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The release train for final MPS 3.4 has set off. Having incorporated your feedback to the EAP releases, we've just made the first release candidate available for download. Please grab MPS 3.4 RC1, try it out and tell us, how satisfied you are with it. As usual, the What's new page sums up briefly…
Today we are giving you a public preview release of MPS 3.4 - we've implemented all the planned features and fixed all the critical issues that have been discovered over time in the EAP releases. Now it is time to check if anything leaks or squeaks so that we can correct it before releasing the fina…
Here's another handy new little feature in 3.4 that we want to introduce to you - the Icon description language. This language helps describing and instantiating icons for various MPS elements: concepts, actions etc. Again, mbeddr has inspired us here, namely their iconchar language. The langage …
The new visual assistance tools that were explained in one of the previous posts are really addictive. We could not help it and, to test the feature properly, we implemented Context Assistant for the language definition languages. More concretely, the structure and the editor languages leverage the …
MPS has been searching gradually over several releases for the best way to approach explicit generation plans and cross-model generation. MPS 3.4 represents another substantial step in this direction. It brings two major enhancements: Debug information in checkpoint models Using DevKits to ass…
There are two new features in MPS 3.4 that I would like to drive your attention to today - the Context Assistant and the Context Actions Tool. Both have been inspired by the mbeddr project and both aim at making code editing easier and more intuitive, especially for novice users. Making the most rel…
One of the major enhancements that you’ll get with MPS 3.4 is the new Transformation Menu Language. This is meant as a replacement and a major improvement over the functionality of Side-transformations and Node substitutions, which have been deprecated and will be removed from MPS in one of the next…
Most of the new functionality aimed for MPS 3.4 has been completed. To celebrate this, we've packaged an MPS 3.4 EAP 3 release, which you can now download and test. The major additions in EAP 3 include: Improved handling of attributes during generation Information about mapping labels in ch…
If you are curious to hear some news, insights and future plans about MPS and if you have missed the interview about MPS that Federico Tomassetti has posted last week, this is a good time to check it out. The article will tell you more about the upcoming features, detail the web-based projectional e…
The EAP for MPS 3.4 moves ahead at full steam. Although you can now grab all MPS builds directly from our build servers and so check our progress any time, we've put some effort into packaging the MPS 3.4 EAP2 release for you and making it available for download. If you take it for a test ride and t…
We have some good news for the MPS users out there today - Fabien Campagne has just sent the second volume of his MPS Workbench book to print and made it available for sale. The book continues in the good tradition set by the first volume to provide detailed reference documentation of the individual…
JetBrains has announced today that a security vulnerability has been found in the IntelliJ platform. Now, after the public announcement has been made, we highly recommend all MPS users to upgrade to one of the patched versions of MPS that eliminate this vulnerability. If you are using the most re…
