======================== IDE 19 NEW FEATURES LIST ======================== Copyright (C) 2026, AdaCore This file contains a complete list of new features in version 19. A full description of all features can be found in the documentation of the corresponding tool. An ISO date (YYYY-MM-DD) appears in parentheses after the description line. This date shows the implementation date of the feature. The following tags are used on the feature entries to indicate: - gs: this entry is specific to GNAT Studio - gps: this entry is specific to GPS (obsolete, superseded by "gs") - gnatdoc: this entry is specific for GNATdoc - gnatdashboard: this entry is specific to GNATdashboard - gb: this entry is specific to GNATbench - vscode: this entry is specific to the Ada Extension for VS Code - wb: this entry is specific to GNATbench for WorkBench - ecl: this entry is specific to GNATbench for Eclipse If no tag is specified, the entry is relevant to all IDEs. NF-RC06-041 GPS: Case-insensitive sorting in .gpr files (2018-12-14) As for Ada files, clicking on 'Edit/Selection/Sort' will sort the .gpr files statements in a case-insensitive way. NF-RA29-022 GPS: Support for nested external references (2018-12-04) GPS now treats nested external references in project files generated by gprinstall as scenario variables. NF-R828-015 GPS: New prototype view to replay past SPARK runs (2018-09-19) There is now a new view activated by typing "open jobs" in the omnisearch which allows replaying previous SPARK runs. NF-R820-035 GPS: Improved support for scenario variables (2018-09-05) The Project Properties are now better integrated with scenario variables. In particular, all the scenarios are now preselected to avoid having unnecessary case declarations in project files. Users can now also add new possible values to existing scenario variables directly from GPS, via the Scenario view's 'Edit' button. NF-R802-030 GPS: New Libadalang view (2018-08-06) A new Libadalang view has been added, available through the "open Libadalang" action. It offers a view of the Libadalang tree for the current editor, and is useful for developing Libadalang plugins or scripts. NF-R801-032 GPS: C preprocessor (cpp) plug-in (2018-08-08) There is now a plug-in that defines a convenient way launch cpp on a C file, and view the result in an editor. NF-R731-031 GPS: Desktop backup save (2018-08-21) GPS is performing desktop saves when closing/opening a view. If GPS is not terminated properly, it will use the backup to restore the user's desktop. This behavior can be disabled via a preference. NF-R720-022 GPS: Navigate between declare/begin/end keywords (2018-08-09) The actions "Start of statement" and "End of statement" now stop on the boundaries of declarations, allowing finer-grained navigation. NF-R716-005 GNATDASHBOARD: GCOV info from multiple object dirs (2018-09-12) This is an enhancement of GNAThub GCOV plugin meant to gather GCOV information in case of complex Ada projects having multiple object directories. NF-R702-017 GNATDASHBOARD: Cyclomatic complexity in SonarQube (2018-11-30) The sum of cyclomatic complexities for all methods of a file is computed and displayed as global cyclomatic complexity value in SonarQube. This value is used to compute the Coverage graph. NF-R622-007 GPS: New switch to control the Scenario variables (2018-08-01) Add a new switch "--ignore-saved-scenario-values". When set, GPS will not read the stored values of the scenario variables in .gps. NF-R616-001 GNATDASHBOARD: Add --server and --port switches (2018-06-22) The --server switch was added to GNAThub in order to be able to launch a WEB server using gnathub -P --server. The --port switch was added to be able to specify a server port for the WEB server. If no port is specified, the default value taken by the port is 8000. NF-R608-032 GPS: VCS status in the Windows view (2018-06-26) A new preference has been added to hide/show the VCS status in the Windows view. NF-R607-012 GPS: Possibility to set values from Variables view (2018-06-28) When debugging a program, users can now modify the value of a variable directly from the Variables view. NF-R604-041 GPS: Allow editing actions for all editable widgets (2018-06-13) Common editing actions like 'goto beginning of line' or 'kill line' are now available for all editable widgets (e.g: Python console or search entries). NF-R601-035 GPS: New look for the Variables view (2018-06-11) Variables names, values and types are now displayed in separate columns to tell them apart easier. The preferences related to the old Data graph view have been removed. We now reuse some editor preferences to ensure that the colors always relate to the current color theme. NF-R530-049 GPS: Revamp of 'Default' and 'Debug' perspectives (2018-08-14) The 'Default' and the 'Debug' perspectives have been revamped. In particular, the 