New & Noteworthy

In Version 20.12.6 two bugs in the StringLengthValueSet were fixed: StringLengthValueSet: Faulty implementation of isEmpty() and isDiscrete() (FIPS-7979) Method to check whether a ValueSet is unrestricted (FIPS-7980)

New in Version 21.6.1 The patch release 21.6.1 fixes two inaccuracies in the runtime. An update of the Faktor-IPS plugin is not necessary. Relevance for enum datatypes returns UnrestrictedValueSet instead of OrderedValueSet (FIPS-7957) Relevance asValueSetFor with collection (FIPS-7954)

In Version 20.12.5 two bugs concerning ValueSets have been fixed: NullPointerException when checking Long in LongRange (FIPS-7884) IllegalArgumentException when checking whether a Money value is in a ValueSet with different currency (FIPS-7885)

Release 21.6 of the product variant plugin improves handling and performance of large product variants. Highlighting of Components with varied Child Components Components that are not varied themselves but have varied children in their subtree are now highlighted with a…
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New and Noteworthy in Version 21.6 Replacing BigDecimal constants with RoundingMode enums RoundingMode enums are now used instead of BigDecimal rounding mode constants which are deprecated since Java 9. The old methods using BigDecimal constants are still available but deprecated….
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New and Noteworthy in Version 21.6 Release Candidate 7 Escape non standard blanks Faktor-IPS version 21.6.0 RC7 adds an option to escape special blanks like the non-breaking space ( ) or the em-space ( ) in the XML files, to allow visual…
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Faktor-IPS version 20.12.4 adds an option to escape special blanks like the non-breaking space ( ) or the em-space ( ) in the XML files, to allow visual identification when manually comparing the files. This may be of special interest when switching…
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New and Noteworthy in Version 21.6 Release Candidate 4 Maven-Mojos The work directory is now cleaned in a separate “faktorips-clean”-Mojo which is bound to the clean phase. Further, the configuration of the Mojos in the pom.xml can be shortened. Unlike…
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Release 21.6 of the product variant plugin improves handling and performance of large product variants. Highlighting of Components with varied Child Components Components that are not varied themselves but have varied children in their subtree are now highlighted with a…
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New and Noteworthy in Version 21.6 Release Candidate 3 Changes from Release Candidate 1 Menu-Creation No Longer Instantiates Objects In Eclipse, every entry in a (popup-)menu checks whether it should be displayed before the menu is shown. The previous solution…
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