[Uml-user] Umbrello UML Modeller 1.3 released

[Jonathan Riddell]

Umbrello UML Modeller 1.3 is part of KDE 3.3 which will be out very
soon.  If you can't wait for KDE 3.3 then you can download Umbrello
1.3 for KDE 3.2 or 3.1 from http://uml.sf.net/download.php now.

An RPM for SuSE 9.0 is available.  Contributions of other packages are
welcome.

If you use Umbrello please tell us so we can add you to
http://uml.sf.net/users.php and send in a screen shots too.

If you find a problem with Umbrello please report it to bugs.kde.org
and remember that all fixes are very welcome.

Many thanks for this release go to Oliver for working muckle overtime,
Achim for sending patches faster than we can apply them and Sebastian
for, among coding some great stuff, keeping the mailing lists mostly
clean of spam.

Jonathan Riddell

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New in this release is 

Version 1.3

* heavily reduced memory usage and CPU load on large projects

* reserved keywords added for supported languages

* new tools for aligning several objects

* support added for compressed XMI files (*.xmi.tgz, *.xmi.tar.bz2)

* New diagram command 'Duplicate' permits the copying of diagram
  objects including their features

* New association type: Containment (circle-plus.)

* Operation parameters have a 'direction' which documents whether
  they are input or return values (in, out, inout.)
  The IDL and Ada generators use this in their generated code.

* Ability to show only public methods/members in diagram.

* Improvements to scaled printing.

* Crisp new icons

* Improved XMI standard conformance of the file format.
  In principle, Umbrello's XMI parser is now capable of
  reading foreign XMI files.

* Improved compatibility with old umbrello files

* Support for repeatedly importing the same C++ file(s)

* Umbrello places much less demand on the X server when
  dealing with large and complex diagrams