18.1.50 (27 February 2019)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12926 Sometimes incremental build never ends after a project restore

18.1.49 (21 February 2019)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12887 ConcurrentModificationException thrown when scope breadcrumb updates during incremental compilation

18.1.47 (15 February 2019)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12849 NullPointerException thrown when triggering content assist on cross-language port connection bind

18.1.45 (13 February 2019)

Performance

  • DVT-12838 Improve build performance by reducing time spent in RT (Resolve Types) step

Features

  • DVT-12834 Ability to generate build scripts from the active build configuration and user-provided templates using ${dvt_compile_script} variable

Enhancements

  • DVT-12487 Diagrams: Indicate which preference to tune if diagram generation fails due to timeout

  • DVT-12555 Design Diagrams: Ability to set the default diagram type: block, flow or schematic

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12323 False error reported when calling <pkg>.deallocate(<string acces>)

  • DVT-12779 Design Breadcrumb: Using “Back” button in Diagram Editors breaks the path displayed in the breadcrumb

  • DVT-12797 Design Diagrams: “Show Diagram” in the Trace Connections View opens a new editor after “Trace in New Diagram” action in schematic diagram

  • DVT-12805 Design Diagrams: Sometimes the “Go To Source” action on a logic block in a mixed language diagram opens the file in the wrong language

  • DVT-12807 Design Diagrams: “Back” button does not work properly after performing diagram actions

  • DVT-12813 Design Diagrams: “Show sources/destinations” does not show logic details when the preference is enabled

  • DVT-12814 Design Diagrams: “Select Instance” breadcrumb button does not update the diagram

  • DVT-12815 Design Diagrams: Sometimes an empty trace diagram is generated for trace paths

  • DVT-12816 Design Diagrams: Filter colors are not applied to connections in detailed logic blocks

  • DVT-12817 Design Diagrams: “Show Connections” action is not available when selecting both instances and logic blocks

  • DVT-12818 Design Diagrams: Actions that change the diagram top lead to inconsistent results (step out, show connections to a higher level in the design, etc)

18.1.43 (1 February 2019)

Performance

  • DVT-12773 Improved full build performance

Features

  • DVT-8022 New scope breadcrumb navigation bar replacing scope information in the status bar

  • DVT-8602 Ability to expand/collapse a module in Design Diagrams

  • DVT-9642 Ability to show sources/destinations for ports in Design Diagrams

  • DVT-12151 Power Format: Ability to generate Supply Network Diagram

  • DVT-12791 Power Format: Add supply ports information in HDL Diagrams

Enhancements

  • DVT-11347 Power Format: Add support for ‘set_design_top’ UPF command

  • DVT-11467 Ability to show connections for ports in Design Diagram

  • DVT-12765 Power Format: Trigger error when trying to refer an undefined power domain

  • DVT-12780 Trigger error for non-existing loop label in next and exit statements

  • DVT-12781 Trigger error for unexpected non-loop label in next and exit statements

  • DVT-12782 Trigger UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER for instance name and component type in architecture configuration_specification

  • DVT-12784 Show connections for instances and signals in Design Diagram should not pass through logic gates

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12623 Design Hierarchy View history drop-down should always show architecture name

  • DVT-12757 New DVT File -> Pick Template dialog does not work on Windows

  • DVT-12760 CLI importProject command closes other existing projects even when -close_others is not specified

  • DVT-12762 Add external tools filter for IUS UPF / CPF errors

  • DVT-12763 Content assist in Perforce unadded file triggers checkout warning

  • DVT-12778 Content assist does not propose aliases to procedures

18.1.42 (15 January 2019)

Performance

  • DVT-12756 Improve memory footprint for environments containing large designs

Features

  • DVT-7508 Ability to copy full hierarchy path of a wire from the Editor and Design Hierarchy View

  • DVT-12726 Update all distro plugins to the latest version

Enhancements

  • DVT-12676 Ability to change the separator when copying the hierarchical path of an instance or signal

  • DVT-12746 Add new external tools variable ${dvt_clipboard} which solves to the clipboard contents

  • DVT-12753 Avoid unnecessary Design Hierarchy View updates on incremental compilation

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12725 Downgrade Perforce plugin to version 2018.1 to avoid NullPointerException

  • DVT-12744 Wrong icon in the Trace Connections view for an architecture without traced signals

  • DVT-12759 Semantic highlight broken when using toggle comment or replace all in a file

