Change Log#

This is a curated list of the changes per version.

Note

The latest version may not have been released yet.

2.21.1#

(Unreleased)

2.21.0#

  • Add picture as core element

  • Move diagram elements with the arrow keys

  • Add interface block to element creation menu

  • Support state entry, exit, and do behavior selection via dropdown

  • Add feature to align diagram elements

  • Display type of element in the properties panel

  • Removed unnecessary operations and attributes for requirements

  • Enable macOS keybindings again

  • Fix missing derive relationship icon in the model browser

  • Fix block not showing parts and references

  • Fixed Profile is created instead of Stereotype in model browser

  • Add ownership rules to DirectedRelationshipPropertyPath.targetContext

  • Add tests and fix Component.required

  • Present the Greeter, instead of only making it visible

  • Fix derive-reqt model browser icon

  • Improve coverage reporting

  • Add system style sheet to the documentation

2.20.0#

  • Add ValueSpecificationAction

  • New element creation through model browser

  • Interface block support on diagram

  • Constrain SysML diagram creation in the model explorer to conform with SysML 1.6 specification

  • Add type selection for Lifelines

  • Support SysMLDiagram type and diagram type specific header formatting

  • Pin type multiplicity

  • Deep copy for packages and diagrams

  • Add Direct association to toolbar menu

  • Add CallBehaviorAction to Activity profile

  • Add operations compartment to Blocks

  • Toggle visibility of ProxyPort type

  • Provide value for ‘Show value’ in properties page

  • Format pins by their name

  • Do not remove unused Packages with children

  • Fix: tree view should not collapse when an element is deleted

  • Fix: only open model browser elements with a model element

  • Upgrade Gvsbuild to 2023.7.1

  • Update minimal Pytho nversion to 3.10

  • Fix: ensure a newly placed item is no longer a dropzone item

  • Fix: incorrect filling between shapes

  • Fix: weird pin rendering

  • Fix: diagram background shouldn’t be shared between open models

  • Fix: activity parameter node is always stuck to the activity when moving

  • Fix: notes should be applied to model elements and will be named “Note”

  • Fix: error when inverting association

  • Update Croatian translations

2.19.3#

  • Windows: Fix missing toolbar icons

  • Fix loading of ProxyPorts with informationFlow attached

  • Fix to resolve CSS style variables before using the values

2.19.2#

  • Add SysML Requirements trace derived unions

  • Fix Parameter Node and Execution Specification with Dark mode

  • Scale parameter nodes to contain long names

  • Lenient derived unions

  • Fix segfault by reverting Gtk.ListVew for Parameters

  • Fix connect interaction fragments

  • chore: clean up deprecated properties from UIComponent

  • Add Python 3.12 Support, Update Poetry to version 1.5.1

  • Apply security best practices to GitHub Actions

  • Create a Security Policy and Run Scorecard Checks

  • Only use mature translations for released versions of Gaphor

  • Update Spanish, Hungarian, and Finnish translations

  • Fix scaling of Activity Parameter nodes

2.19.1#

  • Fix: order is preserved when undoing a change

  • Actions: ObjectNode now also connects to decision/merge and join/fork nodes.

  • Fix: ports should be nested under properties

  • Experimental: support for plugins

  • Add fullscreen mode with F11

  • Remove Tkinter from packaging

2.19.0#

  • Dropped support for AppImage

  • Add Information Flow support for Associations

  • Interactions: fixed DnD for partially connected messages

  • Restore CSS auto-complete

  • Docs: A coffee machine tutorial has been added

  • Make model loading more lenient to model corruption

  • CLI: export diagrams and run scripts within Gaphor

  • Enable PyPI Trusted Publisher

  • Replace deprecated Gtk.TreeView with ListView: Activity Parameter Nodes

  • Use consistent naming for element_factory in storage module

  • Use new style Dropdowns for selecting items in property editor

  • Updates to translations

2.18.1#

  • Make operations visible on Blocks

  • A quick fix for crashes in the CSS editor, disable autocomplete

  • Fix doc translation catalogs not found

  • Fix encoding warnings for no encoding argument

  • Update AppImage build with GTK 4.10

  • Add non-goals to README

  • Enable translation of docs, and add Crotian, German, and Dutch

  • Updates to most translations and add Tamil

2.18.0#

  • Support for manually resolving Git merge conflicts

  • Drop support for GTK3, bundle macOS with GTK4

  • Enable middle-click mouse scrolling of diagrams

  • Support for changing the spoken language in a model

  • Add diagrams in diagrams

  • Upgrade development build to GNOME 44

  • Clean up application architecture for copy service

  • Css editor dark mode

  • macOS: update notarize, staple, and cert actions

  • Just load modules for gaphor.modules entry points

  • Finnish, Dutch, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese (BRA) translation update

