Franca 0.9.1 available

[Klaus Birken]

Hi all,

Franca 0.9.1 is available. This is a maintenance release, it provides some bugfixes and some new features. It can be downloaded from Google Drive.

The documentation is not yet updated to the features of this new release. See below a list of new features in 0.9.1, please refer to the corresponding issues in the Franca issue tracker for details. 

Best regards,

Klaus

New with version 0.9.1

- IDL: Removed restrictions on the order of elements in a Franca interface (issue 104)

- IDL: Hex values can be ued now in Franca expressions (issue 92)

- IDL: Fixed if-statement syntax in contracts (issue 106)

- IDL: Allow comments for Franca IDL constants (issue 114)

- Deployment: Added support for range-based integer types (issue 107)

- Deployment: Support deployment for ByteBuffer types (issue 119)

- Deployment: Support deployment for Boolean type (issue 128)

- Deployment: Handle inline arrays properly (issue 118)

- Deployment: Introduced „Instance“ property type (issue 120)

- Deployment: Fixed handling of broadcast deployment definitions (issue 126)

- D-Bus: External validator now checks for valid dictionary key types (issue 67)

- D-Bus: Franca=>D-Bus transformation now handles interface inheritance (issue 75)

- D-Bus: Support Franca=>D-Bus transformation of ranged integers (issue 109)

- D-Bus: Franca=>D-Bus transformation result files contain additional comments (issue 90)

- Bugfix: FrancaPersistenceManager crashes when saving a model with imports (issue 102)

- Bugfix: Saving FModel with Float or Double constant fails (issue 113)

- Bugfix: Deployment persistence does not handle absolute file names correctly (issue 115)

- Develop: Lift Franca development environment to Eclipse Luna and latest Xtext/Xtend (issue 129)