The Road Ahead

Many longstanding applications have roots in now surpassed technologies, practices and programming languages. Work on Camino and its' various dependencies started over fifteen years ago and was written in the language we were most familar with, Visual Basic.NET (VB).

A lot has changed since the first working builds of Camino, and VB is now effectively a dead language. Microsoft has ceased development and there will no additional features will be added to it. It will remain support for at least until 2029, but anything written in it will be unable to leverage new tools and functionality within the .NET architecture.

Consequently, we have engaged in a long-term program of converting and rebuilding our applications and libraries to C#. This was not something that could be done overnight and has had to be done alongside the normal day-to-day upgrades, updates and application release schedule.

With the 19th July 2024 release of Camino (version 2.5.3555), it and all Calzada Media dependent libraries are now written in C#. In the coming weeks, we will be rolling out this version to active Camino customers.

This isn't the end of development for Camino. We've got a significant number of planned upgrades and new features we are planning to roll out in the coming months.

We've made some update to our Data Retention Policy to reflect recent tweaks to our email logging and recording. We've also cleaned up some language to make a few points clearer.

The updated Data Retention Policy along with all our other legal documents and policies may be found in the Legal section accessible by click on the Legal & Privacy link found at the bottom of every page.

We've made a few, minor changes to a couple of our legal documents. There have been no changes to our existing legal declarations and policies.

Cookies

We have removed references to a couple of now retired hosting servers and corrected a couple of typos with external links.

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Free Software Licence

The software licence that applies to any free software or application we release has been published.

Read the Free Software Licence.

Happy New Year and best wishes for a prosperous 2019 to all.

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