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One additional improvement to MPS 3.4 has been released - MPS 3.4.4 is now available for download. In addition to the usual dose of fixes, which you can check out in the release notes, this version fixes a security vulnerability. What happened On February 1, 2017, we discovered a security vulnerab…

Today we're releasing another gradual improvement to MPS - MPS 3.4.3 is now available for download. It contains several important fixes that will make your life a bit easier. For details, please check out the release notes. The Drive to Develop -JetBrains MPS Team…

We're releasing the first bug fix release MPS 3.4.1 today. If you have migrated to MPS 3.4 already, there should be no surprises for you when you switch to 3.4.1. If you haven't migrated to 3.4 yet, then now is a good time to do so. You can download MPS 3.4.1 from the usual place. The Drive to…

Today we’re releasing MPS 3.4 with improvements in editor usability and cross-model generation. The fresh 3.4 release of MPS comes with several important improvements that we believe will give the MPS users new possibilities when designing languages. The three most prominent new features are: A …

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…