Release 0.9.0

[Stéphane Galland]

Dear all.

Version 0.9.0 is released.

The major changes are:

1. SARL Language

1.1. SARL Language Grammar

• Operators:
  • Add overriding of the cast operator (1, 2, 3): it is not possible to create overriding functions that may be invoked when the as operator is used.
• Active Annotations:
  • Enable active annotations on SARL type declarations. (details)
• References to it into the closures:
  • Avoid infinite loop when searching for it references into the lambda expressions (details).
  • Enable implicit reference to it into closures. (details)

• Upgrades:

  • Upgrade to Eclipse 2019-03. (details)
  • Upgrade to Xtext 2.17.1 (1, 2, 3). This version of Xtext provides better performances and is fixing issues into the editor.
  • Removing reference to org.eclipse.equinox.ds, replacing it by org.apache.felix.scr (details).

1.2. SARL Validator

• The validator warns when a event firing declaration does not concern an early-exit event. (details)
• The warning "unused function" is not any more generated when a function is invoked with its parameters' default values (details).

1.3. Java Model Inferrer

• Avoid java error when using it variable into lambdas. (details)
• Make the generation of the agent type members faster. (details)
• Ignoring files without Xtext content (details).

2. SARL Development Toolkit (SDK)

2.1. New Features

• Add casting operators for:
  • strings and numbers (details).
  • strings and booleans. (details)
  • Big numbers (details).
• Bootstrap API:
  • add functions into the Bootstrap API (details): setSpecificContextUUID, setUniverseContextUUID, getUniverseContextUUID, setUniverseSpaceUUIDand getUniverseSpaceUUID.
  • deprecate setDefaultContextUUID in Bootstrap (details).

2.2. Time Extension

• Replace the numeric constants into the inline expressions of the time extension by the corresponding static constants (details).

3. Eclipse Product

3.1. Multi-platform Configurations

• Removing support for x86 architectures (details).

3.2. UI Components

• Add the action "Convert to SARL Maven Project". (details)
• Do not display the editor's inconsistent state when the editor is dirty (details).

4. External Contributions to SARL: Examples

• Fixing the Sierpinski fractal demo. (details)

5. Janus Run-time Environment

• Allow cancellation of tasks when the future is not yet provided by the thread manager (details).
• Upgrade to ZeroMQ 0.5.0 (details).
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 3.11.2 (details).

6. Maven Tools

• The batch compiler must not fail when only warnings are generated (details).

7. SARL Documentation

7.1. Documentation of the SARL Language

• Complete the documentation on the casting features. (details)
• Fixing the docs for avoiding infinite loop when testing it. (details)

7.2. FAQ

• Add FAQ questions from the Sebastian Sardina's FAQ. (details)
• Add FAQ for creating an example. (details)

7.3. Documentation Generators

• Add documentation on the SARL documentation generator (details).

8. Tools for SARL Contributors

• Removing support for x86 architectures (details).
• Add tycho compiler options into Maven pom file (details).
• Upgrade to Tycho 1.3.0 (1, 2).
• Upgrade to Maven API 3.6.0 (details).
• Upgrade arakhne libraries to version 15.2 (details).
• In the massive testing API, replacing the hard-coded \n by System.lineSeparator() to avoid errors on Windows (details).

Enjoy!