Umbrello News
2022/12/08: Umbrello 2.37 releases available |
Umbrello 2.37 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 22.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.37 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.37 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2022/04/22: Umbrello 2.34 releases available |
Umbrello 2.34 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 22.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.34 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.34 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2022/01/07: Umbrello 2.34 will bring major change to XMI save format in UML2 mode |
Umbrello from git master, as well as the version 2.34 which will be part of the KDE Applications 22.04 releases, change the XMI save format to be compatible with UML 2.x. The new file format is used when "Enable UML2 support" is activated in General Settings → Configure Umbrello. Previous Umbrello versions will not be able to load the new format. |
2020/08/20: Umbrello 2.32 releases available |
Umbrello 2.32 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 20.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.32 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.32 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2020/05/05: Umbrello 2.31 releases available |
Umbrello 2.31 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 20.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.31 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.31 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2019/12/18: Umbrello 2.30 releases available |
Umbrello 2.30 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 19.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.30 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.30 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2019/08/18: Umbrello 2.29 releases available |
Umbrello 2.29 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 19.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.29 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.29 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2019/04/18: Umbrello 2.28 releases available |
Umbrello 2.28 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 19.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.28 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.28 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2018/12/13: Umbrello 2.27 releases available |
Umbrello 2.27 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 18.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.27 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.27 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2018/08/29: Umbrello 2.26 releases available |
Umbrello 2.26 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 18.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.26 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.26 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2018/03/22: Umbrello 2.25 releases available |
Umbrello 2.25 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 18.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.25 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.25 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2017/12/14: Umbrello 2.24 releases available |
Umbrello 2.24 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 17.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.24 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.24 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2017/07/20: Umbrello 2.23 releases available |
Umbrello 2.23 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 17.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.23 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.23 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2017/03/30: Umbrello 2.22 releases available |
Umbrello 2.22 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 17.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.22 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.22 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2016/12/06: Umbrello 2.21 releases available |
Umbrello 2.21 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 16.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.21 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.21 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2016/08/14: Umbrello 2.20 releases available |
Umbrello 2.20 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 16.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.20 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.20 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. Binary packages are available from related Linux distributions and for 32bit and 64 bit Windows from the KDE download mirror network. |
2016/04/20: Umbrello 2.19 releases available |
Umbrello 2.19 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 16.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.19 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.19 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2015/12/09: Umbrello 2.18 releases available |
Umbrello 2.18 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 15.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.18 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.18 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2015/08/25: Windows binary packages starting with umbrello version 2.17.0 available |
