JArchitect Release Notes

Version

2024.1.0

• Advanced Source Explorer,
• Complete Support for Java 17 and Java 19,
• Enhanced Detection of External Elements,
• Improved Java parser,
• Improved Maven and Intellij Idea support.

Version

2023.1.0

• Maintainability Index,
• Better Support for False Positive,
• Sarif import.

Version

2022.1.0

• New Web-based version released,
• Better Linux Support,
• MacOSX Support.

Version

2021.1.0

• Gap between code implementation and UML.
• Bugs fixes.

Version

2020.1.0

• Dependency Graph Completely Rebuilt
  • New navigation system:
    • Expand/Collapse parent elements
    • Search elements in graphs by name
    • Call graph / Coupling graph / Inheritance graph ... generated with a single-click
    • Center selected elements
    • Undo / Redo
    • Graph can be saved / loaded as a list of actions (and not as a list of nodes) so it gets refreshed when code changes.
  • New layout options:
    • Group-By Assemblies, Namespaces, Types, Clusters
    • Filters to show or hide: third-party assemblies, code generated, non-public elements.
    • Box size proportional to element size, Edge width proportional to coupling strength
    • Color conventions instantly identify caller/callee elements
    • Complex graph simplified with Clusters
• Export to SVG vector format or PNG bitmap format.
• The graph shown in reports has been improved with the new Cluster feature.
• Source File Store Out Of The Box.
• Bamboo and AppVeyor Integration.
• Bugs Fixed:
  • In a session with diff but with no code coverage imported, if the first code query executed relied on code coverage, a NullReferenceException was thrown.
  • Under certain circumstances, the menu 'Open this dependency on matrix (keep only members involved)' didn't work.
  • The Dependency Matrix wasn't working well in DPI 350% and more.
  • When closing VisualJArchitect rarely an ArgumentException could be thrown.
  • Rarely a NullReferenceException could be thrown while showing the Dashboard.
  • Rarely an ArgumentException could be thrown when expanding/collapsing a row in the code query result.
  • Rarely a COMException could be thrown within the Visual Studio 2019 environement.
  • Rarely in the Dashboard when clicking the link 'none' to stop comparing against a baseline a NullReferenceException could be thrown.
  • Rarely a NullReferenceException could be thrown while listing rules in a category.
  • Rarely an ArgumentException could be thrown with editing a code query.
  • Rarely a NullReferenceException could be thrown while showing the dependency matrix for the first time in session.

Version

2019.2.0

• Support for Java 10, 11, 12 and 13
• Better support for Intellij projects

Version

2019.1.0

• Analyze the source code
• More rules out of the box
• Maven, Eclipse and IntelliJ projects analysis improved

Version

2018.1.0

• The Abstractness vs Instability diagram provided in the report is now a javascript interactive control.
• Hovering a dot shows the corresponding assembly name and values.
• A search textbox lets filter a subset of assemblies by name.

Version

2017.1.3

• Pmd execution is slow, it's now not activated by default, you can enable it from the project config.
• Some cqlinq queries are improved.

• Bug resolved in the HTML report.

Version

2017.1

• New licensing and release scheme
• Smart Technical Debt Estimation
• Quality Gates
• Better Issues Management
• Dashboard Improvements
• Default Rules-Set Improvements
• Enhanced Baseline Experience
• Report Improvements
• Code Query Improvements
• Support for Java 8

Version

5.0.0.4687

JArchitect embeds now out of the box the following analysis tools: PMD,CheckStyle and FindBugs.

With JArchitect v5, Rule Files can be created and shared amongst JArchitect projects. This is useful to define company-level standard rules sets, and get them applied by all teams.

• Both JArchitect default and custom code rules can be monitored by SonarQube.
• Visualization of the JArchitect issues locations in source code from within the SonarQube UI.
• Two widgets are provided:
  • Class Metrics:JArchitect calculate many interesting class metrics related to their design and implementation, some of these metrics could be discovered by this widget.
  • CQLinq queries widget:CQLinq is a powerful feature to create easily coding rules. To explore the results of the CQLinq queries.

• The Metric View can now display a second metric by coloring the treemap elements. Hence two code metrics can be displayed at once.
• In Rules and Queries result, percentage Code Coverage values are now displayed with a proprotional green/red color scheme.
• The JArchitect UI now scales properly whatever the DPI settings, 100%, 125%, 150%, 200% and 250%.
• Shaded animation when transitionning from one dependency graph to another, doesn't flicker anymore!
• In query/rule result windows, when showing a sub-result in a native window, the native window height is now well sized.
• When saving a query or a rule edited, the overall edition status is preserved (this includes the scroll bars position, the cursor position and the selection length). When pinning a description, the info panel background color is set to grey.

Version

4.0.0.7500

• New Dashboard Panel: JArchitect v4.0 proposes a new Dashboard that shows at a glance the state of your code base.
• Trend Monitoring: JArchitect v4.0 can monitor trend metrics and shows trend charts. Default trend metrics and trend charts are proposed and custom ones can be created.
• Churning Rules and Queries: JArchitect v4.0 lets list Rules and Queries according to common criterions. Listing all Rules Violated is now a one click operation.
• Focusing on Recent Rules Violations: JArchitect v4.0 proposes the option to filter only rules violations that occur on code elements added or refactored since a baseline.
• Redesigned report. The report now includes trend metrics charts. The design has been rethought and more information is shown, especially concerning diff.

• Main menus organization relifted both in VisualJArchitect.
• When showing a dependency graph too complex to be browsed, a note is shown that explain that it is recommended to export the graph to the dependency matrix, better suited to browse large structure.
• In forms dedicated to choose assemblies set to analyze, the capability to filter assemblies by name has been added and ergonomy has been enhanced.
• In Matrix/Graph/Metric view, the Context Sensitive Help is not located anymore in the way that it could overlap the element currently hovered.
• Pan is now the default grab mode of the Graph.
• New pan cursor in Graph, Treemap and Matrix.
• On Vista OS and above, JArchitect now uses the modern Folder browser dialog.
• On Right-click menus, the double click action menu is now bold.
• When double-clicking a class to open its source file declarations, the class being declared in two source files, the second being a ".designer." file, JArchitect jumps directly to the source declaration of the type without proposing to open one of the two declarations.
• In Search panel, search code elements by change, when changing the kind of code element searched, the currently checked button remain checked if it is not disabled.
• In the Rules explorer panel, when selecting a group that doesn't have direct rules/queries children, JArchitect expands its children groups!
• When double-clicking the critical rules violated warning in the Error List panel, the list of Critical Rules Violated is shown.
• When open a project, without analyse result, shows in the error list the last analysis (if any) logs
• In Search panel, query generated are now executed asynchronously which leads to improved UI responsivness when searching on large code base.
• In Search panel, search code elements by change now generates more sophisticated code queries that provide more details.
• In Search panel, search code elements by coupling now generates more sophisticated code queries that provide more details.

Version

3.0.0.0

• CQLinq : New Query Language based on Linq.
• Mac Support.

Version

2.0.0.0

• Linux Support.
• Fast 2 to 5 times.
• Improved HTML report.
• Treat NetBeans, Intellij, Eclipse and Maven projects.
• Context Sensitive help added.

Version

1.0.0.0

• XDepend : Version 1 released.