Archi 5.5 (January 29 2025)$$$New$$$Add line style to diagram objects (solid; dotted; dashed and none)$$$Delete container object in a diagram and keep children$$$Model Tree search – support filtering on Views$$$Model Tree search – support regular expressions$$$Model Tree search – support matching case$$$Model Tree search – add an explicit filter setting for User Property values$$$Model Tree search – remembers some filter settings$$$Model Tree search – User Property keys are now selected in a dialog$$$Diagram connections are now hidden when nested$$$Improvements$$$Bundled Java Runtime is version 17.0.13$$$Nested connection to connections are no longer deleted but are now hidden$$$Persist state of hidden top-level folders and add a “Show All” menu item$$$Ensure a minimum label width of labels in Property sections$$$Add support for default values of internal features$$$Template management optimised and some fixes applied$$$Update Jasper Reports to version 6.12.2$$$Fixes$$$Fix diagram objects not selected on right-click (regression in version 5.4)$$$Fix possible dangling connections when nesting connections with connections$$$Fix possible empty/zombie diagram editors with a “This View is no longer available” message after performing “Save As”$$$Fix possible NPE when using “Link to View” with empty/zombie diagram editors$$$Fix Preferences not retrieving default font if set in custom preferences file$$$Internal improvements and fixes

Archi 5.4.3 (October 29 2024)$$$Improvements$$$$$$Optimisations and internal fixes to Properties sections$$$Support Windows native high contrast theme when set in Preferences$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix single-click not working on Search box cancel button on Mac$$$Fix possible error on Mac in Properties Manager when editing and deleting User Properties$$$Fix not all property names and values showing in combo boxes in User Properties

Archi 5.4.2 (September 19 2024)$$$New$$$$$$Add a new Theme in Preferences; Appearance; “Automatically select Light/Dark”. Archi will automatically set the theme to light or dark on startup depending on the host OS theme (this might not work on some Linux distros).$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix tooltips on Linux wrongly positioned and grabbing focus

Archi 5.4.1 (September 11 2024)$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix Format Painter not working if the source object contains an image

Archi 5.4 (September 3 2024)$$$New$$$$$$This version focuses on improvements associated with the underlying Eclipse framework and internal fixes and optimisations$$$Add option on Mac to scale fonts to compensate for DPI differenced between platforms (under Settings; Appearance; Fonts)$$$Add support for Palette entry key bindings$$$Add a preference option for bigger (native) Mac item heights$$$Add “Select in Model Tree” key binding support$$$Add order of view objects (send to back and bring forward) key binding support$$$Add “Copy as Image to Clipboard” in Visualiser key binding support$$$Add “Show Active Keybindings” menu item under the Help menu$$$Add an “In Archi Diagrams” context for key bindings in Keys Preferences$$$Improvements$$$$$$Built on Eclipse 4.32$$$Model Tree now remembers last expanded state after using the search filter$$$Model Tree search filter should be a bit quicker$$$Model Tree now remembers expanded child nodes when the parent node is collapsed when switching between Views$$$Stability improvements to Windows & Linux Full Screen view$$$Revert maximum width of 300 pixels of connection labels introduced in version 5.0.0$$$CSV Importer now supports changing source/target identifiers in the relations CSV file (must be existing and valid ones)$$$Add Save and Zoom key bindings to Windows & Linux Full Screen view$$$Guard against possibly copying and pasting invalid characters and newlines in some text controls$$$Format Painter now stores a copy of the source object rather than the object itself so its memory can be freed$$$Fix palette cursors too too big with hi-res scaling x2 on Linux Wayland$$$Objects remain selected when dragging into and out of container objects$$$Improve responsiveness of auto scroll drag and hold an object near the edge of the viewport$$$[ACLI] Clean workbench config folder on exit (can be over-ridden with “-noCleanConfig” option)$$$Use .png image format instead of .gif and .bmp for some images$$$Remove some duplicate key bindings$$$Fixes$$$$$$Add a workaround to avoid a Mac crash when pressing Cmd-Z in a text control$$$Fix palette marquee selection tools not remaining selected$$$Fix palette marquee selection tools causing unresponsive UI if cursor exits diagram$$$Fix possible failure to load palette entry images on some Linux distributions$$$Fix Deliverable and Representation figure icon half a pixel short of completion$$$Fix incorrect cursor in context menus in diagrams on macOS Sonoma when right-clicking$$$Many fixes and optimisations$$$