  • Toggle the “no tabs” background based on notebook activity

  • Fix drag from model browser

  • Fix orthogonal lines during copy/paste

  • Update diagram directly when partitions change

  • Make main window always available to avoid warnings

2.17.0#

  • Add support for diagram metadata

  • macOS: Fix freeze creating new diagram

  • Properly unsubscribe when property page is removed

  • Package GSettings daemon schemas for AppImage

  • Consider only default modifiers in toolbox shortcuts

  • New status page icon

  • Workaround removing skip-changelog labels

  • Update gvsbuild to version 2023.2.0

  • meta: Add .doap-file

  • Update “Keep model in sync” design principle

  • Update to using the GNOME Code of Conduct

  • Add Polish translation

  • Spanish, Dutch, Croatian, Turkish, and German Translation Updates

2.16.0#

  • Automatic switching to dark mode in diagrams

  • Add Model browser multi select and popup menu

  • Refactor and improve model browser

  • Use normal + icon for new diagram dropdown

  • Add support for CSS variables and named colors

  • Apply development mode for dev releases

  • Show diagram name in header

  • Show something when no diagrams are opened

  • Fix the packaged data dirs

  • Stabilize macOS/GTK tests

  • Add a comments option to our documentation

  • Split tips in to multiple labels

  • Win and macOS: Fix wrong language selected when region not default

  • Fix translation warning never logged with missing mo files

  • Spanish, Russian, Hungarian, Czech translation update

2.15.0#

  • Add basic git merge conflict support by asking which model to load

  • Improvements to CSS autocomplete with function completion

  • Insert colons, spaces, and () automatically for CSS autocomplete

  • Use native file chooser in Windows

  • Fix translations not loading in Windows, macOS, and AppImage

  • Fix PyInstaller versionfile parse error with pre-release versions

  • Update CI to publish to PyPI after all other jobs have passed

  • Replace pytest-mock with monkeypatch for tests

  • Fix PEP597 encoding warnings

  • Fix regression that caused line handles to not snap to elements

  • Add Turkish, and update French, Russian, and Swedish translations

  • Remove translation Makefile

2.14.2#

  • Fix macOS release failed

2.14.1#

  • Add autocompletion for CSS properties

  • Fix coredumps on Flatpak

  • Hide New Package menu unless package selected

  • Update Getting Started pages

  • Spanish translation update

2.14.0#

  • Simplify the greeter and provide more info to new users

  • New element handle and toolbox styles

  • Use system fonts by default for diagrams

  • Add tooltips to the application header icons

  • Make sequence diagram messages horizontal by default

  • Make keyboard shortcuts more standard especially on macOS

  • macOS: cursor shortcuts for text entry widgets

  • Load template as part of CI self-test

  • Update docs to make it more clear how to edit CSS

  • Switch doc style to Furo

  • Add custom style sheet language

  • Support non-standard Sphinx directory structures

  • Continue to make model loading and saving more reliable

  • Move Control Flow line style to CSS

  • Do not auto-layout sequence diagrams

  • Use new actions/cache/(save|restore)

  • Remove querymixin from modeling lists

  • Improve Windows build reliability by limiting cores to 2

  • Croatian, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, and Finnish translation updates