'Debug' perspective now displays the 'Variables' view by default. NF-R426-030 GPS: New 'exit search' action (2018-05-02) An 'exit search' action has been created, bound to the ESC key by default. The purpose of this action is to exit a docked Search view to give the focus back to the widget that was focused before entering the Search view (usually editors). NF-R426-012 GPS: New views for reporting GNATprove messages (2018-09-28) Messages reported by GNATprove can now be visualized and filtered according to their importance and the applied rule (e.g. overflow check). A preference has been introduced to display this report automatically after running GNATprove and a new SPARK/Show Report menu has been added to display it at any time. NF-R419-028 GPS: New property of GPS.Bookmark class (2018-04-23) The 'note' property has been added to the GPS.Bookmark class, allowing programmatic access to the bookmark notes. NF-R416-022 GNATDOC: Reuse parameters' documentation (2018-10-01) GNATdoc uses any parameters' documentation from specifications when generating documentation for bodies, when there is no documentation for the parameters provided in the bodies. NF-R416-020 GNATDOC: Support of gen_param tag (2018-05-16) @gen_param tag can be used to provide description of the generic formal parameter of the generic package/subprogram. NF-R413-020 GPS: Retrieve frames lazily (2018-04-19) It is possible to limit the number of frames that are retrieved at one time. The Debugger/Call Stack/Frames limit preference can be used to set the limit. NF-R412-038 GPS: File counts displayed in the Locations view (2018-04-12) The Locations view now displays, for each category, the number of files in which messages are displayed. NF-R411-004 GPS: Add visual feedback to the omnisearch (2018-04-13) When searching something via the omnisearch, a progress bar is now displayed while loading the search results and, if the search fails, "No results" is displayed at the end. NF-R406-022 GPS: New 'continue to line' clickable icons (2018-04-27) When a debugger is running and if the debuggee was started, a "Continue to line" clickable icon is displayed on the editor's current line. Clicking on it has for effect to continue the execution of the program until the given line is reached. NF-R405-014 GPS: Display the importance color in Locations view (2018-06-18) The color of the highest importance message is now displayed on the side of file/category nodes in the Locations view, making it easier to identify messages of high importance. NF-R404-049 GPS: Display Ada inactive code after preprocessing (2018-04-25) Add 3 actions in a contextual menu to find the inactive code after preprocessing the project. The actions are 'Show inactive code in file', 'Show inactive code in subprogram' and 'Clear inactive code display'. The project must be compiled using -gnateG to use these actions. NF-R403-040 GPS: Omnisearch popup preserved when switching apps (2018-04-06) The omnisearch's popup that displays the search results is now preserved when the focus goes out of GPS. NF-R403-023 GPS: Various improvements made on the Scenario view (2018-04-09) When a user types an invalid value for a scenario variable, the corresponding entry is now displayed in red. A 'modified' icon is also displayed for scenario variables that need to be refreshed. Finally, Two new 'Apply' and 'Discard' buttons have been added to the bottom of the view instead of the previous tiny local toolbar buttons. NF-R323-010 GPS: New toolbar buttons for debugging (2018-03-26) Toolbar buttons have been added to stop and interrupt a running debugger. NF-R316-030 WB: Set gprbuild to use parallel build for WRWB4 Vx7 (2018-05-16) Makefile template changed in order to take into account parallel build jobs if any, by adding -j followed by the jobs number to each gprbuild call. This change will impact the generated gnat.makefile for Vx7 WindRiver Workbench 4 applications build. NF-R316-002 GPS: Support GNATtest in non-default build modes (2018-03-26) The GNATtest integration was improved to work with specific build modes such as 'gcov', 'debug', etc. NF-R314-012 GPS: New preference to control gutters' minimal size (2018-03-30) The minimal size of editors' gutter (i.e: where line numbers are drawn) can now be controled via a preference. NF-R312-009 GPS: DnD support for Debugger Variables view (2018-03-13) Users can now drag a variable from a source editor to the Debugger Variables view in order to display it. NF-R305-021 GB: Support of Eclipse Photon (4.8) (2018-08-09) GNATbench features are supported on Eclipse Photon (4.8) Windows 32-bit 64-bit & Linux 32-bit 64-bit platforms. NF-R228-039 GNATDOC: Instantiations and renamings support (2018-03-20) GNATdoc generates documentation for generic package/subprogram instantiations and renamings of packages/subprograms. NF-R226-005 GPS: Multiple