18.1.41 (13 December 2018)

Features

  • DVT-12677 Add “Create component” code template to factory defaults

  • DVT-12678 Code factory: Ability to use custom templates

  • DVT-12239 Ability to define Custom Pragmas with customizable editor behavior: folding, background color, “read-only” visual indication when edited

Enhancements

  • DVT-12635 Syntax Coloring: Add separate semantic highlight categories for VHDL constants and enums

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12143 Semantic highlight is broken after refactoring operations which touch inactive open editors

  • DVT-12324 False error reported on ‘use <lib>.<pkg>.<type unit>’

  • DVT-12622 Wrong tooltip on entity with same name as library

  • DVT-12691 Opening files with dvt.bat on Windows doesn’t work

  • DVT-12695 Sometimes NullPointerException is thrown after full build

18.1.40 (7 December 2018)

Features

  • DVT-11589 Add new “Show Instances” hyperlink action to see all instances of a Verilog/VHDL design element

  • DVT-12497 Add new “Open instance” hyperlink action to jump from a module/entity to its instance (in the current breadcrumb navigation bar context)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12326 DVT CLI: Ability to create resource filters that match symlinks using -exclude|include flags

Bugfixes

  • DVT-4776 +dvt_auto_link_root+ should take into account the environment variables defined through +dvt_setenv+

  • DVT-12445 Breadcrumb Navigation Bar and Design Hierarchy View open a normal SystemVerilog Editor instead of a PVerilog Editor when the element is in a generated file

  • DVT-12486 Predefined Content Filters for Xilinx libraries don’t work on Windows for DVT_XILINX_HOME paths containing lowercase device letter

  • DVT-12585 No hyperlink on elements declared in SystemVerilog and instantiated in VHDL

  • DVT-12599 Xilinx Auto-config should force questa.vcom compatibility mode

  • DVT-12601 False UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER for aliases to subtypes

  • DVT-12611 Breadcrumb: NullPointerException when changing project nature

  • DVT-12613 Trace drive and load does not go through buffer ports

  • DVT-12621 False errors for loop parameters under generate blocks

  • DVT-12636 Breadcrumb: Enforce GUI update when changing project nature

18.1.39 (29 November 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12408 Breadcrumb: When using -options disable_cairo the breadcrumb buttons’ background is black

  • DVT-12495 No search results when re-running a previous search query after full build

  • DVT-12586 Sometimes Project Templates history is not recording previous parameter values

  • DVT-12589 Separate errors from warnings when limiting the number of problems of a certain kind in a particular file

18.1.38 (19 November 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12575 CDT method completion is slowed down (patch for CDT 9.2.1, 9.4.3, Eclipse Bug 534189)

  • DVT-12576 java.lang.NoSuchMethodError thrown in multiple UI components on Eclipse Luna 4.4.1 distros

18.1.37 (15 November 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-12565 Breadcrumb: Hyperlinks slow down due to Select Instances computation

Enhancements

  • DVT-10103 Project colors: Color background instead of foreground by default

  • DVT-12561 Add deprecated license daemon notice

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9349 CDT Integration: Sometimes CDT hangs due to an improper DVT listener

  • DVT-12064 CDT Integration: DVT CDT Builder does not run for a project created via the DVT CLI

  • DVT-12104 CDT Integration: Remove the language specification argument from gcc invocation when scanning the C/C++ included files

  • DVT-12548 Breadcrumb: Background color of icons changes when changing any color preference

  • DVT-12566 Build config: In ius.irun mode all extension mappings should be taken into account for each top file

18.1.36 (9 November 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12108 Ability to change hyperlink color

  • DVT-12191 Build config: New +dvt_skip_directive which allows skipping any subsequent build config directive

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12496 Semantic error markers disappear when checking out files using Cliosoft SOS revision control system

  • DVT-12508 CDT Integration: Sometimes source paths extracted from .so files contain an additional whitespace

  • DVT-12515 Syntax Coloring: Coloring is sometimes broken after non-alphanumeric characters

  • DVT-12523 Multiple UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER for alias declaration

18.1.35 (2 November 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-12456 Local license client takes a long time to respond leading to UI freezes

  • DVT-12480 Fixed memory leaks when opening large files

Enhancements

  • DVT-12493 Add support for Find Next/Prev actions in the Console View

Bugfixes

  • DVT-7155 Variables set via +dvt_setenv are not expanded in compile waivers “path” attributes