Starting with umbrello version 2.17.0 binary packages of umbrello for 32bit and 64 bit Windows are available and could be downloaded from the KDE download mirror network. The binaries have been built on the OpenSUSE build service using GNU cross compilers. Many thanks to Ralf Habacker, who organized the build system and provided the binary packages. |
2015/08/12: Umbrello 2.17 releases available |
Umbrello 2.17 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 15.08 releases. See new Umbrello 2.17 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.17 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2015/07/20: MySQL and PostgreSQL schema import |
Umbrello supports MySQL and PostgreSQL export since a long time. With the upcoming umbrello 2.17 release (KDE Applications 15.08) umbrello also gets support for importing MySQL and PostgreSQL schema, which enables round trip engineering. Many thanks to Ralf Habacker, who added this feature. |
2015/06/08: Frameworks branch merged into master |
In the last weeks the port to KDE frameworks 5 has been merged back into the master branch. Many thanks to Andi Fischer, who ported umbrello to KF5 and Ralf Habacker, who merged back the changes into the master branch. The merge back has been designed to support KDE4 and KF5 builds from the same source. To create a KF5/Qt5 based build -DBUILD_KF5=1 has to be added to the cmake command line. |
2015/04/07: Umbrello 2.16 releases available |
Umbrello 2.16 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 15.04 releases. See new Umbrello 2.16 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.16 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2014/12/10: Umbrello 2.15 releases available |
Umbrello 2.15 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 14.12 releases. See new Umbrello 2.15 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.15 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2014/11/02: Binary packages of KDE frameworks 5 port for opensuse available |
Today Wolfgang Bauer started to build umbrello binary packages from the umbrello frameworks git branch for opensuse, which makes it possible to follow the porting process very easy. Bug reports and/or patches are wery welcome and should be reported through the KDE bug tracker. |
2014/10/25: Coverity source code analysis |
Umbrello has been registered as a coverity project, which helps to increase the code quality. High impact issues from the source code scan have been already fixed by Oliver Kellogg, for the remaining detects volunteers are welcome. If you want to help to improve the code quality of umbrello, please contact Oliver. |
2014/10/09: Port to KDE frameworks 5 started |
Today Andi Fisher started the port of umbrello to KDE frameworks 5. He expects to be ready in January 2015. |
2014/08/20: Improvements to Rational Rose model import |
Oliver Kellogg improved loading of Rational Rose models:
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2014/08/03: Umbrello 2.14 releases available |
Umbrello 2.14 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 4.14 releases. See new Umbrello 2.14 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.14 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2014/05/24: Support for zipped XML project file import (*.zargo extension) |
Umbrello now supports importing the UML model from a zipped XML project file using the *.zargo file extension, which is used for example by ArgoUML and Poseidon for UML. A zipped XML project file contains an UML model (in XMI format), diagrams and project informations. |
2014/05/14: Recent OpenHub Statistics |
Over the past twelve months, 18 developers contributed to Umbrello UML Modeller. This project has a relatively large team, in the top 10% of all project teams on OpenHub. For this measurement, OpenHub considers only recent changes to the code. Over the entire history of the project, 115 developers have contributed. See the full story here. |
2014/03/30: Umbrello 2.13 releases available |
Umbrello 2.13 releases are available as part of the KDE Applications 4.13 releases. See new Umbrello 2.13 features for a list of new features and Umbrello 2.13 fixed bugs to see the list of fixed bugs in this release. |
2014/01/05: Sequence diagram enhancements |
Ralf Habacker committed today enhancements for editing sequence diagram message properties:
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2014/04/21: New feature: find text in tree view, current diagram or all diagrams |
Ralf Habacker committed today this new feature. Many thanks for this contribution. |
2013/12/17: New feature: diagram duplication |
Joris Steyn added today a new diagram duplication feature. This feature has been made possible after Joris fixed several bugs in the copy & paste code and the undo implementation. Many thanks for this contribution. |
2013/12/12: Umbrello api documentation for Qt Creator |
Umbrello developers now can use umbrello api documentation inside Qt Creator. Download umbrello-4.12.qch and install it in Qt Creator. |
2013/09/12: New auto numbering feature for sequence diagrams |
Ralf Habacker committed today a new feature for sequence diagrams. Sequence diagram messages could have sequence numbers to indicate the ordering. The dialog for message adding has now a new 'autoincrement' checkbox, with which an automatically increment of the sequence number could be enabled. |
2013/09/11: "Employ the use of Splines" - Implementation mostly finished |
The implementation of Bug 107174 is now mostly finished; the remaining bugs will be fixed in the next time. |
2013/08/28: "Employ the use of Splines" - Step 2 of Implementation finished |
