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OCL/New and Noteworthy/2020-12
Eclipse OCL New and Noteworthy items for the 2020-12 (6.13.0) release.
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Release Overview
This minor release fixes a few bugs. Behind the scenes UI-based functionality responds to the platform migration to Java 11 and migrates away from the deprecated old to new Xtext infrastructure. The latter Xtext migration protypes a new declarative serilaizer/formatter and so fixes the longsstanding OCLinEcore prooblem with comment indentation.
(The work on Bye Bye invalid was still not ready in time for 2020-06; Xtext migration more important.)
Eclipse versions
The prevailing Eclipse OCL release candidate is auto-tested every week on Oxygen, Photon, 2018-09, 2018-12, 2019-03, 2019-06, 2019-09, 2019-12, 2020-03, 2020-06 and 2020-09 platforms using Jenkins on Linux and the prevailing Java/project versions for the release.
2020-12 release should be installable on Mars and Neon platforms provided Xtext 2.9 or greater is also installed.
The 2020-12 sources are buildable on 2020-12 only.
Java versions
Java 8 on Windows was used to develop and test the milestones of this release. Following the Eclipse platform migration to a Java 11 minimum, development now uses Java 11, although standalone tests continue to use Java 8.
Java 12 on Windows was briefly used to maintain and test the 2020-06 release candidates. It appears to work although Java code generation/compilation seems nearly three times slower - see Bug 565563.
Java 8 on Jenkins, Linux was used to build and test the release candidates.
The Classic Ecore/UML plugins have been tested on Mars, Neon, Oxygen and Photon and on a Java 5 Virtual Machine. Standalone execution requires only the org.eclipse.osgi plugin from Eclipse Kepler or a spoof of org.eclipse.osgi.util.NLS and org.eclipse.osgi.framework.
The Pivot plugins require at least a Java 8 Virtual Machine and at least Xtext 2.9.1. Testing on Oxygen has a couple of test failures. Testing on Mars and Neon has a few editor/console startup failures.
Milestone 1
Milestone 2
Pivot
- 562313 XML entities used to compress idrefs
Milestone 3
Pivot
- 499816 and2/implies2/or2 support short circuiting
- 561117 Standard library no longer assumes template parameters may-be-null
- 563483 Ensure Xtext 2.22 generated editors are backward compatible
Pivot-CG
- 520440 Boolean values are now unboxed at generate time
Pivot-UML
- 551915 All UML function bodies may now have a result= prefix
RC1
RC2
Releng
- 564072 OCL OOMPH setup now works again