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Recent Features

This section lists the features of Enterprise Architect 7.5, for the following builds:

For information relating to the history of other versions, select a version below.


Changes and fixes for Build 850

    • "Lock to Edit" security mode altered to enable the menu item "Apply or Release User Lock" for version controlled packages irrespective of their checked-in / checked-out status.
    • GUID reference tagged values can be set to an 'empty string' by selecting the 'none' option in the Select <Item> Dialog.
    • Unsigned_int16 types included in the grammar for the C++ importer.
    • Viewing custom references and transforms in the hierarchy window have been optimized to improve performance.
    • Java code importer modified to preserve Full Java 'throws' that exceed 255 characters in length.
    • Interface Elements generated as an element and not as an embedded type.
    • RTF template editor improved to prevent the insertion of '{{' on field names which could occasionally cause template corruption.
    • RTL fonts will not be used by default if the Windows default language is set to Hebrew/Arabic, resulting in an improved RTF report.
    • RTL detection of text within a linked Document refined, resulting in the improved generation of HTML reports.
    • Fully qualified name information of a tagged value is retained when copying and pasting objects, attributes and operations.
    • The closing of floating toolbars on diagrams has been corrected because it occasionally caused errors.

Changes and fixes for Build 849

    • Ensure hidden Constraint and Synchronization elements are moved between Packages when their owning diagram is moved.
    • Connector labels for Aggregation and Composition source and target roles will display a derived '/' symbol, if the derived option is set.
    • Elements with inherited tagged values of type GUIDRef and GUIDRefList will display Classifier names, instead of the GUID value.
    • Check box option 'Always prompt before import' in the Import Reference Data Dialog modified to show previous saved state.
    • Redefined shortcuts(mnemonics) for buttons 'Columns/Attributes...' and 'Operations...' on the 'Table Detail' page.
    • Automation function Package.Update( ) modified to retrieve package's current lock state, prior to attempting to update the database.
    • Prevent the 'Ctrl+Delete' keystroke combination from deleting elements within checked-in version controlled packages.
    • 'Add Branch to VC' command user permissions revised to be brought in line with 'Configure Package' command. The command is disabled unless the user has the 'Configure Package' permission.
    • Command 'Import Model Branch from Version Control' modified for better compatibility with CVS - preventing error messages that were misinterpreted as CVS command failure.
    • The Code Generation of Activity Graphs has been modified to handle adhoc control flows.
    • Added column 'Stereotype' to the search list in the Select <Item> dialog.
    • Select <Item> dialog search tab will find all elements when no text is entered.
    • Selecting a namespace in the browse tab of the Select <Item> dialog collapses all Packages and selects the chosen namespace.
    • Select <Item> dialog search tab by default finds items that contain your search term returning a more comprehensive set of search results.
    • Context menu option 'Locate in Tree' added to Search tab of the Select <Item> dialog for locating an item in the Browse tab.
    • Select <Item> dialog will indicate the version controlled status, if a Tree item is locked and MDG technology specific icons.
    • Added support for round-tripping Packaging Components using XMI 1.1. Previously an import could possibly result in a Packaged Component incorrectly becoming a Package.
    • 'XSD Enumeration Properties' dialog improved to update all name and note fields upon being saved.
    • When reverse engineering an existing Oracle packages, the system will synchronize all changes that have occurred.
    • Oracle Tables allow duplicate constraint names to assist with standard naming conventions when constraints and supporting indexes must share the same name.
    • Foreign key stereotype cannot be changed to any other stereotype.
    • 'Find In Project Browser' for Package favorites in the Model Views window is supported for models with lazy loading.
    • The model search window will persist column ordering when appending results from XML.
    • Auto resizing of some nodes has been improved to reduce CPU load.
    • The Rule Composer window is invalidated when changing the value of check boxes.
    • Ensure automation function 'Package.VersionControlCheckout' allows you to change a packages content with out displaying an Element Locked notification.
    • Allow printer page setup for the Relationship Matrix from the 'Default Tools' tool bar.
    • Ensured consistent handling of Realization connectors.
    • Saved image size for sequence diagrams with self connectors having long names improved.

Changes and fixes for Build 848

    • Correct an issue with RTF generator and right-to-left reading order text.
    • Prohibit display of Output list context menu when right clicking on tab area.
    • Manage collapsed state of technology based toolbox pages better.
    • Better managed the positioning of connector end points when adjusting with mouse.
    • Tranformations defining an incomplete classifier reference now handled correctly.
    • MDG Technology wizard now handles when an invalid code options file is selected.
    • Improved selection of connector labels prior to displaying a context menu.
    • Added ability to create Use Case connector from Automation Interface when strict syntax checking is enabled.
    • Modified Help file to improve compression and reduce size of installation package.
    • Modified display of notes in Test list to remove HTML markup when appropriate.
    • RTF generation of Notes improved in 'Diagram.Messages' section.
    • Baseline comparison modified to add support for StateMachine and Constraint objects.
    • Removed size limitation importing UML patterns into a PostgreSQL repository.
    • Elements created from automation interface will now get auto named alias if set.
    • Toggle for moving messages with a fragment on a sequence diagram improved.

