RED - Robot Editor v0.9.5

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Photon (v 4.8) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Update platform to eclipse 2020-06
• Drop support for eclipse Oxygen
• Drop support for Robot Framework 2.9

GitHub issues updates

• #377 Test Runner Agent can't connect to RED server when running with default listener connection type setting
• #309 Unhandled event loop exception
• #372 Main feature contains an empty README.txt root file

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.9.4

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Robot Framework 3.2 support
• Update platform to eclipse 2020-03
• Cheat sheets - quick start for newbies
• Last version supporting Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7)
• Last version supporting Robot Framework 2.9

GitHub issues updates

• #361 Remote library import is marked as error if /RPC2 is used inconsistently with red.xml definitions
• #368 issue with eclipse update
• #369 Unable to find output console when running the test

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.9.3

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Breakpoint toggling in multi-line calls should be more coherent
• Debugger does not stop on breakpoint in a keyword indirectly called by "run keyword"
• Update platform to eclipse 2019-12
• Argument coloring in overloading case in Table Mode

GitHub issues updates

• #100 Table should display header column names
• #359 Exception thrown in TestRunnerAgent under Python 3.5.x
• #360 Add YAML filter in red.xml editor / variable files

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.9.2

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• New Debug Shell view allowing to interact with suspended execution
• Quick Assist (Ctrl+1) in source editor allowing to quickly assign result of a keyword to a variable
• Keywords arguments highlighting in table editors
• Line continuation is automatically inserted when breaking a line in the middle

GitHub issues updates

• #289 Equivalent to "Immediate" window
• #348 Debugging: Configuring "Maximum characters to display" not working
• #350 Debugging: "RED was unable to find suite where the test could be located" error when debugging project located in IBM Jazz source control
• #353 Incompatibility with RobotFramework 3.2a1
• #357 Documentation not working correctly when keywords and testcases are folded

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.9.1

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Fixing execution view problems with dynamically modified suites
• Updating RfLint integration to reflect changes done in RfLint 1.0
• General task settings validation

GitHub issues updates

• #295 RED Unable to start XML-RPC
• #305 RED & PyDev wizard unable to install redpydevd without root access rights
• #333 Execution view problems with dynamically modified suites
• #338 Marker about correct setting when pipe is set as separator in table view
• #339 Trailing spaces in pipe-separated format leads to wrong content type

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.9.0

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon or earlier, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• "What's new" section is available in RED User Guide where more detailed information is available about new features in releases. See http://nokia.github.io/RED/help/whats_new/0_9_0.html
• RED product is now based on Eclipse 2019-09 (4.13) instead of 2018-09 (4.9). Oxygen (4.7) is still supported and RED feature can be installed there.
• It is now possible to pass arguments to libraries in red.xml file.
• A new kind of breakpoint introduced which will suspend the execution when predefined keyword fails.
• It is possible to re-run tests/suites which were not executed using action in Execution view.
• Templates in tests or tasks are now fully supported regarding coloring, validation and content assistant.
• It is possible to assign a color for library/resource name prefixes.
• Color for keywords defined in libraries can be assigned differently than for user keywords (at call place).
• Masked keywords are reported at call place.

GitHub issues updates

• #47 Add posibility to provide arguments for library imports in red.xml
• #77 Add possibility to declare breakpoint as stop on keyword failure.
• #146 BUG: Table editor can not deal with "|" charator
• #297 When using Test template formatting appears incorrect
• #302 Fail to validate a call to a keyword when more than 2 return variables are on their own line
• #312 Settings value of NONE in test case table for [Setup] bug
• #314 Using variables with custom embedded argument regular expressions
• #315 Robot framework project path contain Chinese character throw exception
• #316 Python path contain Chinese character in red.xml throw exception
• #320 Different syntax color for libraries set before the keyword
• #321 Handle environment variables in red.xml for referencedLibrary
• #322 RED issue - modal dialogs
• #324 Imposible to open robot file after update
• #325 CoreException with Eclipse 2019-06
• #330 'Agent connection server' problem when starting javaws jnlp application bug
• #331 Variables var.py GUI

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.13

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.13 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Source formatter enhancements, possibility to format with robot.tidy
• Code templates provided. Note: templates editor in Preferences does not refresh under Eclipse 2018-09
• Improved integration with RfLint (better configuration, rules documentation handling)
• Error field in execution view is shown when needed
• Fixes for Robot & Python debugging session: gevent is supported
• Pythonpaths from red.xml are used when importing variables files
• Online documentation fixed

GitHub issues updates

• #181 Prefilled RFLint settings
• #247 'Format source' column positioning could be placed under user preference control
• #278 Investigate what to do with GTK2/3 issues
• #293 Simplify libdoc reload error stacktrace
• #303 Variable mappings for Remote Library imports
• #307 Make Error field in Execution view visible only when needed
• #308 Support libraries using gevent in debugger sessions and autodiscovery
• #311 Unable to import variables from python file

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.12

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.11 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• RED with PyDev debugging session wizard
• Source code formatter enhancements
• Libdoc generation fixes
• Quick variables typing in editor
• Better support for robot empty lines
• Enhancements in red.xml UI

GitHub issues updates

• #145 - In case empty line in test starts with tabulator it is propagated to table view wrongly
• #255 - Check pyDev debugging documentation
• #273 - Default env variables for launch configs
• #279 - Scroll table to the top when revealing the element
• #281 - Problem with libdoc generation when python library redirect also console msg from server
• #284 - Command line with unicode letters causes TestRunnerAgent exception
• #286 - Libdoc generation problem for SikuliLibrary
• #290 - Revise and update building instructions
• #291 - WM_Class is empty
• #295 - Unable to start session server when path contains non-ASCII chars
• #296 - Null Pointer Exception during validation

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.11

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.11 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Launching parameters for run/debug - defined by user and from Env
• Alternative way to generate libdocs - preference for generating libdocs in separate process
• Variable files defined in red.xml are not passed to tests execution
• Enhancements in keyword source searching - support for decorated and overloaded methods
• Enhancements in run configuration suites composite

GitHub issues updates

• #27 - Unselected Test Suites are automatically removed from Run Configurations
• #186 - double click for multiword KW should select whole KW, not item between space
• #217 - pymouse library raises AssertionError
• #231 - pandas library hangs XML-RPC server
• #245 - JSONLibrary import by autodiscovery fails, QuickFix works fine
• #263 - Console retrieving problem with 2018-12
• #264 - Missing library file for external library
• #266 - Parser exception is thrown when extracting variables
• #269 - Wrong validation problem when keyword uses dot character in name

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.10

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7) or newer https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.10 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Running suites with dots in names uses correct arguments
• Supports FOR loops with END syntax added in Robot Framework 3.1
• Allows to save file without interpreter specified
• Removed commented variables from Outline
• Other minor fixes

GitHub issues updates

• #262 - Wrong arguments when running suites with dots in name

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.9

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• RED product is now based on Eclipse Photon (v 4.8) platform. The feature may be still installed in Oxygen (v 4.7) as well as newer 2018-09 (v 4.9)
• Supports all the features of upcoming Robot Framework 3.1
• RED should now works without any problems on all Java version 8 up to 11

GitHub issues updates

• #137 - Unable to launch RED on Java 9
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - Robotic Process Automation - new Task table
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - For Loop using FOR
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - deprecated syntax for RF 3.1
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - remove Pyt2.6 and Pyt3.3 support from RF
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - Function annotations are visible in libdoc
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - Support for keyword-only arguments
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - User-defined tables are forbidden - only Comments section can be used for that purpose
• #248 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - support .resource file extension for resources
• #251 - Add version info to Help - About RED
• #253 - Execution order based on directory name is ignored in argument file
• #257 - Rerun Test and Rerun Failed Test actions not using the default launch config values

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.8

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Provide QuickFix of suggestion for cases when Keywords are not found if the resource with this Keywords is outside the project
• Add editor color setting for strings
• handle URI other than "file- "Validation not working when project is connected to Jazz source control

GitHub issues updates

• #237 - Provide QuickFix of suggestion for cases when Keywords are not found if the resource with this Keywords is outside the project
• #243 - imported variables are always lower cased
• #242 - classes as variables are filtered out from proposals
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - 3 - Robotic Process Automation - new Task table
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - 6 - deprecated syntax for RF 3.1
• #200 - Planned changes in RF 3.1, which affects RED - 7 - remove Pyt2.6 and Pyt3.3 support from RF
• #239 - Add editor color setting for strings
• #201 - handle URI other than "file- "Validation not working when project is connected to Jazz source control

