Here's a guest blog post from experienced Sugar Developer and active DevClub member André Lopes.

Hi there,

The Flex Relate field type (aka parent field) is pretty useful as everybody knows, but it has an important limitation: It doesn't support the out of the box the populate_list vardefs attribute. Even on version 10.0.1 that feature is missing as per some comments in methods format and…

Hello Sugar Developers!

We have another release for you with new features and fixes! We are calling this one Sugar Q4 2020 (or Sugar 10.2.0). This release is for cloud customers only.

Here are some of the new features and fixes for this release. This is not an exhaustive list of everything we did for Sugar 10.2 - just the items that we thought would be important for a developer to take note of. 

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