visone is free for academic and research purposes, and no registration is required. Simply download any of the following files (i.e., right-click on a link and select “Save Link As…”). If you need additional help to get visone started, please refer to the installation tutorial in the visone wiki.

The software is under constant development. Updated versions with bug-fixes and new features will be provided when they are available. Please notice also the disclaimer.

current version

• visone-2.28.3.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
  visone-2.28.3.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
  visone-2.28.3-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
  released 24 Jan 2026, list of changes

extensions

Starting from version 2.7, visone supports downloadable extensions, available on the visone extensions page.

libraries

visone is built on top of yFiles. In addition, it currently uses the following libraries:

library	license	link
Apache Commons	Apache 2.0	https://commons.apache.org
Apache PDFBox	Apache 2.0	https://pdfbox.apache.org/
Apache XML Commons External	Apache 2.0	https://xerces.apache.org/xml-commons/
Apache XML Graphics Project	Apache 2.0	http://xmlgraphics.apache.org
AppFramework & Swing Worker	LGPL 2.1	http://appframework.java.net
Bubble-Sets	MIT	https://github.com/JosuaKrause/Bubble-Sets
FreeHEP Vector Graphics	Apache 2.0	https://freehep.github.io/freehep-vectorgraphics/
GNU Trove	LGPL 2.1/CERN	http://trove4j.sourceforge.net/html/overview.html
JCL to SLF4J binding	Apache 2.0	http://www.slf4j.org/
JColorBrewer	LGPL 2.1	https://github.com/rcsb/colorbrewer
JEuclid	Apache 2.0	https://github.com/rototor/jeuclid
JSI	LGPL 2.1	http://jsi.sourceforge.net/
json-simple	Apache 2.0	http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
L2FProd Common	Apache 2.0	https://github.com/l2fprod/l2fprod-common
ojAlgo	MIT	https://www.ojalgo.org/
OpenCSV	Apache 2.0	http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/
Partial Java Port of Routines for Arbitrary Precision Floating-point Arithmetic and Fast Robust Geometric Predicates (predicates.c)	public domain	https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~quake/robust.html
QDox	Apache 2.0	https://github.com/paul-hammant/qdox
reload4j	Apache 2.0	https://reload4j.qos.ch/
REngine	LGPL 2.1	https://github.com/s-u/REngine
SAT4J	LGPL 2.1	https://www.sat4j.org/
SLF4J, SLF4J-log4j binding	MIT	http://www.slf4j.org/
Voronoi Treemap Library	granted license	https://github.com/ArlindNocaj/Voronoi-Treemap-Library under GPLv3
XNap Commons	LGPL 2.1	http://xnap-commons.sourceforge.net/

Past versions of visone have also made use of the following open source libraries:

library	license	link
Apache Avalon	Apache 2.0	http://avalon.apache.org
Apache log4j	Apache 2.0	https://logging.apache.org
Apache Xalan	Apache 2.0	http://xalan.apache.org
Apache Xerces	Apache 2.0	http://xerces.apache.org
Colt	CERN	http://acs.lbl.gov/software/colt/
gnu-bytecode	X11/MIT	http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/
Jama	public domain	http://math.nist.gov/javanumerics/jama/
Parallel Colt	various	https://sites.google.com/site/piotrwendykier/software/parallelcolt

former releases

• visone-2.28.2.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
  visone-2.28.2.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
  visone-2.28.2-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
  released 08 Jun 2025, list of changes

visone-2.28.1.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.28.1.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.28.1-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
released 31 Oct 2024, list of changes

visone-2.28.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.28.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.28-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)

released 07 Aug 2024, list of changes

visone-2.27.1.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.27.1.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.27.1-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
released 25 Jan 2024, list of changes

visone-2.27.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.27.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.27-win64.zip (Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
released 20 Dec 2023, list of changes

visone-2.26.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.26.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.26-win64.zip (experimental, Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
visone-2.26-macos.pkg (experimental, macOS only, with integrated JDK)
released 25 May 2023, list of changes

visone-2.25.jar (recommended, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.25.zip (zip bundle with some library sources, all OS, installed Java 8 or higher required)
visone-2.25-win64.zip (experimental, Windows x64 only, with integrated JDK)
visone-2.25-macos.pkg (experimental, macOS only, with integrated JDK)
released 08 Feb 2023, list of changes

these versions use Java to run on all common operating systems (Windows, Linux, macOS) and require an installation of OpenJDK 8 (or newer) on your computer. Free OpenJDK binaries are offered by the Eclipse Adoptium and other providers.