you very much, and congratulations, Jordan!

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04/16/2026

https://yottadb.com/koalas-json-r2-04-and-aim/ is a short blog post on some experimentation I did with the functionality in r2.04. We hope you find r2.04's functionality - commands and API - to encode and decode JSON useful. If you try it, please tell us what you think. Thank you.

The YottaDB ZYDECODE command and AIM plugin can be used to explore JSON datasets

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