Archi 5.6 (May 12 2025)$$$New$$$Add key binding support for Text Alignment and Position$$$Set Concept Type now calculates invalid relations after all element types have been set$$$Bundled Java Runtime is now version 21$$$Improvements$$$Enable “Default” on color chooser widget is now calculated on all selected objects not the first selected object$$$[Model Checker] Check concepts and views are in correct folders and the model has an ID$$$Add tooltips to recent files menu to show full path of file$$$Use the correct ArchiMate Collaboration palette icons at @2x size$$$ACLI Optimisations$$$Update Jasper Reports ECJ library to version 3.21.0$$$Update Apache Commons CLI library to version 1.9.0$$$Update Apache Commons CSV to version 1.14.0$$$Fixes$$$Fix Visualiser setting node positions to 0;0 in some cases$$$Fix objects not able to be moved if they were selected using one of the palette’s “touched” marquee selection tools$$$Fix Palette Note/Group key binding conflict$$$Fix Print diagram not scaling correctly on Windows/Linux$$$Fix exception when changing an element type if the element has a circular relationship$$$Fix ampersands in relationship text not displayed in Properties title label$$$Other internal improvements and fixes

Archi 5.3 (March 19 2024)$$$New$$$$$$[Properties] Add option to add only unique Properties in Multiple Add dialog$$$Improvements$$$$$$Bundled Java Runtime is version 17.0.9$$$[Properties] Don’t use virtual table for Multiple Add dialog to allow for multi-selection on Windows$$$[Image Export] Increase SVG export max bounds allowed to 100000 to allow for bigger images$$$[Internal] Update JDOM library to version 2.0.6.1$$$[CSV] Update Commons CSV library to version 1.10.0$$$[HTML Report] Update Bootstrap library to version 3.4.1$$$[Jasper Reports] Update some dependency libraries to newer versions$$$Update Grid and Gallery Nebula widgets to newer versions$$$Set max timeout for network connections$$$Fixes$$$$$$Copy image to clipboard – fix hang on Windows with large images$$$Fix Welcome screen HTML on Linux$$$Internal fixes

Archi 5.2 (November 1 2023)$$$New$$$$$$Support multi-selection editing of User Properties$$$Can now set line widths on figures$$$“Derive line colour from fill colour” is no longer an application setting and can now be set for each figure in the Properties Appearance tab$$$SVG/PDF Image Export – Add options to draw text as shapes; embed fonts; workaround text clipping$$$[Label Expressions] Source and target of connections reference model objects if there are no view objects$$$[HTML Report] Add an “Analysis” tab to show usage of concepts in Views and Relations$$$Improvements$$$$$$Properties Appearance tab contents has been re-organised$$$Hints window now supports dark theme (JS in Hints has to be enabled in Archi’s preferences for this to work)$$$Change some magic connector texts to match those in TOG specification$$$Limit amount of Properties menu items in Search Widget$$$Use virtual tables for Properties dialogs and limit maximum amount of items in combo boxes$$$Format Painter now copies border style for Notes and Groups$$$Add support for future coArchi 2$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix line width on some figures not displaying correctly on Windows hi-dpi$$$Canvas Image should have white background in dark theme$$$Workaround splash image inverted on macOS Sonoma

Archi 5.1 (August 7 2023)$$$New$$$$$$Can now change an element or relationship’s type (and set connecting relationships to Association type if necessary)$$$Show Specialization elements in the “New” menu of the Models Tree$$$Add a preference to change a diagram’s border margin width (see https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/932)$$$Support declaration of relationships in viewpoints.xml file (see https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/941)$$$Improvements$$$$$$Built on Eclipse 4.28$$$Bundled Java Runtime is version 17.0.8$$$Show unused concepts with bold-italic font when using the Search Filter in the Models Tree$$$Connection line dash spacing is now displayed correctly on Windows hi-dpi scaling$$$Profiles Manager Dialog – don’t automaticlly sort the table when a new Profile is added/renamed$$$Disallow Namespace URI resolving in model files (see https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/946)$$$Add -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 setting to Archi.ini to ensure consistency on all platforms$$$Improve some icons and add @2x versions$$$Use wider buttons in some Preference page button panels$$$Changed window shortcut keys to avoid Alt key combination conflicts$$$Support local logging to file for plug-ins$$$Fixes$$$$$$Remove workaround for Mac not showing some text controls in Preferences at 100% scaling$$$Fix separate Palette not always showing contents on Mac (see https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues/944)$$$

