Syside 0.8.4

Released on January 13th, 2026.

This version’s Python API documentation.

This release is focused on supporting Windows ARM architecture, as well as bug fixes. A bigger feature release is coming soon with Syside v0.8.5.

All Syside Tools

:laptop: Platform Support

  • Syside tools are now natively available on Windows ARM devices (Forum post: 251)

:gear: Miscellaneous Tasks

  • deps: Update syside-license to 0.3.4

Authoring Tools

:rocket: Features

:bug: Bug Fixes

  • lsp: Prevent more crashes after renaming documents

  • lsp,windows: Fix rare crash on LSP startup

  • lsp: Fix another rare crash on request cancellation

  • lsp: Fix permission errors when running Syside in a directory without sufficient permissions by resolving working directory only when needed

Modeler

:rocket: Features

  • cli: Add initial support for syside.toml through -c/--config

:bug: Bug Fixes

  • cli,windows: Fix bad_allocation error on large directories (Forum post: 316)

  • cli: Output argument errors to stderr so that LSP clients do not try to parse them as messages

  • Stop asking users for license key when installing Automator

Automator

:rocket: Features

  • python: Add Stdlib.update method to update only missing elements

  • python: Add NamePreference and customizable ReferencePrinter (Forum post: 340)

  • viz: Various improvements to Automator’s experimental visualisation

:bug: Bug Fixes

  • python: Fix crash when Compiler returned Infinity

License Checker

syside-license was updated to v0.3.4. The changelog below details changes between v0.3.3 (previous public syside-license release) and v0.3.4.

:laptop: Platform Support

  • Add support for Windows ARM devices