Studio Pro

Better shortcuts

We’ve enhanced productivity in Studio Pro by adding keyboard shortcuts directly to right-click context menus across all core editors including microflows, pages, and domain models. These shortcuts are tied to the first letters of the menu items, making them easy to discover. This update reduces the time spent navigating menus, and helps developers work more efficiently within Studio Pro.

Advanced language import / export

We’ve brought advanced language import/export functionality directly into the Studio Pro UI, making it easier than ever to manage multilingual applications without switching to command line tools. This feature allows developers to import and export all languages in one operation using both Excel files and industry-standard PO files, while preserving the full context of where each text is used throughout your application. Each duplicate entry gets its own dedicated entry in the export, giving translators and developers complete control over language customization across different contexts and modules.

Extension scaffolding

Developers can now quickly scaffold new extensions using the simple command npm create @mendix/extension, streamlining the initial setup process and getting them coding faster. This new scaffolding tool automatically generates the proper project structure, configuration files, and boilerplate code needed to start building extensions for Studio Pro, as well as enabling your extension for debugging.

Improved OQL editing for View Entities

We’re constantly improving the OQL editor for View Entities to simplify writing queries. One example is the auto-complete functionality which does a better job suggesting the relevant entities, attributes and keywords for the query you are editing. Another improvement is the connection pane: when editing an OQL query the connection pane will show all the entities and attributes available in your project. You can search for specific entities or attributes in the integration pane.

External Database Connector – Set connection details in activity

You can now override the connection details for the External database connector using microflow parameters when you execute a query. This allows you to run the same query on different databases, assuming they have the same tables, or you can update security credentials if you’re using temporary tokens.

Consumed REST service: Query parameters

With the interactive REST client, we have improved working with query parameters for API calls. Query parameters can be set as either optional or mandatory. Query parameters can also be easily included or excluded during request modelling and microflow activity independently. This functionality is a more intuitive way of dealing with query parameters as developers don’t need to manually modify their URL strings to have query parameters.

Effortless navigation and deeper insights with the Call Hierarchy

Mendix applications often include a wide array of microflows, nanoflows, and pages making navigation a challenge as your app grows. While the App Explorer and advanced search tools offer solid support, sometimes you need a faster, clearer way to understand how everything connects. That’s where the Call Hierarchy comes in.

With just a click, the Call Hierarchy reveals how any selected microflow, nanoflow, or page fits into your application. Instantly see which documents call it (incoming calls) and which ones it calls in return (outgoing calls). You can explore multiple levels in both directions, giving you a comprehensive view of your application’s architecture and dependencies.

Whether you’re debugging, optimizing, or simply exploring, the Call Hierarchy helps you work smarter and build better.

Widgets updates

Rich Text – Image uploading

The Rich Text widget now offers flexible approaches to handling images in your content. While the standard inline adding of images within text continues to work well for most scenarios, we’ve added a new “Image from entity” feature for situations involving larger images or image-heavy content. This alternative approach lets you store images in the database as proper image entities and reference them in your rich text content, providing performance benefits when working with substantial visual content. The setup requires some simple modeling effort (see docs) but gives you more control over how images are stored and rendered in your applications. You can also download a preconfigured sample module from our Github (Assets > RichTextWithUploadImage.mpk).

Calendar v2

We’ve revamped the Calendar widget with React compatibility and added several highly requested features. Now you can display just the relevant hours of a day instead of the full 24-hour view – a popular capability that’s perfect for business scheduling. Week displays can start and end on days that match your business needs or regional preferences, and the calendar intelligently adjusts its height based on content. Even your busiest days are covered with support for displaying more than 20 items in a single day. Keep in mind that upgrading from previous versions will require reconfiguration due to the framework change.

App insights feedback

Combine multiple feedback items into one story

Tired of duplicate or fragmented stories? You can now select multiple feedback items and merge them into a single new story in Epics. This flexibility helps you avoid redundancy and makes it easier to manage related feedback in one place.

Instantly convert feedback into stories with Maia

Maia is now integrated into App Insights, making it effortless to turn feedback into high-quality, backlog-ready stories in seconds. Just select one or more feedback items, and Maia generates detailed stories for your backlog, saving you time and keeping your backlog organized.

Link new feedback to existing stories

Close the loop faster! You can now attach new feedback directly to existing stories in Epics. This ensures all related insights stay connected and helps your team track the full context without cluttering your backlog with duplicate stories.

