Tangram Pro™ Release Notes

fred.gillenwater · July 16, 2021, 4:15pm

Week of July 12, 2021

Features and Updates

AADL Export

Download an AADL representation of a Tangram Pro™ Component from the Workspace

New Message Transforms

Additional bidirectional transforms between LMCP and OMS are available in Tangram Pro™

Flex Compositional Transforms

Expanded transform capabilities to generate transforms between two message where an explicit direct transform does not exist, but intermediate transforms do

Flex REPL

Updated Flex REPL

Helm Chart Network Policy

Security enhancements to deployments in Kubernetes

Sentry Error Reporting

Aggregation of anonymous error data to a central location for faster bug mitigation in Tangram Pro™

andrew.allgeier · July 16, 2021, 4:26pm

Really exciting features being added with each release!

mark.stadtmueller · August 4, 2021, 5:17pm

Week of August 2, 2021

Features and Updates

FlexLang Editor

First step to enable Flex authorship
View Tangram Flex “canonical” message sets and transforms
Create Flex custom packages
Create/edit Flex modules and Flex files (future use in making Flex authored messages in component ports)
Line column indexing and deep linking are featured in the editor

Deployment

Greater visibility into Kubernetes resources for more intelligent allocation of services across nodes

Code-Generation

Improved performance resulting from paying off tech debt and bug fixes

andrew.allgeier · August 4, 2021, 6:06pm

Flex Authorship is looking fantastic! Very excited about the future of this product!

mark.stadtmueller · September 16, 2021, 2:06pm

Week of September 13, 2021

Features and Updates

Flex Authorship

Add support for your own message set to Tangram Pro™
Create Your Own Message Set in FlexLang Editor including error checking
Publish the Message Set
Leverage the Message Set in a Component Based Design
Generate a Component Software Interface Leveraging the Message Set

Flex Authorship Tutorial

See https://docs.tangramflex.io/docs/tutorials/flex_authorship

Note: Flex Documentation is coming soon and will be posted at https://docs.tangramflex.io/docs/flex/flex_overview. In the meantime, for questions on using the Flex Language post to https://discuss.tangramflex.io/

grayson.rodriguez · November 19, 2021, 6:36pm

Week of November 15, 2021

Features and Updates

Flex Editor

Get help while writing Flex code. Click the gear icon on the top right while editing a Flex file to access Flex Docs.
Improved live type checking, which includes error highlighting for misspelled/nonexistent types referenced in a field.

Flex Language Documentation

Check out the latest update to Flex Docs! Here you will find information on how to get started writing Flex code. Included is an overview of the syntax of Flex with details about built-in types, operators, and literals. As well as how to declare objects, types, messages, functions, and transforms. We will continue to add more information over time. Stay tuned!

Transforms

Expanded the available Transform Functions between Message Sets.

Code Generation

Improved CSI Code Gen related to STANAG-4586 Messages.
Improved CSI Code Gen related to Rust language output.

MAVLink (Upcoming)

Our engineers have laid the groundwork to support MAVLink in Tangram Pro^TM. Look for MAVLink Message Sets in an upcoming release!

Fixes

Resolved an issue related to Admin LDAP Configuration.
Resolved an issue related to choosing “Accept Latest” after updating a Component used in a Transform.

grayson.rodriguez · December 13, 2021, 7:19pm

Week of Dec 6th, 2021

Features and Updates

MAVLink

MAVLink Messages are now available in Tangram Pro^TM!
“MAVLink is a very lightweight messaging protocol for communicating with drones (and between onboard drone components).” Select the MAVLink::v23 Message Set when editing a Component to choose between hundreds of new Messages.

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Flex Editor

Contextual Transforms are now supported in Flex, allowing you to inject more dynamic information to Transforms based on context.
Improved live type checking, including error highlighting for unknown parameterized types (optional, stream, array, tuple), and allowing a bracket { to exist next to the return type of a function without a space.

Code Generation

Using Transforms between Components? Now with the Transform Workflow Plugin: CSI Message Transform, you can generate a full CSI-to-CSI Message Transform all in one go! This plugin will produce code for each Component, its Messages, and the Transform between them.
Improved code generation related to custom Messages authored in the Flex Editor which use data types defined in other modules/packages.

Transforms

Expanded the available Transform Functions between Message Sets.

Fixes

Resolved an issue related to value casting in Flex.
Resolved an issue related to list pagination with multiple Integrations.
Resolved an issue related to a blank screen in the Workflows Panel.

grayson.rodriguez · January 4, 2022, 8:53pm

Week of Jan 3rd, 2022

Features and Updates

Streamed Workflow Logs

Workflow logs are now visible in the browser! You can view them without needing to download them.

Live progress of Workflow logs.
Color-coded breakdown of steps in a Workflow and the status of each one.
Visible logs for completed Workflows.

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Kaniko Workflow Plugin

“Kaniko Container Build” is now available as a Workflow Task. This allows you to build a Dockerfile from a Git repository.

Teams

Team Member Roles are now available to delineate between Viewer, Maintainer, and Owner.

Flex Editor

Improved live type checking, including duplicate field name detection and inferred variable types when calling getOrElse().

Code Generation

Under-the-hood enhancements to C++ Code Gen, serialization, and deserialization.

