Origen Metal Release Notes#

Origen Metal 1.6.0#

  • Released: 2026-09-08

  • Author: Stephen McGinty

  • Tag: origen-metal-v1.6.0

This release adds major new visualization, waveform parsing, and IEEE 1687 capabilities to Origen Metal, while significantly improving SMT8 program-generation performance.

  • Added interactive test-flow visualization for V93K SMT7, V93K SMT8, and UltraFLEX. Applications can generate self-contained HTML viewers and versioned JSON containing the processed flow graph, test details, execution paths, bins, parameters, and constraints. Contributed by Priyavadan Kumar in #239.

  • Added IEEE 1687-2014 Instrument Connectivity Language support, including parsing, hierarchy elaboration, parameter specialization, aliases, resolved connectivity, indexed model searches, optional validated caching, and Python APIs under origen_metal.ijtag.icl. Contributed by Stephen McGinty in #240.

  • Added a Pest-based WGL parser covering all 16 program block types in the WGL 2026.0 specification, including TimePlates without FirstEvent and Anonymous Scan Runs. Contributed by Ronnie Lajaunie in #241.

  • Added four-state and extended VCD parsing based on IEEE 1364-2001, with typed syntax trees, hierarchical scope processing, identifier dereferencing, and transparent support for gzip-compressed VCD files. Contributed by Ronnie Lajaunie in #242.

  • Improved SMT8 program rendering by buffering flow and limits output and reducing unnecessary allocation and I/O. A representative large workload showed a 46% reduction in renderer time with unchanged generated output. Contributed by Stephen McGinty in #243.

Origen Metal 1.5.1#

  • Released: 2026-08-26

  • Author: Priyavadan Kumar

  • Tag: origen-metal-v1.5.1

This release modernizes the O2 development, documentation, CI, and release stack and improves program-generation exception handling.

  • Migrated the workspace from Poetry to UV, including committed lockfiles, assisted application migration, rollback protection, and compatibility handling across supported Python versions.

  • Added migration commands that preview and convert existing Poetry applications while preserving the original files if validation fails.

  • Modernized the documentation stack with current Sphinx, MyST, and PyData tooling, refreshed authored documentation, and improved local web development with build, watch, serve, and live-reload support.

  • Added coordinated Origen and Origen Metal releases with atomic version and history updates, exact-reference publication workflows, package verification, resumable releases, and website deployment only after all selected products publish successfully.

  • Updated the Rust workspace and command-line infrastructure, including the Clap migration and stricter command validation.

  • Improved CI performance and coverage with caching, superseded-run cancellation, lockfile validation, wheel ABI verification, and Linux and Windows package checks.

  • Preserved Python 3.7 support by handling the UV Windows launcher incompatibility while keeping dependency resolution sourced from the committed lockfile.

  • Fixed program-generation context cleanup when exceptions occur inside Group, Condition, or Resources blocks. The original exception now propagates without leaving child AST nodes open or being replaced by a secondary closure error. Contributed by Stephen in #238.

Origen Metal 1.5.0#

Added typed class and list test-program parameters and completed the associated Origen Metal release updates.

Earlier Origen Metal Releases#

Version

Released

Author

Source

1.4.0

2026-08-10

Stephen McGinty

72fe0154

1.3.2

2026-07-29

Ronnie Lajaunie

603d52c2

1.3.1

2026-07-07

Stephen McGinty

1120c541

1.3.0

2026-03-31

Stephen McGinty

a2d201f6

1.2.2

2026-02-18

Stephen McGinty

604207a2

1.2.1

2026-02-18

Stephen McGinty

317f05fc

1.2.0

2026-02-17

Stephen McGinty

af879412

1.1.0

2025-06-13

Stephen McGinty

e6bbf836

1.0.2

2025-04-22

Stephen McGinty

9a4b1ac3

1.0.1

2025-02-17

Stephen McGinty

ca52d7f4

1.0.0

2024-12-02

corey

3fbe784a

0.4.1.dev4

2024-08-06

Stephen McGinty

246c7787

0.4.1.dev3

2024-08-06

Stephen McGinty

023842a6

0.4.1.dev2

2024-08-06

Stephen McGinty

6902695f

0.4.1.dev1

2024-02-06

corey

be52e43a

0.4.1.dev0

2023-12-11

corey

b40239bb

0.4.0

2021-09-02

Corey

87e06cb2

0.3.0

2021-08-26

Stephen McGinty

7e5aee15

0.2.0

2021-08-23

Stephen McGinty

24e9fcf7

0.1.0

2021-08-19

Stephen McGinty

700b6f66