Change Log 6.x

This page lists the detailled content of recent releases:

 

Obeo Designer 6.2.1 (17/01/2013)

  • Built on Kepler SR1
  • Sequence Diagram improvements
  • New variables added to Edge Style customization (diagram, view, sourceView and targetView).
  • Enum management with Acceleo 3
  • Complete CSV export of multiline labels in tables
  • Other bug fixes

 

Obeo Designer 6.2.0 (16/10/2013)

This release comes with many improvements and new functionnalities.

Here are the main ones:

  • New interpreters for features, variables and services
  • Possibility to define the default size of a container at creation
  • Progress bars added on long lasting actions
  • Support of Postgresql 9.1
  • Drag & drop of an element drops it at the mouse position in a container
  • Tools can't be created outside a layer anymore
  • Add tool variables definitions in the documentation
  • « Hide label by default » now works on Bordered nodes
  • All tools now refresh the tree
  • Better support of tabbar in Eclipse 4.x
  • Integration of EMF Compare 2.1
  • Integration of EEF 1.2
  • Integration of CDO 4.2

This release also fixes bugs and performance issues.

 

Obeo Designer 6.1.4 (17/01/2013)

  • New variables added to Edge Style customization (diagram, view, sourceView and targetView).
  • Enum management with Acceleo 3
  • Complete CSV export of multiline labels in tables
  • Other bug fixes

 

Obeo Designer 6.1.3 (24/10/2013)

  • Fix regarding the EMF version (forced to EMF 2.8)

 

Obeo Designer 6.1.2 (04/10/2013)

  • Bug fixes and performance improvements

 

Obeo Designer 6.1.1 (15/04/2013)

  • Display folders tree on a shared project
  • Documentation updates

 

Obeo Designer 6.1.0 (15/01/2013)

This release comes with many improvements and new functionnalities.

Here are the main ones:

  • Collaborative mode
    • Ready-to-deploy CDO server (read more...)
    • Console to administrate the CDO server (read more...)
    • Documentation about Collaborative mode includes links to Video demonstrations
  • Models management
    • A model with all its representations can be exported to a static html+javascript website (read more...)
    • Automatically updates the models reference according to automatically added semantic resources
    • Saving optimizations
  • Representations improvement
    • [Diagram] Possibility to customize the tabbar (read more...)
    • [Diagram] Specification of a default value displayed by a Direct Edit tool
    • [Diagram] Conditional Style customisable at the property level (read more...)
    • [Diagram] Filter field (regex) added in the select dialog to set a background image on a diagram element
    • [Diagram] Support of "Workspace Image" on shared diagrams (images are saved on the server)
    • [Sequence diagram] New style to represent quotations (like mesures in technical drawing) (read more...)
    • [Sequence diagram] Support of intervals
    • [Sequence diagram] Freeze the top of the lifelines in a Scenario (read more...)
    • [Table] Drag & drop to diagrams
    • [Table] Hidden lines and columns exported in csv table
    • [Tree] Drag & drop to diagrams
  • Floating license support (read more...)
  • Acceleo 3 integration
    • Display compile errors in Acceleo 3 interpreted expressions
    • Java services are listed by the completion of Acceleo 3 expressions.
    • Integrate the latest Acceleo 3.3.x
  • EEF 1.2 integration
    • Performances improvement
    • Smart model navigation
    • Improvement of the integration with the property view
    • New testing framework
  • Traceability component has been removed.
  • Support for Eclipse Juno 3.8 (read more...)

This release also fixes bugs and performance issues.

 

Obeo Designer 6.0.5 (20/09/2013)

This release fixes a bug on Acceleo 3.

 

Obeo Designer 6.0.4 (11/09/2013)

This release fixes bugs on tables, collaborative mode and Acceleo 3 integration.

 

Obeo Designer 6.0.3 (12/12/2012)

This release fixes bugs and performance issues on collaboration features.

 

Obeo Designer 6.0.2 (20/08/2012)

This release fixes bugs and performance issues on collaboration features and Acceleo 3 support.

It also comes with many improvements. Here is a few of the noteworthy ones:

  • Acceleo 3.2.2 integration.
  • Remove the choice of Model Object in Ecore Modeling Project creation wizard.
  • Drag & drop support from tables to diagrams.
  • Display compile errors in interpreted expressions.
  • Completion proposes only the current metamodel.
  • Ctrl+Enter to edit multi-lines labels on diagram elements.
  • Completion of Acceleo 3 expressions shows the available Java services.
  • Transparent images on containers.

 

Obeo Designer 6.0.1 (22/05/2012)

This release corrects some minor bugs related to the packaging and documentation.

Obeo Designer 6.0.0 (11/05/2012)

This release is a major version of Obeo Designer. It comes with many improvements described below.

(Note that a synthesis of this release can be found here: What's new in Obeo Designer 6.0).

Collaborative work with CDO

  • Implicit lock
  • Explicit lock
  • Export local project
  • Import remote project

Workbench improvements

  • New "Modeling" perspective
  • Renaming "Design" perspective to "Viewpoint" perspective
  • New project nature (Modeling) to manage Obeo Designer representations
  • Automatic session opening when opening a modeling project
  • Removal of the Model Content view : model content is now presented in the explorer views, under the model file.
  • Management of representations from the explorer views
  • Representations are listed before contained semantic elements in the explorer view
  • With the "Link with Editor" option selected, diagram elements are selected when clicking on semantic elements in the explorer view
  • Better end user information when launching Repair\Migrate on a fragmented model
  • Integration of the Acceleo 3 requesto
  • Support of Eclipse 3.7 (Indigo) as the reference platform

Diagram improvements

  • Multiple labels on edge
  • Edges towards edges
  • Automatic refresh when external modifications occur
  • Improved copy-paste
  • Better resolution of jpg image of exported diagrams
  • Highlight target when reconnecting an edge
  • Hide notes attached to hidden objects
  • New layouting mode to preserve model elements when reorganizing the diagram
  • By default diagram elements are resizable
  • Capabality to set a font to both Bold and Italic
  • Capabality to change mapping used for copy/paste layout
  • Capability to associate a viewpoint to multiple file extensions
  • SVG support
    • Workspace image figures
    • Basic shapes
  • Sequence Diagram improvements
    • Capability to move events in/out combined fragment
    • Capability for combined fragment to encompass existing sequence events
    • More possibilities for resizing executions and siblings inclusion
    • Support of timers in sequence diagrams
    • Support of lost and found messages in sequence diagrams
    • Capability to move executions and complex patterns from/into operands

Viewpoint Specification Model Editor improvements

  • Possibility to write expressions in Acceleo 3
  • Smart completion of Acceleo 3 expressions
  • Static typing of Acceleo 3 expressions
  • New labels and icons
  • Option to show the type name of specification elements
  • Remove deprecated properties ("askUser" and "rootInstanceType")

Optimizations

  • Change XML load options to improve AIRD resources loading times
  • Improve table metamodel to reduce the disk space use

Build/Dev

  • New framework for remote representation for junit tests
  • Tycho based build

Acceleo

  • New Interpreter view
  • Warning support
  • Documentation support
  • Binary serialization
  • Stand alone compilation
  • TODO/FIXME support
  • JRE selection in the new project wizard
  • Performance improvements
  • Improved dynamic modules extension point
  • Improved outline view
  • Improved builder
  • Improved Ant/Maven suport
  • Improved traceability

 

Changes in previous releases are described here: Change Log 5.0.x