Early access releases
These builds of ANTLRWorks 2 are the earliest early builds available for some level of testing and feedback. They are pre-alpha quality, which means many features will be incomplete and/or missing, and it's likely to include bugs which could result in loss of work (crashes, etc.).
Latest release: Sep. 1, 2012 (early access preview 13)
Download from Tunnel Vision Labs (zip) (also available in 7z format)
- Ability to specify tabs & whitespace settings for ANTLR and StringTemplate files specifically in Tools > Options > Editor > Formatting
- Initial attempt at "smart" auto-indent in grammar files
- Improved code completion accuracy in a few areas
- Various performance improvements, many of which come from updates to the core ANTLR 4 runtime
Previous releases
Aug. 9, 2012 (early access preview 12)
- Implement the "Go to Declaration" command
- Syntax highlighter support for mode names
- A few bug fixes in code completion and code folding
- Add the "Factor label for set" hint
- Add the "Group set elements" hint
- Various performance improvements
Jul. 12, 2012 (early access preview 11)
- Improved support for lexer char sets and lexer commands
- Syntax diagram supports lexer char sets and negated sets
- Update parser to reflect the change from
->to#for labeled alternatives - Add the "Open Containing Folder" action to document tabs
Mar. 23, 2012 (early access preview 10)
- Add tooltips for rule references
- Finally fixed the navigator update bug
- Major improvements to code completion
- Fix legacy mode
- Many performance and stability updates
Jan. 31, 2012 (early access preview 9)
- Major performance and stability updates
Jan. 30, 2012 (early access preview 8)
- Add Mark Occurrences feature
- Fix background color of nodes in the syntax diagram
- More performance and stability updates
- Note: Preview 7 earlier in the day was a broken build
Jan. 28, 2012 (early access preview 6)
- Lots of performance and stability updates
Jan. 26, 2012 (early access preview 5)
- Lots of performance and stability updates
Jan. 17, 2012 (early access preview 4)
- Fix syntax highlighting of list labels
- Add basic (trivial) editor indentation support (uses value from previous line)
- Fix several performance and stability issues in the editor
- Fix editor whitespace highlighting when "Show Non-printable Characters" option is enabled
Jan. 9, 2010 (early access preview 3)
- Fix a few exceptions in editor, navigator, and syntax diagram
- Syntax diagram properly shows range literals (previously showed ???)
Jan. 8, 2012 (early access preview 2)
- Syntax highlighting for ANTLR grammars uses an ANTLR 4 lexer (was using ANTLR 3 lexers)
- Performance improvements for code completion
- Automatically reparse the document when legacy mode is enabled
- Fix several unhandled exception messages and an out of memory error
Jan. 6, 2012 (early access preview 1)
- Initial public release