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.7

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Added coloring and validation for nested keywords in "Run Keyword" group
• Showing libraries from site-package in content assist

GitHub issues updates

• #28 - Keywords after a Run Keyword If condition are not validated
• #179 - A wrong error message when using embedding arguments keyword name
• #197 - No proper marker about deprecated attribute message in Timeout settings in RF 3.0.1
• #208 - argument file starting from home directory is not working
• #221 - Code coloring when a kw as a kw as arg
• #227 - Eclipse Oxygen.3a, RED 0.8.6.201806181254, pydevd-1.2.0 and runPyDevDebug.py
• #229 - Integer as default values are considered as variables in keyword arguments definition

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.6

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• Adding relative paths for RobotExec and ReferencedLibs in red.xml
• Handle environment variables in red.xml for classpath and pythonpaths

GitHub issues updates

• #73 - red.xml - relative paths for RobotExec and ReferencedLibs
• #204 - Handle environment variables in red.xml for classpath and pythonpaths
• #203 - reload libraries with RobotCommandRpcExecutor
• #96 - Positional argument cannot be used after named arguments for usual KW (examples from RED_781)
• #210 - Autodiscovery don't work for RemoteSwingLibrary in RED 0.8.5
• #220 - Editor throws exception when opening specific .robot file
• #225 - Problems with unicode keywords using embedded variables
• #179 - A wrong error message when using embedding arguments keyword name
  full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.5

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• RED now uses html format for documentation
• many fixes in coloring in text and table editors
• Rflint now has field for command line parameters - check Preferences
• RED can use Eclipse parameters in fields for launching (rflint,run configurations) #184 - more info in help: RED - Robot Editor User Guide > User guide > Launching Tests >String substitution variables
• Graceful Robot/process killing to allow Robot to generate reports #170
• Autodiscovery and quick fix improvements

GitHub issues updates

• #125 - try to look for python2/python3 filenames when looking for python installations
• #170 - interrupt tests processes instead of killing them
• #185 - Libdoc view from PE - does not show docs when doc contains < and > strings
• #180 - Add command line filed to Rflint
• #184 - Resolve Eclipse parameters in fields for launching stuff (rflint,run configs)
• #187 - Keyword with parameterized name coloring
• #194 - Coloring variables using square brackets

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.4

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• table contents are colored in the same manner as in source
• adding mandatory arguments proposals for Keywords in Table editors
• remote libraries are taken into Autodiscovery process and added to red.xml
• #177 TODO/Tasks implemented - check http://nokia.github.io/RED/help/user_guide/validation/tasks.md
• Library autodiscovery fixes #188 #189 #191

GitHub issues updates

• #177 - TODO/Tasks support - by default TODO and FIXME are handled - http://nokia.github.io/RED/help/user_guide/validation/tasks.md
• #188 - python library module and class name different, cannot be added to red.xml
• #189 - init_.py in lib folder breaks QuickFix/autodicovery
• #191 - calling robot logger with also_console=True in init breaks lib refreash

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.3

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon, please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• support for UTF charset mentioned in #169 and RED-914
• improved performance of autodiscovery - from now on robot dry run will be run only when quick fix will not return any libs. This also fixes SshLibrary import via init.py
• changed Include/Exclude - from now on, Excluded folders will not be taken into autodiscovery and keyword assistance.
• Errors/Validation can be switched off globally (under Preferences->RobotFramework->Errors/Warnings
• fixed inserting/deleting cell in Table Editor in Settings tab

GitHub issues updates

#147 - Unable to import Python Libaries RED 0.8.0
#155 - resolve value of ${EXECDIR} in VM when used in mappings to another variable
#160 - console output encoding problems
#162 - incorrect "Invalid Variable syntax" error with list and dictionary variables
#166 - exception thrown by debugger
#167 - allow to change text size in Source by [ctrl] + [=] and [ctrl] + [-]
#169 - rflint/session server does not work with non-asci chars in filename
#174 - venv hidden folders should be handled correctly