Changes and fixes for Build 847

  • User Interface
    • New Search facility within code editors and Debugger to "Find in Files"
      • - Search source code and text files for specific terms.
      • - Recursive and case-insensitive search supported.
      • - Double click on results to open in source editor.
      • - Accessible from docked Debug window (tick Windows/Search).
      • - Accessible from context menu of selection within source code editors.
      • - Accessible from Main menu View/Debug and Profile/Search (for new users).
      • - For existing users, run Tools/Customize/Menu to refresh cached main menu structure.
    • "Select Classifier" dialog modified to work with projects having an empty root (model) node.
    • "Bend Line at Cursor" (Ctrl+Q) command disabled when line style makes its use inappropriate.
    • The display of tagged values having fully qualified names is synchronized with diagram tagged value "inline feature" selection.
    • Editable features selected in diagrams (eg. Operations and Attributes) have a new command in their context menu to quickly create a linked note and place it on the diagram.
    • Tooltips have been updated for the MDG Integration diagram view.
    • Toolbar icons in 3 toolbars (default, project and diagram) have been reset to resolve issues where incorrect icons may be used after upgrading from build 845.
  • Reporting Rich Text and HTML
    • New sections can now be inserted directly before a table in the RTF document template editor.
    • A header row will always be displayed when using filtering in the Connector section.
    • "Save As" from Template Editor will no longer default to normal.rtf.
    • Moving a section in the editor will not cause protected text to appear, as could happen under certain circumstances previously.
    • The Table of Contents styles are now imported from the Master Document template.
    • Field Values containing the word 'quote' are now rendered more consistently.
    • Tagged Values notes now appear on a separate line in the following templates:
      • (basic template), (basic template + audit) and (Master template - basic template)
    • The built-in Requirement template now excludes Text elements by default.
    • The Table of Contents rendering is improved when windows is configured to use a RTL language.
    • Generating diagrams using the "Diagrams Only" report now uses the Project Browser order if 'Order Diagrams Alphabetically' is unchecked.
    • Diagram hyperlinks to web pages in HTML reports will now display the target page when clicked.
  • Data Modeling
    • Column custom properties enhanced to support large auto increment start values.
    • Foreign key name updated to match foreign key name template.
  • BPEL Modeling and Generation
    • Generating XSD 'import' statement in the generated WSDL files when a WSDL Message Part references constructs in external XSD file now supported.
    • Importing annotations on ModelGroup from XSD now supported.
    • Generating WSDL 'import' statement in the WSDL file generated for BPEL now supported.
    • Exception Flows that do not merge into Normal Flow now handled.
    • WebService creation for Pool/Process modified to ensure name is not empty.
  • Automation & Scripting
    • Comprehensive library of JScript example scripts added - accessible from the Scripting window.
    • Script Editor no longer duplicates all line breaks when saving scripts to file.
    • Value returned by Repository.EAEdition modified for backwards compatibility:
      • - Repository.EAEdition now returns EACorporate instead of EABusiness, EASystems and EAUltimate editions.
      • - EABusiness, EASystems and EAUltimate editions can now be checked for using a new function, Repository.EAEditionEx.
    • Effort.Time property added. Can be used instead of Effort.Weight to access fractional value. Matches name used for field in user interface.
    • Version Control operations on the Package interface modified to better handle lazy loaded models.
    • Diagrams created from automation interface modified to use the following options.
      • Show diagram details
      • Show public features
      • Show protected features
      • Show private features
  • Version Control, Baselines and XML support
    • Baseline comparison utility updated to provide a more informative error message when using unsupported XMI formats.
    • Compare utility option to Suppress children of missing items has been enabled.
    • Added new command 'Resynch all Statuses with VC providers' to package control context menu in project browser.
    • Use this command to ensure all model package statuses match version control provider status.
      • Also useful when moving or copying a version controlled model from one PC/User to another, and a re-synch is required.
      • Please read the help file on this topic as it also provides some additional warnings about general usage.
  • Code Engineering
    • Code generation templates using classKeywords macro will now use up to date value after it is modified on an object on a diagram.
    • Activity's 'isReadOnly' and 'isSingleExecution', exposed as EASL properties to be used in the code generation templates.
    • Actionscript generation will no longer generate a default constructor if any constructor already exists in the class.
    • Actionscript parsing modified to improve handling of expressions using Vector class.
  • Other Changes
    • Text on a diagram drawn using a shape script will no longer lose the last character under Crossover Office.
    • Support for GDI+ under Crossover Office 8.0.
    • Files page of the element properties dialog will now show the last write time in the current timezone.
    • Source code editor's find/replace performance improved when replace term includes the search term.
    • Source code editor has new feature to go to definition of selected symbol if defined in the model.
    • User profiles specifying an instance type for an element will now be able to specify an instance type from another profile.

Changes and fixes for Build 846

  • User Interface
    • Select Classifier dialog and other dialogs requiring an object to be selected have been redesigned to make finding the target faster and easier.
    • Classifier dialog now supports:
      • Tree based selection of elements (similar to Project Browser)
      • Search based selection - based on required item type and/or stereotype
      • Last selected item remembered for fast access to similar locations
    • Element List window significantly upgraded
      • Hierarchical (tree style) display and in-place editing now supported
      • Keyboard navigation updated to support more 'spreadsheet' like editing style.
      • Ability to Add New elements quickly and efficiently improved
      • Report based on Tree Style display now supported
    • Tagged values page added to several property dialogs
      • Element property dialog
      • Attribute property dialog
      • Operation property dialog
      • Connector property dialog

    • 'Show Feature' option added to the Feature Visibility dialog. Allows modelers to specify the features they want to show instead of those they want to hide.
    • CSV Import/Export now gives a warning if no action is selected.
    • 'Link to Element Feature' dialog usability improved.
    • Objects with the SysML <<view>> stereotype now show the correct SysML properties dialog.
    • When selecting a View or Workspace from the main View Menu or the Workspace toolbar, always bring that View's window to the front and/or give it focus.
    • 'Type' combo box in Hyperlink Details dialog, drop down size under Windows 2000 increased.
    • Changed method of specifying classifier information for Activity parameters, to restrict selection to items in drop-down list.
    • Added parameters' 'type' information in Arguments dialog.
    • 'New Element' dialog, updated to facilitate adding generalizable profile elements.
    • 'Warn about spaces in class names' option is now disabled by default.
  • Visual Execution Analyzer
    • New support for debugging Microsoft .NET dynamic 'In Memory' assemblies and including in Sequence Diagrams.
    • New Stack Copy marker added that performs silent capture of stacktrace at a points in an application.
    • Stack Toolbar has new buttons allowing Stack copying and Sequence Recording control.
    • Limit relative auto-recording stack depth option added to Options page of 'Package Script' dialog
    • Significant native code profiling speed improvements.
    • Recording of other API calls in native debugger now supported.
    • Create sequence diagrams from native code showing where external code is being called.

    • Java server debugging improved to support re-attachments to the same process (eg. recording multiple Tomcat service interactions)
    • The 'Watches' window has been renamed to 'Data Breakpoints' to more accurately reflect its function.
    • The 'Autos' window has been renamed to the 'Watches' window.
    • The 'Options' tab in Package Script dialog renamed to 'Sequence Diagram Recording'.
    • Context menus have been added to some debugging windows.
    • Thread Start and Thread Exit entries are no longer captured in the recording history.
    • Source code editor now allows non-destructive key combinations (such as Find/Goto Line) while debugging.
  • Technologies
    • MDG Technology wizard expanded to include
      • Diagram types
      • Toolbox definitions
      • Taskpane definitions.
    • MDG Technologies enhanced to support
      • RTF Report templates
      • Linked Document templates
      • Scripts.
    • Added support for transparently importing model reference data from an XML file, as a model is loaded.
      • Automatically synchronizes a model with a reference data file
      • File version stored in model and checked at load time
      • When the model is out of date, the reference data is imported automatically
      • Configured from Tools/Import Reference Data/Shared File

    • SysML flow specification default diagram changed to an internal block diagram.
    • MDG Technology for SOMF has had quicklinks added.
    • RefGUIDList and RefGUID tagged values from UMLProfiles modified to display classifier names (where possible)) instead of GUID strings.
    • BPMN 1.1 quicklinks improved to better distinguish between stand-alone and edge-mounted events, and to provide quicklinks to pools.
    • Ada 2005 technology renamed from ADA to Ada.
    • SysML internal block diagram toolbox now contains ports.
    • BPMN 1.1 Implementation tagged value changed to default to 'Unspecified'.
    • Assignments tagged value added to BPMN 1.1 Sequence Flow.
    • SysML <<ItemFlow>> quicklink options updated from SysML 1.0 to SysML 1.1. <<ItemFlow>> now extends InformationFlow, instead of Association and Connector.
  • Rich Text Reports (RTF)
    • The RTF Template editor may now be invoked "in-place" from the Resources window (Document Templates section)
    • The Resources window has been updated to show 'System' (read-only) and 'Model' (editable) templates
    • Documentation Templates may now include Authors, Resources, Roles & Clients.
    • Documentation template now support custom Project fields. This allows a template to be easily shared across multiple projects.
    • Open the Master Document Template for editing from the Generate dialog.

