Release Notes

New Features and Enhancements

  • Browse Git History
    • Display the Git History dialog by File > Git > History
    • Search a keyword in the Git history
    • Filter the Git history to display only tagged commits
    • Refresh the displayed Git history
    • Open the selected Git commit in a new window
    • Compare two selected Git commits in a new window
  • Manage Git Baselines
    • Show Git tags in the Git History dialog
    • Create or delete a tag
    • Display information for a selected Git tag
  • Resolve Comments
    • Set comments as resolved or unresolved
    • Optionally hide resolved comments in the Discussion pane
    • Filter document objects with unresolved comments
  • Clone Documents
    • Create a new document by cloning a document from another project by Project > Add Document > Clone Document
    • Duplicate document by choosing Duplicate Document from the context menu in the Project pane
  • Preview SVG Attachments
    • Display SVG attachments up to 10 MB size limit in the table view
    • Preview SVG attachments up to 10 MB size limit in a dialog after choosing View in Dialog from the context menu
  • Preview MathML Attachments
    • Display MathML attachments in the table view
    • Preview MathML attachments in a dialog after choosing View in Dialog from the context menu
  • New Grid Component (Beta)
    • Enable the new grid component by File > Edit > Preferences > Use new grid component (Beta)
    • Context Menus
      • Show or hide columns after right-click on a column header and selecting Columns from the context menu
      • Show the context menu after right-click on a table cell
      • Do not display the orange context toolbar (to not overlap with the context menu)
    • Freeze Columns
      • Place columns on the left and keep their position when scrolling the table view horizontally
      • Freeze / unfreeze a column by right-click on a table column header and choosing Freeze Column / Unfreeze Column
      • Persist frozen columns in table views
    • Move a column by clicking on the column header and then drag and drop
    • Enter the section heading and text description for new objects in the Add Object dialog
    • Note: To keep the selection of more document objects when editing an attribute at once, press and hold Ctrl before clicking or double clicking on the selected attribute column.
  • Set Section Numbering
    • Force section numbering for selected leaf document objects or use the default section numbering by menu Edit > Set Section Numbering > Force Numbering / Use Default Numbering
    • Set section numbering after CSV import if the CSV file contains "section" column — if the column contains a falsy value then use the default section numbering, otherwise force section numbering for the corresponding document object
  • Show Project Folder Locks
    • Display information about the user and date of all acquired project folder locks by Project > Maintenance > Show Project Folder Locks
  • Edit instructions stored in an xhtml attribute having help property set to true in the Instructions pane
  • Sort attributes displayed in the Attributes pane by order of columns or by alphabet
  • Set the property hint for an xhtml atribute to display a custom string placeholder in the rich text editor explaining how to set the attribute value
  • Display the Create Project dialog after cloning an empty Git repository
  • Use {{tableView}} in your export template to output the name of the table view used for export
  • Export ReqIF with RDF URIs in SAME-AS properties filled for predefined datatypes and attributes when Export for DOORS Next option is checked in the Export ReqIF dialog
  • Import ReqIF with ReqIF.Name attribute mapped to ReqView heading attribute iff no other attribute is mapped to heading and if ReqIF.Name is not mapped to another attribute
  • Choose a separator in a dialog when importing a CSV file and automatic detection of the separator fails
  • Show context menus after right-click in the Project, Linked Projects, Table Views, and Discussion panes and the Export Configuration and Git History dialogs

Bugfixes

  • Get Started

    • Fix display of a warning when a project is saved to a project folder synchronized with a cloud service (MS OneDrive, Google Drive, or Dropbox)
    • Fix keeping the visibility of image attachments reloaded after project refresh
    • Fix display of the section number and collapse icon for deleted parent node
    • Fix memory leaks and improve performance when refreshing a project with many unchanged attachments
    • Fix a performance issue after opening a document with many attachments
    • Fix rewriting all attachments after saving to a project folder
    • Fix delete of a document if projects contains an empty document group
    • Fix copy of document objects when another document has a filter error
    • Fix paste of document objects to empty documents
    • Fix display of popup menu items and drop-down buttons for menus with all items hidden
    • Fix display of empty document groups in the Project pane
    • Fix preserving of collapsed state of document groups in the Project pane after project refresh
    • Fix error displayed for a filter based on a template column after creating a new document from a document template file
    • Fix stripping of project history and discussion for all documents after creating a new project as a clone of an existing project
    • Fix storing document groups in project template files after File > Save As Template > Project
    • Fix enabling / disabling actions after selecting multiple document objects and switching to another document or (un)loading a linked project
    • Fix lost selection after moving more selected document objects
    • Fix several RTL issues in document display and print
    • Fix error when printing a document with template columns producing empty output
    • Fix values of document template properties createdOn, createdBy, lastChangedOn, and lastChangedBy after saving the document as a document template file
  • Import

    • Fix error in the Import ReqIF Package dialog when reqviewDocumentProperties set a document property to a non-string value
    • Fix CSV import to not create empty document objects if no attribute value is present in imported CSV columns
  • Manage

    • Fix trailing spaces in enumeration keys added by mistake in the Document Attributes dialog leading problems when the enumeration value is used for filtering the document
    • Fix display of history entries after changing the multiValued property for an enumeration attribute
    • Fix display of warnings in the Document Attributes dialog
    • Fix display of history for traceability links to unloaded projects
    • Fix enabling the filter when switching between Table Views
    • Fix display of an error when a deleted attribute is used for filtering the document
    • Fix errors when unloading all linked projects
    • Fix the Attributes pane to not allow editing attributes of deleted document objects
    • Fix filtering of document objects at the top level without any section number
    • Fix handling of Esc to close the Document Attributes and the Project Traceability dialogs
  • Collaborate

    • Fix error handling of Git commands if the OS is configured to produce localized messages
    • Fix authorization to Jira cloud if the email contains non-Latin1 characters
  • Export

    • Fix confirmation for discarding changes in the Manage Export Configurations dialog after closing the dialog
    • Fix export of documents with ID longer than 31 characters to MS Excel causing warnings about repaired records because of Excel limit for sheets names
    • Fix wrong name of the DOCX file if it was exported using an Export Configuration
    • Fix broken URL links in exported HTML files if the custom HTML template file has extension .htm
    • Fix export of closed documents using the default table view instead of the last used view
    • Fix double HTML escaping of data attributes of object tags during ReqIF export to prevent issues with ReqIF import to IBM DOORS Next Generation and Capella
    • Fix CSV export to not contain newline characters stored in a string attribute to avoid issues when the CSV file is open in MS Excel
  • Administrate

System Requirements

  • Application
    • WebApp: the latest desktop version of Chrome, Edge or Firefox browser
    • WinApp: Windows 10+
    • LinuxApp: Ubuntu 20.04+ LTS, Debian 11+ LTS
    • MacApp: Mac OS X 11+
  • Licensing
    • ReqView License Server: version 1.2+
  • Integrations
    • Word & Excel: Microsoft 365 or version 2019+
    • Atlassian Jira Cloud: the latest version
    • ReqIF: version 1.2+
    • Git: version 2.40+
    • Subversion (SVN): version 1.14+

Known Issues

  • ReqView UI is not optimized for control by a touchscreen.
  • Running ReqView on Ubuntu 24 may fail because of Ubuntu 24 apparmor issue. As a workaround set SUID flag, run sudo chmod 4755 /opt/ReqView/chrome-sandbox before the first start of ReqView.