  • DVT-12361 Variables set via +dvt_setenv are not expanded in compile waivers tags

  • DVT-12400 Search View: Scope information is missing for cross-language hits

  • DVT-12416 DVT CLI: createProject -include auto:<threshold> should not affect the .dvt folder

  • DVT-12429 Breadcrumb: False no design elements in file if they are defined in other non-design element

  • DVT-12472 False TYPE_MISMATCH error thrown for conditional variable assignment with an aggregate

  • DVT-12473 Stack Overflow when using range attribute from a shadowed identifier

  • DVT-12478 False MISSING_CONSTRAINT and TYPE_MISMATCH errors due to ‘range attribute

18.1.34 (25 October 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-12443 Improved build time performance when TCL plugin performs checks on non-script files

  • DVT-12449 Opening a relative path from the embedded terminal might be slow on large projects

Features

  • DVT-12442 Added dvt_cli.sh -svn flag to createProject and importProject commands for automatically associating a project with the Subversive SVN plugin

Enhancements

  • DVT-12355 Open path under cursor from embedded terminal using Ctrl + click instead of double click

  • DVT-12437 Add “Copy Workspace Path” command to quickly copy to clipboard the path to the DVT workspace directory

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12415 False UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER semantic error for cross-language signal path that contains a VHDL configuration instantiation

  • DVT-12414 False TYPE_MISMATCH semantic error for aggregate used to initialize multi dimensional array

18.1.32 (12 October 2018)

REMOVED

  • DVT-12371 Removed “Show in Local Terminal -> Terminal” context menu action overlapping “Open Terminal Here” action

Performance

  • DVT-12382 Quick Search in Search View is very slow for projects shared over a slow revision control connection

Features

  • DVT-2991 Add Bash Editor plugin to DVT distribution

  • DVT-5511 & DVT-6201 & DVT-11928 Ability to use some DVT generic features without having a DVT project opened by setting a license force checkout system variable

  • DVT-11853 Add Gerrit Code Review plugin to DVT distros (except for Eclipse 4.4.1)

  • DVT-12234 Add Collaborator (v11) plugin to DVT distros

Enhancements

  • DVT-5475 DVT CLI should use by default the Java network client implementation

  • DVT-10714 Build Config: +dvt_setenv+ should not trigger warning on left hand operand in appends

  • DVT-11983 Power Format: Add support for predefined HDL API

  • DVT-12007 Build Config: Do not trigger error for -xlrm uniq_prior_final directive

  • DVT-12354 Semantic Search (Ctrl+H) should open the appropriate search page regardless of the file extension

  • DVT-12369 Update all distro plugins to the latest version

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11289 Create waiver from a problem whose message contains newlines fails on Windows

  • DVT-11939 Bult-in Xilinx Content Filters should also apply to the Design Hierarchy View top selector

  • DVT-11949 Downgrade Pydev (Python) plugin to version 5.2.0 for Eclipse 4.4.1 distros to avoid incompatibilities

  • DVT-12250 Content Filters throws NullPointerException when view-set is not specified in the XML file

  • DVT-12257 Update package_instantiation, alias, subprogram_instantiation icons

  • DVT-12259 False AMBIGUOUS_EXPRESSION error for conditional statements

  • DVT-12365 False UNDEFINED_SUBPROGRAM for subprograms with very similar argument types

  • DVT-12368 ViPlugin: Undo checkpoints are not created when moving the cursor between edits

  • DVT-12393 Fixed java.lang.NoSuchMethodError while using Breadcrumb context menu in Eclipse 4.4 distros

18.1.31 (2 October 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-12338 Rename refactoring dialog: Reduce new name sanity checks time

Enhancements

  • DVT-11828 Rename refactoring dialog: Show a warning when the new name is a keyword

  • DVT-12334 Rename refactoring dialog: Refactored element name is too cluttered

  • DVT-12336 Rename refactoring dialog: Automatically select all text in new name input box

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12023 False DUPLICATE_NAME error thrown for two functions with same argument type name, but different enclosing package

  • DVT-12194 Syntax coloring: Non-alphanumeric characters in Build Config Editor comments are not colored with grey

  • DVT-12319 Breadcrumb: NullPointerException when clicking on an instance of an undeclared module which is inside a generate

  • DVT-12321 Build config: False error reported on the argument of -cdn_vip_root directive

