EiffelStudio 22.05 Releases

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EiffelStudio 22.05.10.6292 (May 2022)

Improvements

• source control tool: UI enhancement (zoom support for grid and text, diff from any file in a repo),
• estudio(debugger): Updated debugger tools to better support editor zoom factor.
• wrapc: Updated wrapc/src/support/wrapc_wizard_function_generator.e class to extract only functions definitions. Added code to extract callbacks in the future.
• source control tool: Implemented post commit operations handling via the commit dialog (mostly git push for now)
• estudio(unix): fixed potential infinite recursion with modeless dialog
• source control tool: added "add" and "delete" scm operations

Bug fixes

• source control tool: fixed commit with message having double quotes, quotes, backquote for code.
• source control tool: Ensure any scm operation has output message. Improved the revert operation for git, by resetting added or deleted files.
• library(json): If no serializer has specific handling for strings, use as default JSON_STRING.
• iron: make sure temporary (archive) file are removed once it is uploaded.

BETA 22.04.10.6247 (April 2022)

New features

Improvements

• source control: added "add" and "delete" scm operations
• source control: many minor UI improvements
• studio: added support for `{CLASS_NAME}.feature_name` in Eiffel comments.
• studio: include the feature indexing notes in clickable view.

Bug fixes

• compiler: ignore unexpected BOM character in .ecf file (fixed a crash of the compiler, if such BOM was wrongly added).
• compiler: Fixed bug#19838 (test#valid299) by looking through all routine IDs rather than using the first one to handle anchors on merged features.
• source control: Fixed usage of temp file for SVN and GIT commit, needed for multi-lines commit log.
• C compilation: Fixed crash of espawn and finish_freezing due to VS2022, and added support for VS2022.
• studio: fixed the output of creation expression in clickable view (missing end keyword, ..).
• tool(eiffel): added support for remote targets to the `eiffel` script tool.
• tool(compile_all): added support for remote targets.

Feature removed

Libraries Improvements

• library(jwt): Adjust token sub string (related to header, payload, and signature), to avoid unwanted spaces.
• library(base): Added routines to convert INTEGER_* and NATURAL_* to binary and octal string representations.
• library(web): if the port is already binded, the standalone httpd server will try for about 2 minutes before giving up and reporting the error. See the `max_bind_attempts` configuration. (note: mostly used on Linux during debugging session).
• library(json): Added a new JSON_PATH following JSON Path specification
• library(cms): Fixed various issues caused when the CMS url is subfolder (not at the domain.tld/ root).
• library(json): Added JSON_STREAM_WRITER interface to generate JSON content.
• library(json): Added JSON_EQUALITY_TESTER providing helper functions to compare JSON contents.
• library(cms): Added a back-end page to list emails sent to a specific user. Various minor UI improvements.

User changes

Developer changes

• wrapc: Updated feature {EWG_C_AST_PRIMITIVE_TYPE}.corresponding_eiffel_type
  • Mapping `unsigned` (it's a shorthand of `unsigned int`) as `NATURAL` in Eiffel.
  • Mapping `unsigned char` as `NATURAL` in Eiffel.
• environment: support absolute path for EC_NAME, so it can use full path to the ec executable.
• compiler: Exit with -1 and unsuccessful workbench compilation (only when a system was open).