    • 'Optimize for Open Office' is now an option on the generation dialog.
    • Ports are rendered as Embedded elements when generating a document.
    • Table of Contents is updated when generating a document.
    • Improved report generation to ensure that all Metrics are generated for all elements.
    • Hyperlinks containing spaces have been modified to work correctly with Microsoft WORD.
    • LastUpdateShort, DateCreatedShort Fields added to the External Requirement section.
    • 'Model Document' section has been renamed to 'Linked Document' in the RTF Template editor.
    • Master Documents generated in models that use 'lazy loading' now load all required child items into the model prior to generation.
    • Diagram rendering in print preview of RTF documents has been improved.
    • Search tags on model document elements are ignored when the model document contains package attributes.
    • Header/footer support when generating Master Documents improved.
    • Automatic resetting of font details after editing paragraph style now prevented.
    • Field Text Flow is restored when generating a document.
    • All diagram objects, including those from other packages, are generated to RTF, when the option 'Document each contained element in RTF' is checked.
    • RTF template editor numbered list style for sub lists, now begins at 1 by default.
  • HTML Reports
    • Improved the HTML generation to correctly implement the 'tagged values' and 'tagged value item' templates.
    • HTML documents now provide a larger area to display tagged value details.
  • Diagrams
    • Text rendering across different zoom levels made more consistent with the 100% optimal value (avoids small variations in element sizing).
    • 'Configure Layouts' menu item added to the Layout quick buttons and changed the button order.
    • Connector label text wrapping improved at differing zoom levels.
    • Line joins and line end caps drawing neatened for the Enhanced 1 and Enhanced 2 rendering modes.

    • Resizing of connector source and target role labels improved when these are owned by the opposite Class as opposed to the Association.
    • Selection of labels associated with elements improved when using alternate images.
    • Drawing of lifelines on sequence diagrams improved by limiting displayed text to fit in lifeline header.
    • Disabled element 'Use Rectangle Notation' and similar commands when a shape script is overriding it.
    • Status colors on rectangular objects in the Enhanced 2 rendering mode updated to give cleaner display.
    • Default font colors in notes rendered more consistently for objects with Japanese or other Unicode text.
    • Constraint elements drawn on diagrams display simplified plain text names instead of marked up text.
    • Message arrows for collaboration messages between actors and objects improved (when performing shallow copies of communication diagrams).
    • Expansion Nodes created in diagrams updated to support immediate placement on the right or left sides of their parent Expansion Regions.
    • Object run state display modified. By default all objects where a run state has been set will display their run state.
    • Modified diagram attribute display to enforce 'Show Attribute Detail' option when set to 'Name Only'
    • Stereotype information displayed on connectors and the elements they connect has been made more independent of each other.
    • Legends copied from one diagram to another avoid occasional duplicate entries.
    • Tool-Tip message on connector context menu for displaying hidden line segments modified to 'Show All Line Segments'
    • Line-wrapping for names of Process elements modified to ensure that text is contained within the element boundaries.
    • Printing of note elements containing bullets or list numbering improved.
    • Sequence Diagrams containing self-messages when copy and pasting from Windows clipboard will now have less blank space above them.
    • Multiple selections will now be retained when a drag is initiated while the Shift key is depressed.
  • Data Modeling
    • Foreign keys synchronized when reverse engineering database schema with 'Package Only' option selected.
    • Option to 'Include Triggers' added when reverse engineering database schema.
    • Show full Oracle DBMS version on table properties dialog.
    • General Improvements to Oracle ODBC Import...
      • - Synchronizing default values and foreign keys
      • - Preventing duplicate foreign keys
      • - Preventing primary keys duplicated as indexes.
    • Reverse engineering MySQL schema modified to include all foreign keys.
    • UNSIGNED and ZEROFILL columns added to reverse and forward engineering of MySQL schemas.
    • Diagram saved when reverse engineering database schemas with auto-layout option set.
    • InterBase and Firebird reverse engineering modified to support Firebird 2.0 (in addition to Firebird 1.5), and Interbase (with lower case 'B').
    • Reverse engineering Sybase ASE supports multiple column indexes.
    • DDL Transformation modified to distinguish identifying relationships.
  • Business Rule Modeling
    • Added support to export Rule Composer data as CSV.
    • 'Rule Composer' menu item has been disabled for all elements types, except Actions, stereotyped as <<RuleTask>>.
  • BPEL Modeling and Generation
    • Minimum value can now be generated for BPMN 1.1 Loop Activity.
    • Loop condition can now be generated for BPMN 1.1 Multi-Instance Loop Activity.
    • 'Instantiate' tag on Event based Exclusive gateway mapping updated.
    • 'TimeDate' and 'TimeCycle' tag on Timer Intermediate Event mapping updated.
    • Added support for mapping the tag 'ErrorCode' on Error Intermediate Event in a normal flow.
    • Added support to ensure that the default gate of an Inclusive Gateway is taken only if the condition on all other gates fail.
    • BPEL Properties dialog for BPMN 1.1 Activity updated to correctly set the tag 'MessageRef'
    • BPEL Properties dialog for BPMN 1.1 IntermediateEvents updated to set the tag 'CatchOrThrow'
    • BPEL Properties dialog for Timer Event updated to treat 'Time Cycle' and 'Time Date' as mutually exclusive fields
    • BPEL Model Validator updated to check the Sequence Flows on an Intermediate Event in a normal flow
    • Events specified in a Multiple Start Event can now be mapped to a BPEL 'onMessage' element.
    • BPEL Model Validator updated to invalidate Processes containing more than one valid Start or End Event
    • BPEL Generator updated to generate the BPEL variable representing the WSDL Message for a Timer Start Event
    • Added support for Exception Flows that merge back into the Normal Flow (i) after the Activity and (ii) further Downstream
  • Automation & Scripting
    • Added comprehensive library of VBScript example scripts - accessible from the Scripting window.
    • DeleteBaseline() method added to Project Interface.
    • Collection.DeleteAt now supports Connector Constraints.
    • Repository.GetContextObject() modified to return the Context Object, rather than the Project Browser's tree selection.
    • Auditing functions accepting dates have been improved.
    • Functions Repository.ActivateTab() and Repository.IsTabOpen() updated do handle tab names containing an ampersand.
    • Adjusted reporting of Enterprise Architect version from the automation interface.
  • Version Control, Baselines and XML support
    • XSD import of ModelGroups improved to handle nested ModelGroups.
    • Added support to handle an incorrect result code that is returned by ClearCase when a check-out is canceled.
    • XSD and WSDL export now exclude RTF tags in notes fields.
    • 'Use DTD' in the 'Package Control Options' dialog is now disabled when saving Rose XMI 1.1 and XMI 2.1.
    • Import of Activity diagrams from XMI 2.1 files improved.
    • Import of element Z-Order from Rose XMI 1.1 files improved.
    • XMI 1.1 when using a DTD now supports round-tripping alternate-images.
    • XMI import process modified, to truncate Connector Role names at 50 characters, when importing into MySQL, Postgres, ASA or SQL Server.
    • Version Control check-out status, modified to use case-insensitive tests of user names.
    • Baseline comparison updated to include UML:Event elements.
    • Baseline comparison of cardinality on connectors corrected.
  • User and Model Security
    • Diagram Switch Type command, now respects user permissions.
    • User & Group locks will now be preserved when re-importing from XMI.
  • Other Changes
    • Performance improved when applying a profile stereotype to an element.
    • Performance improved performance when adding a profile element with tagged values.
    • Reference Data export filters improved.
    • Model View change notifications no longer triggered by model reload.
    • Added ability for a state's operations to refer to other behaviors in the model.
    • Operation return type classifier selection improved, to allow selection of InformationItem as a type.
    • Operation Behavior dialog's Initial Code field saving of text including percent symbols improved.
    • Integrity check on Oracle repositories modified to handle packages containing more than 1000 elements.
    • Model Search filter dialogs modified to use localized date formatting.
    • JUNIT test case output capture improved to ensure results are recorded accurately.
    • Boundary, ActivityPartition, InterruptibleActivityRegion and ExpansionRegion can now have connectors created to them using the quicklinker.
    • UMLProfile tagged values will now always retain their original namespace when the tagged value data is modified.
    • New 'Find in Project Browser' command added to Diagram Object's Inline Features context menu.
    • 'Style' field in Connector Properties dialog for connectors where tagged value '_Bezier' is set has been disabled.
    • Help button on the dialog 'Link to Element Feature', now opens the appropriate Help topic.
    • Import of tagged values when merging from baselines improved.
    • Java source code engineering now supports transient fields.
    • Instantiations of stereotyped elements now have their correctly-defined stereotypes applied.
    • OCL constraints checker modified to support isStereotyped OCL statements.