The implementation of Bug 107174, has been started several weeks ago. Now thanks to the efforts of Andi Fischer and bug fixing by Ralf Habacker step 1 and 2 of the implementation plan has been finished and is merged to git master. |
2013/08/25: Visual feedback if widget has documentation |
Ralf Habacker adds a graphical indicator to graphical widgets, which has documentation. This feature, which is useful to get a quick overview what is documentated and what not, is enabled by an entry in the diagram context menu and if enabled, displays a triangle in the lower left corner of the related widget. |
2013/07/12: Implementation of "Employ the use of Splines" started |
The implementation of Bug 107174, has been started by Andi Fischer. |
2013/07/30: Website update |
The umbrello website has been migrated to the KDE infrastructure and the capacity website framework. |
2012/12/31: Huge bug fixing |
This year about 150 umbrello bugs have been fixed. This let umbrello be run much more stable. |
2012/11/05: Resize context menu feature |
Today a new resize context menu feature has been added by Ralf Habacker. |
2012/05/12: Diagram dot export |
Today umbrello got support for exporting diagrams as dot files by Ralf Habacker. This has been made possible by the auto layout feature which has been implemented a week ago. |
2012/05/07: Diagram auto layouts |
Umbrello got a new diagram auto layout feature from Ralf Habacker. It uses graph generators from the graphviz package which is included in many linux distributions and is also be available on windows. The auto layout feature is available through entries of a diagram context menu. For each diagram type there are multiple layout types available, which are customizable using configuration files. For an example see Vertical layout for class diagrams. |
2012/04/21: New code import wizard |
Andi Fischer committed a new code import wizard, which makes it possible to select whole directory structures and/or single files. |
2012/09/02: Umbrello port to QGraphicsView finally completed |
Several years have gone by while Andi Fischer and Ralf Habacker have been merging the Umbrello GSOC-2008 branch back into trunk. Ralf today committed the QGraphicsScene and QGraphicsView changeover of UMLView and UMLScene. This completes the bulk of the merge. Cheers to Andi and Ralf for their untiring efforts! |
2011/12/31: Many bugs fixed |
This year about 35 umbrello bugs have been fixed. |
2011/08/09: Second Google Summer of Code project porting Umbrello to QGraphicsView |
Camila Ayres is working on porting Umbrello to QGraphicsView, keep up to date on her blog. |
2008/08/17: Google Summer of Code project brings improvements to Umbrello |
Gopala Krishna is implementing
some exciting
improvements as part of his Google
Summer of Code project. His work is currently happening in a branch but will soon be merged to the trunk. Stay tuned. |
2008/02/08: The Register Reviews Umbrello |
The Register has reviewed some UML tools and describes Umbrello as "a nice, clean and simple UML editor". |
2008/01/25: Umbrello Spotted on Windows and Mac |
At the KDE 4.0 Release Event Umbrello was spotted running on both Windows and Mac OS X. These ports of KDE apps are not yet stable but you can follow progress on windows.kde.org and KDE on Mac wiki page. See the screenshots. |
2008/01/12: Umbrello 2.0 Release Starts Something Amazing |
Umbrello 2.0 has been released as part of the kdesdk module in KDE 4. Thanks to our contributors Oliver, Sharan, Andi and others for their work on this milestone. Install it from your distro as part of kdesdk. |
2007/11/03: Umbrello 1.5.8 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.8 has been released. |
2007/06/15: Perl import script updated |
Hans Poo contributed his perl2xmi script, a standalone Perl program to import Perl into Umbrello's XMI file format. See Developer's page |
2007/06/07: Umbrello 1.5.71 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.71 has been released. |
2007/05/20: Introduction to UML with Umbrello |
IT Managers Journal has an introduction to UML which uses Umbrello as the example application. |
2007/05/15: Umbrello 1.5.7 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.7 has been released. |
2007/04/23: ISI Students Merge, Google Summer of Code Begins |
The students from Toulouse's ISI university have merged their work into trunk, including improved undo support. We now have a student from Google's Summer of Code programme who will work on improving Entity Relationship diagram support. |
2007/04/14: Umbrello 1.5.7-beta1 Released |
2007/02/09: Umbrello 1.5.61 Released |
2007/01/19: Umbrello 1.5.6 Released |
2006/12/23: MySQL to Umbrello script |
Our developers page has added mysql2xmi.sh a script to convert mysqldump table data to an Umbrello XMI file, from Benjamín Díaz. |
2006/11/24: Umbrello Welcomes the Students of Ingénierie des Systèmes Informatiques |
A university programme to get students working on real code in Free Software programmes has chosen Umbrello as one of its development projects for one of its teams. The students have set up an Umbrello wiki in French with their plans form working on Umbrello in KDE 4. |
2006/11/19: Umbrello 1.5.52 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.52 has been released. |
2006/10/25: Umbrello 1.5.51 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.51 has been released. |
2006/09/09: First Screenshot of Umbrello on KDE 4 |
Umbrello is looking healthy on KDE 4. Join us on umbrello-devel if you want to help out. |
2006/08/04: Umbrello 1.5.4 Released |
Umbrello 1.5.4 has been released along with KDE 3.5.4. |