Fixes

Resolved an issue related to CSI Message Transform output and the compiled transform binary.
Resolved an issue related to the Workflows Panel when multiple Component tabs are open.

mark.stadtmueller · January 31, 2022, 8:05pm

I really like the scroll and the logs now. Helps to show progress.

grayson.rodriguez · March 10, 2022, 8:25pm

Week of March 7th, 2022

Features and Updates

Single Sign-On with OAuth

Tangram Pro™ can now be configured with a Single Sign-On authentication provider to simplify username and password management.
When configured, users can log in by clicking the “Log in with [provider name]” button instead of entering their Tangram Pro™ username and password.

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Run-Time Assurance

Capture and validate messages in flight with built-in run-time assurance capabilities.
Tangram Pro™ generated CSI code now includes event hooks at various levels (Transport, Serialization, Generic API, and Message Sequence) to send, receive, and validate messages.

Activity

Users can now view a history of their changes, as well as their team members’ changes, in the new Activity section.

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Audit Log

Admins can now view a history of changes made by all users in the new Audit Log section.

ROS Message Serializer

Tangram Pro™ generated CSI code now includes a ROS Serializer.

Serialization Tests

Updated AFL fuzzer to AFL++.
Updated serialization & deserialization tests to support AFL++ using the afl-clang-fast compiler, which now runs up to 20x faster.

Fixes

Resolved an issue preventing LMCP <> STANAG transforms from appearing in Tangram Maker™.

grayson.rodriguez · March 31, 2022, 4:52pm

Week of March 28th, 2022

Features and Updates

ROS Support

ROS Messages are now available in Tangram Pro™ and Tangram Maker™!
Users can generate a CSI (Component Software Interface) that can communicate with a ROS system. “ROS (Robot Operating System) provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications.”
Select the ROS::Common::v1 Message Set when editing a Component to choose between over a hundred new Messages. This Message Set contains commonly used messages in ROS, including messages for actions (actionlib_msgs), diagnostics (diagnostic_msgs), geometric primitives (geometry_msgs), robot navigation (nav_msgs), and common sensors (sensor_msgs), such as laser range finders, cameras, point clouds.

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Workflow Duration

Running a Workflow now displays a duration timer above the progress bar.
Completed Workflows display the total duration.

Flex Editor

Improved live type checking, including error highlighting when extending a non-extensible struct.
Responsive tab resizing as more Flex files are opened, allowing you to view more tabs at once.
File Explorer highlights the Flex file currently being edited.

Code Generation

New CSV Serializer Generated CSI code now includes a CSV Serializer.
Run-Time Assurance hooks to are now available with the CSV and ROS Serializers.
Serialization Tests are now available with the CSV and ROS Serializers.

Site Performance

Reduced the loading time of various site assets, giving users a nice speed boost.

Transforms

Expanded the available Transform Functions between Message Sets.

Fixes

Resolved an issue related to navigation menu tooltips.
Resolved an issue related to Flex module tabs remaining open when the package is closed.
Resolved an issue related to deleting a Flex package while its files are open.
Resolved several minor issues related to Code Generation.

grayson.rodriguez · May 12, 2022, 4:47pm

Week of May 9th, 2022

Features and Updates

Flex Editor

New keyboard shortcuts are available in the Flex Editor. Click the gear icon while editing a file to see them.

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New built-in function concatArray() is supported for concatenating two arrays. For example:
let array1 : int32[] = [1, 2, 3, 4];
let array2 : int32[] = [5, 6, 7, 8];
let concatAr : int32[] = concatArray(array1, array2);
The error tray will now automatically open when an error is detected.
Publishing a Flex package is now prevented if its files have unsaved changes, and a warning dialog is shown.

Workflows

Logs are now shown when viewing a completed workflow.
Artifact TAR files have a new naming convention. Downloaded artifacts are now named {ComponentName}-{TaskName}-{Timestamp}.tgz.
The Kaniko plugin has been updated to v1.81.

Code Generation

Expanded message generation capabilities for testing generated CSI.

Transforms

Expanded the available Transform Functions between Message Sets.

Fixes

Resolved an intermittent issue related to completed workflows shown as still running.

grayson.rodriguez · August 24, 2022, 8:32pm

Week of August 22th, 2022

Announcing Tangram Pro™ v1.5 Our biggest update yet!

New Projects

Organize your work with new Projects. Within a project you can design a component-based system and generate code.

Connect projects together for extended capabilities.
Collaborate on system designs, add other users to your project, and set their level of editing privileges.
Integrate projects with GitHub or GitLab repositories.

Enhanced Design Tools

System design just got a lot faster.

We took a fresh look at the design process and developed a completely new, more intuitive workspace for building component-based systems. These enhancements shorten the time it takes to lay out a system, define interfaces, and help prevent design mistakes.

New design tools, and objects to quickly build out your system.
Message flow visibility and validation to prevent design mistakes and highlight incompatible interfaces.
New tree view of components makes it easier to see all the elements of your system and subsystem at a glance.

Streamlined Code Generation

From design to code, now simpler than ever.

With streamlined toggles to Generate Interface Code, Compile and Containerize, code can be generated from your design with the simple click of a button.
Generate code for multiple components at once.
Quickly access previously generated code in Project Runs.

Containerize Your Code

Automatically place generated code into Docker containers with the new Containerize option.
Immediately run and test your code using Docker.

Tangram Pro™ v1.5 includes several under-the-hood enhancements and bug fixes. Check out our User Guide for more information about Projects and designing systems.