Changes and fixes for Build 845

  • Technologies
    • Added SoaML (Service Oriented Architecture Modeling Language) technology for the Corporate Edition and above.
    • Added SOMF (Service Oriented Modeling Framework) technology.
    • Added non-normative SysML 1.1 extensions for Activity, Requirement and Parametric diagrams.
    • Improved SysML technology quick link definitions.
    • Updated SPEM 2.0 Technology: improved shape scripts and added missing elements to toolboxes.
    • Updated ArchiMate Technology: improved shape script for Meaning element.
    • Resolved namespace conflict with Zachman Technology and StrategyMap profiles.
    • Added 'none' value to flow ports' direction tagged value in SysML 1.1 profile.
    • Corrected base class of SysML's testCase stereotype.
  • Diagramming
    • Improved WINE implementation of saving shapescripts to bitmaps, where rounded rects are involved.
    • Improved selection of text elements under WINE.
    • Improved display of Information Flow Items Conveyed under Lazy Load.
    • Improved undo of digraph layout to include connector waypoints.
    • Addressed possible crash when using the Enhanced 1 renderer and diagrams containing arcs are zoomed out to 5%.
    • Corrected rendering of hyperlinks that don't have an alias set.
    • Ensured that "Repeat Last Element" gets stereotype information from the correct profile.
    • Modified enabling of Diagram Object context menu item "Selectable", to use Diagram lock state rather than element lock state.
    • Improved connector positioning so that connectors don't overlap labels of elements that have an alternate image.
    • Allow hyperlinks to display the link as the label if no other name is specified.
    • Improved printing of elements that have their color changed by a stereotype.
    • Improved rendering of diagram legend lines in Enhanced 1 and Enhanced 2 rendering modes.
    • Allowed embedded parts to be dropped onto an element's child diagram as freestanding elements.
    • Updated and improved some quick link definitions.
    • Improved connector labels that are inside suppressed segment ends.
    • Added an option that sets whether metafiles are generated with GDI or GDI Plus.
    • Resolved an issue with Quick Buttons on interaction Fragments.
    • Resolved an issue with changing thickness of connector lines.
    • Changed color of selection highlight to red, for locked diagrams.
    • Resolved issue of moving self connectors when moving the element they are connected to.
    • Improved ability to move self-messages around a port.
  • User Interface
    • Corrected handling of 'Custom Masked Tagged Value Type'.
    • Added intellisense to the Code Generation Template editor.
    • Added the ability to choose a toolbox from the Hyperlink Details dialog when setting up an Activate Toolbox hyperlink.
    • Added combobox that groups, link type and target type by MDG Technology in Create Link dialog.
    • Corrected double clicking behavior in element browser.
    • Improved save checking on forms with RTF controls.
    • Improved handling of favorite diagrams in the model views window for lazy loaded models.
    • Fixed problem assigning a classifier to a lifeline in a sequence diagram using the "Add New Element" button.
    • Corrected 'Find in Diagram' context option for diagrams displaying as an element list.
    • Corrected enabling of delete functionality in Rules and Scenarios dialog.
    • Made it possible to add CollaborationOccurrence elements to custom toolboxes.
    • Added ability to go to source code for linked method or attribute when source code for the current element isn't available.
    • Added asterisk indicator to tagged value to notify tag contains data.
    • Improved hit test on connector ends for connector context menu.
    • Improved Database View Editor intellisense by providing structural information on tables in the current model.
    • Added update of search view in Model Views window when double clicking search node.
    • Added Select / Deselect All button to Batch Document Generation dialog.
    • Fixed Properties tab allowing blank values on set property types.
    • Fixed Implementation Details dialog target types filter.
  • Reporting
    • Addressed issue when generating HTML report using the Enhanced 1 renderer in 16 bit color mode.
    • File hyperlinks generated in RTF documents now work correctly in Word.
    • Improved rendering of Project Task/Issues/Glossary items in RTF documents.
    • Improved printing of images in RTF reports.
    • Resolved errors generating RTF report on Access 2007 repository.
    • Added an option to optimize RTF generation for Open Office - enables field overwrite and basic metafile support.
    • Modified rendering of RTF documents from EAP files to prevent an SQL error.
    • Improved resolution of MessageRef tagged values when generating RTF.
    • Corrected the inclusion of Package's Linked Documents within generated RTF reports.
    • Changed file filter to "*.jpg", for header image selection when generating HTML.
    • Corrected ability to search by GUID, for generated HTML documentation in web browsers under Linux.
  • Data Modeling
    • Improved DDL Generation for Oracle GRANT Statement.
    • Improved import of Access 97-2000 primary key, check constraint and index names, and default values.
    • Added import of Access 97-2000 views.
    • Ensured default database is set when newly created element's stereotype is set to "table".
    • Improved DDL Generation for SQL Server and MySQL Foreign Key Constraints.
    • Added support for SET DEFAULT Foreign Key Constraints for SQL Server repositories.
    • Improvements to database datatypes dialog - added common type combo box..
  • Code Engineering
    • Fixed a crash caused due to multiple nested decision-merge graphs in Actrivity diagrams.
    • Fixed parent data being removed when resetting code generation options.
    • Fixed unintended rendering of state-machine code stub.
    • Added code generation for C# partial and extension methods.
    • Improved position where new C++ namespaces are generated to code.
    • Addressed Reverse Engineering Progress dialog closing automatically.
    • Fixed display of element parent changes in diagram when synchronizing model with code.
    • Fixed parent data being removed when resetting code generation options.
    • Corrected possible duplicate package entries in Project View after importing of source code on a lazy loaded model.
    • Corrected Project View context issue after importing of source code.
  • Business Rule Modeling
    • Improved Quicklinks for Rule Flow diagram.
    • Added support for referencing enumeration in allowable values field of Rule Composer.
    • Modified Import of Rule Composer data to handle enum references information.
    • Added ability to create link to an attribute in both condition & action table of Rule Composer.
    • Added support for returning values from Business Rule Flow behavior.
  • XMI
    • Improved remapping of tagged values referring to other elements in the model, on import with strip guids on.
    • Fixed issue where the value of the global "Write Log" option ( in the "XML Specifications" section of the "Options" dialog ) does not get applied as the default value for "Write Log file" option in the "Import Package from XMI" dialog.
    • Improved XMI importer to retain external references, on importing with stripped guids.
    • Modified XMI 2.1 import to realize type information, even when EA specific information is turned off.
    • Modified XMI 2.1 export to render primitive types information as a href to the UML primitive types.
    • Fixed issue where enumeration-literals were sometimes not imported from XMI 2.1.
    • Improved Interaction parameters classifier type import in XMI2.1.
    • Improved primitive type information import from XMI 2.XX, exported by other tools.
    • Fixed issue where diagrams were sometimes not exported to XMI 2.1 when EA Specific tagged-values were excluded.
    • Added option to import XMI using sql transaction to prevent locking issues under some databases.
  • General Changes
    • Corrected errors opening Use Case Metrics dialog on PostgreSQL repository.
    • Improved check whether currently open model is target of a project transfer.
    • Fixed baseline compare for Node elements.
    • Corrected extended search under PostgreSQL.
    • Added support for exporting user defined Status Types "Applies To" information.
    • Improved detection of whether sub-folders are version controlled by CVS.
    • Implemented use of sub folders for package files when new packages are automatically added to version control.
    • Addressed a database error when using a shapescript that contains an image on a case sensitive database.
    • Resolved issue in CSV import/export whereby elements were duplicated when GUIDS were provided in the specification.
    • Improved CSV import/export mechanism to correctly preserve the element hierarchy on import.
    • Corrected issue where Tagged Values would fail to synchronize for InformationFlow Relationships.
    • Corrected handling of EA_OnContextItemDoubleClicked broadcast when double clicking an item in the project browser.
    • Addressed issue with saving operation details after creating a new object via the project browser.
    • Corrected escaping of backslashes in literal strings on ASA repositories.
    • Fixed inadvertent loss of behavior classifier information on closing the behavior's properties dialog.
    • Fixed issue where changing values on the Save UML Profile dialog had no effect on the saved profile.
    • Fixed issue where any new Activity's return type was set to "Boolean" on creation.
    • Fixed MDG Technology Model Views remaining open after model has closed.
    • Fixed error when adding attribute stereotypes larger than 50 characters.
    • Fixed display of realization target and source names from different root nodes in compare utility.
    • Fixed display of ampersand in list of recently opened files.
    • Added asterisk memo indicator to memo tagged value.
    • Removed the need for "create" permission in the keystore directory when using floating licences.
    • Added baseline comparison option, "Suppress Advanced Properties"

