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[sirius-dev] [ANN] Sirius 2.0.0
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Hi all.
On behalf of the whole team, I'm happy to announce the official
availability of the Sirius 2.0.0 release. Congratulations to everyone
involved!
== Availability ==
Sirius 2.0.0 final is available from the following update sites:
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/juno
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/kepler
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/luna
They all correspond to the exact same source code, but built against a
different base Eclipse version. We recommended you use the update-site
matching the version of Eclipse you use to avoid potential issues at
runtime.
This version includes the complete JUnit and SWTBot test suites used to
validate Sirius. They are published along with all their dependencies in
separate update-sites from the core, available at:
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/juno/tests
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/kepler/tests
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/2.0.0/luna/tests
If you want to install the org.eclipse.sirius.tests.support feature,
which provides APIs to help create automated tests of Sirius-based
modelers, you will need to add the following update-site:
* SWTBot 2.1.1:
http://download.eclipse.org/technology/swtbot/releases/2.1.1/
If you want to install and run the test suites themselves, you will also
need the following additional update-site:
* Sirius Support for Legacy Queries:
http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/legacy
It is needed to run the tests which use an old query language (which is
now superseded by Acceleo 3 and the core feature:/var:/service:
interpreters).
Note for Juno users: Sirius depends on more recent versions of some
components that what is available by default from a Juno install. You
need to add the following update-sites if you want to install Sirius
2.0.0 on Juno:
* Orbit:
http://download.eclipse.org/tools/orbit/downloads/drops/R20140525021250/repository/
* Acceleo 3.4 (or 3.5):
http://download.eclipse.org/acceleo/updates/releases/3.4/ (resp.
http://download.eclipse.org/acceleo/updates/releases/3.5/)
* EEF 1.2 (or 1.3):
http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/updates/releases/1.2
(resp. http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/emft/eef/updates/releases/1.3)
== Compatibility ==
Sirius 2.0.0 is compatible with the following versions of Eclipse:
* Eclipse 3.8/4.2 (Juno)
* Eclipse 4.3 (Kepler)
* Eclipse 4.4 (Luna)
It should also be compatible with milestone builds for Eclipse 4.5
(Mars), although this has not been thoroughly tested.
== New & Noteworthy ==
The complete list of (109) tickets fixed in Sirius 2.0.0 can be found on
the Bugzilla [1].
The major themes for this version were:
* Ergonomic Improvements on Diagrams: see below.
* Better Performance and Scalability: see the blog post at [2] for
additional information and the list of corresponding tickets [3] for the
raw details.
* Contribution of the Automated Test Suites (JUnit and SWTbot) with more
than 4500 automated tests.
=== Ergonomic Improvements on Diagrams ===
* It is now possible to select element that intersects the selection
rectangle and not that is completely contained by the selection
rectangle. This new behavior is enabled when user selects elements from
right to left. The normal mode (previous mode) remains when the user
selects elements from left to right.
* The edges appearance is now kept, as much as possible, when one of its
extremity is moved. A move of an extremity should move only the closest
segment of the edge.
* The edges appearance is kept as much as possible when a node
(container or not) is moved. A move of a node now impacts only the
closest segment of the linked edges.
* When a node, container or not, is resized to the left, upwards, or
both, the location of its children (elements inside a container and
border nodes) is not changed. It is possible to retrieve the previous
behavior by pressing the F3 function key during the resize.
* The "snap to shapes" is now enabled by default (see _Sirius > Sirius
Diagram > Rulers and Grid_ preference page). This is true only for new
diagrams. The existing diagrams are not impacted.
* The "Navigate" top-level contextual menu entry with mixed actions for
creating new representations and opening existing ones has been changed
by two top-level menus:
** One named "New", which lists only the available actions to create new
representations on the selected element.
** One named "Open", which lists only the existing representations on
the selected element.
* When a shape is resized (no matter the direction), the edge(s)
connection location (toward or from this one) is kept. Before that,
edges connections moved according to the ratio of the resizing.
* There is now the possibility to distribute the selected shapes (see
"Sirius User Manual/Diagrams/Features Overview/Distribute
elements":user/diagrams/Diagrams.html#distribute for more details):
Distribute gaps horizontally or vertically, Distribute centers
horizontally or vertically
* The end user can now remove all bend-points between the two edge ends.
This action is available on edge context menu "Remove Bend-points" or by
using the shortcut "Ctrl" + "Shift" + "-".
* Reconnection of an edge will only now move the minimum necessary
bendpoints instead of reseting it to default.
* A new action has been added to reset the diagram (or container)
origin: the diagram (or container) bounds (the rectangle formed by the
highest, the leftmost, the lowest and the rightmost children elements)
can have a negative origin or can be shifted toward the bottom-right
with a blank zone at the top-left. This action aims to move all diagram
(or container) elements so that the it retrieves its origin while
keeping elements layout.
== Known Issues ==
The following important issues are present in the 2.0.0 release. They
were identified after the code freeze and could not be fixed in time. If
possible (i.e. no API break needed), they will be fixed in 2.0.x
maintenance releases.
* https://bugs.eclipse.org/445179: issue in a corner case scenario
related to https://bugs.eclipse.org/445195
* https://bugs.eclipse.org/448739: issue in a corner case scenario
related to https://bugs.eclipse.org/437528
Best regards,
Pierre-Charles David (Sirius co-lead)
[1]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=Modeling&product=Sirius&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=2.0.0
[2]
http://model-driven-blogging.blogspot.fr/2014/10/sirius-20-under-hood.html
[3]
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/buglist.cgi?classification=Modeling&keywords=performance%2C%20&keywords_type=allwords&list_id=10179300&product=Sirius&query_format=advanced&target_milestone=2.0.0