Release Notes 5.0.0 - eclipse-capella/capella GitHub Wiki

Clarity

• The new released version will be the "5.0", not the "1.5.0". The first "1." was misleading as previously major releases were versioned like patch releases and patch releases were versioned like micro releases.
• Replaced legacy file extension melodymodeller to capella, removing last reference to the initial prototype prior to moving to open source.

Usability

• Designed consistent view icons.
• Improved the Capella UI theme.
• Simplified the installation by embedding OpenJDK in the product.

Others

• Improved performance
• Replaced Patterns functionality in the methodology with REC/RPL.
• Added Java 11 compatibility
• Migrated to Eclipse Platform 2020-06
• In addition to the changes that we contributed in Eclipse (theme contributions and other fixes), we benefit from many other changes contributed by the Eclipse community more details: (4.16, 4.15, 4.14, 4.13)

Developper Changes

• Changelog
• Metamodel changes
• API changes (Capella - Sirius - Diffmerge)

Main impacting changes for extension development from 1.4.x to 5.0.0

• File *.melodymodeller have been renamed to *.capella
• nsUri of metamodels have upgraded to 5.0.0
• Feature capella.rcp.feature has been renamed to capella.rcp (in target platform)
• Diffmerge API have slightly changed (mostly imports and rename of classes) (see Diffmerge API) and Capella adaptation)