selection in the Project Properties (2018-02-26) The Project Properties now supports the multiple selection for deletion. NF-R221-040 WB: Fully embedded static library support (2018-09-12) Vxworks-6 & Vxworks-7 static user or kernel libraries can embed gnat libraries. This is controlled by the EMBED_GNAT_LIBRARIES scenario variable. NF-R220-038 GPS: Goto Begin plug-in (2018-03-19) Add a new plug-in which moves the cursor to the end of the declarative part of the current context. NF-R220-024 GPS: The Log view has been added (2018-03-15) It allows to display current GPS log. NF-R216-009 GPS: New option for Ada Main Units template (2018-02-23) An option to add a file created via the 'New/Ada Main Unit' file template to the project's main units has been added. NF-R215-028 GPS: New build_and_run_all.py plugin (2018-02-20) This plugin adds a 'Build & Run All' button in the GPS toolbar that builds all the executables of your project before running them successively from GPS. NF-R212-029 GPS: New auto_locate_file.py plugin (2018-02-20) This plugin synchronizes the Project view with the currently selected editor: when switching from one editor to another, the file associated with the newly selected editor will be highlighted in the Project view. NF-R212-028 GPS: DnD support has been added to the Project view (2018-02-23) Drag'n'drop support has been added to the Project view, allowing users to move files across source directories. NF-R212-010 WB: Add GNATbench support for aarch64-vx7 compiler (2018-03-16) aarch64-vx7 based RTP/DKM/libraries can be created/built by GNATbench. NF-R208-037 GNATDASHBOARD: Add GNAThub --subdirs switch (2018-05-31) The --subdirs switch was not supported before in GNAThub. This is now implemented. The --subdirs switch is passed to the underlying tools that GNAThub launches. NF-R208-018 GPS: Key Shortcuts editor has been improved (2018-02-14) Users are now able to define several key shortcuts for an action from the Key Shortcuts editor: 'Modify' button has been changed to 'Add' button. In addition, they can assign the same key shortcut to several actions. 'Remove' button has also been improved, allowing users to only remove specific key shortcuts instead of all those that are assigned to an action. NF-R202-020 GPS: Auto-highlighting count limit preference (2018-02-20) Auto_highlight_occurrences plugin has a new preference to limit the count of locations to highlight. NF-R131-031 GPS: Metrics in the Analysis report (2018-09-20) The Analysis report displays the metrics. The gnathub metrics are properly parsed and added to the Analysis report. NF-R130-013 GPS: New task_finished hook has been added (2018-02-02) GPS emmits this hook when a background task is finished. NF-R129-038 GPS: New VCS action to checkout a particular commit (2018-07-30) The history view now has contextual menu items "Checkout to the selected commit" and "Checkout current file to the selected commit". NF-R125-016 GPS: New option for creating Ada body templates (2018-02-02) When clicking on the 'New/Ada Package' contextual menu, an option for creating the associated body template is now displayed. Moreover, the FileTemplate Python API has been improved: it now allows to specify an optional implementation file template when registering custom templates. NF-R125-005 GPS: New icons for debug toolbar buttons (2018-02-20) The debug toolbar buttons icons have been changed to adopt a modern look and feel. NF-R117-052 GPS: Clear the Debugger console (2018-01-22) The Debugger console now has a toolbar with a "clear" button. NF-R116-052 GNATDASHBOARD: Speed improvement at gnathub launch (2018-01-16) The gnathub executable can be slow to enter into the database the structure of the project. NF-R105-013 GNATDASHBOARD: Sort HTML report by message counts (2018-01-13) In the HTML report, it is now possible to sort the lists of projects, modules and files by message count. NF-QC18-044 GPS: Refactoring/Separate subprogram (2018-01-19) A subprogram which is defined at a package level can be moved into separate package by using the Refactoring/Separate Subprogram contextual menu item. NF-QC07-023 GPS: The debugger execution console can be closed (2017-12-15) The console can be closed and opened during debugging session. NF-QC07-005 GB: QNX Momentics 7 support (2018-05-21) GNATbench now allows QNX projects handling in QNX Momentics 7.x IDE. QNX executable & library projects can be created, edited, built and run/debugged. NF-QB28-027 GPS: New debugging hooks have been added (2018-01-06) New hooks have been added to the Python API (debugger_breakpoint_added, debugger_breakpoint_changed and debugger_breakpoint_deleted), allowing scripts to react to changes in debugger breakpoints. NF-QB20-015 GPS: Search only for valid actions (2017-11-27) When searching actions via the GPS omnisearch, GPS now displays only the