Development Notes

Engineering progress without pretending every milestone is a launch.

Short public notes about the direction of Safire development. Detailed internal implementation evidence is intentionally kept separate from the marketing story.

From milestones to capability
Safire engineering and tools illustration
Illustrative product concept. Detailed features and technical references follow below.
September - October 2026

Engineering changes through 22 October.

Selected milestones from the Safire development programme, newest first.

22 October 2026

Business-first platform presentation

The public Safire offering brings IDE, language, SafireDB, Source Vault, web services, automation and AI into a coherent product story.

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October 2026

SafireIDE: solution status, visual designer and ER diagrams

New IDE working views connect solution/project status, database relationships, form layout, controls and modifiers.

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October 2026

SafireAgent and scripting integration

SafireAgent tooling and Safire automation work extends project-aware development with controlled execution, persistence and evidence-based workflows.

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5 October 2026

Safire Alpha 0.3 release baseline frozen

Alpha 0.3 was verified and frozen with signing and distribution checks, accompanied by Debug/Release build and relocation validation.

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September 2026

Controls and visual RAD foundations advanced

Designer alignment, layout, binding, validation, events, source round-trip, Browse/Grid and control metadata moved forward with focused regression gates.

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September 2026

Source Vault checkpoint and recovery programme

Verified checkpoints and historical source protection provide the foundation for project continuity and Team Vault collaboration.

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September 2026

Web identity and administration security milestones

The web stack gained stronger TLS/session, authentication, MFA/WebAuthn and user administration foundations through dedicated acceptance work.

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September 2026

Safire Database-first development direction

SafireDB Native became the primary provider, with SQLite explicitly supported and the Analysis/Dictionary authoritative for schema definitions.

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18 August 2026

Team Vault V2 foundations

Safire’s team architecture is being extended around registered identities, explicit trust, source-unit permissions, collaboration and long-lived retained history.

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August 2026

SafireIDE professional workflow

Current work is increasingly focused on visual designer behaviour, application-model truth, events, properties, control workflows and the developer experience around real business screens.

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August 2026

SQL Manager authority model

Database design is being aligned with the authoritative Safire project/dictionary while standalone SQL operations remain available without creating a second schema truth.

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