Changes and fixes for Build 844

  • Diagramming
    • Prevented drawing of tracking lines on Start Page.
    • Improved dragging of image from file system onto EA diagram.
    • Modified Link to Element Feature dialog to show current selection when opened.
    • Added handling of diagram hyperlink to activate a technology.
    • Improved creation of profiled connecters from the relationship matrix when require user lock to edit is on.
    • Improved drawing of dotted and dashed connector styles with a suppressed line segment.
    • Added the ability to specify the number of columns in a Box layout.
    • Fixed issue drawing Collaboration elements with long names and stereotypes.
    • Enabled the display of stereotypes on diagrams for elements that display their name in floating text labels (e.g. Ports).
  • Documentation
    • Improved RTF generating time when rendering a template which contained a Table of Contents.
    • Improved formatting of connector notes in default HTML templates.
    • Added support for document generation from custom sql search returning only guids.
    • Improved resource report to ensure all are displayed after adding a resource to an element.
  • Data Modeling
    • Improved database datatype mapping from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
    • Added database datatypes mapping for SQL Server 2008.
  • Code Engineering
    • Modified Delphi code import to observe option for importing method bodies.
    • Improved code import where many | characters are used in class note.
    • Modified DDL Transformation to set foreign key not null based on Source Multiplicity.
  • XMI
    • Improved XMI import when connected through the WAN Optimizer.
    • Improved import of tagged values and element constraints from XMI 2.1 generated by other tools.
  • General Changes
    • Improved the process of saving the changes to an existing CSV import/export specification.
    • Improved loading of associated behavior information for an invocation.
    • Improved testing of diagram object's lock state, to ensure that 'Ctrl+Del' does not delete from the model, any diagram object locked by another user.
    • Improved the element lists filter to only include types that can be shown.
    • Corrected ability to create relationships in matrix when there was a name clash between profiles or technologies.
    • Improved handling of deleted elements in Rule Composer.
    • Prevented error when tab navigation arrows are pressed and no diagrams are open.
    • Removed a second error message that displayed when deleting a model branch containing checked-out VC packages.

Summary of features for Enterprise Architect 7.5 (Build 843)

