Yesterday, a new version of the MetaTrader 5 platform has been released by MetaQuotes — Build 1495. Today, it has become available on some of the brokers' demo and live servers. The new build focuses on major changes to MQL5 language: Removed support for casting string type to bool type. Now it is not possible to check whether a string variable is true or false — the code line trying to do that will result in compilation error. You should explicitly check the string value using StringCompare() function or other means. This change will create quite a lot of problems for the developers expert advisors and indicators. Added CopyTicksRange() function to receive ticks history into an array of MqlTick type for a specified date range. Added new methods to CCanvas class of the standard library to draw shapes with improved anti-aliasing. Added reference docs for the graphical functions of the standard library added in the build 1485. Added key press status (some keys only, e.g. Esc, Enter, NumLock, arrows, etc.) to the terminal properties. Can be retrieved with TerminalInfoInteger(TERMINAL_KEYSTATE_*) calls. Fixed some other bugs and errors. MetaQuotes' release announcement is available here: https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/53/page18#comment_3905997 If you find a bug or some undocumented feature in the new build, please post about it here.
