New version, new features
With the version of Axon Ivy 13.1 – LE, the Axon Ivy platform is sending a strong signal about the future of process automation. Smart editors such as NEO Designer simplify modeling, PRO Designer ensures precision and stability, and the new Visual Studio Code Extension makes development more flexible than ever before. The redesigned portal creates clarity and security in everyday work, while the modernized Marketplace facilitates access to useful extensions and integrates the community more closely.
Axon Ivy 13.1 at a glance
- Smarter editors: NEO Designer with intelligent content management, live form preview, optimized test control, and integrated error analysis.
- More precision for developers: PRO Designer with stable live dialog preview, improved process editor, smarter form design, and optimized editors for variables and data classes.
- Flexible development: New Visual Studio Code Extension as a modern alternative – currently in preview mode and actively shaped by community feedback.
- Better portal: Individual statistics, task pinning, multilingualism, and enhanced security for more efficient organization.
- New Marketplace: Completely redesigned with a modern look, growing connector library, role model, and transparent feedback process.
In short, Axon Ivy 13.1 makes Ivy application development faster, more flexible, and more secure. With smarter tools and clearer workflows, the latest LE version makes work easier for developers, designers, and end users.
NEO Designer: Design faster, click less, view immediately
NEO Designer continues to evolve as a lean, web-based low-code platform for rapid application development. Enhanced features optimize feedback, control, and accessibility.
- Smarter content management: Content can now be managed even more intuitively and precisely in multiple languages.
- Multilingual user interface: The Axon Ivy user interface is now available in German and English.
- Smart setup: Axon Ivy provides helpful tips when creating new forms or processes to help you avoid errors early on.
- Live form preview: Forms and screens can be viewed and edited immediately without switching tools.
- Optimized test control: Processes can now be simulated, tested, reset, or adjusted directly in the user interface.
- Integrated log viewer for easy troubleshooting: Problems can be quickly identified without having to export files or use other tools.
- Faster navigation: From form design to process modeling, keyboard shortcuts speed up work in Axon Ivy.
PRO Designer: More precision, more control, more PRO
PRO Designer remains the primary environment for professional developers, and version 13.1 brings improvements that support the development of more robust and maintainable applications.
- Stable live dialog preview: Forms and dialogs can be displayed in real time—now with direct navigation to the respective source.
- Improved process editor: GLSP v2.3.0 enables smoother workflows, and new shortcuts make navigation easier.
- Smart form design: Editable tables, reusable components, improved drag & drop, and modern button styles ensure faster design, while validation and keyboard support enable greater precision.
- Faster variable management: With inline validation and full keyboard control, large variable sets are now easier to manage.
- Improved inscription view thanks to smarter IvyScript hints, a new condition builder, and an intuitive function browser with more stable behavior when switching tools.
- Optimized data class editor: Clearer configuration of relationships and better validation of annotations, plus field badges and keyboard support make work easier.
Visual Studio Code Extension: Development and process design in one environment
The PRO Designer extension for Visual Studio Code is becoming the most important development platform for Ivy applications. The extension combines flexibility and modern working methods with the proven functions of PRO Designer. In the current preview mode, it is being continuously optimized based on feedback from the community in order to create a powerful, adaptable, and future-proof platform.
Portal: Smarter access, seamless journeys
Portal 13.1 brings more efficiency and clarity to everyday work, helping you organize your work visually and keep it secure.
- Custom statistics: Individual charts with filters, colors, access rules, and custom fields.
- Pin tasks and cases: Keep important tasks and cases in view at all times.
- Navigation widget and hidden dashboards: Create guided views while keeping navigation streamlined.
- Security: Hardening across all supported versions against XSS, injections, and other vulnerabilities.
- Multilingual custom fields: Field names and values can be managed in any CMS language.
- Task activators: Multiple responsible parties can be designated, clearly visible in list and detail views, to ensure transparency of assignments.
- Japanese localization: Fully professionally translated user interface for seamless collaboration with Japanese teams.
Marketplace website: Discover, install, get started
The Axon Ivy Marketplace page has been completely redesigned in version 13.1 and offers many new features and tools for faster and smarter work. In addition, the library of open source connectors is growing.
- Role model: OWNER and CODEOWNER manage and review open source connectors, while anyone can participate as a CONTRIBUTOR.
- Feedback workflow: Connectors now go through an approval phase.
- Clear indications of outdated extensions: The compatibility indicator shows whether updates beyond the current version are planned.
- Translations: Since version 12.0, German descriptions are also available for all connectors.
- Search: The search function now remains on the Marketplace page and there is no longer a redirect.
Further technical details on Axon Ivy 13.1 – LE can be found on this release page.
With all its new features, Axon Ivy 13.1 combines user-friendliness, flexibility, and performance, providing companies with the ideal basis for developing and operating applications faster, more securely, and more efficiently. Would you like to learn more? We are happy to help!
