Eclipse Capella 1.4.0 Release Review

Type
Release
State
Successful
End Date of the Review Period

Reviews run for a minimum of one week. The outcome of the review is decided on this date. This is the last day to make comments or ask questions about this review.

Project
Release

1.4.0

Description

What's new:

  • Actor refactoring: Define Actors as it is possible for Components (decomposition)
  • Capella capabilities: Simplify capella to your users by disabling some capabilities
  • EGit and Mylyn directly integrated into Capella (no need to install them afterwards)
  • Appearance of Components will now have the same look across views (project explorer, diagrams, ..)
  • Performance improvements
  • Search improvement on project explorer, wizards
  • UI of Search/Filters, Property views are now more usable on small displays
  • 'Capella Project Explorer' is now called 'Project Explorer'
API Certification

The project leadership certifies that the APIs in this release are "Eclipse Quality".

Architectural Issues

This version is based on Eclipse 2019-06, Amalgam, EMF DiffMerge, Sirius, Kitalpha from Eclipse.

There is no specific issue detected on the Capella solution architecture.

Security Issues

There is no specific security issue detected on the Capella solution.

Non-Code Aspects

All Non-Code Aspects regarding Capella solution are up-to-date:

  • Wiki with "Release Notes", tutorials, sample sections
  • Website with different sections:
    • Installation instructions on Getting Started page
    • Download page for Capella and Documentation
  • Project page
Usability Details

Capella solution UI is compliant with User Interface Guidelines.

End of Life

No APIs and significant features are intended to be deprecated in a near future.

Standards

Capella solution implements the Arcadia model-based engineering method for systems, hardware and software architectural design.

Communities

All communication links regarding Capella solution are up-to-date:

User, Adopter :

  • Website with different sections:
    • Community and social media links
    • Events around Capella solution (conferences, talks, etc.)
  • Forum
  • Twitter and LinkedIn pages
  • Wikipedia dedicated page in FR and EN languages

Developer/Committer :