Archi 5.0.2 (April 5 2023)$$$New$$$$$$[Themes] Allow setting View and Visualiser background colours for each theme in Colour Preferences$$$Add support for command line options “-DworkspaceMigrationLocation” and “-DdropinsMigrationLocation” to specify previous Archi 4 file locations when migrating to Archi 5$$$Improvements$$$$$$Check if there are user default font preferences set in *.ini file$$$Support user fonts if theming is disabled$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix crash on Linux when exporting to HTML and Jasper reports$$$Fix Help menu not working on earlier versions of macOS$$$Some internal fixes and guards

Archi 5.0.1 (March 16 2023)$$$Improvements$$$$$$Built on Eclipse 4.27$$$Windows dark theme now uses dark menus$$$Disabled toolbar icons now display correctly on Linux hi-dpi$$$Archi app icon now shows in taskbar on Linux hi-dpi$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix CSV Importer failing if the target model contains a Specialization with an image

Archi 5.0 (March 6 2023)$$$New$$$$$$[Archimate 3.2] Change default colors of Location; Gap and Plateau$$$[ArchiMate 3.2] Swap some alternate figure types from first position to second position$$$[ArchiMate 3.2] All elements now have alternate figures$$$[ArchiMate 3.2] Some figures have changed$$$[ArchiMate 3.2] Update hints as per the ArchiMate Glossary$$$[ArchiMate 3.2] Update model relationships matrix$$$Add a “System” Preference page and add Help and Browser pages$$$Add a “Secure Storage” preference page$$$Add a “Network Connections” preference page for proxy settings$$$Add a “Keys” preference page to edit key bindings

Archi 4.10 (September 15 2022)$$$New$$$$$$Specialized concepts and their icons can now appear in the palette$$$Added Preference for specialized concepts in palette$$$Add option in Appearances tab to set ArchiMate icon colour$$$[Visualiser] Allow multiple concept filters$$$[Model Tree] Add top-level folder filters in local toolbar$$$[Properties] Show target View Documentation and Properties in a View Reference section$$$Improvements$$$$$$Built on Eclipse 4.25$$$Bundled Java Runtime is version 11.0.15$$$Palette performance optimisations$$$Viewpoint performance optimisations$$$Relationship matrix performance optimisations$$$Use a lighter search icon if in dark theme$$$[Label Expressions] Catch all exceptions in case of error when opening Views with bad label expression$$$[Label Expressions] View Reference figures should use referenced View for expression$$$Font dialog no long shows additional effects to maintain consistency across operating systems$$$[Jasper Reports] Support a custom Locale$$$Internal optimisations; fixes; to ensure that Archi builds and runs on Linux; Windows; Mac;$$$and on different monitor resolutions; configurations; Java versions;$$$dealing with Eclipse bugs and regressions; new versions of Eclipse; new versions of Java; security updates;$$$different user configurations; etc…$$$Fixes$$$$$$Fix Models Tree losing focus after an object is dragged into top-level folder$$$Fix image not rendered properly when copy/pasting to some Windows apps$$$

New$$$$$$Add Specializations to Models Tree search filter$$$When a connection is created it is automatically selected$$$When a new object is created with the magic connector its label is focused for editing$$$$$$Improvements$$$$$$[Find/Replace] Support Unicode characters when checking case insensitive strings$$$Connection bendpoint creation handles are slightly bigger$$$Set Palette tool entry sticky on double-click (as well as shift-click)$$$Built on Eclipse 4.23$$$$$$Fixes$$$$$$[HTML Report] Fix Properties not rendering links and foreign characters$$$[Themes] Fix tab font too light after switching OS theme from dark to light$$$[Plugins Management] Fix plug-ins not showing on Mac if the “-cleanConfig” option is not used$$$[Model Tree] Fix tree elements not greyed if a viewpoint is set and and drill into is active$$$[Model Tree] Fix tree resetting to “Home” periodically if drill into is active