FileMaker Pro (formerly Claris FileMaker).Discontinuation įileMaker announced on July 31, 2013, that it would completely discontinue the Bento product line on September 30, 2013, with technical support for Bento products finally ending on July 30, 2014.
Doing so would have strongly delayed the 2.0.3 version of Bento, which we will be releasing as a free update for Bento 2.0.1/2.0.2 this week, and continued development of the Bento product line.Īs of May 20, 2012, the price for Bento 4 was $49 for a single license, or $99 for a "Family Pack" of five licenses. We would have to reengineer 1.0 until it effectively became 2.0. Simply put, this means that there is no way to easily migrate the fixes in 2.0 backwards to 1.0. In addressing product issues discovered after 1.0.2 for the 2.0 release, we reworked the product in significant, and sometimes, architectural ways. We followed up with Bento 1.0.2 to address critical issues that had been discovered.
Given interest in a revision, this was neither a quick, nor an easy decision to come to.īento 1 received extensive beta testing, but like every software product, issues were discovered after shipment. Many customers expressed their disappointment at the official Bento user forums, where FileMaker responded that they were using the "same pricing model" as other companies' products such as Apple's iWork and iLife suites.Īdditionally, on November 25, FileMaker provided an official statement indicating that they would discontinue revisions and bug fixes for the version 1 product. The new version did not offer upgrade pricing and cost the same as version 1. On October 14, 2008, FileMaker released Bento 2.0 with bug fixes and new features, including integration with Apple's Mail. On June 16, 2009, FileMaker launched its own template-sharing site where users could download a variety of templates as well as share their own. With the release of Bento 2 on October 14, 2008, Bento users could import, export and share their templates. Version history Bento ReleasesĪ Bento template was a pre-made library with all the forms necessary to catalog items within a certain context. Release schedule Ī public preview was made available alongside the initial product announcement on November 13, 2007, with the first final version released on January 8, 2008. It also included integration with Time Machine for backing up and required iCal 3.0 (later renamed Calendar) for live data editing. Certain actions, such as switching templates, used Core Animation to animate the transition. Bento was only compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 or later due to its reliance on features not available in previous versions of the operating system.
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