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Native Apple Silicon (arm64) support - Skipper now runs natively on Apple Silicon Macs as a Universal 2 (arm64 + Intel) build, no Rosetta required. (New!)

Native Windows on ARM (ARM64) support - Skipper now runs natively on Windows on ARM devices as a dedicated ARM64 build, no x64 emulation required. (New!)

Native 64-bit Windows package - Skipper is now distributed as a native x64 build alongside the existing 32-bit one, lifting the address-space limit of the 32-bit process on very large models. (New!)

Security and stability: upgraded the core third-party library stack - OpenSSL 3.6.3, Boost 1.91, and refreshed vcpkg-managed libraries (libcurl, libxml2/libxslt and others), rebuilt with the current Visual Studio 2019 (v142) toolset.

Updated the Qt framework to 5.15.19 (KDE Patch Collection), adding accumulated upstream fixes on top of the maintained Qt 5.15 LTS series.

Linux builds are now compiled on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and macOS builds on macOS 15.

Linux system requirements: the Linux package now requires glibc 2.35 or newer. It runs on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Debian 12, Fedora 36 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 and their later releases.

Laravel migrations: changing a property of a column that already has a unique index (for example NOT NULL to nullable) no longer tries to create that index a second time. The migration failed with 'Duplicate key name'.

Knex migrations: changing a property of a column that already has a unique index no longer re-creates the index. Turning a primary key into a plain unique column no longer drops an index that does not exist.

Laravel migrations: after() is no longer generated inside change(). The column is already in place, so it only forced a full table rebuild on MySQL and was ignored by the other database platforms.

Laravel and Knex migrations: rolling back a changed named index now restores its previous type, name, and columns instead of repeating the forward definition.

Laravel and Knex migrations: changing a named index now replaces the previous definition before creating the updated one, preventing duplicate index errors.

Laravel migrations: removing a property from a named index now replaces the previous index definition instead of generating an empty migration.

Doctrine 2 attributes: a trailing comma inside a PHP 8 attribute group or argument list (as written by code formatters such as Prettier) no longer produces an empty attribute and invalid PHP on re-export; the same fix covers docblock annotation argument lists [(support-ticket)](https://www.skipper18.com/support/4462/formatted-php-attributes-leads-to-invalid-php-on-next-export)

Doctrine 2 attributes: attribute overrides now export valid PHP 8 code. The nested ORM\Column inside ORM\AttributeOverrides was written without the new keyword, so PHP rejected the generated file with Constant expression contains invalid operations. [(support-ticket)](https://www.skipper18.com/support/4468/using-orm-attribute-overrides-produces-invalid-attributes)

Doctrine 2 attributes: importing attribute overrides no longer loses their content. Every override inside ORM\AttributeOverrides was dropped during the import and came back as an empty list on the next export.