What are the new features included in the new version of SAS i.e., SAS9.1.3? | SAS Programming Interview Questions

The main advantage of version 9 is faster execution of applications and centralized access of data and support.
There are lots of changes has been made in the version 9 when we compared with the version 8. The following are the few:SAS version 9 supports Formats longer than 8 bytes & is not possible with version 8.
Length for Numeric format allowed in version 9 is 32 where as 8 in version 8.
Length for Character names in version 9 is 31 where as in version 8 is 32.
Length for numeric informat in version 9 is 31, 8 in version 8.
Length for character names is 30, 32 in version 8.3 new informats are available in version 9 to convert various date, time and datetime forms of data into a SAS date or SAS time.
ANYDTDTEW. - Converts to a SAS date value
ANYDTTMEW. - Converts to a SAS time value.  
ANYDTDTMW. -Converts to a SAS datetime value.
CALL SYMPUTX Macro statement is added in the version 9 which creates a macro variable at execution time in the data step by steps
Trimming trailing blanks
Automatically converting numeric value to character.
New ODS option (COLUMN OPTION) is included to create a multiple columns in the output.