GanttProject 2.0 Release Notes

• We do support custom stylesheets for HTML and PDF export but you need to edit some files to make them visible for GP. Please refer to custom stylesheets documentation^?.

• We did our best to make quality GP 2.0 as high as possible. However, we have no quality control department and the real testing of the new GanttProject will start only after the release.
• We did some profiling and improved performance of some operations (namely, project loading and scrolling Gantt chart). However, other operations may be slow even when working with relatively small projects. Particularily, we are aware that PERT chart has critical performance problems

If you feel that GP works slowly

• We are aware of bad performance of PERT and resource charts and plan to optimize them in the future versions.

• The absolute prerequisite is a correctly installed Java 1.4.x or 1.5.x.
• ZIP distribution includes launchers for Windows (.bat file), Linux (.sh file) and MacOSX (.app file) and is considered as the main distribution.
• We provide an installer for those 80% of our users who run GP on Windows, we have tested it on few Windows systems but we do not guarantee that installer will work correctly on your Windows machine even if java is already installed. In case of any troubles, please try ZIP distribution before reporting problems.

• Linux users are considered to be experienced enough to be happy with ZIP distribution

• We claim that GP 2.0 is compatible with GP 1.x, which means that GP 2.0 should read project files created in GP 1.x and should recognize all supported options, with few exceptions listed below.
• We don't think that GP 1.x is compatible with GP 2.0.
• The release may be incompatible with options/project files written by the earlier previews

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

Known problems

If you can't start GanttProject

• It is possible that you see a splash screen and then GanttProject hangs, or splash screen and main window are empty. Try to disable antialiasing in your graphic card settings

If you work with multiselection

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

At the moment, GP 2.0 is not yet officially released. Release Candidate build is available

IMPORTANT ABOUT QUALITY

• We did our best to make quality GP 2.0 as high as possible. However, we have no quality control department and the real testing of the new GanttProject will start only after the release.
• We did some profiling and improved performance of some operations (namely, project loading and scrolling Gantt chart). However, other operations may be slow even when working with relatively small projects. Particularily, we are aware that PERT chart has critical performance problems

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

IMPORTANT ABOUT QUALITY

• We did our best to make quality GP 2.0 as high as possible. However, we have no quality control department and the real testing of the new GanttProject will start only after the release.

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

Interface

• Fixed: any undo makes action "Save" working as "Save As"
• Fixed: NullPointerExceptions from TooltipManager^? are thrown and printed in console

Gantt Chart

• Feature "blank line" has been disabled as it was unstable
• Fixed: problems with incorrect rendering of "today" red line and project boundaries in month-week view

• Fixed: Problem with loading task node expansion state
• Fixed: NulPointerExceptions^? when hiding a task connected to other tasks by dependencies

Resource Chart

• Action "Human properties" made the first in the context menu
• Fixed: context menu on table headers did not work on MacOSX^?

Export/Import

Localization

• The following new translation keys were added:
  • hardness=Hardness
  • hardness.strong=Strong
  • hardness.Rubber=Rubber

• New "language" English UK which has the same translation as English but uses different time/date format
• German translation updated

• French translation updated
• Danish translation updated

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

IMPORTANT ABOUT QUALITY

• We did our best to make quality GP 2.0 as high as possible. However, we have no quality control department and the real testing of the new GanttProject will start only after the release.
• We did some profiling and improved performance of some operations (namely, project loading and scrolling Gantt chart). However, other operations may be slow even when working with relatively small projects. Particularily, we are aware that PERT chart has critical performance problems

IMPORTANT ABOUT PACKAGING

• The absolute prerequisite is a correctly installed Java 1.4.x or 1.5.x.
• ZIP distribution includes launchers for Windows (.bat file), Linux (.sh file) and MacOSX (.app file) and is considered as the main distribution.

Changes made since the third preview

Interface

• Fixed: any undo makes action "Save" working as "Save As"

Gantt Chart

• Feature "blank line" has been disabled as it was unstable
• Fixed: problems with incorrect rendering of "today" red line and project boundaries in month-week view
• Fixed: usability problem with too narrow active area for changing task progress with a mouse
• Fixed: Problem with loading task node expansion state

Resource Chart

• Redundant action "up" and "down" removed from context menu and added to the chart local toolbar
• Action "Human properties" made the first in the context menu

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

• Feature "blank line" has been disabled as it was unstable
• Fixed: problems with incorrect rendering of "today" red line and project boundaries in month-week view
• Fixed: usability problem with too narrow active area for changing task progress with a mouse

Resource Chart

• Redundant action "up" and "down" removed from context menu and added to the chart local toolbar
• Action "Human properties" made the first in the context menu

Export/Import

• Command line export problems (exceptions in console, graphical progress bar) fixed

• New "language" English UK which has the same translation as English but uses different time/date format
• German translation updated
• French translation updated

Performance improvements

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

Changes made since the third preview

Gantt Chart

• Feature "blank line" has been disabled as it was unstable
• Fixed: problems with incorrect rendering of "today" red line and project boundaries in month-week view

Resource Chart

• Redundant action "up" and "down" removed from context menu and added to the chart local toolbar

Export/Import

• Command line export problems (exceptions in console, graphical progress bar) fixed

• • hardness.strong=Strong
  • hardness.Rubber=Rubber
• New "language" English UK which has the same translation as English but uses different time/date format

Performance improvements

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

Changes made since the third preview

Gantt Chart

• Fixed: problems with incorrect rendering of "today" red line and project boundaries in month-week view

Localization

• Russian translation updated

Performance improvements

GanttProject 2.0, Finalization Status

• The absolute prerequisite is a correctly installed Java 1.4.x or 1.5.x.
• ZIP distribution includes launchers for Windows (.bat file), Linux (.sh file) and MacOSX (.app file) and is considered as the main distribution.
• We provide an installer for those 80% of our users who run GP on Windows, we have tested it on few Windows systems but we do not guarantee that installer will work correctly on your Windows machine even if java is already installed. In case of any troubles, please try ZIP distribution before reporting problems.

• Linux users are considered to be experienced enough to be happy with ZIP distribution

IMPORTANT ABOUT COMPATIBILITY