  • New: Editions of Enterprise Architect
    • Version 7.5 introduces 3 new editions of Enterprise Architect
    • Two editions target specific engineering domains
    • A third edition wraps up everything for the ultimate Enterprise Architect experience
    • Each edition bundles licenses for specific MDG products that target the needs of the domain engineer
    • Each edition supports advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation
      • New custom dialogs for various behavioral elements to provide enhanced behavioral modeling capability.
    • Ability to generate source code from behavioral models.
    • Support for code generation from State Machines
    • Support for code generation from Activity Graphs
    • Support for code generation from Sequence Diagrams
  • NEW: Enterprise Architect - Business & Software Engineering Edition
    • Targets software engineering, BPEL generation, behavioral code from business rules, integration with Visual Studio and Eclipse, and various frameworks
    • Includes all functionality in the Enterprise Architect Corporate Edition
    • Examples included in the Example model
    • Advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation for standard coding languages
    • Business Rules Modeling and Code Generation
      • Support for Fact models
      • Support for Rule Flow models
      • New Rule Composer supports modeling and configuration of complex Business Rules from Fact and Rule Flow models
      • Support for behavioral code generation from modeled Rule Sets
    • Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) Support
      • Support for generating BPEL 1.1 from BPMN 1.1 models.
      • Introduced BPMN 1.1 Technology and BPEL diagram type
      • New property dialogs for BPMN 1.1 elements when placed on BPEL diagrams.
    • Support for additional advanced Math functions in the Enterprise Architect Scripting engine
    • MDG Technologies and Add-in licenses included (bundled) with the Business Engineering Edition
      • MDG Link/Integration for Microsoft Visual Studio
      • MDG Link/Integration for Eclipse
      • MDG Technology for Zachman Framework
      • MDG Technology for TOGAF
      • MDG Technology for DODAF/MODAF
  • NEW: Enterprise Architect - Systems Engineering Edition
    • Targets systems, real-time engineering, behavioral code generation, executable UML
    • Includes all functionality in the Enterprise Architect Corporate Edition
    • Examples included in the Example model
    • Advanced Behavioral Modeling and Code Generation for HDL's, Ada and standard coding languages
    • Ada 2005 Language Support
      • Added Ada 2005 language support
    • Support for OMG SysML 1.1
    • Support for SysML Parametrics Simulation
    • Hardware Descriptions Languages Support
      • SystemC support added
      • VHDL support added
      • Verilog support added
    • Support for additional advanced Math functions in the Enterprise Architect Scripting engine
    • MDG Technologies and Add-in licenses included (bundled) with the Systems Engineering Edition
      • MDG Technology for SysML
      • MDG Link/Integration for Microsoft Visual Studio
      • MDG Link/Integration for Eclipse
      • MDG Technology for DDS
      • MDG Technology for DODAF/MODAF
  • NEW: Enterprise Architect - Ultimate Edition
    • Combines all the features in the Business Engineering and Systems Engineering Editions
  • New: 'built-in' MDG Technologies
    • Introduced MDG Technology for Strategic Modeling - including
      • Strategy Maps,
      • Balanced Scorecards,
      • Value Chains,
      • Flow Charts,
      • Decision Trees and
      • Organization Charts.
    • New MDG Technology for ArchiMate, which supports The Open Group's ArchiMate enterprise architecture standard.
    • New MDG Technology for SPEM, which supports version 2.0 of the OMG's Software Process Engineering Metamodel standard.
    • New MDG Technology for Business Rule Modeling. Supports modeling Business Rules in Enterprise Architect Business Engineering Edition
    • Web Modeling UML Profile now incorporated as a built-in MDG technology.
  • New: Scripting support (Corporate Edition and above)
    • Write scripts inside Enterprise Architect using either VBScript, JScript or Javascript.
    • Full and immediate access to the Enterprise Architect automation object model
    • Built in Repository object to facilitate instant scripting
    • Built in Intellisense support for the Enterprise Architect Object Model
    • Built in Intellisense support for the major scripting language constructs on a per language basis
    • Advanced math functions are also supported in the Business and Systems Engineering versions of EA
    • Save scripts directly into the current model.
    • Save scripts to a local file, for use in all models.
    • Support for a "Scripts" subdirectory in the Enterprise Architect installation directory.
    • Support for Scripts embedded in MDG Technology files.
    • Ability to export scripts as reference data.
    • Default Session objects for printing out trace information
    • Console window for executing script commands in "immediate" mode
  • New: Diagram Layout Window
    • Added new dockable window with 10 new layout styles.
    • Can help with manual layout, or automatically layout diagrams.
    • Each command includes configuration options, allowing you to customize the results.
    • Added new lateral connector style.
    • Added logic to automatically switch between horizontal and vertical tree style connectors.
  • New and Improved WAN and Large Model Support (Corporate Edition and above)
    • Lazy Loading
      • Only implemented for DBMS connections (not for .EAP files)
      • Can greatly minimize the time taken to load large models and/or models accessed over a network with low bandwidth (eg. WAN).
      • Lazy Load capability defers loading of model packages until required by the client.
      • Is configurable on a per-connection basis, so two connections to the same DBMS can be configured with and without Lazy Load
      • Can be used in conjunction with the WAN Optimizer
    • WAN Optimizer
      • Lightweight server that can be installed on a LAN connection to the host DBMS
      • Accessible by WAN based clients over socket connection (eg. when client is on a WAN based VPN connection)
      • Acts as a local proxy to retrieve data and compress data for transmission to client
      • Significantly improves performance by reducing the amount of data transmitted and the number of network calls made
  • New and improved Themes support
    • Added new visual themes (UI appearance) to choose from.
    • Modified all docked windows to support and use the current theme.
    • Configurable status bar
    • New status bar indicator "WAN" - active when the WAN Optimizer is enabled
    • New diagram zoom control in status bar
      • Allows for immediate configuration of a general "all diagram" zoom level.
      • Independent of the per diagram "zoom level" set by the diagram toolbar.
      • Ideal for viewing all diagrams at a higher zoom level on a per user basis.
  • General Appearance, Performance and Reliability Improvements
    • Added "slideshow" model view type, which shows all the contained diagrams in order in fullscreen mode.
    • Added command from toolbox item context menu to synchronize the tagged values and constraints of a stereotype.
    • Added Directory custom tagged value type.
    • Added handling of C# 3.0 and VB 9.0 code constructs.
    • Added handling of localized decimal symbol in Estimation factors.
    • Added new functionality to validate the configuration settings for version controlled packages.
    • Added 'Realization' to Create Metaclass dialog in place of 'Realisation'.
    • Added specific warning about opening a read-only .eap file.
    • Added Stereotype column to Element List.
    • Added support for Code Modules in MDG technologies to specify the name of constructors etc.
    • Added support for creating profiled items from 'Create New Element' dialog.
    • Added support for moving required interfaces on sequence diagrams.
    • Added support for search filters on element Defects.
    • Added support for showing details of selected maintenance, project management and testing windows item in Notes Window.
    • Added support for showing generated XMI, XSD and WSDL files in EA's internal editor if an external viewer is not available
    • Added support for stripping GUIDs in tagged-values when importing an XMI 1.1 or XMI 2.1 file with Strip GUID option
    • Added support for using Sparx Keystore (shared keys) when running under Wine or Cross Over Office (Linux/Mac).
    • Added support to move or copy test cases between testing types of an element.
    • Added toolbar to search view, including an option for how to display the notes.
    • Corrected minor project transfer errors.
    • Corrected searches on Oracle that return over 1000 results.
    • Discontinued support for RealTime UML add-in (rolled into Systems Engineering Edition).
    • Fix configuration of model validation whitelists and blacklists.
    • Fix direction setting of quicklink connectors.
    • Fixed issue of missing association notes during XSD Import.
    • Fixed issue when remove Trigger from Transition.
    • Fixed issue where the "aggregation" attribute was set incorrectly on the generated XMI 2.1 for Association connector
    • Fixed transfer of connectors owned state in Package transformation.
    • Improve project transfer to and from Access 2007.
    • Improved auditing performance.
    • Improved baseline comparison of element scenarios.
    • Improved creation of operation returning arrays from transformation templates.
    • Improved current context immediately after dropping an element from the project browser.
    • Improved display of combo boxes listing available searches.
