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visone 2.28.1

released 2024-10-31

  • UI: the animation window can be opened again from the toolbar
  • UI: fixed "select neighbors", "select incident links" and "hide/show label" menu items
  • UI: file dialogs to load and save files correctly open in the most recently used directory when the directory path contains a comma

visone 2.28

released 2024-08-07

  • general: fixed crash on JDK 21 or newer when applying quick layout to a network
  • general: parallel work now supported: while a computation on one network is running, users can usually keep working on other open networks
  • general: copy and paste improved and made more robust, e.g., collapsed group nodes are now copied correctly
  • IO: fixed two issues that could cause visone to crash when exporting PDF images
  • IO: fixed broken preview when importing a CSV file with multiple leading comment lines
  • IO: new option to draw selection highlighting during image export
  • transformation: major extensions to positional dominance feature
  • UI: network names on tabs can be changed by double-clicking tabs
  • UI: network tabs can be reordered now using drag and drop
  • UI: popup dialogs are no longer opened on Windows after dragging nodes
  • UI: on macOS, more nodes can be added to the selection now by pressing the Command key while selecting with the mouse
  • UI: fixed confused node and edge property dialogs when working on a network collection while it is being modified
  • many other bug fixes and improvements

visone 2.27.1

released 2024-01-25

  • restores compatibility with NLP extension

visone 2.27

released 2023-12-20

  • help: algorithm information dialog renders formulas again
  • IO: fixed incorrect version attribute in produced GML files
  • UI: added "save all" and "export all" menu items
  • UI: added support for Ctrl+Click on macOS
  • UI: improved user experience of the templates dialog
  • visualization: fixed rare crash when using overlap removal feature
  • other minor bug fixes

visone 2.26

released 2023-05-25

  • general: when a closed group node is moved, the coordinates of descendant nodes are maintained correctly in all situations
  • transformation: Added stochastic blockmodel sampler
  • transformation: Added stability measures for Delaunay triangulations
  • UI: reworked the implementation of adding edges in edit mode to improve UI stability
  • UI: fixed bug causing attribute lists to be modified when changing other node/edge properties in the properties dialog
  • UI: fixed UI misbehavior after using the "close other tabs" menu item
  • UI: fixed status bar updates after merging two networks into a new one
  • various other bug fixes and improvements

visone 2.25

released 2023-02-08

  • general: several fixes and improvements related to the handling of group nodes
  • clustering: new option to output all cluster levels produced by the Louvain clustering method
  • mapping: background chart of cartesian coordinate mapping no longer gets clipped after saving and reloading
  • other minor bug fixes

visone 2.24.1

released 2022-09-07

  • general: fixed regression that could result in a half-frozen ui after creating a copy of a network with selected nodes
  • ui: fixed minor visual artifact in the open dialog on high-dpi screens when running under JDK 9 or newer on Windows

visone 2.24

released 2022-08-31

  • general: some performance improvements when loading and processing larger networks
  • attribute manager: fixed a number of bugs in the "select" tab
  • extensions: modernized extension mechanism
  • io: major improvements to GML reading and writing, especially importing/exporting attributes and networks with group nodes
  • io: GraphML import/export handles edge direction now more in line with GraphML specification
  • io: fonts get embedded correctly in exported PDFs again
  • ui: fixed some unintended behavior of the "restrict selection" box
  • transformation: added Delaunay triangulation feature
  • visualization: fixed crashes in the overlap removal feature when nodes are placed very close to each other
  • visualization: fixed exception when computing backbone layouts on networks with loops
  • visualization: more options are offered for computing backbone layouts, which previously were only provided under transformation/Simmelian backbone
  • other miscellaneous bug fixes and improvements

NOTE: visone will no longer recognize extensions created for previous releases. If you use an extension, please update to a recent version.

visone 2.23

released 2022-03-21

  • mapping: fixed a problem when saving the map background produced by the geographic mercator projection feature
  • visualization: non-centroid placement of group node labels is now supported
  • visualization: group node shapes are now immediately updated when group nodes are created

visone 2.22

released 2022-03-16

  • general: grouping selected nodes behaves more intuitively
  • mapping: various improvements to geographic mercator mapping
  • visualization: fixed label placement for group nodes when group node coordinates are negative
  • other miscellaneous bug fixes

visone 2.21

released 2022-01-10

  • IO: fixed Gedcom file parsing
  • SVG animation: fixed SVG animation export when node IDs contain special characters such as periods
  • UI: the configuration dialog behaves more intuitively
  • other miscellaneous bug fixes

visone 2.20

released 2021-08-11

  • general: fixed crash on Mac OS X when visone is run on JDK 16
  • general: networks with backgrounds are no longer marked as changed after exporting them
  • UI: fixed UI crash when the network merge tab is visible after deleting a collection and closing a network