Cradle-5.4 Release

3SL is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Cradle-5.4, the new major release of our requirements management and systems engineering environment. Cradle-5.4 is a full product release, and is accompanied by new documentation and related materials.

Cradle-5.4 includes the enhancements from the Cradle-5.3.1 and Cradle-5.3.2 updates to Cradle-5.3 (that we released in June and September 2006 respectively) and enhancements that are specific to the Cradle-5.4 release. The descriptions of Cradle-5.4 in this newsletter and in its Release Notes include all of the enhancements from Cradle-5.3 onwards.

The Cradle-5.4 release provides 85 enhancements to the original Cradle-5.3 release and fixes all known bugs in Cradle-5.3. For a detailed list of all enhancements and bug fixes that is also grouped by Cradle module, please consult:

• The Cradle-5.4 Release Notes
• The What’s New document in the Help menus of the Cradle clients

The major elements of the Cradle-5.4 release are:

1. Internationalisation support
2. New Project Manager and Document Loader tools
3. Source document support in WorkBench
4. Team hierarchies
5. Major extensions to views, including multi-row views, Document style and item filtering
6. Editable linked items
7. Query extensions and nested queries
8. Cross reference creation extensions
9. LDAP support

and from the Cradle-5.3.1 and Cradle-5.3.2 update releases:

1. Cross reference and database integrity checks
2. Token-based licensing
3. Hierarchy Diagram (HID), eFFBD and PFD extensions
4. Muti-value frame picklists

These exciting new features are described in separate sections later in this newsletter.