    • Improved display of stereotyped Activity Partitions.
    • Improved drawing and tracking of Ports and Parts with shapescripts when bound to their owning parent
    • Improved drawing of connectors drawn with dashed lines in tree style.
    • Improved drawing of formatted notes to diagram where the selected font contains unicode characters.
    • Improved drawing of long element stereotypes on sequence diagrams.
    • Improved GDI+ metafiles when generating RTF documents
    • Improved general performance in models containing a large number of security locks.
    • Improved highlight of features in diagram when selecting feature in dialog.
    • Improved loading time of the Classifier Dialog in very large models.
    • Improved performance of 'Insert Related Elements' command when a large numbers of elements will be inserted.
    • Improved performance when applying a security lock to a package.
    • Improved performance when moving large numbers of elements on a diagram (in a single step).
    • Improved reliability when using case sensitive MSSQL model
    • Improved resources usage while loading EA and displaying diagrams.
    • Improved Set Element Classifier dialog loading time.
    • Improved snapping of connector line points to perpendicular line segments.
    • Improved synchronization of attributes and methods with tagged values.
    • Improved synchronization of profiled attributes and operations when dropping from the resource tree.
    • Improved version control performance when creating context menus.
    • Improved XMI 2.1 export of types using predefined common types.
    • Introduced an "All Scenarios" option as a target for notes linked to element features.
    • Made type of bool/boolean tagged values in profiles case-insensitive.
    • MDG Technology for ArchiMate: changed shape scripts for interface and collaboration elements.
    • Modified CSV import routine to only allow EA style GUIDS for the GUID field.
    • Modified handling of text elements so that they automatically resize to fit the text being displayed.
    • Modified HTML export to only copy local files to generated location.
    • Modified lists for docked maintenance, project management and testing windows to preserve absolute column widths instead of percentages.
    • Modified state table to only show state elements.
    • Observe element locking with the quicklinker.
    • Prevent a crash that may occur when deleting an element and its children from the search view window
    • Prevent access to "Lock Item" dialog, through Diagram toolbars and menus, for Diagram Objects locked by other users.
    • Prevent an error when using recent MySQL ODBC drivers which do not correctly support alternate images (binary data)
    • Prevent deletion of packages which contain child items checked out to any other user in a version controlled model
    • Project management element resource allocation added to core auditing level.
    • Redirected instant help for BPMN elements.
    • Restored Expand Branch functionality in Project Browser.
    • Updated diagrams after deleting link from Rules and Scenarios window.
    • Updated drawing of artifacts to account for long names.
    • Use transparent icons when generating HTML reports.Improved handling of transforming operations that return an array.
  • Automation
    • Added support for Collection.GetByName for the MethodTags collection.
    • Support generating RTF Master Documents via IProject.RunReport.
  • Baseline
    • Added ability to compare requirement stability.
  • Code Generation
    • Added ability to list over the following properties of elements in code or transform templates.
      • Constraint, Effort, LinkedFile, Metric, Problem, Requirement, Resource, Risk, Scenario, Test
    • Added parsing of Actionscript 3 Vector type.
    • Added parsing of VB.Net functions without parameter lists.
    • Added transform of ExecutionEnvironment, StateMachine and Trigger element types.
  • Code & Script Editor Changes
    • All new, intelligent code and scripting editor.
    • Added syntax highlighting to the Initial Code field of the operation behavior dialog.
    • Allowed the appearance of Common Code Editor calltips to be specified in the corresponding configuration files.
    • Autocomplete functionality based on elements and features within the currently open model
    • Automatic indenting for supported languages.
    • Faster loading with support for more languages and larger files
    • Improved brace matching.
    • Improved Javascript engine to better support use of the global Repository as the default scripting object
    • Improved syntax highlighting for a much wider set of languages.
    • Intellisense and autocomplete functionality built in.
    • Intellisense support added for shape scripts, database view element sql and custom search query sql editors.
    • Prevented Code Editor key combinations from opening EA dialogs bound to the same key combination.
  • Data Modeling
    • Added support for DDL generation of SQL Server index INCLUDE.
    • Allow for inbuilt editor to view generated DDL.
    • Corrected error importing schema from DB2 that includes table aliases.
    • Corrected middle top label for foreign keys.
    • Corrected reverse engineering of indexes from Oracle ensuring all indexes are imported.
    • Ensured composite indexes imported from PostgreSQL contain all columns.
    • Improved DBView dialog handling of objects not loaded on a diagram.
    • Improved DDL Generation for Foreign Key Constarint Tags for Oracle Databases.
    • Improved DDL Generation for ORACLE INDEX Properties.
    • Improved DDL Generation for Oracle Storage Clauses.
    • Improved DDL Generation for sp_addextendedproperty statement for SQL Server databases.
    • Improved DDL Generation for Storage Clauses for UNIQUE and PRIMARY KEY Constraints in Oracle.
    • Improved Drop Sequence Statement generation for PostgreSQL Database.
    • Improved generation of DDL for MySQL data models having circular foreign key references.
    • Improved import of Integer columns from MySQL to display correctly in the Foreign Key dialog.
    • Improved Import of Oracle TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE and TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE datatypes.
    • Improved Import of SQL Server 2008 datatypes.
    • Improved MDA Transformation to allow foreign keys to be NULL.
    • Improved Order of DDL Generation.
    • Improved OWNER Name generation in DDL for PostgreSQL repository.
    • Improved support for table properties in Oracle.
    • Improved Table property dialog box after importing from SQL Server 2008.
    • Prevent editing of Foreign Key connector labels and foreign key direction.
    • Prevent generation of Oracle foreign key names over 30 characters long.
    • Stop error/warning messages about sysproperties tables when importing SQL Server 2008.
    • Support for Geography and Geometry Datatypes for SQL Server 2008.
  • Improved debugging/profiling capabilities
    • Added debug control window to manage debugging sessions and windows
    • Allow greater set of operands when constructing state transition constraints
    • Breakpoints now show error messages when failing to bind
    • Create data bound breakpoints which activate on changes to data variables
    • Enable / Disable diagnostic logging function for debug sessions
    • Evaluate global / static variables using the Autos window
    • Modified all debugging windows to allow separate docking to create a detailed debugging environment
    • More stringent matching of source code to binaries during debugging
    • Package scripts for selected class or package can be accessed directly using the Debugger Control Window.
    • Record/Create sequence diagrams for the current stack or history
  • Diagram Rendering Engine - New and Improved
    • Added display of compartments provided by SysML and DDS.
    • Added support for setting background colors of non-transparent UI Controls in diagram.
    • All new anti-aliased rendering of diagrams
    • Configurable with 3 different modes
      • Basic : no smoothing
      • Enhanced 1 : inbuilt smoothing
      • Enhanced 2 : smoothing via GDI+ (Not available under WINE)
    • Improved gradient fills of all elements
    • Metafile support for anti-aliased drawing (Not available under WINE and only supported by some client applications, such as MS Word)
    • Numerous enhancements to metafiles and generalized drawing routines
    • Smoothing of all lines and shapes, including shape scripted elements
  • General Diagramming Behavior
    • All new "Quick" buttons activated when element selected in diagram
      • Quick access to formatting commands
      • Quick access to common dialogs and commands
      • Quick access to Help for the current element
      • Quick access to Document generation for packages
    • Added new "sweeper" method for moving all elements relative to the mouse position on a diagram.
      • To activate press and hold the ALT key, then click the left mouse button and drag
      • The initial movement will set the type and direction of the "sweeper" control
      • Elements on the active side (or quadrant) of the sweeper will be moved only
    • Added a small red italic "A" indicator to diagram elements which have a defined linked document
    • Changed from single click to double click for timeline element quickbuttons.
    • Ensure packages dropped on a diagram from the project browser are always selectable.
    • Improved drawing of bezier curves with offscreen control points
    • Modified horizontal swimlanes to have a minimum height.
    • Separated a number of options relating to diagram appearance onto a new options page.
  • Discussion Forum Improvements
    • Added "Recent Discussion" node to the Model Views window for quick access to discussion topics