2.13.0#

  • Auto-layout for diagrams

  • Relations to actors can connect below actor name

  • Export to EPS

  • Zoom with Ctrl+scroll wheel works again

  • Recent files is disabled if none are present

  • Windows and AppImage are upgraded to GTK4

  • Update packaging to use Python 3.11

  • Many GTK4 improvements: About window, diagram tabs, message dialogs

  • Ensure toolbox is always visible

  • Add additional tests around architectural rules

  • Many translation updates and bug fixes

2.12.1#

  • Fix/move connected handle

  • Fix error when disconnecting line with multiple segments

  • Fail CI build if Windows certificate signing fails

  • namespace.py: Actually set properties for rectangle

  • Update Shortcuts window

2.12.0#

  • GTK4 is now the default for Flatpak; Windows, macOS, and AppImage still use GTK3

  • Save folder is remembered across save actions

  • State machine functionality has been expanded, including support for regions

  • Resize of partition keeps actions in the same swimlane

  • Activities (behaviors) can be assigned to classifiers

  • Stereotypes can be inherited from other stereotypes

  • Many GTK4 fixes: rename, search, instant editors

  • Many translation updates

2.11.0#

  • Add Copy/Paste for GTK4

  • Make dialogs work with GTK4

  • Fix instant editors for GTK4

  • Update list view for GTK4

  • Make SysML Enumerations also ValueTypes

  • Add union types

  • Let Gaphor check for its own health

  • Add error reports window

  • Add element to diagram by double click

  • Ensure all models are saved with UTF-8 encoding

  • Fix states can’t transition to themselves

  • Fix unlinking elements from the model

  • Fix issue with fully pasting a diagram

  • Fix scroll speed for touch screens

  • Fix codeql warnings and error

  • Improve text placement for Associations

  • Enable additional pre-commit hooks

  • Add example in docs of color for comments using CSS

  • Hungarian translation updates

2.10.0#

  • Pin support for activity diagram

  • Add Activity item to diagram

  • Allow to drag and drop all elements from tree view to diagram

  • Codegen use all defined modeling languages

  • Fix diagram dependency cycle

  • Add Skip Duplicate Action and Release-Drafter Permissions

  • Update permissions for CodeQL GitHub Action

  • Include all diagram items in test model

  • Fix GTK4 property page layouts

  • Use official RAAML logo in greeter

  • Relation metadata to allow better reuse

  • Rename relationship connector base classes

  • Add design principles to docs

  • French, Finnish, Croatian translation update

2.9.2#

  • Fix Windows build

2.9.1#

  • Fix bad release of version 2.9.0

  • Cleanup try except blocks and add more f-strings

2.9.0#

  • Separate Control and Object Flow

  • Automatically select dark mode for macOS and Windows

  • Automatically Enable Rename Prompt for Newly Created Diagrams

  • New group function for element grouping

  • Simulate user behavior with Hypothesis and fix uncovered bugs

  • Proxyport: update ports when proxyport is moved

  • Fix AppImage Crashes on Save Command

  • Improve reconnect for relationships

  • Update connection behavior for Association

  • Enable preferences shortcut

  • Rename Component Toolbox to Deployment

  • Update Finnish, Spanish, Croation, and German translatio

2.8.2#

  • Fix splitting of lines

  • Update README to reflect new functionality

  • Add additional strings to translations

  • Update Hungarian, Spanish, and Finnish translations

2.8.1#

  • Fix Gaphor fails to load when launched in German

  • Simplify the greeter dialogs

  • Update Hungarian, Finnish, and Chinese (Simplified) translations

2.8.0#

  • Add diagram type support

  • Improve the welcoming experience with a greeter window and starting templates

  • Add a Magnet-tool

  • Support SysML Item flow

  • Stereotypes for ItemFlow properties

  • Full Copy/Paste of model elements

  • Allow for deleting elements in the tree view

  • Allocation of structural types to swimlane partitions

  • User notification when model elements are automatically removed

  • Store toolbox settings per modeling language

  • Grow item when an item is dropped on it

  • Add “values” compartment to Block item and set a minimal height for compartments

