OpenModelica 1.4.5, January 2009

This release has several improvements, especially platform availability, less compiler memory usage, and supporting more aspects of Modelica 3.0.

OpenModelica Compiler (OMC)

This release includes small improvements and some bugfixes of the OpenModelica Compiler (OMC):

• Less memory consumption and better memory management over time. This also includes a better API supporting automatic memory management when calling C functions from within the compiler.
• Modelica 3.0 parsing support.
• Export of DAE to XML and MATLAB.
• Support for several platforms Linux, MacOS, Windows (2000, Xp, Vista).
• Support for record and strings as function arguments.
• Many bug fixes.
• (Not part of OMC): Additional free graphic editor SimForge can be used with OpenModelica.

OpenModelica Notebook (OMNotebook)

A number of improvements, primarily in the plotting functionality and platform availability.

• A number of improvements in the plotting functionality: scalable plots, zooming, logarithmic plots, grids, etc.
• Programmable plotting accessible through a Modelica API.
• Simple 3D visualization.
• Support for several platforms Linux, MacOS, Windows (2000, Xp, Vista).