Sparx Systems has released Enterprise Architect (EA) 7.1

SPARX has released Enterprise Architecture 7.1

Some of the cooler features added to EA 7.1 are listed below (from SPARX site):

• Rich Notes support
  • Added formatting such as Bold, Italic, Underline and Lists to Notes.
  • Formatting rendered to diagrams, element list and search view.
  • Formatting included in generated HTML and RTF reports.
  • Formatting is stored as simplified HTML markup for portability and ease of use.
  • Automation interfaces added to retrieve notes as plain text, HTML markup or RTF
• Model Merge based on Baselines
  • Merge changes from saved baselines into current model package.
  • Single item, batch item and full restore supported using merge functions.
  • Many improvements to speed and capability of baseline comparison functionality.
  • Ability to load, compare and merge with baselines stored in other models (.EAP or DBMS repository), for the same package based on GUID.
  • Ability to load, compare and merge with an external file
  • Added functions to automation interface to run comparison or merge with baseline.
  • Expanded differences reported in model comparison.
  • Improved keyboard navigation of Baseline dialogs
  • New options to show and hide relevant results from compare
• Model Views Window
  • New dockable window containing custom sets of model elements and diagrams
  • Use inbuilt or new searches to define new views of your model.
  • Create custom views for specific diagram or element types
  • Create special views based on specific "favorites" within a model
  • Views may be shared with other users of the same model (Model Views), or set as private (My Views)
  • Easily export views from one model and import into other models.
  • MDG Technology defined views may also be loaded when a profile is activated in a model.
• RTF Documentation
  • New Master Document (stereotyped package) element - generate and link multiple
  • Model Documents in one action
  • New Documentation toolbar linked to new "Model Document" diagram type
  • Link different RTF templates to Model Document elements (using tagged value) for complete control of final output
  • New context menu commands for bulk generation of RTF Resource Documents (in the Resource View).
  • New options to split large diagrams across multiple report pages.
  • Model Document elements may now refer directly to a named element search (tagged value) as the source of the elements they will document.
  • Redesigned RTF generation dialog to make various options more visible.
  • Improved context menu in RTF template editor for Package.Element section.
  • Improved handling of hyperlinks from linked documents in RTF report.
  • Improved diagrams only report to handle option for inverted metafile text.
  • Improved handling of missing ole interfaces referenced from linked documents generated in RTF report.

You can check out a complete list of the new features in 7.1 and download it here.