actions that are valid in the current context. NF-QB17-027 GPS: More information in the File Properties dialog (2017-10-22) The time of the last modification and the version control status are now shown in this dialog. NF-QB13-058 GPS: Append subprogram stub to existing code (2018-11-22) GPS is capable to create a subprogram stub for a subprogram specification even when the enclosing package has already a body. NF-QB13-048 GNATDASHBOARD: Support for SonarQube 6.7 LTS (2017-11-30) The Sonar Ada Plugin has been upgraded to support SonarQube 6.7 LTS. The older releases of SonarQube are no longer supported. NF-QA24-002 GPS: New GPS.Message.cancel_subprogram method (2017-10-25) A new method has been added in the GPS.Message python class to cancel a subprogram associated with a given message (i.e. the subprogram that is called when clicking on the message's icon). NF-QA23-018 GPS: Multiple selection in the Variables view (2018-02-22) The Variables view now supports the multiple selection for deletion. NF-QA23-013 GPS: Multiple selection in the Call Trees View (2017-11-09) The multiple selection is enabled, you can now destroy the selection rows with one button. The action "collapse all" has been replaced by "collapse selected" but the previous behavior can be achieved by using ctrl+a. Furthermore, the complementary action "expand selected" has been added. NF-QA23-012 GPS: Multiple selection in the Locations View (2018-02-15) The Locations view now supports the multiple selection. The expand/collapse all actions have been reworked into expand/collapse selected. The previous behavior can be reproduced using ctrl-a. NF-QA23-011 GPS: Multiple selection in the Bookmarks View (2018-02-20) The Bookmarks view now supports the multiple selection for deletion. NF-QA20-024 GPS: New GPS.MDI.combo_selection_dialog method (2017-12-12) A new method has been added to the GPS.MDI class for displaying dialogs with a combobox that can display several choices. NF-QA06-033 GPS: New Registers view (2017-11-07) GPS has a new Registers view, dedicated to viewing and editing the contents of the registers while debugging. NF-QA06-032 GPS: The Debugger Data view has been removed (2017-11-21) The old Debugger Data view has been removed, superseded by the Debugger Variables view. NF-Q914-012 GPS: Changes in the Python API (2017-10-10) A parameter 'static_path' has been added to the 'contextual' and 'make_interactive' methods, and should be used when the 'contextual' parameter of these methods is function. NF-Q911-036 GPS: Scenario variables from aggregated projects (2018-02-12) GPS now allows to see and modify in Scenario tab variables declared in aggregated projects. NF-Q906-022 GPS: Autofix for "use clause has no effect" warning (2017-11-29) GPS now offers an autofix for compiler warnings of the form "use clause for package "X" has no effect". NF-Q831-016 GPS: New GPS Learn view (2018-01-11) A Learn view is now available in GPS. The purpose of this view is to help users familiarize with GPS. The actual contents of the Learn view is filtered depending on the current context: only the actions that are available in the current context are displayed. NF-Q621-018 GPS: Scenario variables in aggregate projects (2018-07-20) GPS now supports the scenario variables defined in the subprojects of an aggregate project. You can manipulate them via the Scenario View. NF-Q614-051 GPS: Autofix for incorrect overriding (2017-11-27) GPS now offers an autofix for compiler messages of the form "subprogram is not overriding". NF-Q317-038 GPS: Scenario view uses a monospace font (2018-06-12) The scenario values are now displayed with a monospace font to improve their readability. NF-Q301-043 GPS: New macro to access an environment variable (2018-02-02) New macro %(env:VARIABLE) is replaced by value of an environment variable. NF-Q116-022 GB: runtime variable support (2018-05-30) When a GNAT project file is created by GNATbench, a runtime variable is added. It can be handled through environment or scenario variables view. NF-PC30-003 GPS: Tag editor sections to make them read-only (2017-11-27) GPS now automatically makes read-only sections of code which are bounded by "-- begin read only" and "-- end read only". NF-P930-049 GPS: Maximize Notebook when double clicking (2018-01-11) Double clicking on the tab of a notebook child will maximize the notebook window in the current perspective. Double clicking again on one of the maximized notebook's child tab or closing all the maximized notebooks child will unmaxize the perspective. NF-P921-044 GPS: Better gnatemu support in Project Editor (2018-02-13) The Project Editor was extended to allow editing gnatemu switches and specifying the board. NF-O731-035 GPS: Key shortcuts for CodePeer annotations (2018-09-10) It is possible to assign key shortcuts to the show/hide CodePeer annotations actions.