QuartusII 8.1 was released

Great.

But I wish Altera would publish a detailed changelog. The "What's new" describes only the main new features. And Altera usually considers "main" features only the ones that affect corporate customers.

Personally, one of the most important new features in 8.1 is the ModelSim upgrade to 6.3. I realize corporate customers probably already have a ModelSim PE or even SE license, so they don't care. For the others, and especially when using System Verilog, this is a very major improvement.

Other new features, such as TimeQuest supporting data skew reports, are not mentioned and I found it only by chance by checking the docs revision history.

Lastly, some new features are not mentioned anywhere in any way whatsoever. And I wouldn't know at all about them, if it wasn't for people with some "insider" knowledge that commented the topic here. For example, 8.1 has a much better and improved support for SV interfaces and modports (mentioned by Jack some time ago, I think).