New ODS destinations are EPUB, EPUB3, HTML5, and the ODS destination for PowerPoint.

In the first maintenance release for SAS 9.4, you can apply cascading style sheets (CSS) to many types of
ODS output.

In the first maintenance release for SAS 9.4, the ODS EPUB3 statement supports HTML5, CSS2, CSS3,
SVG, and user-specified audio and video. Any e-book reader that supports EPUB3 supports ODS EPUB3 audio and
video.

The Output Delivery System (ODS) Report Writing Interface (RWI) enables you to create and manipulate
predefined ODS objects in a DATA step to create highly customized output.

The ODS LAYOUT statement enables you to specify the exact location on the page to place a layout and
region container.

There are three new ODS procedures: PROC ODSLIST, PROC ODSTABLE, and PROC ODSTEXT.
The default style for all Printer family destinations (PS, PDF, PCL) has changed from Styles.Printer to
Styles.Pearl.

The default HTML style for z/OS has changed from Styles.Default to Styles.Htmlblue.

There are three new ODS Graphics style attributes: DATASKIN, FILLPATTERN=, and KPISKIN.

There are four new ODS statements: ODS POWERPOINT, ODS EPUB, ODS LAYOUT, and ODS HTML5.

The second maintenance release for SAS 9.4 has these enhancements:

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The statements ODS EPUB, ODS EPUB3, and ODS ESCAPECHAR support these functions to
format data: BOLD, EMPHASIS, ITALIC, PDF, and STRONG.
The ODS HTML5 statement supports options to show graph styles in the output and to turn off the
default CSS style information.
Several ODS tagsets have been deprecated.
The Output Delivery System: User's Guide as been dividen into three publications:
SAS Output Delivery System: User's Guide
SAS Output Delivery System: Procedure's Guide
SAS Output Delivery System: Advanced Topics
Enhanced ODS Graphics
The ODS Graphics suite of products includes the Graph Template Language, ODS Graphics procedures, ODS Graphics
Designer, and ODS Graphics Editor.

The ODS Graphics products provide several new plot types, including axis tables that create an axis-aligned
row or column of textual data.

Numerous plot layout, panel, and axis options have been added to control and enhance the output of your
graphs. For example, you can now customize the appearance attributes for group values without changing the ODS
style template. You can also now specify a color-priority rotation pattern for cycling graph data attributes.

A new sub-pixel rendering feature provides smoother curves for line charts and more consistent spacing in bar
charts.

The ODS Graphics products provide more options for fitting or splitting data labels, curve labels, and axis tick
values when there is not enough room to display the text normally. The data label positioning algorithm was improved to
better position the data labels with their data markers. In addition, data markers can now be adjusted when multiple
observations have the same response value.

The ODS Graphics Designer introduces an Auto Charts feature that generates a variety of graphs
automatically, based on your data.

In the first maintenance release for SAS 9.4, ODS Graphics has new and revised plots, charts, and panels.

In the second maintenance release for SAS 9.4, the ODS Graphics procedures have a new text plot, a new
gradient legend, and several new options. The Graph Template Language has a new text plot and several new and
revised statement options.
Increased Security
SAS/SECURE is a product within the SAS System, and it is now included with Base SAS. A separate license for
SAS/SECURE is no longer required. This change makes strong encryption available in all deployments (except where
prohibited by import restrictions).
SAS/SECURE increases data security by using the industry standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) with 64-bit
salt. See Encryption in SAS 9.4.
The enhanced ENCRYPT= data set option now supports AES encryption. This enables you to use the AES algorithm for
stronger encryption.
Data sets in a metadata repository can be secured by placing them in a metadata-bound library. A metadata-bound
library is a physical library that is tied to a corresponding metadata object.
The first maintenance release for SAS 9.4 incorporates a new default location for the TLS Certificate Authority for UNIX
and z/OS foundation servers, and support for Subject Alternative Names in TLS certificates on UNIX and z/OS clients
and servers. Authorized users of metadata-bound libraries can access data without supplying the key-in code.
In the second release for SAS 9.4 on UNIX and z/OS, SAS supports OpenSSL 1.0.1h, which provides support for SSL
3.0 and TLS version 1.0, 1.1, and 1.2. SSL 2.0 is not longer supported.
In the third maintenance release of SAS 9.4, the SAS Deployment Wizard (SDW) automates the process of updating
the TLS certificates on UNIX servers. TLS version 1.0. 1.1, and 1.2 are supported.
Procedures Enhancements

The APPEND, COPY, and CONTENTS statements support AES encryption.

The CONTENTS statement prints the International Components for Unicode (ICU) revision number.

The DATASETS procedure supports extended attributes.

The DELETE procedure enables you to delete SAS files from the disk or tape on which it is stored.

The JSON procedure reads data from a SAS data set and writes the data to an external file in JSON
representation.
The MIGRATE procedure supports extended attributes.
The OPTIONS procedure supports the new LISTOPTSAVE option which lists the system options that can be
saved by using the OPTSAVE procedure or the DMOPTSAVE command.

The PRINT procedure support the SUMLABEL= option and the GRANDTOTAL_LABEL= option enable you to
specify labels for the BY group total and grand total values.