  • Support empty square bracket notation in an Operation

  • New code generator

  • Fix AppImage GLIBC Error on Older Distro Versions

  • Fix Sequence diagram loading when message is close to lifeline body

  • Support for loading .gaphor files directly from the macOS Finder

  • Fix positions of nested items during undo

  • Fix ownership of Connector, ProxyPort, and ItemFlow

  • Improve GTK4 compatibility

  • Improve clarity of syntax for attributes and operations using a popover

  • Clean up Toolbox and remove some legacy code

  • Invert association creation

  • Ensure model consistency on save and fork node loading fixes

  • Core as a separate ModelingLanguage

  • Use symbolic close icon for notebook tabs

  • Update to latest gvsbuild, switch to wingtk repo

  • Spanish, Hungarian, Finnish, Dutch, Portuguese, Croation, Espanian, and Galician translations updates

  • Add Chinese (Simplified) translation

2.7.1#

  • Fix lines don’t disconnect when moved

  • No GTK required anymore for generating docs

  • Update Python to 3.10.0

  • Spanish translation updates

2.7.0#

  • Add Reflexive Message item for Interactions

  • Allow messages to move freely on Lifeline and ExecutionSpec

  • Pop-up element name editor on creation of a new element

  • Add option to show underlying DecisionNode type

  • Add InformationFlow for Connectors

  • Swap relationship direction for Generalization, Dependency, Import, Include, and Extend

  • Use Jedi for autocomplete in the Python Console

  • Sphinx directive for embedding Gaphor models into docs

  • Fix lifeline ordering when not all items are linked in a diagram

  • Allow generalizations to be reused

  • Allow auto-generated elements (Activity, State Machine, Interaction, Region) to be removed

  • Fix Windows build by updating to Python 3.9.9

  • Emit events for Diagram.ownedPresentation and Presentation.diagram after element creation

