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| Release 9.0.0
| Date | December 15, 2008 |
| Status | General |
Overview
This release includes drawing fitting options that enable the drawing to more efficiently use the target drawing area. New node grouping constraints keep specified drawing elements together during a layout operation. Further, this release contains many additional layout, labeling, and routing refinements.
New
Layout
- Drawing Fitting optimizes use of the target drawing area
- Open and closed group constraints
Documentation
- Additional tutorials
- Reference page of available resources
Improvements
Layout
- Improved support for multi-threaded applications
- Reduced number of edge crossings for inter-drawing edges when laying out nested drawings
- Refined options for minimum and maximum number of clusters for disconnected drawings with more than one component in the circular layout style
- Enhanced incremental hierarchical layout style results
- Reduced number of edge crossings in the hierarchical layout style
- Reduced local edge crossings in the orthogonal layout style
- Improved node placement when fixed connectors are present in both symmetric and orthogonal layout styles
- Enhanced multi-edge routing in both symmetric and circular layout styles
- Increased labeling quality
Documentation
- Enhanced Developer's Guide
Requirements
- Dropped support for JDK 1.4
- These operating systems have been added:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.5
- IBM AIX 5.3
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5*
- Ubuntu Linux 8.0*
- These operating systems have been dropped:
- Apple Mac OS X 10.3
- HP-UX 11
- IBM AIX 4
- Microsoft Windows 2000
- Microsoft Windows Server 2003
- Sun Solaris 9
* The 32-bit compatibility layer is required for 64-bit Linux systems.
Issues
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