AmiBroker 6.16.0 BETA released

Sirius

August 1, 2016
AmiBroker 6.16.0 BETA released

Stability: Rank 3 – Regular BETA, pretty stable, should work fine in most environments

This is a BETA version. Make a backup first

A new beta version (6.16.0) of AmiBroker has just been released.

32-bit version:
http://www.amibroker.com/members/bin/ab6160beta.exe
(2 227 368 bytes)

64-bitversion:
http://www.amibroker.com/members/bin/AmiBroker6160x64.exe
(10 444 160 bytes)

If you can not log in into members’ area please get your new password by filling the form at: http://www.amibroker.com/login.html

IMPORTANT: Unauthorized copying and/or distribution of materials found on members’ only page is STRICTLY PROHIBITED and will result in IMMEDIATE termination of license.

Remember to BACKUP YOUR FILES FIRST !
Note that this version can only be installed onto previous full installation of version 6.10 or higher from http://www.amibroker.com/download.html

CHANGES FOR VERSION 6.16.0 (as compared to 6.15.0)

• New Analysis: implemented entirely new inter-thread communication method that does not strain main thread message queue. This gives tremendous improvement in responsivity of UI when Analysis is running
• New Analysis: removed forced message pumping when AFL finished as it was causing issues with proper MDI tab refreshes in Windows 10 while Analysis was running
• New Analysis: UI: added an option to keep using existing AFL file on opening APX project instead of asking the user what to do when differences are found between AFL file and content of APX project.
• AFL: changed the way how custom-backtest reports “stocknum”. Previously Status(“stocknum”) was equal to zero on custom backtest phase and this may have caused parts that use if(Status(“stocknum”)==0) to be excecuted during custom backtest phase. Now custom backtest reports stocknum equal -1.
• AFL: DateTimeConvert supports now more formats, format = 6 – day, 7 – month, 8 – year, 9 – day of week, 10 – day of year, 11 – quarter (1..4)
• Charts: as apparently single pixel geometric pens are 8 times slower than DC pen, the optimization has been implemented that uses DC single pixel pen instead of geometric pen when bar width is 1, giving 8x faster 1-pixel bar charts
• Since 6.15 when $AUTOADD was set to 0 (zero), then symbols not existing in the database but present in the imported file were not logged into import.log as earlier. Fixed.
• UI: when AM/PM (12 hour format) was used in list views 12:00AM was interpreted as 12:00 (noon), instead of 00:00 (midnight). Fixed.
• When backtesting Short only strategy and using backtestRegular mode and using HoldMinBars > 1, a disabled stop could trigger if it was enabled in previous backtest run. Fixed.
• Support for Windows 98 and Millenium is dropped. If anybody needs that back please let us know (email to support)!