Astah UML 9.0 Release Notes

Enjoy New Look & Feel

Astah v9.0 has a new flat design (FlatUI) and 18 light themes to choose from. Go to [View] – [Look & Feel] – [Light Themes] and find one that works for you. Here’s a gallery of new light themes.

Dark Mode is now available

You can now use Astah in dark mode, with about 50 pre-installed dark themes. Go to [View] – [Look & Feel] – [Dark Themes].

Diagram Thumbnails

You can now see all the diagrams in a package as thumbnails and open them from this gallery. To open it, select [Open Diagram Thumbnails] from the package’s context menu.

Enhanced Traceability

Astah’s context menu now shows detailed reference information for each model, so you can see where a model is used without searching for it. For complete traceability, use the “Traceability Map” in Astah Professional.

Enhancements and Resolved Issues

General | Common Diagrams

• [8614] FlatUI is now available.
• [7422] When deleting a model from the structure tree, the confirmation message no longer appears if the diagram that has a target model on is also deleted.
• [7491] Related ports now appear in the Search result if the model you are looking for is a type of model that do not appear in the Structure Tree.
• [8030] Now a confirmation message appears when deleting models from [Property View] that are referenced by other models.
• [8031] Now you can scroll pop-up menu options under [Show in Structure Tree] and [Related Diagrams] menu if it does not fit in the screen.
• [8321] Now, the following models are searchable in [Search in Diagram].
  • Statemachine Diagram
    • Initial Pseudostate, Final Pseudostate, Shallow History Pseudostate, Deep History Pseudostate, Junction Pseudostate, Choice Pseudostate, Fork Pseudostate and Join Pseudostate
  • Activity Diagrams
    • Decision, Merge Node, Fork Node and Join Node
• [8377] Now [All Related Diagrams] from the structure tree enables you to jump to referenced Attributes and Operations.
• [8513] Now you can choose to print target model names that will be printed in another page from [File] – [Print Setup] – [Diagram].
  
• [8532] You can now align models horizontally and vertically at the same time.
• [8535] CamelCase search can now be disabled in [Search] and [Search in Diagram].
  
• [8540] Now [Search in Diagram] works for all the other texts other than its name in attributes, operations and slots and a name of Icon Notation.
• [8571] Astah now shows an alert message if you drag and drop a file that Astah does not support to load.
• [8586] If a class shows all namespaces ([Extended Visibility] – [Namespace] – [All Parent]), its related Classes are shown in the same display level.
• [8605][8567] Re-organized options in the System Properties and removed outdated properties including [Use Proxy Setting from Internet Explorer (Windows Only)] option under [Network].
• [8577] Astah now shows an alert when an error occurs when loading SVG files.
• [7355] Fixed a bug that some diagram elements cannot be searched on diagrams by alias even on alias mode.
• [8094] Fixed a bug that closing Astah right after opening the filter of the hierarchical tree would cause an exception error.
• [8506] Fixed a problem in which both the rectangle and name of a pin were hit when searching on a diagram.
• [8542] Fixed a bug that [Select All] button is still enabled even all is selected already.
• [8553] Fixed a problem that necessary information for bug-fixes are not included in log files.
• [8554] Fixed a problem that the level of log output cannot be changed in the option file.
• [8558] Fixed a problem in which logs were not output for some errors related to floating licenses.
• [8560] Fixed a problem in which an exception occurred when opening an alias tree in a project file with an invalid model.
• [8580] Fixed a bug that wrong models were shown in [Show in Structure Tree] or [Related Diagrams] option.
• [8608] Improved a message that appears when floating license seats ran out.
• [8593] Fixed a bug that caused an exception when editing a diagram by mouse operation.

Class Diagram

• [8390] Fixed a bug in the structure tree that when a class was moved and the package was changed, the model of the diagram element would remain in the original package.
• [8543] [Show in Structure Tree] menu now displays class names of attributes and operations.
• [8556] Fixed a bug that when duplicating a package, the actual parameters of the template binding were deleted or remained referring to the class before duplication.
• [8584] Astah now shows a message when you attempt to delete a class referenced by a template class from a model.
• [8624] Astah now shows a confirmation dialogue when deleting bounded TemplateClasses and TemplateParameters.
• [8606] Fixed a bug that caused a freeze when repeatedly moving and clicking the mouse when generating a relation between realizations.
• [8610] Fixed a bug that caused incorrect namespace for the related template binding when changing the package to which the class belongs.
• [8619] Fixed an alert message that appears when saving skeleton code fails.

Sequence Diagram

• [8480] Fixed a bug in which messages were not reassigned to the selected execution specification.
• [8525] Fixed a bug in auto-layout where state invariant expressions, etc. were placed on Create Messages.
• [8526] Fixed a bug in which message with duration constraints would appear in “jump” presentation.
• [8555] Fixed a bug that duplicating a package would clear out the assignments to Message.
• [8569] Fixed a bug that Auto-layout does work for Messages even though the connected models were invalid.
• [8258] Fixed a bug that ‘Search on Diagram’ does not work for Messages correctly.

Communication Diagram

• [8258] Fixed a bug that ‘Search on Diagram’ does not work for Messages correctly.
• [8514] Fixed a problem that messages outside of the diagram would not appear even [Show name of related elements outside viewpoint] option is enabled in the system properties.

Activity Diagram

• [8594] Fixed a problem that actions and object nodes could not be created consecutively.

Mind Map

• [8537] Fixed a problem that texts that were found through [Search on Diagram] would not get highlighted.

Merge

• [8561] Now Astah tells you via message when there are no conflicts.
• [8583] Fixed a problem that merging projects would cause an exception error if a name of related models located outside of the diagram is shown.

Others

• [8563] Now Astah can detect models that have incorrect namespaces.
• [8478] Now a title bar of Diagram Editor does not appear by default on Mac.
• [8561] Fixed a bug where logs weren’t exported properly when an exception error occurred at correcting invalid models.
• [8563] Now Astah can detect models that have incorrect namespaces.
• [8644] Fixed a bug that an activator of the Execution Specification would become null when running [Correct Invalid Models] command.