Release Notes 25.x

See also: Release Notes 26.x
See also: Release Notes 24.x

Release 25.2

• Feature: DPI awareness on Windows (i.e. when shown on a high-resolution monitors) [Note: that was a lot of work...]
  expecco can scale views and fonts according to the scale factor set in the Windows display settings and will do so as default. Scaling by expecco is not perfect yet, e.g. icons do not get scaled.
  You can enable scaling in Settings -> Look&Feel -> More.
• Feature: groovy version 5.0.0 (needed for Java 25 and later)
• Feature: better bulk int, float and double receiving support in the C bridge (used to be bytes only)
• Feature: Treat the test result "Pass (Warning)" as "Pass' (Settings: DebuggerSettings)
• Improvement: Inspector shows XML Dom if an inspected string starts with '<' and ends with '>' and is XML-parsable without error.
• Improvement: Very long index-lists (eg. 100k) are handled more gracefully
• Improvement: Bundled python3 installer updated to version 3.13.7
• Improvement: Better command and filename completion in the cmd terminal view (Windows)
• Fix: (Windows) reading the link info of a link file to a wide-char file returned wrong (non-wide) info
• Fix: blocking WebSockets with huge bulk data transfers
• Fix: transfer timeout in Bridges with huge data transfers
• Fix: (Windows): Resource Leak in Font allocation leading to running out of Windows GDI Handles (after a few thousand window openings)
• Fix: C-Bridge failed to load code when a virus checker has locked the file.
• Known Issue: When expecco is started for the first time after installation, the Windows virus scan (SmartScreen) may delay the display of the expecco window.

Release 25.1

• Improvement: additional "Info" tab in inspector views
• Improvement: less memory usage in the activity log
• Improvement: better error messages and more links to settings from the activity log's error message
• Improvement: additional units and conversions in the physical values framework
• Improvement: more precision in the high precision trigonometric and math functions
• Improvement: WindowsAutomation: Plugin Update to FlaUI 5
• Improvement: Mobile Testing: Better Device Lock/Unlock Support
• Improvement: StandardLibrary: "File [ *CSV ]" blocks got an additional "characterEncoding" pin (useful for reading/writing e.g. utf-8 encoded CSV files)
• Improvement: ExcelLib: better documentation. Now requires the openpyxl package version >= 3.1.5.
• Improvement: better model language editor (translate and fetch-strings functions)
• Improvement: ODBCLibrary: improved compatibility with different database vendors (supports the CedarDB database)
• Feature: translate and spell check in the workspace window
• Feature: EditLock of suites loaded from expeccoALM / AIDYMO
• Feature: Start Test in expeccoALM / AIDYMO (via expecco)
• Feature: new library containing expeccoALM control actions (those from the AIDYMO menu)
• Fix: the version diff viewer (did not correctly copy changed attachment files)

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