  • DVT-12327 Folding is broken for files with more than 15k lines

18.1.30 (25 September 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12233 Syntax Coloring: Ability to customize the color of hyperlinks in comments

  • DVT-12293 Trigger error for unconstrained types used in declarations

  • DVT-12294 Trigger error for type mismatches in index constraints

  • DVT-12295 Trigger error for specifying a constraint on an already constrained type

  • DVT-12296 Trigger error for specifying a constraint on a non-composite type

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9023 Debugger integration doesn’t work with Questa 10.5 or later

  • DVT-12279 Syntax Coloring: Whitespaces must be marked with gray color when “Show Whitespace Characters” is enabled

  • DVT-12306 DVT CLI: createProject -force should not preserve opened auto-linked files which are not compiled any more

  • DVT-12318 Disk space check on save should verify the drive where a file is saved instead of the workspace

18.1.29 (13 September 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12238 Preference to enable disk full check on editor save action

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12178 Wrong name for searched elements in Search View

  • DVT-12220 Selecting a port of an instance in the Design Hierarchy view should trigger a breadcrumb change

  • DVT-12247 Breadcrumb: Selecting a bind from a breadcrumb element children throws an exception

  • DVT-12255 Non-top file is not incrementally compiled on open if Outline View is not focused

  • DVT-12263 Exceptions thrown when closing a cloned editor with files containing macros

18.1.28 (6 September 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9756 Design Hierarchy View and Verification Hierarchy View showing ‘No data’ instead of default input message when not populated

  • DVT-12170 Breadcrumb: Specific instance path is lost when cloning or splitting the editor

  • DVT-12182 Power Format: Enabling UPF/CPF on a project should not require the TCL plugin to be installed

  • DVT-12190 Breadcrumb: Updates are not working if Design Hierarchy View is not open

  • DVT-12226 Breadcrumb: Changing instance with Select Instance Button does not keep the correct path after switch to other editors

  • DVT-12237 Check for disk full doesn’t run periodically

  • DVT-11298 UNDECLARED_LIBRARY semantic error for ‘VITAL2000’ from SIMPRIM Xilinx library compilation

18.1.27 (30 August 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12217 Breadcrumb: Add background color preference

Bugfixes

  • DVT-7482 Layers View buttons are not visible until resize of view

  • DVT-11254 Breadcrumb: Graphical artifacts for dark theme background

  • DVT-12163 Breadcrumb: Clicking the arrow to see the children of a design element doesn’t work for generate blocks with multiple branches

  • DVT-12183 Breadcrumb: Path is not correctly computed for generate blocks with multiple branches

  • DVT-12205 False TYPE_MISMATCH error when element association in array aggregate is of the array type

  • DVT-12213 DVT CLI: Using -include auto fails because path to JRE is not computed correctly

  • DVT-12214 Breadcrumb: ‘Select Instance’ button is not disabled when the instance’s design is not declared

  • DVT-12215 Sometimes the hyperlink on component generic is not working

  • DVT-12218 Sometimes a trace signal operation freezes after a Design Hierarchy view update is performed

  • DVT-12222 Prevent NullPointerException during project restore

18.1.26 (27 August 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-11612 Show aliases, package, function and procedure instances in the Outline View

  • DVT-12162 Throw error when a variable is used as left hand side of a signal assignment

  • DVT-12185 Clean-up element types used in Content Filters and Outline View filters

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9940 Wrong tooltip in package body for same named type declaration in corresponding package declaration

  • DVT-10460 False build config error in ius.irun mode: -R takes another directive -nclibdirname as argument

  • DVT-10830 Code Factory “Create Testbench” should initialize the clock signal

  • DVT-11353 Build config: False error for the ‘-spectre_args’ directive that receives another directive as argument

  • DVT-11611 False SIGNAL_NEVER_USED semantic warning when signal is used under an alias

  • DVT-11663 DVT CLI openFile command on a file inside a project should refresh the file’s parent directory

  • DVT-12169 Prevent false errors being reported when auto-config times out

  • DVT-12203 Diagram engine doesn’t take into account port labels when computing node size

18.1.25 (9 August 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-9971 Check that physical types have an integer base type

  • DVT-12130 Ability to switch to schematic from a “Show Connections Between” action in a flow diagram

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11793 False AMBIGUOUS_SUBPROGRAM when using bit string literal as operand

