Product Releases and Updates

We're excited to announce a new feature in ODC user management that allows users to change their email addresses. With this enhancement, users can seamlessly update their emails to reflect job changes, company rebranding, or domain migrations, maintaining complete account and activity history continuity.

This update enables greater flexibility and a better user management experience in ODC.

We're pleased to announce that the list of ODC IP addresses used by runtime applications for outgoing requests is now available. This change allows you to allowlist ODC traffic in your firewalls, monitoring tools, and API gateways, improving reliability and reducing the risk of blocked requests from trusted sources.

Whether you're securing communication with external systems, integrating with internal services, or monitoring platform activity, having access to this list helps manage network security and streamline system integrations.

We're pleased to announce that the O11 Platform Server on self-managed deployments can now be safely and confidently deployed on Windows Server 2025. The platform also now supports the latest .NET Framework, 4.8.1, guaranteeing maximum compatibility with third-party libraries used in server-side extensions.

This update streamlines the administration and maintenance tasks, keeping your systems up-to-date more easily.

We've launched a brand new onboarding experience designed to help your team get started with ODC faster and more efficiently. Now, whether your teammates are focused on admin tasks or building apps, libraries, and workflows, they can leverage the respective onboarding path to help kick off their ODC journey.

Not new to ODC? You might see our onboarding experience. You can dismiss it or use it as a quick refresher on what ODC can do for you.

From organization setup to your first app, this update accelerates your onboarding and helps you achieve your first milestone in ODC faster.

OutSystems Mentor continues to elevate application development by integrating generative AI capabilities. This update brings significant enhancements to Mentor's App Generator and App Editor, empowering your team to create enterprise-grade apps more efficiently and intuitively. 

Mentor App Generator Enhancements:

• Improved Requirement Processing: Mentor now extracts data models and authorization details from your requirements documents more accurately, ensuring your generated applications closely match specified business needs.
• UI Diversity - List with Map View: A new List screen with an integrated Map View is available, automatically triggered when your entity includes address or location attributes, enhancing visual interactivity and usability.
• Expanded Logged-in User Authorizations: Mentor supports advanced authorization scenarios, such as enabling users to view all records but restrict editing to their own data (e.g., users can see all orders but only modify their own).
• AI-Suggested Menu Icons: Mentor enhances your app's navigation experience by automatically suggesting relevant Font Awesome icons for each menu link, providing clear visual cues and improving user interaction.
• Create Apps with Your Custom Theme: Mentor detects and applies your specified theme automatically from prompts or requirement documents, streamlining the visual consistency of your apps.

Mentor App Editor Enhancements:

• User-Based Authorization Suggestions: App Editor now offers intelligent suggestions for authorization rules based on the logged-in user's context, quickly enabling personalized access scenarios.

These enhancements aim to simplify and accelerate your development process, significantly reducing manual efforts and increasing productivity.

Integrating AI models for crucial tasks like understanding language within applications often leads to a tangled web of separate connections and scattered management. This set up creates significant hurdles in tracking usage, reining in cost and upholding security and compliance as your AI initiatives expand. It can stifle innovation and make AI model management a headache. We are excited to introduce a new feature in OutSystems Developer Cloud built-in AI Model Management capabilities: daily token limits for each model. This new feature gives you better control over costs and resource usage, right within the same platform that already provides centralized oversight, monitoring, and security. This makes it easier and more cost-effective to confidently scale AI across all your applications.

We're excited to announce that we've implemented a smarter, more adaptive request throttling strategy that considers the complexities of modern network configurations.

This upgrade is designed to simplify load testing, system integrations through API gateways, or traffic from NATed corporate networks, helping you avoid false positives and ensure smoother, uninterrupted workflows.

With these improvements, ODC now even better aligns with how you build, test, and run your high-demand and enterprise-scale applications.

We’re thrilled to announce that ODC has achieved SOC 1 Type 2 attestation, reinforcing OutSystems' commitment to security and operational excellence!

SOC 1 is an industry-recognized compliance framework that ensures ODC consistently protects your financial and operational data, giving you even greater confidence in the platform's reliability and privacy.

We’re excited to introduce Parallel Flows in ODC Workflows—enabling the modeling of complex business processes that require multiple activities to run at the same time.

Running tasks in parallel helps reduce bottlenecks, improve workflow performance, and increase both flexibility and efficiency.

Users can define multiple paths that execute in parallel, each containing one or more activities to accelerate process completion. This is especially valuable in large or complex workflows, where breaking down tasks into smaller, independent units helps drive faster progress.

Visually, Parallel Flows offer a cleaner, more intuitive representation of your processes—making it easier to understand, collaborate, and improve them over time.

Modern AI applications frequently need real-time access to unstructured knowledge sources, such as FAQs and internal documentation. Traditionally, integrating knowledge retrieval systems like Azure AI Search or Amazon Kendra requires custom API work, leading to developer bottlenecks and a lack of centralized governance.   

OutSystems Developer Cloud addresses this by providing native support for these services, enabling developers to retrieve data through simple service actions and quickly implement advanced AI use cases like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG). IT benefits from granular access control (CRUD permissions) and comprehensive usage tracking across teams, ensuring robust governance. This streamlined integration accelerates the development of AI-powered applications with trusted, context-aware data, all managed within a unified platform.

Integrating the generative power of  AI models into applications, for natural language processing and content generation, requires custom API connections, leading to architectural fragmentation, decentralized governance, and increased operational overhead. This complexity impedes scalable AI deployment, introducing challenges in model lifecycle management, observability, and adherence to security and compliance standards. 

