For those users who want to get early access to the features and bugfixes of upcoming Sigasi Studio releases, we have set up an extra release channel, called “Sigasi Preview”.

The Sigasi Preview release channel offers more frequent releases than the official releases. This page gives an introduction to the most important changes.

Although these preview releases are less rigorously tested than the official releases, they are stable enough for daily use.

If you run into any problems, please let us know.

Current preview release

Since the Sigasi Studio 4.12 release, the following changes have been made.

Improvements

Improved toolchains' handling of special characters in paths
Brought ALINT’s icon size in line with other icons
Truncated overly long linting messages such that possible quickfixes are always visible
Renamed the XL Tutorial to XPRT Tutorial as it demonstrates XPRT features
We now by default configure an https instead of an http update site
Removed -XVerify from the the default sigasi.ini
Renamed Altera Quartus II to Intel Quartus II
[VHDL] Added folding for record types, generics and ports
[VHDL] Added formatting for signature filter path element
[Verilog] Added support for .vp and .svp extensions
[Verilog] Improved when the Open Class Hierarchy context menu is available
[Verilog] Added the keybind (F4) for Open Class Hierarchy in the context menu
[Verilog] Added shortcut for Open Class Hierarchy when hovering over classes

Bug fixes

Fixed resource leak in autocompletes
Made sure color customization in the Graphics Configurations does not affect labels
Made sure FSM headers are not overflown by their text
[VHDL] Made sure the Sort associations quickfix can always be applied when it’s shown
[VHDL] Made sure to always show VHDL versions in chronological order where applicable
[VHDL] Fixed an error on hover when using negative exponents
[Verilog] Fixed formatting for files containing incomplete macro invocations (a lonely backtick)
[Verilog] Fixed false positive error when using tagged unions inside ternary conditional expressions
[Verilog] Made sure the Preprocessor View also works when opening previous versions of a file through version control

Update or install?

You can download the stand-alone version of the latest preview from:

You can also update automatically when setting Preferences > Install/Update > Available Software Sites > Add… : https://download.sigasi.com/preview/studio/

SHA sums (more info) can be checked via https://download.sigasi.com/preview/latest/sha1.txt.

System requirements

Sigasi Studio standalone is supported on:
- Windows: Windows 10 (64 bit) or newer
- macOS 10.15 Catalina or newer
- Linux: RedHat Enterprise Linux RHEL 7.7 (64 bit) or newer
  - Sigasi Studio depends on libXss.so which can be obtained by installing libXScrnSaver
- More information on supported OSes can be found on the Eclipse website
Sigasi Studio as plugin in your own Eclipse installation:
- Eclipse 4.8 Photon up to and including Eclipse IDE 2021-03
- Java JRE 11 or higher

We recommend at least 4GB of memory available for Sigasi Studio, and you need about 300MB of free disk space.

Feedback

We welcome your feedback through the usual channels or the comments below. Note that comments are cleared after each official release.