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.2

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions
Due to internal changes to support Eclipse Oxygen API, RED Product 0.8.2 cannot be upgraded from 0.8.0 and earlier versions.
For RED feature installed on Eclipse Neon,please upgrade your Eclipse platform: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F

Notable updates

• From now RED feature will install only on Eclipse Oxygen, for earlier Eclipse version follow: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_upgrade_Eclipse_IDE%3F
• GitHub #158 - fixed validation and autocomplate remote libraries
• Dark code color profile is now switcched when Dark profile is selected
• Improved look of scroll bars in Table Editors when in Dark theme
• Project Explorer tree items will not collapse when list of imported libraries changed

GitHub issues updates

• #158 - fixed validation and autocomplate for remote libraries

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.1

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Oxygen (v 4.7), Eclipse Neon (v 4.6), Eclipse Mars (v 4.5), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions

Notable updates

• Support for dark profile by adding profiles of syntax color, fixed RED GUI elements when dark. Together with Darkest Dark Theme, RED looks nice. Details can be found in docs
  
• Integrated static code analysis reports from rflint into RED - details in docs
  
• Made Robot links from console a clicable links even when destination files are not reachable
• It is possible to disconnect from Robot run session leaving Robot test execution running independent from RED state
• Pause&Resume buttons added to Console View
• Fixed UTF-8 names in red.xml
• Improved memory footprint from Message Log data part due to #149
• Fixed library autodiscovery freeze when activating action on multiple inhertied folders
• Variable with no name ${} gets error marker

GitHub issues updates

• #112 - Fixed issue when file rename triggers Referenced libraries change in red.xml
• #132 - RED correctly works with python 2.6
• #136 - Insert cell/delete cell actions in table editors
• #141 - Added Pause and Resume buttons to Console View to easy access
• #148 - Source focuses on currently edited cell
• #149 - Limited Message Log launching history from 100 to 1
• #149 - Added button+action in Message Log to clear message log view/data container
• #149 - Java memory leak during use of the message log - limit lines in Message Log

full changes in changelog.txt

RED - Robot Editor v0.8.0

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

• Oracle Java 1.8+ https://www.java.com/
• RED feature only: Eclipse Neon (v 4.6),Eclipse Mars (v 4.5), preferably IDE for Java Developers https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Python/Jython & RobotFramework installed

Installation

Installation instructions

Notable updates

• content assist can search for patterns inside proposals (eg. searching for "og" will return "log" keyword)
• content assist can return Keywords when searching for capital letters (eg. activating content assist and writing LM will return Log Many)
• content assist now provides keywords from libs which are not included in TestSuite but available in project (entry in Referenced libraries in red.xml)
• debug is more aware which file it showing,this relates to cases when suite names are not unique within project. Debug also can check if debug run in robot is consistent to suite file being displayed.Covered in #111
• table editors should preserve empty lines and show duplicated sections. Still there is some work to do though.
• variable mappings can use already mapped variables to resolve values.Item covered in #120
• more detailed progress bar for Automatically discover libraries from Robot Framework right-click menu
• top level entries (libraries names) in library discovery summary report is now copy-able.This allows to copy libs names and install missing libraries to Robot
• filenames in tabs above editor can be prepended with parent folder.Useful if filenames are not unique in Project. Enabled by preference
• when setting Robot nature to Project, red.xml is not overwritten by default - proper user action is proposed

GitHub issues updates

• #84 - references menu in source view - added view to source editor
• #95 - empty lines get removed when test case is edited from TestCases tab - empty lines should not be removed when changing from table to source editor
• #111 - In Debug Variable Panel difference between Robot Dict and Python Dict not visible - implemented
• #114 - add help content for Content Assist -> Auto activation triggers - added to Help
• #118 - use preference for content assistant trigger - now Content Assist trigger key (CTRL+space) is no longer hardcoded,it can be defined in preferences
• #120 - variable mapping could use already mapped vars in consecutive entries - implemented
• #122 - red.xml charsets issues - encoding of red.xml is no in UTF-8
• #128 - better handle projects without red.xml - for now,projects without red.xml can use Robot and system variables. Handling built-in libs will be done later.
• #138 - do not override existing red.xml file

full changes in changelog.txt