ENHANCED SAS SUPPORT
Value Labels can now be written directly to native Windows SAS catalog files (sas7cat)
Optional control over date, time and date-time formats used for writing.
All SAS date and time formats are recognized on reading.
Labels for SAS extended missing are now supported.
EXTENDED ATTRIBUTE SUPPORT
Variable- and File-level metadata are now supported for reading and writing from the following formats:
SAS (extended attributes)
Stata 15-16/MP
JMP (attributes)
Stata (characteristics)
ASCII – Stat/Transfer Schemas
FORMATS
Stat/Transfer Version 14 has added support for the following formats:
Stata 15//MP
BayesiaLab (Write Only)
JSON-Stat (Read Only)
LARGER LIMITS
Excel Files > 4 GB
SAS files > 32K variables
Stata Files > 32K variables
dBASE > 2GB
OTHER NEW FEATURES
Directory recursion is now available in the wildcard copy command
An extra variables can be created from the sheet name when combining worksheets
Extra string variables can be created from value labels when writing to delimited ASCII, described by a schema. These can then be read back in any format.
Much faster read of R files.
Postgres support in ODBC.