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[sirius-dev] [ANN] Sirius 5.0.0
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Hi all.
On behalf of the whole team, I'm happy to announce the official
availability of the Sirius 5.0.0 release. Congratulations to everyone
involved!
Sirius 5.0 is a major new release, part of the Eclipse Oxygen
Simultaneous Release. It focuses on streamlining the end-user experience.
In particular, it features:
* direct support for wizards and dialogs in modelers definition, using
the same vocabulary as for properties views support (introduced in
version 4.0), which allows for better UX in modelers;
* a new form-based editor for Sirius (<code>.aird</code>) files which
provides end-users complete overview of their models and
representations, and direct access to the most common operations,
avoiding reliance on hard-to-discover context menus;
* on diagrams, a new decorator mechanism has been introduced which
composes better in complex modelers with many extensions;
* improved image resolution of exported diagrams;
* the ability for end-users to force the use of the standard Eclipse
font for Sirius trees, when the values defined in the modeler definition
are not adapted.
For specifiers, in addition to the aforementioned support for wizards &
dialogs definition, this version also features:
* improved static validation and completion in the VSM editor;
* support for partial/incremental (re-)definition of properties views
and wizards/dialogs;
* automatic creation of "canonical" properties views based on the target
type's features;
* a new 'Let' operation to define local variables and avoid repeated
evaluation of common sub-expressions;
* support for OCL/AQL syntax in the VSM editor when specifying target types.
On the technical/internal side:
* this version now requires Java 8 and drops support for Eclipse Mars:
it is now only compatible with Neon and Oxygen. It is also compatible
with Guava 21.
* preparatory work has been merged that will lead in future versions to
better scalability in cases where there are many representations, most
of which are not used at a given time. This should have no visible
effect on this version, but the mechanisms put in place will be
exploited in future versions.
== Availability ==
Sirius 5.0.0 final is available from the following update sites:
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/5.0.0/neon
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/5.0.0/oxygen
It is recommended you use the update-site matching the version of
Eclipse you use to avoid potential issues at runtime.
The complete JUnit and SWTBot test suites used to validate Sirius are
published along with all their dependencies in separate update-sites
from the core, available at:
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/5.0.0/neon/tests
* http://download.eclipse.org/sirius/updates/releases/5.0.0/oxygen/tests
== Compatibility & Requirements ==
Sirius 5.0.0 is compatible with the following versions of Eclipse:
* Eclipse 4.6 (Neon).
* Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen). Oxygen is the reference platform.
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/
== New & Noteworthy ==
The complete list of (101) tickets fixed in Sirius 5.0.0 can be found
[https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/modeling.sirius/releases/5.0.0/bugs
here].
The release notes with highlights can be found
[https://www.eclipse.org/sirius/doc/Release_Notes.html#sirius5.0.0 here].
Best regards,
Pierre-Charles David (Sirius co-lead)