    • Improved general usability of forum editor
    • Modified discussion forum to edit posts inside window instead of new dialog.
  • Documentation - HTML and RTF
    • Added #CLASSIFIER# to "Object - Body" section of HTML reports.
    • Added #STEREOTYPE# to "Link Line Item" section.
    • Added a "Model Document" (insert element linked document) field to RTF templates under the "External Requirements" section
    • Added Header Row menu item to RTF Document editor.
    • Added menu "Update Styles" to Linked document and RTF Template editors - imports default styles from file "normal.rtf"
    • Added menu item "Insert->Insert RTF File" to Linked document and RTF Template editors.
    • Added new section "Linked Document".
    • Common settings are saved when the generate dialog is closed.
    • Corrected heading level when generating Model Documents.
    • Ensure .rtf extension for all RTF reports.
    • Improved documentation on section Tags in HTML reports.
    • Improved filtering of elements from search in RTF generation.
    • Improved generation of scenarios to legacy RTF generator.
    • Improved inserting of OLE objects to allow for a wider range of objects in RTF.
    • Improved user experience and general RTF bug fixes
    • Internal Requirements are now sorted by name.
    • New RTF fields for Author and Language in the Package section.
    • Resource based Documents now restore options they're saved with when generating.
    • Table headings are now displayed correctly when filtering is used.
    • Viewing RTF documents has Header/Footer on by default.
  • Improved Element List and Search Results windows
    • Drag and drop columns to form instant groupings
    • Easier navigation
    • Improved performance and loading times
    • Improved search view and element list to allow arbitrary grouping
  • Improved WINE support
    • Improved performance under WINE. Application no longer causes high CPU load while idle.
    • Removed separate WINE build, WINE is now automatically detected by normal version.
  • Model Views, Searches and Element List
    • Added capability for model/search views automatic refreshing and notifying when new items are added.
      • See model views folder properties dialog.
      • With custom queries and integrated security supports implementation of flexible workflow procedures
    • Added hot keys to launch model view as element list (report style list)
    • Added option to set double click as "Open Search in Main Window" or "Refresh Folder Contents"
    • Custom searches returning ad hoc columns now show a best-fit column width based on column content
    • Column layout and grouping is now preserved for all search types between sessions
    • Modified the drop list of Searches (eg. in the Manage Searches dialog) to categorize searches by type
    • Printing the report view now takes landscape orientation into account
    • Search entry on the "Start Page" changed to use Extended, rather than Simple search
  • Modeling Changes
    • Added new behavioral modeling property tabs for various behavioral elements.
    • Added new type "Packaging Component". This allows for creation of components that can contain packages.
    • Added support for activity partitions, and other elements selected by the user to dock to each other.
    • Added support for composite interfaces.
    • Added support for connectors between attributes and operations. (Link objects then specify the linked features.)
    • Added support for Device elements owning ExecutionEnvironment elements.
    • Changed display of derived attributes so that the '/' is drawn immediately before the name.
    • Changed display of interface elements to not use italic font, in accordance with UML 2.1 specification.
    • Extended list of element types for which status colors can be displayed.
    • Improved attribute/association end comparison in model validation.
    • Improved handling of language-specific visibilities in model validation.
    • Improved syntax checking for interrupt flows.
  • MDG Technology Enhancements
    • Ability to define custom Project Browser icons for stereotypes in a technology.
    • Ability to disable the "Basic UML 2 Technology" and to hide EA's built-in toolboxes, diagrams and quicklinks for a fully customizable experience.
    • Added support for defining toolbox items for UML Patterns.
    • Added support for including Scripts in Technologies
    • Added support for specifying default swimlanes and diagram properties for custom diagram types.
    • Allow tree-style connectors to be defined in UML Profiles.
    • MDG Technology for BPMN upgraded to support BPMN 1.1.
  • Printing
    • Enable setting margins to diagram print/print preview.
    • Improved "scale to 1 page" capability
    • Improved handling of page size after changing printer.
    • Improved printing of diagram frames.
  • Project Security (Corporate Edition and above)
    • Added ability to import user ids for security from Windows Active Directory.
    • Added check for export permission for Batch XMI Export.
  • Rich text based notes
    • Notes editor now appears with an isolating grey border and small margin to increase readability
    • Applies to all instances of the notes editor
    • Docked notes, element properties, diagram properties & etc.
    • Rich text notes have also been added to many more fields, including (but not limited to):
      • Additional testing fields
      • Maintenance fields
      • Project management fields
  • Shape Scripts
    • Added diagram.connectornotation property for connector shape scripts.
    • Added shape script attribute dockable.
    • Added shape script attribute fixedAspectRatio.
    • Added shape script property "diagram.mdgtype" for identifying custom diagrams.
  • Slideshow Capability
    • For presentations and demonstrations based on model diagrams
    • Play a Model View "slideshow" either at a set pace, or manually - slide by slide
    • Slideshows play in full-screen mode
    • Support for defining a Model View as a "slideshow"
  • User Interface
    • Added a "Set Font" button on the format toolbar
    • Added a menu option to find a CallOperationAction's operation in the project tree.
    • Added a menu option to find a Port or Part's classifier in the project tree.
    • Added a new button to the UML Elements toolbar - provides a menu driven drop list of all available elements and connectors
    • Added Text, Hyperlink, Diagram Legend and Diagram Notes to the Common toolbox.
    • Baseline comparison now only shows changed elements by default.
    • Code page enumeration errors are no longer reported to the System Output bar.
    • Enabled execution of user specified "Tools", when no model is loaded.
    • Expand User Interface toolbox to include all UI control subtypes.
    • Extended search term string entry capacity.
    • Fixed display of tagged values in element compartments on diagrams under MySQL (applies to very long values only))
    • Improved behavior of relationship matrix when using settings based on a profile.
    • Improved handling of cursor when showing context menu for diagram.
    • Improved handling of regional formatting in the Time Allocated field of the Docked Resources Window.
    • Improved keyboard navigation around the CSV Specification dialog.
    • Improved list of code languages available to import when languages in database are disabled.
    • Improved Project Browser multiselect under Vista
    • Modified hyperlink properties dialog to allow selection of the different types of hyperlinks that are available.
    • Modified options dialog to show the help for the currently open page
    • Modified Project Transfer dialog to allow reading full values of source and target project fields.
    • Modified use case resize to provide visual feedback of the actual size.
    • Option "No warning for spaces in class names" extended to attribute and operation names.
    • Prevent "Drop as Port or Part" dialog from popping up when dropping a class onto a partition.
    • Removed display of database version in connection name and type dialog.
  • Version Control
    • Fixed issue where importing operation tags whose value contained more than 255 characters caused database errors during an XMI 2.1 import.
    • Improved listing of sub-folder content using Get Package function with Perforce.
    • Improved 'undo check-out' of TFS controlled packages, following offline check-out.
    • Improved version control functionality for packages with version control configurations that are undefined.
    • Modified version control to honor last-known package statuses, when EA cannot communicate with version control provider.
  • Visual Execution Analyzer
    • Addressed infrequent issue of activation levels being drawn incorrectly in generated sequence diagrams
    • Debugging of Microsoft .NET managed C++ projects had issue with losss of stack frames and missing class names which has been resolved.
    • Failures attaching to processes under Windows Vista have been addressed.
  • XSD & XMI import/export
    • Added support for importing UseCase "include" and "extend" connectors from StarUML exported XMI.
    • Added support for importing a top-level element, that does not have a "type" attribute or inline definition, as an XSDtopLevelElement.
    • Corrected export of Interaction Fragment type to XMI 2.1.
    • Corrected export of parent package GUIDs to XMI 1.1.
    • Fixed issue where label co-ordinates may not be round-tripped correctly using XMI.
    • Fixed issue where modelGroup was sometimes generated after XSDattributes in an XSDcomplexType class.
    • Fixed issue where namespace-prefixes were incorrectly generated in XML Schema.
    • Improved export of ActivityPartitions and its contents to XMI 2.1.
    • Improved import of notes on elements when importing from Rose exported XMI 1.1 and EMX file.