http://www.soliantconsulting.com/blog

The release of Version 16 of the FileMaker Platform brings with it a host of new security features reaching across the entire platform.

FileMaker Platform developers as well as our customers and clients who are data owners need to take a variety of steps to protect their FileMaker Platform Business Solutions. Threat Agents of many varieties seek to exploit vulnerabilities that might exist in those solutions to compromise them, to steal data, to alter data, or to destroy data. Continued existence and functioning of the business itself, regulatory requirements, civil and criminal liability, and brand reputation protection all argue strongly for robust security.

As we move more and more towards the Cloud and to Software as a Service, security as a fundamental business requirement will become more and more important. I do not want to see the loud and public dismissal of the FileMaker Platform from an organization as the result of a security breach that is otherwise preventable.

I am very pleased to see the new security features in FileMaker Pro 16 for controlling external API’s. They allow developers to protect files from manipulation and compromise by unauthorized persons. This feature is of particular importance to developers of vertical-market business solutions as well as to any others offering demo or trial versions of their products. These new features help close vulnerabilities that attackers could exploit. This is a major and significant new security enhancement, and I commend FileMaker, Inc. for including it in the new release.

Steven H. Blackwell

Here's another:

https://www.geistinteractive.com/2017/05/09/filemaker-16-biggest-change-since-filemaker-7/

One thing that we haven't heard anywhere and only discovered today, is that FM16 now also displays the sliding panel animation as on Mac and iOS.

Especially Windows users are being treated bigtime with the application window gone. Finally.