Only shortly after MPS 3.2 has been released, we can’t resist the temptation to share a fresh MPS 3.2.1 update with you. It contains more than four weeks-worth of improvements that could not make it into 3.2. The MPS plugin is now compatible with both IDEA 14.0 and 14.1. Additionally, we’ve restricted the implicit visibility of the BaseLanguage concepts in language definition languages, since it was causing more harm than good. This may result in a few new “missing dependency on BaseLanguage” errors reported from your existing languages, if you relied on this implicit dependency. You’ll nee

We're now proudly releasing JetBrains MPS 3.2 - a new version of your favourite DSL language workbench. We've built this version to give you a tool that fundamentally improves the way how you evolve your languages - language versioning, migration scripts, simplified VCS conflict resolution, fast in-process tests and a more robust generator - you'll instantly benefit from these enhancements. Numerous bug fixes and usability improvements in the editor as well as in the core languages will then make your time spent with MPS more effective and enjoyable. Here's a list of the major additions in

Now with the 3.2 release of MPS approaching, we've updated the introductory materials that aim at introducing newbies to MPS. Typical readers of this blog have probably got over the beginner stage, but many of you may still benefit from some of the materials or use the pointers listed here to help your friends and colleagues to start with MPS smoothly. Here are the most prominent updates: The Fast Track to MPS tutorial has been updated in many sections so it could be considered the best place to start learning MPS You may have seen the new What JetBrains MPS can do for you? video. If

Not too long after rc2 we've just pushed out an rc3 release of MPS 3.2 and made it available for you to download. Expect no changes in the functionality, only a few important bug-fixes and performance optimizations, covered by the release notes, have been added. Develop with pleasure! -JetBrains MPS Team

We're almost ready for the final release now. A second release candidate has been prepared, tested and put up on the shelf for you to download. The functionality of rc2 is identical to rc1 and is fully covered by the What's new document. Release notes list all the bug-fixes that we have addressed since rc1. Please take the release candidate 2 for a spin and let us know how you liked it and whether it correctly migrated and opened your projects. If all is green, we're ready to ship very soon. Develop with pleasure! -JetBrains MPS Team

After almost two months of collecting your feedback on the EAP3 release, fixing bugs, polishing new features and implementing the migration capabilities we're now ready to offer you the first release candidate of MPS 3.2. Please get it from the download site and give it a good test. Especially, we encourage you to test migrating your MPS 3.1 projects to MPS 3.2. There might still be some hidden problems in there and we need to know about them. Please tell us, if your project fails to be migrated smoothly to the new version. Also, please stay on the safe side and backup your project before m

One of the useful new features of MPS 3.2 will be its compatibility with JDK 8. Not only you will be able to run MPS on JDK 8, but MPS will also correctly handle new Java 8 syntax enhancements and let you make use of them. Read on to find out some tips. Configuration A new configuration tab in the preferences window, called Java Compiler, has appeared. It currently only holds a single setting - “Project bytecode version”.   This setting defines the bytecode version of all Java classes compiled by MPS. These classes include classes generated from language’s aspects, classes of the runtime s

Thank you for all the feedback we've received on the previous EAP release. This helped us focus our attention on the roughest corners and fix many bugs that could annoy the users of the upcoming 3.2 version of MPS. All these fixes have been carefully packaged into a third EAP release and made available for download. Most of our effort in EAP 3 was put into improving the project migration experience. This is the aspect that we would like to ask you to test most heavily and report any issues that occur. Please bear in mind that the migration currently cannot migrate generated sources and com

It is only a few weeks since you got a chance to test the first EAP release of MPS 3.2. and we're bringing you some more features packaged into an MPS 3.2 second EAP release. Get it fresh and enjoy the first-hand experience of: Cross-model generation - generations of MPS users have dreamt of the ability to seamlessly generate mutually interconnected models. This now becomes possible. Version control support for auto-resolvable conflicts - properties and links in languages can now be marked with the new @mergeHint annotation and thus be resolved automatically in case of merge conflicts us

For quite a while you've seen us issuing only bug-fix releases to MPS 3.1. Although we've managed to sneak in a few handy improvements here and there, in general, there wasn't much cool new stuff for you to try out. Today is the best time for a more adventurous step - the features that we’ve been preparing for several months are now ready to face the world and so we’ve packaged them into the first in a series of 3.2 EAP releases. A healthy doze of new features is waiting for your test ride: Language migrations give language designers the tooling to track multiple language versions and hel