  • DVT-12131 Double click in editor on a number does not select it

18.1.24 (3 August 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-12018 DVT CLI: Ability to automatically create resource filters at project creation time, based on the build configuration

  • DVT-12126 Replaced menu action “Show Connections Between Targets” with “Show Connections Around” on signals in schematic diagrams

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11974 Debugger Integration: When VCS compilation and simulation are done from different working dirs, source lookup fails for relative paths

  • DVT-12020 False error when case expression is a loop parameter

  • DVT-12021 False error for an identifier that resolves both to a function and a variable

  • DVT-12032 False ILLEGAL_TYPE_REFERENCE error when identifier name is both a function and an enum

  • DVT-12042 Automatically insert single proposal does not work for Code Template proposals

  • DVT-12124 False DUPLICATE_NAME error thrown when PSL VUnit name is the same with the associated entity

  • DVT-12127 Unexpected NullPointerException after Incremental Build in a VHDL + PSL project

  • DVT-12129 NullPointerException thrown in Annotations preference page when it contains annotations with no labels (patch for Eclipse 4.4.1, 4.6.3 and 4.7.2)

18.1.23 (26 July 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-4414 Ability to configure the maximum number of lines in file and maximum number of matches for Mark Occurrences

  • DVT-7578 Autocomplete for overloaded generic subprograms adds arguments from the first implementation

  • DVT-9884 Trigger semantic error for non-existing type mark in function signature

  • DVT-11613 Show subroutine arguments in content assist proposal when under an alias

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11989 No duplicate error thrown for subprograms with same signature but different generics

  • DVT-12076 Build Config: Unmatched single quote errors are not reported

18.1.22 (20 July 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11982 Improve the performance of problems management in projects with large filesystem hierarchies

Features

  • DVT-11422 Ability to show only sources and destinations for a specific signal in HDL diagrams

Enhancements

  • DVT-11164 DVT CLI: Add support for listCompiledFiles on VHDL projects

  • DVT-11979 Show compile indices as part of the file info for any Inspect View input

Bugfixes

  • DVT-12014 Search View should not trim the tabs of every hit line content

  • DVT-12015 Formatting fails for VHDL Extended Identifiers

  • DVT-12019 False error for bit string literals containing hyphens

  • DVT-12043 Escape special XML characters when creating a compile waiver from an existing marker

18.1.21 (6 July 2018)

Features

  • DVT-3985 Ability to open files from embedded terminal using double click

Enhancements

  • DVT-10797 Inspect View: Show compile syntax when selecting a file

  • DVT-10991 DVT CLI: openFile command should support relative paths

  • DVT-11740 Ability to reverse arrow key controls in diagrams

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11966 Do not trigger error for -cover <spec> build config directive

18.1.20 (28 June 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-11858 ViPlugin: Show warning when searching for non-existing word

  • DVT-11862 ViPlugin: Add “hls” command as shortcut for “highlightsearch”

  • DVT-11958 Add -close_others option to dvt_cli.sh importProject and createProject to close all open projects

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11856 ViPlugin: Adding a character in the middle of the searched word in command line moves cursor to the end of the word

  • DVT-11860 ViPlugin: Searching with regular expressions highlights wrong number of characters

  • DVT-11863 ViPlugin: Visual block mode must start with a selection of size 1

  • DVT-11864 ViPlugin: In visual mode, the last character on a line cannot be selected without the newline

18.1.19 (21 June 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-11936 Diagram filter “show” rules for instances should also make parents visible

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9939 Content Assist: Do not show enum items proposals on enum dot access

  • DVT-11920 Show Connections Between diagram action does not work for pairs of child and parent instances

  • DVT-11926 Unexpected exception when accessing DVT -> Icons preference page

  • DVT-11938 Trace signal action not working when triggered from the Design Hierarchy view when the top of the hierarchy is a particular instance

  • DVT-11950 Fixed java.lang.NoSuchMethodError while using Project Colors in Eclipse 4.4 distros

18.1.18 (15 June 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11925 DVT specific eclipse.ini is missing from Linux and Windows Eclipse 4.6 and 4.7 distros

18.1.17 (14 June 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11901 Design diagram filters ignore port direction

  • DVT-11903 DVT specific eclipse.ini is missing from MacOS Eclipse 4.6 and 4.7 distros

  • DVT-11904 Wrong eclipse.ini path specified in the error message of MacOS Eclipse 4.6 and 4.7 installations

