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Develop Apps with Minimal Container Images

November 20, 2025
ActiveState Platform has launched a Public Image Catalog, delivering secure, low-to-no CVE container images for faster application builds.

ActiveState Platform is a cloud-based solution that optimizes the secure development, management, and deployment of applications built on Python, Perl, Tcl and Ruby. It offers a curated catalog of open-source packages vetted for security and licensing, along with secure build services that create isolated and verifiable runtime environments. The platform ensures application integrity throughout the development process, from dev environments to CI/CD pipelines, and provides visibility and control over your open source from discovery to deployment. By using ActiveState Platform, you can secure your open source software supply chain in one unified place.

The ActiveState November 2025 update introduces a Public Image Catalog that provides software developers with secure, minimal, and fully transparent container images to improve application delivery. By offering low-to-no-CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) containers, clear pull instructions, architecture details, documentation links, and comprehensive metadata such as SBOMs and version history, the update simplifies evaluation and integration while reducing security overhead. This enables teams to maintain consistent environments, and adopt trusted container images with greater confidence.

To see a full list of what's new, see our release notes.

ActiveState Platform is licensed per developer as an annual license. See our ActiveState Platform licensing page for full details.

Learn more on our ActiveState Platform product page.

Upgrade Your Reporting with .NET 10 Support

November 20, 2025
List & Label now supports .NET 10, allowing developers to build modern reporting solutions with the latest tools and language features.

List & Label by combit is a software development toolkit that helps developers to integrate comprehensive reporting functionalities into their desktop, web, and cloud applications. It offers features such as data binding, complex data visualization, and a user-friendly report designer, along with printing, exporting, and previewing capabilities. List & Label operates independently of programming languages and data sources, providing developers with the flexibility to design and deliver informative reports within their development environment.

combit adds .NET 10 support to ensure developers can adopt the newest framework without compatibility concerns, allowing existing reporting logic, data integrations, and application code to run reliably on a modern, secure, and high-performance platform. This update helps teams optimize their upgrade path, maintain a consistent technology stack, and build applications that remain maintainable and future-ready as the .NET ecosystem evolves.

List & Label is licensed per developer and is available as a Perpetual License with a 12 month support and maintenance subscription. See our List & Label licensing page for full details.

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Spell Check XML Content with Precision

November 20, 2025
Ensure that only human-readable text in XML files is spell-checked, avoiding false errors caused by tags, attributes, or structured data.

XML-aware spell checking in an XML tool is a feature that intelligently distinguishes between content and markup within XML documents, ensuring that only the relevant text, such as element values and attributes meant for human reading, is checked for spelling errors. This avoids flagging valid XML tags, attribute names, or structured data as incorrect, which would typically occur with standard spell checkers. For software developers, this capability reduces noise during editing, improves accuracy in detecting real issues, and helps maintain clean, professional content in documentation, configuration files, and data feeds.

Several structured document tools offer XML-aware spell checking including:

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our structured document tools comparison.

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Adjust Grid Column Widths for Clearer Data Views

November 19, 2025
Resize columns to optimize space, reduce clutter, and deliver a cleaner, more focused grid for faster data analysis and smarter decision-making.

Resizable grid columns let users adjust the width of each column in a data table, giving them direct control over how information is displayed. This improves readability by preventing text from being cut off, reduces clutter by narrowing less important fields, and creates a cleaner, more efficient workspace. It is especially useful with large datasets, long product names, detailed descriptions, or mixed data types, such as expanding a “Description” column to read full text or narrowing numeric columns to compare figures quickly. Whether used in dashboards, admin panels, reporting tools, or data entry systems, column resizing enhances usability, speeds up analysis, and supports a more personalized viewing experience.

Several React grid controls offer support for expanding and resizing columns including:

  • DevExtreme React Data Grid (part of DevExtreme Complete by DevExpress) lets you resize columns to improve readability, reduce clutter, and work efficiently with data.
  • Handsontable by Handsoncode lets you resize columns to reveal full content, customize layouts, minimize clutter, and analyze diverse datasets more effectively confidently.
  • BestReactGrid facilitates column resizing to optimize space, highlight key details, enhance readability, and create a cleaner, more efficient data workflow.
  • Ignite UI React Grid (part of Infragistics Ignite UI) allows you to resize columns for clearer views, faster comparisons, and improved data understanding.

For an in-depth analysis of features and price, visit our React grid controls comparison.

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Add Contours to Visualize Chart Data Gradients

November 19, 2025
LightningChart JS v8.1 adds flexible contour styling options, helping developers highlight key value ranges with precision.

LightningChart JS is a high-performance JavaScript charting library that utilizes WebGL rendering and GPU acceleration to deliver exceptional performance for a wide range of data visualization needs. It is designed to handle large datasets and complex visualizations with ease, enabling developers to create interactive and visually appealing 2D and 3D charts. Ideal for applications demanding smooth real-time data updates, such as financial platforms, engineering tools, scientific research dashboards, and industrial monitoring systems, LightningChart JS provides a comprehensive API for customization and integration into web-based projects.

The LightningChart JS v8.1 update introduces built-in contour rendering for heatmap and surface charts, giving developers a straightforward way to highlight value transitions and gradients within complex datasets. The new contour capabilities automatically generate level lines and labels, while offering control over stroke and text styling for each contour level. This improves the clarity and interpretability of dense numerical data, reduces the need for custom rendering logic, and maintains high performance even when working with detailed datasets.

To see a full list of what's new in v8.1, see our release notes.

LightningChart JS is licensed per developer and is available as an annual license with 1 year support. See our LightningChart JS licensing page for full details.

For more information, see our LightningChart JS product page.