Epics

Better visibility: See linked feedback in stories

We’ve made it easier to stay informed. Feedback linked to a story is now clearly visible within the story details in Epics. Quickly see all related feedback without switching tabs, so you never miss important context while you work.

Create apps with LTS/MTS versions of Studio Pro directly in the portal

You can now select between LTS (Long-Term Support) and MTS (Medium-Term Support) versions when creating a new app in the Mendix Portal. This update supports teams that follow strict version policies or prefer to avoid using the most recent releases for production work. It’s part of our ongoing effort to make app creation faster, more consistent, and better aligned with enterprise needs.

Governance – security risk

Software composition findings

Are you spending time manually tracking the dependencies in your software landscape? Are you confident your applications are keeping up with the latest versions to reduce security risks?

Software Composition is here to help you manage your application landscape dependencies and security risks.
You can now track outdated and deprecated component findings, identifying which applications and modules need an update.

See the video below for an introduction.

Governance – user risk

Platform user deactivation API

Offboarding platform users just got easier. With our new Platform User Deactivation API, you can now automatically block access to the Mendix platform for users who have left your organization or changed roles.

Even though usage of SSO (BYO-IdP) already prevents login, deactivation adds clarity across the platform—clearly distinguishing active from inactive users. It also enhances security: deactivated users cannot use Personal Access Tokens (PATs) to access platform APIs.

This API helps you comply with company access governance policies and replaces the previously deprecated endpoint, which will be retired in November 2025.

IdP-managed Mendix admins

We’re excited to introduce IdP-managed Mendix Administrators, a new feature that lets you control platform admin access directly from your corporate Identity Provider (IdP).

This approach aligns with enterprise IAM best practices and helps prevent privilege creep. Most organizations already have IT processes in place for requesting and approving access to sensitive roles—this feature plugs right into those workflows. This means no more manual admin assignments —access is granted or revoked automatically at login, based on group membership in your IdP.

Currently in Limited Availability, IdP-managed admins require Mendix-assisted onboarding. If you’re ready to bring your admin governance to the next level, get in touch with us today!

Smart and agentic apps (also available for Mendix 10)

Run your computer with your Mendix agent

Function calling with large language models opens up a wide range of possibilities—and in this blog post, we’re zeroing in on one powerful use case: enabling your Mendix app to operate a computer. That means executing actions like clicking, typing, and navigating apps based on user input. Our example uses a virtual machine to handle these commands, powered by Amazon Bedrock’s Anthropic Claude Sonnet 3.7. Check out our post on computer use as well as the showcase app to try it yourself.

High-performance search with Azure AI

Azure AI Search is now a platform-supported knowledge base option for our OpenAI connector. This enterprise-ready addition maintains full compatibility with our common GenAI toolset, offering the same powerful features you know from our Amazon Bedrock and Mendix Cloud GenAI connectors. Choose the knowledge base that best suits your needs, link it to your GenAI Agent or integrate it into your custom microflow logic using the well-known drag-and-drop experience of our GenAI commons toolbox.

Unlock universal knowledge in the latest Agent Builder Starter App release

A new version of the Agent Builder Starter app has been published to support vendor-agnostic knowledge base integration – a feature provided through the latest GenAICommons updates and reflected in the agent builder of AgentCommons v1.3.0. With this upgrade, it also becomes possible to add Azure AI Search or PgVector knowledge bases. Learn by example how to define a GenAI Agent that taps into knowledge bases, app data, and app logic—then build a chat assistant experience on top using GenAI Commons, Agent Commons, and Conversational UI.

Function calling simplified: Enabling multiple input parameters

Simplify your function implementations with our latest update: multiple input parameters in a single function call. No more need to first create a JSON structure and then import it to bring several parameters into a tool call. You can now use input parameters of any primitive type instead of one single string input. This new feature is available for all our connectors depending on the GenAICommons module:

• Mendix Cloud GenAI
• Amazon Bedrock
• OpenAI

Unlock custom authentication in your MCP server

As the Model Context Protocol (MCP) framework continues to evolve, we’re evolving alongside it. Our latest MCP Server module update introduces the flexibility to define your own authentication logic through custom microflows, giving you control over how your MCP Server authenticates requests.

Miscellaneous: Enhanced user experience

Experience our redesigned GenAI showcase app featuring an intuitive landing page and cleaner navigation structure. The Agent Commons received a small facelift as well and in addition, setting up MCP Servers in Mendix is now automated – the system intelligently generates the required schema JSON based on your selected microflow, eliminating the need for manual schema writing.

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