  • DVT-11906 Debugger integration: Error while importing breakpoints from simulator when the file is a symbolic link to the workspace file

  • DVT-11909 Apply Increase/Decrease Editor Font Size to all editors

18.1.16 (31 May 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11855 Reduce memory footprint caused by function overload resolution

Enhancements

  • DVT-11305 Improve semantic analysis of function calls followed by array selects

  • DVT-11714 Support for generic package data types when tracing signals and in design diagrams

Bugfixes

  • DVT-10294 Sometimes autocomplete may show and insert proposals for a prefix shorter than the one typed

  • DVT-11716 Syntax Coloring: Libraries and packages are not always colored as type

  • DVT-11799 False UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER semantic error when accessing a record element through an array select alias

  • DVT-11803 Incorrect resolved type when slicing an array with a range attribute

  • DVT-11804 False AMBIGUOUS_SUBPROGRAM caused by use clause inside a procedure

  • DVT-11805 False UNDEFINED_SUBPROGRAM for concatenation with an array aggregate

  • DVT-11807 Custom Dialogs need platform restart after ParseException caused by misplaced layoutData attribute

  • DVT-11808 Switching the active build configuration leads to memory leaks

  • DVT-11811 False error when using a function with the same name as other predefined alias/function

  • DVT-11813 Color handle leaks in viPlugin leading to “No more handles” error

  • DVT-11814 Image handle leaks in editors leading to “No more handles” error

  • DVT-11822 Incorrect loop parameter variable type when the loop’s discrete range is defined by a range attribute

  • DVT-11829 Syntax Coloring: The colors are not updated when opening search results from different files

  • DVT-11830 Code Folding: Folding positions are not updated when opening search results from different files

18.1.15 (17 May 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11477 Improve Positional Tooltips performance

Features

  • DVT-9342 Simplify Altera libraries configuration using +dvt_init_altera directive

  • DVT-11697 Ability to autocomplete UPF/CPF command names

  • DVT-11698 Ability to autocomplete code templates for UPF/CPF commands

  • DVT-11735 Ability to quickly fix UPF/CPF commands

  • DVT-11748 Ability to see tooltips for UPF/CPF commands

  • DVT-11787 Ability to highlight UPF/CPF command arguments

Enhancements

  • DVT-11380 Hyperlinks for JavaDoc @link tags in comments

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11729 Exception thrown when invoking autocomplete after a bracket character in the Build Config Editor

  • DVT-11786 Incomplete schematic diagram generated from entity

  • DVT-11800 Sometimes DVT triggers IndexOutOfBoundsException in block selection mode when the selection is on the last line

18.1.14 (10 May 2018)

REMOVED

  • DVT-11277 Remove support for the following +dvt_incremental_compile_checks parameters: FILE, LIB, PKG, FULL

Enhancements

  • DVT-11660 Add support for -F in Questa compatibility modes

  • DVT-11745 Show compile index information in error tooltip for files compiled multiple times

Bugfixes

  • DVT-8854 Quick fix: Take into account uppercase/lowercase for keywords and data types

  • DVT-10405 Quick fix: Declare enum value should not be available for hierarchical access

  • DVT-11616 Quick fix: Did you mean should not propose the same identifier in different case

  • DVT-11722 False UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER error for enum type values after hierarchical access from enum type

  • DVT-11749 False errors after incremental build in non-compiled VHDL files

  • DVT-11750 Large letter spacing on Windows when using the new diagrams engine (patch for Eclipse 4.7.3)

  • DVT-11753 Line wrapping does not work properly when the line should end with a character: ‘x’

  • DVT-11754 Prevent sporadic StringIndexOutOfBoundsExceptions thrown when Search View is populated

  • DVT-11756 Show declaration for subprograms doesn’t work from editor right click menu nor when hitting F3 shortcut

  • DVT-11762 Prevent sporadic NullPointerException when opening a diagram while other diagrams are opened

18.1.13 (7 May 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-11747 Build config: Add support for non-standard specification of shared libraries using -sv_lib and -sv_liblist with file extension

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11743 GUI freeze at startup due to race condition favored by project colors enablement

18.1.12 (4 May 2018)

Features

  • DVT-11694 CDT Integration: Auto-Link C/C++ files used to build .so files specified in default.build

Enhancements

  • DVT-11646 Add support for DVT_UVVM_HOME environment variable

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11465 Editor tab remains green for different files in different project