  • Show underlying DecisionNode type

  • Add documentation dependencies to pyproject.toml

  • Move enumeration layout to UML.classes

  • Rename packaging to _packaging

  • Remove names for initial/final nodes

  • Update to latest gvsbuild

  • Update to PyInstaller 4.6

  • Add gtksourceview to Windows docs

  • Fix Python 3.10 warnings

  • Fix indentation in Style Sheet docs

  • Expand the number of strings translated

  • Hungarian, Spanish, Japanese, Finnish, and Croatian translation updates

2.6.5#

  • Update style sheet editor to be a code editor

  • Update strings to improve ability to translate

  • Ensure all relationships are brought to top

  • Fix errors in Italian translation which prevented model saving

  • Add association end properties to editor pane

  • Restore rename right click option to diagrams in tree view

  • Add Japanese translation

  • Update Hungarian, Croatian, and Spanish translations

2.6.4#

  • Fix Flatpak build failure by reverting to previous dependencies

2.6.3#

  • Fix about dialog logo

  • Add translation of more elements

  • Remove importlib_metadata dependency

  • Simpler services for about dialog

  • Up typing compliance to 3.9, and remove typing_extensions

  • Finnish translation updates

2.6.2#

  • Fix localization of UI files

  • Fix icons in dark mode

  • Update Spanish, Finnish, Hugarian, and Portuguese (Br) translations

2.6.1#

  • Display guard conditions in square brackets

  • Use flat buttons in the header bar

  • Fix translation support

  • Fix drag and drop of elements does not work on diagrams

  • Fix parameter is incorrect error with “;;” in path

  • Fix fork/join node incorrectly rotates

  • Fix close button on about dialog doesn’t work in Windows

  • Fix wrong label is displayed when object node ordering is enabled

  • Improve inline editor undo/redo behavior

  • Fixed closing of about dialog

  • Add VSCode debug instructions for Windows

  • Rename usage of Partitions to Swimlanes

  • Update Dutch and Hungarian Translations

  • Croatian translation updates

  • Simplify attribute and enumeration lookup

2.6.0#

  • Improve zoom and pan for mouse

  • Add Finnish, Galician, Hungarian, and Korean, update Spanish translations

  • Fix disappearing elements from tree view on Windows

  • Convert CI from mingw to gvsbuild

  • Upgrade Windows Build Script from Bash to Python

  • Refactor GitHub Actions to use composite actions

  • Add translations for UI files

  • Add information flows to UML model

  • Add extra rules to avoid cyclic references

  • Fix typo in UML.gaphor

  • Refactor class property pages in to multiple modules

  • Fix Windows and other developer documentation updates

  • Enable pyupgrade

  • Update the README for Flatpak string translation

  • Fix documentation build errors, update dependencies

2.5.1#

  • Fix app release signing in Windows and macOS

2.5.0#

  • Add initial support for STPA in RAAML

  • Add support for notes in property pages and attributes

  • Allow for diagrams to be nested under all elements

  • Fix delete and undo of a diagram

  • Rename C4ContainerDatabaseItem to C4DatabaseItem

  • Cleanup model loading

  • Change diagram item management to the element factory

  • Organize and simplify element events

  • Cleanup toolbox and diagram action code

2.4.2#

  • Fix AttributeError when creating composite associations

  • Add tooltips for A and S in attribute editor

  • Improve drag and drop for TreeView

  • Started to add support for GTK4

  • Upload Linux assets during release automatically

  • Sign only builds on the master branch

2.4.1#

  • Fix reordering attributes and operations with drag and drop

2.4.0#

  • Add support for DataType, ValueType, Primitive, and Enumeration

  • Model state is stored per model, restores where you left off

  • Add support for Containment Relationship

  • Focus already opened model when opening a model file

  • Remove the New From Template option

  • Upgrade toolbox to be compatible with GTK 4

  • Add regression tests

  • Fix build fails when GitHub Actions secrets are not available

  • Fix association direction arrow is not updated

2.3.2#

  • Fix issue where ornaments were not show on associations after loading a model

2.3.1#

  • Fix scrollbars cause the diagram to disappear

  • Update Italian translation

  • Left align the toolbox header labels

2.3.0#

  • Add support for C4 model

  • Add support for Fault Tree Analysis with RAAML

  • Update the UML data model to align closer to version 2.5.1

  • Enable arrow keys to expand and collapse namespace tree

  • Allow Gaphor profiles to be copy and pasted between models

  • Improve diagram drawing and scrolling speed

  • Add Croatian translation

  • Remove gray borders around editable text

  • Complete converting all tests to pytest

  • Fix guides are misaligned when top-left handle is moved

  • Update development environment instructions

  • Fix undo and redo does not set attributes

  • Fix selection lasso is in the wrong place after scrolling

2.2.2#

  • Fix undo of deleted elements

  • Fix requirements are missing ID and text

  • Add CSS styling to dropzone and grayed out elements

  • Start to remove use of inline styles

2.2.1#

  • Fix drawing of composite association

2.2.0#

  • Guide users to create valid relationships

  • macOS builds are signed and notarized

  • New app icon

  • Improvements to copy and paste, and undo robustness

  • Fix RuntimeError caused by style sheet creation

  • Use EventControllers from GTK 3.24

2.1.1#

  • Fix copy and paste in Linux with Wayland

2.1.0#

  • Improve swimlane behavior

  • Add auto select in tree view

  • Add in-app notifications

  • Improve file load and save dialogs

  • Show more elements and relationships in namespace tree

  • Update Italian translation

  • Make lifelines and messages owned by interactions

2.0.1#

  • Fix Gaphor fails to launch in macOS

  • Use certificate to sign Windows binaries

  • Fix copy/paste issue that causes association ends to be removed

  • Improve editing for inline editors (popovers)

  • Fix undo on diagram items corrupts the model

  • Fix UML composite and shared association tools

2.0.0#

  • Add initial support for SysML

  • Add support for styling using CSS

  • Translate to Italian

  • Improve dmg for macOS

  • Improve Copy/Paste for nested items

  • Add new modeling language service

  • Show the element editor by default

  • Create completely new data model code generator

  • Add part and shared associations to tool palette

  • Remove unused imports, enable flake8 checks

  • Update App icons

  • Update animation gif in README

  • Fix Windows Build Errors caused by Missing ZST Archives

  • Fix installation on Windows

  • Add extra diagram item tests

  • Fix macOS Python version problem

  • Place UML model and diagram items closer together

  • Refactor Code Generator to New Module and add CLI

  • Fix MSYS2 package names and disable system update

  • Remove CI workaround for console plugin

  • Move core modeling concepts to a separate package

  • Convert Some Profile Tests to Pytest

  • Speed up text rendering

  • Fix tree view text to allow names with angle brackets

  • Clear the clipboard when diagram items are copied

  • Fix name change for activity partitions