The 2018 Driver update includes enhancements to the Driver engine, support for new data sources, and significant upgrades to API Server and Sync products. The ADO.NET Data Providers have been updated with .NET Standard 2.0 assemblies supporting .NET Core, Mono, and Xamarin, discontinuing the Xamarin Editions but adding mobile development support out of the box. CData Sync 2018 features a consolidated web-based configuration interface, new source and database destinations, extended data transformation capabilities, and an all-new management API. The SQL to NoSQL Mapping Enhancements include relational modeling capabilities for hierarchical data and JSON data access with parent-child relationships into related tables. Additional updates include federated authentication capabilities, improved bulk update performance, and new releases and beta drivers. Users can download a free 30-day trial of any Driver to see the ease of connecting to live data.