Changelog
Major changes from 1.9.3 to 2025-06​
This is a major release, bringing numerous bug fixes, performance improvements, and new features across the platform. Key highlights include a more robust gama-server, significant UI/UX enhancements, expanded data type operations, and important updates to the physics engine and agent control architectures. This version is built on Eclipse 2025-03 and requires JDK21.
Detailed changes​
This release of GAMA contains new features and fixes, including:
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Core & Execution:
- Now built on Eclipse 2025-03 and requires JDK21 (#213, #248, #414).
- Significant performance optimizations in core execution (#271, #291).
- Fixed several memory leaks, improving long-running simulation stability (#317, #489).
- Improved handling of file paths on Windows to prevent string concatenation issues (#467).
- Enhanced unit testing framework (#182 and many new unit test files to increase the coverage).
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GAMA Server:
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UI/UX:
- Status bar now provides more information and is more responsive (#319, #337).
- General theme and display rendering improvements (#373, #520).
- Parameter view now supports better organization and filtering (#645, #576).
- Added new navigation and outline features for easier model exploration (#591).
- Fixed various UI scaling issues on Windows.
- New sharper icons
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Data Types & Operators:
- Improvements to
field
andimage
types for better performance and reliability (#460, #461, #262, #263). - New operators for advanced data manipulation (#687, #292, #699, #430).
- Enhancements to matrix and geometry operations.
- Improved file handling with new buffering strategies and better I/O performance (#318, #482, #274, #183, #275, #288).
- Improvements to
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Modeling & Simulation:
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Development: