Please take some time to read the various web pages that make up the release notes. The links are found at the top of this page. You might find that a particular feature of Helix you rely on is not currently supported, or is modified in a significant way. Educate yourself before you wade in.

Remember: There is no guarantee these Preview Releases will be stable or complete enough for you to use. You should be prepared to revert to your Helix 6.x Classic applications, should it be necessary.

Beginning with the June 30, 2008 Preview Release, the Helix Engine is no longer be pre-enabled. If you own Helix RADE 6.x, you can use your free Helix Engine 6.0 license — you’ll find it listed on your account’s Current Keys page — to enable the Helix Engine for PowerPC Preview Release. In order to use the Helix Engine for Intel Preview Release, you must upgrade your Helix Engine 6.0 license(s) to Helix Engine 6.1.

To report a bug in the Preview Release, log in to our technical support database (techdb) with the current Helix Client. (Detailed instructions are found in the Reporting Bugs & Quirks section of this site.) Bugs reports should not be filed via email, phone call, or any other method.

To participate in the interactive bug reporting system, you must have the correct Helix Client to visit our techdb database. Click here to see current information for accessing techdb.

We know there is too much information on these pages for it to sink in all at once. So after you have downloaded the Preview Release and taken it for a spin, please come back and re-read these web pages; you might save yourself a lot of agony.

And be sure to check out the Help menu — you will find Engine-specific help built on the standard OS X Help Viewer format. This is much better than the old Classic Helix help!

Helix Engine for PowerPC 6.1.2 (070) (Released July 11, 2008)

Helix Engine for Intel 6.1.2 (070) (Released July 11, 2008)

Helix Client for PowerPC 6.1.2 (070) (Released July 11, 2008)

Helix Client for Intel 6.1.2 (070) (Released July 11, 2008)