Released: Oct 21, 2025

Updates in 2026

Features

• Support for OCR processing of PDF files
  • MapForce includes the powerful PDF Extractor that lets you visually define the structure of a PDF document to efficiently extract its data for use in a data mapping project. The PDF Extractor is a highly flexible tool that allows you to extract only portions of text instead of the whole document, mix and match pieces of information from different pages of the same PDF file, split tables into rows, and arrange data into groups.
  • While this...

Released: Mar 25, 2025

Updates in 2025 Release 2

Features

• Support for MySQL 9.0/9.1.
• Support for IBM DB2 12.1.
• Support for Eclipse 4.34.

Released: Oct 22, 2024

Updates in 2025

Features

• Updated database support - MapForce supports connecting to the most popular SQL and NoSQL database systms for data mapping. In this release, updated support has been added for new versions:
  • MySQL 8.4
  • MariaDB 10.11, 11.2, 11.4
• Support for most recent Eclipse versions - MapForce supports seamless integration in the Eclipse IDE with new support added for versions:
  • 4.30
  • 4.31
  • 4.32
  • 4.33

Released: Jun 25, 2024

Updates in 2024 Release 2 SP1

Fixes

• Fixed in All/Multiple Products Libraries:
  • Update Python library to 3.11.8 or newer to mitigate OpenSSL vulnerabilities prior to 3.0.13.
  • Update libpng16.dll to a version newer than 1.6.38 to mitigate an alleged vulnerability.
  • Upgrade Visual Studio files to avoid loss of Microsoft support on July 11 2024.

Released: Apr 23, 2024

Updates in 2024 Release 2

Features

• Option to share database connection among components - In some data mapping applications, a project may connect to the same database twice. Now, in these cases it is easy for database components to share the same database connection. This is enabled by checking Use Shared Database Connection at Runtime in the database component settings.
• Ability to deploy original design file to FlowForce Server - High performance automation of data integration and ETL projects defined in MapForce is...

Released: Oct 24, 2023

Updates in 2024

Features

• "Sleep" function - A new sleep function is now available in MapForce that is especially helpful when integrating API calls to an AI system such as OpenAI in MapForce data mapping projects. Since some current AI systems impose rate limits on the API requests you can make, you may run into a "too many requests" error. The sleep function allows you to adhere to the rate limits imposed by the provider by configuring a small delay between successive API requests when necessary.
• Improvements...

Released: Aug 9, 2023

Updates in Altova MapForce Professional Edition

Features

MapForce is now AI-ready - Since many AI systems, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, are available via API, it is immediately possible to integrate their functionality in data transformation projects in MapForce. Using built-in, no-code tools to define web service requests in MapForce, it’s easy to set up calls to an API, including the OpenAI API, Azure OpenAI API or AWS AI Services, to enable AI-powered data processing in any data mapping project.

Applications for AI-powered MapForce data...

Released: Apr 12, 2023

Updates in 2023 Release 2

Features

• Comments in data mapping projects - In addition to support for annotating individual connections in data mapping projects, it is now possible to add comments to source and target components to aid in documenting what a mapping does and how it is implemented.
• Support for standalone ="yes" declaration in XML output - In a standalone document declaration, the value "yes" indicates that the document is self-contained, and there are no external declarations required for parsing the document...

Released: Dec 12, 2022

Updates in 2023 SP1

Fixes

Excel file functionality

• MapForce crashes updating customer Excel file.

Code Generation

• Executing generated C# code is much slower than the Output view of MapForce - mapping specific.

IDE GUI

• Text can be overdrawn repeatedly in certain dialogs using Light or Dark Theme.

Released: Oct 19, 2022

Updates in 2023

Features

• Altova XML Schema Manager
  • Provides a centralized way to install and manage standard XML Schemas for use with MapForce and all Altova XML-enabled applications.
  • Automatically select any required dependencies.
  • Once a schema is installed, it’s available for use with any Altova XML-enabled product (MapForce, MapForce Server, XMLSpy, RaptorXML Server, etc.).
  • You can also open the XML Schema Manager to browse the schemas already installed on your system.
  • Altova will update available schema...