  • DVT-11737 Xilinx Auto-config: Isolate user specified directives under +dvt_init_auto from generated build directives

18.1.11 (27 April 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11700 Improve Breadcrumb Navigation Bar performance

Enhancements

  • DVT-11594 Show function implementation in Inspect View

  • DVT-11684 Ability to disable Cairo graphics through dvt.sh and dvt_cli.sh on Linux

  • DVT-11738 Show multiple subprograms in Inspect View when a call is ambiguous

Bugfixes

  • DVT-10710 Format multiple files should continue format of writable files and skip read-only files

  • DVT-11264 Report an issue in DVT wizard should not close when save to zip action is canceled

  • DVT-11329 Support file operations for any file type (IEEE 1076-2008 5.5.2)

  • DVT-11601 Xilinx Vivado Auto-config: Add support for VHDL 2008 syntax

  • DVT-11610 False semantic error when using an array select under an alias

  • DVT-11632 Stack Overflow thrown for circular type declarations

  • DVT-11634 False SENSITIVITY_UNUSED semantic warning for signal used in hierarchical signal bit select

  • DVT-11662 Use 1993 predefined libraries when compiling libraries with 2002 or older syntax

  • DVT-11680 Syntax Coloring: Package body and type body identifiers are not colored as types

  • DVT-11703 Crash on Linux when expanding the Find/Replace history combo containing a very large entry (patch for Eclipse 4.4.1, 4.6.3 and 4.7.2)

  • DVT-11710 Positional tooltip doesn’t work for overloaded procedures

  • DVT-11715 “Show Diagram” action not working on the entity name in an instance declaration

18.1.10 (16 April 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11647 $UVVM_HOME and $DVT_OSVVM_HOME environment variables are not properly set

  • DVT-11649 Flow diagram not expanded when generating it from an design hierarchy instance

  • DVT-11650 Incorrect top element label in block diagram

18.1.9 (12 April 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-11046 Breadcrumb: Add context menu similar with the one in Design Hierarchy View

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11614 Local variable shadows outside constant in subprogram signature

  • DVT-11615 False UNDECLARED_IDENTIFIER for types when visible only in concurrent statements

  • DVT-11617 False TYPE_MISMATCH error when type range is specified with attributes

  • DVT-11621 Resource leak potentially leading to “no more handles” error

  • DVT-11622 dvt_kit_installer.bat doesn’t support multiple versions of the same plugin on Windows

18.1.8 (5 April 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11587 Improve Inspect View performance for very large files

Enhancements

  • DVT-10786 New hyperlink: Show implementation of a subprogram

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11592 Xilinx Vivado Auto-config: add support for projects defined with out of project source files

  • DVT-11595 Show Usages does not work on subprogram declarations

18.1.7 (2 April 2018)

Performance

  • DVT-11550 Incremental build view update performance issues on loaded CPU

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11544 Custom Dialogs: Enter should apply and close the dialog when the output of the focused widget is not redirected

  • DVT-11555 CLI listCompiledFiles command does not list library files (specified using -y or -v)

  • DVT-11559 dvt_build.log file no longer created for a new project

18.1.6 (29 March 2018)

Features

  • DVT-6816 & DVT-6916 Trace Connections support for record type signals

  • DVT-8501 Support for record type signals in design diagrams

Enhancements

  • DVT-11456 Inspect View: Add keyboard shortcut to cycle through multiple inputs

Bugfixes

  • DVT-10750 & DVT-11365 Ignore irun “-rnm_coerce” flag in build config

  • DVT-11342 Breadcrumb: Silence harmless exceptions thrown when opening a design file located outside project

  • DVT-11379 Ignore irun “-override_timescale” flag in build config

  • DVT-11485 Design hierarchy select top button shows empty list

  • DVT-11516 DVT license is checked-out on exclusive C/C++ projects when using the hyperlinks

  • DVT-11529 Inspect View does not update when brought back from minimized state

  • DVT-11538 Generate HTML Documentation should not proceed when the full build is canceled

18.1.5 (22 March 2018)

Enhancements

  • DVT-10186 Inspect View: Add keyboard shortcut to increase / decrease the number of context lines

  • DVT-11178 Search View: Add toolbar button to show/hide potential matches

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11428 Show Extended Help from Problems View does not work

18.1.4 (15 March 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11179 Search View: Potential matches foreground coloring preference is not taken into account