OutSystems mitigates these challenges with native AI Model Management in OutSystems Developer Cloud, enabling teams to seamlessly connect, govern, and reuse AI models from leading providers like Azure OpenAI and custom in-house models. Developers can now integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) with built-in monitoring, guardrails, and stage-specific configurations. IT gains centralized oversight of model usage, costs, and access controls, enabling rapid innovation through pre-built abstractions. This approach facilitates confident AI scaling across the application portfolio, simplifying every stage of the development lifecycle.

Available since day one in OutSystems Developer Cloud, we’re happy to report that applications built in OutSystems 11 are now also CDN-friendly. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are commonly used to improve performance and the response time perceived by users. CDNs cache application resources (e.g. Javascript) and need to refresh when they change to guarantee a correct end-user experience. Administrators can now configure the OutSystems 11 Platform to rename application resources when they change, forcing a refresh in the CDN. This eliminates the need for manual CDN refreshes and avoids stale caches and user experience problems.

O11 Integration with customers' email servers now supports OAuth, the gold standard for SMTP authentication. The update mitigates security concerns connected with the SMTP Basic Authentication and allows painless transition from it. The new configuration is available in the Service Center and doesn’t require manual application changes.

Data Fabric in ODC just got an exciting new feature: SQL Queries for external entities. Unleash your true data potential by manipulating data with no limits. Developers can now write, test, and optimize complex SQL queries directly within their apps using a common language, regardless of the data source. While Aggregates offer a streamlined approach, SQL queries provide the flexibility needed for advanced data manipulation. Start exploring this new capability and enhance your integrations!

Understanding resource utilization is key to maximizing efficiency, reducing operational costs, and ensuring that critical resources are available when needed. With interactive dashboards and detailed metrics, you can easily monitor consumption, identify trends, and make data-driven decisions to optimize resource allocation.

We have enhanced the ODC Subscription portal to provide you with comprehensive, near-real-time insights into how your resources are being used while also providing the ability to increase capacity to meet your application needs.

Security is at the core of everything we do, and we’re proud to share that ODC has achieved Cyber Essentials certification! This achievement reflects OutSystems' proactive approach to cybersecurity. Cyber Essentials is the United Kingdom’s cybersecurity scheme that helps ensure your organisation’s and your customers’ data is safe from cyber attacks. Applications that hold UK government data or interact with UK agencies should be Cyber Essentials certified.

Whether you need to restrict digital content sources, prevent attacks, or block unapproved third-party features, ODC now gives you that control. We're pleased to announce the ability to customize Content Security Policy (CSP) HTTP Headers in ODC! With this capability, you can tailor your content configuration settings to enhance your application's security, set guardrails against unwanted outside influence, and meet specific compliance requirements. Start customizing your CSP headers today and take your app security to the next level!

OutSystems Mentor, part of the OutSystems Developer Cloud platform, is a first-of-its-kind AI-powered digital worker designed to support your team through every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from concept to ongoing maintenance. By leveraging GenAI and low-code, it boosts productivity, automates tedious tasks, and empowers your team to consistently deliver high-quality applications with greater efficiency.

Key Features:

App Generator:

• Simply describe your app using natural language or upload a requirement document.
• Get a fully functional app complete with data models, business logic, and UI in minutes.
• Seamlessly integrate your app with external systems like SAP and Salesforce for real-time data access.

App Editor:

• Refine your app with AI-powered suggestions for data, roles, screens, and business logic.
• Visualize and refine your app’s structure and components in real-time with an intuitive, true-to-life editor.
• Instantly implement app-wide changes, streamlining iterations and accelerating development.

Benefits:

• Simplified and accelerated development - Reduce development time by as much as 60% using natural language inputs to generate working applications that developers can customize.
• App refinement in real-time - Take the guesswork, repetition, and frequent publishing out of iteration with recommendations for improvement in natural language provided by AI.
• Governed and secure application delivery - Leverage the governance and best practices built into OutSystems to ensure that applications Mentor generates meet enterprise standards for security.

Mentor is now available for all ODC customers. Let’s shape the future of AI-powered app development together!

We’re pleased to announce the latest updates to ODC Workflows bringing enhanced user experience and expanded automation capabilities to help teams achieve better customization and troubleshooting.

We’ve added the possibility to configure the time interval for workflow execution, making it easier to apply custom SLAs (Service Level Agreements) or any time-sensitive condition to your workflows and align them with your team’s specific needs.We’ve also introduced a new labeling feature in the Start node, enabling developers to assign labels to each workflow instance. This addition helps you quickly identify and address issues during troubleshooting, saving time and effort.

As for the experience upgrades, users now can enjoy a light mode option. A newly added switch view allows teams to toggle to a summarized version of workflows, providing a streamlined way to review and manage complex workflows.

We are excited to announce the availability of a new feature in AI Mentor Studio on OutSystems 11. Our code injection patterns are now more powerful and precise in detecting potential security issues within your applications. This improvement leverages taint analysis - a cutting-edge technology that monitors the flow of user inputs throughout an application's screens and logic. It identifies unsanitized inputs that may reach sensitive areas like SQL nodes, HTTP requests, and other high-privileged operations. By pinpointing these vulnerabilities with greater precision, you can focus on the critical issues that need attention and strengthen your app’s robust security. This new pattern is now available for Reactive Web Apps and will be available in OutSystems Developer Cloud (ODC) soon.