Re: [henshin-dev] Henshin 1.8.0 released

[strueber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hello everyone,

An addendum and opportunity to help for people with experience in Maven
and Tycho:

To support newer JDK versions, I upgraded the used Tycho version to 1.3.0.
Since the upgrade, our test cases cannot be executed successfully in CI
anymore, due to issues with Tycho's surefire plugin. Despite spending
quite some time on this, I was not able to fix these issues. The quickfix
for now was to deactivate the text execution in the CI - surely not
optimal, so, if you have relevant knowledge and time to look into this, it
would be appreciated!

Best regards,
Daniel

> Hello everyone,
>
> We're happy to announce the release of Henshin 1.8.0!
>
> Henshin 1.8.0 comes with several new major features, summarized below. At
> the same time, the language core remains stable: the API and meta-model of
> the new version are fully compatible with those of the previous version.
>
> Henshin 1.8.0 is available from our update site - see
> https://www.eclipse.org/henshin/install.php for installation instructions.
>
> I'm especially happy to announce a long-awaited modernization: Henshin is
> now compatible with JDK versions from 15.0 onwards (thanks to Stefan
> Schulz for providing the patch for this).
> This modernization required us to raise the minimum supported JDK version
> to 11.0.
> In future releases, we do not plan to retain downward compatibility for
> legacy JDK versions (<11.0). However, for the present release, we provide
> a variant <em>1.8.0-legacyjdk</em> with compatibility for JDK 8.0 to 11.0.
>
> The new features are:
> * Compact API for simplified module creation and execution:
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Henshin/Compact_API
> * Support for transformation of OCL constraints to application conditions:
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Henshin/OCL2AC
> * Support for profiling the Henshin matching process:
> https://wiki.eclipse.org/Henshin/Performance_Profiler
> We have fixed a number of bugs.
>
> Such a comprehensive release with several new features wouldn't have been
> possible without the contributions of many people. I especially thank
> Raffaela Groner, Stefan John, Johannes Ludwig, Nebras Nassar, Sven
> Peldszus, Stefan Schulz, Gabriele Taentzer, and Matthias Tichy for their
> contributions to this release.
>
> Best regards,
> Daniel
>
>
> --
> Dr. Daniel Strüber
> https://www.danielstrueber.de/
>
> Senior Lecturer
> Department of Computer Science and Engineering
> Chalmers University of Technology | University of Gothenburg
>
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Software Science
> Radboud University Nijmegen
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