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EiffelStudio 17.05.x Releases

Beta download: https://ftp.eiffel.com/pub/beta/17.05/

17.05.x.x

New features

Improvements

• library (docking): Docking library is now completely void-safe. Breaking changes: some creation features now require a docking manager object as an argument.
• compiler: Obsolete calls are detected and reported for features used as binary and unary operators.
• compiler: Messages about obsolete calls provide information about source code location.
• EiffelStudio (inspector): Obsolete messages are checked for presence of a date in format [yyyy-mm-dd] that tells when the feature is considered obsolete and call to it should be removed. If the date is not specified, a warning is reported and a default value [2017-05-31] is used.
• EiffelStudio (inspector): Obsolete calls are detected and reported with different severity levels depending on the message date:
  • suggestion - in the future
  • warning - less than 1 year old
  • error - more than 1 year old
• EiffelStudio (inspector): Obsolete features reported with different severity levels depending on the message date:
  • nothing - less than 1.5 year old
  • warning - more than 1.5 year old

Feature removed

Bug fixes

• compiler: bug#19333 (test#melt110) - Fixed a bug that caused melted code to fail when it had a call to {CHARACTER_32}.is_character_8.
• library (base): test#reflection010 - Fixed a postcondition dynamic_type_set of the feature {REFLECTOR}.new_instance_of that did not take into account a possibility that the supplied type ID may have an attachment mark.
• library (vision): - Fixed a precondition violation that may be triggered by dropping selected file names on Windows into a Vision widget.
• library (base): bug#19277 (test#lib044) - Fixed bugs in traversal of HASH_TABLE using ITERABLE cursors when some elements are removed: incorrect evaluation of cursor_index that may cause a postcondition violation when advancing to the next item, incorrect backward traversal that may produce spurious items.
• compiler: test#attach124, test#attach125, test#attach126 - Fixed a bug that might lead to a call on void target in a completely void-safe program if newly created objects are created, passed to once functions and are returned as their result but then fail to finish their initialization because of an exception.
• EiffelStudio: bug#19336 - Fixed a bug that might cause a crash when Windows drag and drop mechanism is used to a drop a file name to the IDE when no project is open.
• compiler: test#attach127 - Fixed a bug that might cause access on void target in a completely void-safe application that passes an incompletely initialized object inside an expanded argument to a creation procedure that makes a qualified call on the incompletely initialized object.

User changes

• library (docking): Some creation procedures in the Docking library now require a docking manager object as an argument.

Developer changes