  • DVT-11388 Diagram filters main dialog closes when “new filter” sub-dialog closes

18.1.3 (8 March 2018)

Features

  • DVT-10982 Trace connections diagram filters

Enhancements

  • DVT-11358 Trigger semantic error for non-existent argument in subprogram call

Bugfixes

  • DVT-11152 Compile Order View is re-created if not visible when re-applying waivers

  • DVT-11359 False INVALID_TYPE_CONVERSION error when using mixed language types in a type conversion

  • DVT-11378 Ability to use regex in design diagrams filter paths

  • DVT-11382 Wrong message in the Console View when the build log file is disabled

  • DVT-11385 False error due to bad interpretation of a bit string literal

  • DVT-11391 Sometimes the design diagrams Go To Source action jumps to wrong file

18.1.2 (2 March 2018)

Bugfixes

  • DVT-9795 Build config: +dvt_auto_link_file sometimes triggers “Illegal attempt to modify an immutable tree” exceptions

  • DVT-11300 Syntax Coloring: String color in Build Config Editor is updated only when reopening the editor

  • DVT-11308 False UNDEFINED_SUBPROGRAM error on multiplication between real and integer operands

  • DVT-11310 Xilinx Vivado Auto-config should include recursively referenced IP files

  • DVT-11313 False UNDEFINED_SUBPROGRAM error on concatenation between array aggregate operands

  • DVT-11330 Fixed sun.security.validator.ValidatorException by updating JRE certificates

  • DVT-11331 False semantic errors after full build due to rare race condition

  • DVT-11332 Platform freeze after full build due to race condition

  • DVT-11352 Prevent sporadic null pointer exceptions during project clean

  • DVT-11354 False INVALID_ATTRIBUTE error on port attribute when used from port alias

  • DVT-11355 False UNDEFINED_SUBPROGRAM error when an operator is explicitly specified in an use clause

18.1.1 (22 February 2018)

HIGHLIGHTS

Note: Some of the features below were rolled-out in 17.1.# hotfix releases for early adopters.

REMOVED

  • DVT-10341 Removed Eclipse accounts toolbar button in Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen)

  • DVT-11246 Removed Eclipse 3.8 and 4.5.1 distros

  • DVT-11287 Replaced dvt_kit_installer.sh PERFORCE with PERFORCE.2015 and PERFORCE.2016

Features

  • DVT-3869 Breadcrumb Navigation Bar in HDL diagram editors

  • DVT-5699 Add Low Power Format Support - UPF and CPF power domain visualization

  • DVT-6671 Ability to navigate up in the design hierarchy from an HDL editor

  • DVT-7015 Ability to automatically configure DVT project build starting from an existing Xilinx ISE/Vivado project

  • DVT-7885 Breadcrumb Navigation Bar in HDL editors

  • DVT-8139 Ability to automatically configure DVT project build starting from an existing Intel(Altera) Quartus Libraries Compilation project

  • DVT-10072 Ability to navigate up in the design hierarchy from an HDL diagram

  • DVT-10259 & DVT-11245 Add Perforce 2018 in DVT distros

  • DVT-10934 Ability to show all connections of selected instances in a Schematic diagram

  • DVT-11063 Add support for the OSVVM Support library

  • DVT-11064 Add support for the UVVM Support library

  • DVT-11239 Add Lua plugin in DVT distros

  • DVT-11244 Update all distro plugins to the latest version

  • DVT-11266 Ability to automatically configure DVT project build starting from an existing Xilinx ISE/Vivado project

  • DVT-11274 Ability to show connections between selected instances in a Schematic diagram

Enhancements

  • DVT-2437 Type checking in assignments

  • DVT-9100 Type checking in instance port connections

  • DVT-10940 Add auto-complete functionality to the HDL diagram filters dialog

  • DVT-11082 Naming Conventions: Add pattern matching information in documentation and in the description of the predefined conventions

  • DVT-11275 Ability to use diagram-relative paths in HDL diagram filters

  • DVT-11278 Add unique IDs to non-standard checks

Bugfixes

  • DVT-10904 XML files in hidden folders are not validated by the XML plugin using the DTD (patch for Eclipse 4.4.1, 4.6.3, 4.7.2)

  • DVT-11281 +dvt_init_xilinx should compile simprim library using VHDL_93 syntax

  • DVT-11292 Deadlock when generated default.build.auto.X file is refreshed during build