Tom Sawyer Analysis, Java Edition

Release 10.0.0

Overview

This release improves product quality and updates the supported operating systems.

New

Technology

• Added JDK 8.0 support

Documentation

• Added an option to improve documentation search speed by ignoring the API documentation

Improvements

Licensing

• Licensing setup web proxy information can be set through System properties

Documentation

• Various improvements in all areas of the documentation, including additions to Javadoc

System Requirements

• These operating systems have been added:
• Apple OS X 10.10
• Apple OS X 10.11
• Microsoft Windows 10
• Oracle Linux 6.6
• Oracle Linux 7.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.6
• These operating systems have been dropped:
• Apple OS X 10.9
• Apple OS X 10.8
• Microsoft Windows 8
• Oracle Linux 6.0
• Oracle Linux 5.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0
• Added support for Java 8
• Dropped support for Java 6

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.5.0

Overview

This release improves product quality, features, and performance.

New

Analysis

• K-core
• M-slice
• Bridge detection

Improvements

Documentation

• Dynamic content loading
• Improved API documentation

System Requirements

• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.8
  • Apple OS X 10.9
  • Oracle Linux 5
  • Oracle Linux 6
  • Microsoft Windows 8
  • Microsoft Windows 8.1
  • Microsoft Windows Server 2012
• Dropped support for these operating systems:
  • Apple OS X 10.6
  • Apple OS X 10.7
  • Microsoft Windows Vista

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.3.1

Overview

This release updates the supported operating systems to allow easier installation on Microsoft Windows 8.

New

• None

Improvements

• None

System Requirements

• Added support for Microsoft Windows 8
• Added support for JDK 7.0 on Apple Mac OS X

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.3.0

Overview

Tom Sawyer Analysis introduces new algorithms for social network analysis, including betweeness, closeness, degree, and Eigenvector centrality.

New

Technology

• Added Apple Mac OS X Lion Launchpad support
• Added JDK 7.0 support

Algorithms

• Added centrality algorithms for social network analysis

Improvements

Installers

• Refined installers

System Requirements

• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple Mac OS X Lion 10.7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• Dropped support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

• Added support for JDK 7.0

• Dropped support for JDK 5.0

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.2.0

Overview

This release provides all of the documentation in HTML format, with global search capability.

New

Documentation

• Added search capability across all documentation

Improvements

Documentation

• Converted all documentation to HTML format

System Requirements

• Dropped support for Apple Mac OS X 10.5

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.1.1

Overview

This release improves access to hosted licensing.

New

• None

Improvements

Licensing

• Simplified access to hosted licensing through a web proxy

System Requirements

• No changes

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 9.1.0

Overview

This release features improvements to algorithm performance and revamped documentation.

New

• None

Improvements

Installation

• Improved installation program
• Improved licensing setup

Optimized Algorithm Performance

• Minimum Spanning Tree
• Tree Test

System

• Accelerated XML reading and writing

Documentation

• Revamped documentation

System Requirements

• Added support for JDK 6.0
• Added support for these operating systems:
  • Apple Mac OS X 10.6
  • Microsoft Windows 7
  • Sun Solaris 10

Fixes

• Tree test algorithm recognizes all directed non-tree graphs
• All pairs shortest paths algorithm now detects negative cycles

Issues

• None

Release 9.0.0

Overview

This release improves the performance of several analysis algorithms and introduces the Simple Paths algorithm.

New

Algorithms

• Simple Paths

Documentation

• Additional tutorials
• Reference page of available resources

Improvements

• Optimized algorithm performance
  • Breadth First Search
  • Connected Components
  • Unique Path Test
  • Shortest Paths
  • All Pairs Shortest Paths
  • Cycle Breaking Edge Detection
  • Minimum Cost Flow
  • Minimum Cut

System 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.

Fixes

• Shortest Paths algorithm now handles negative costs

Issues

• None

Release 8.0.0

Overview

This release improves the performance of several analysis algorithms and introduces a new software licensing system.

New

System

• Software licensing server and administration client

Improvements

Optimized algorithm performance:

• Depth First Search
• Biconnected Components
• Strongly Connected Components

System Requirements

• Added support for JDK 1.6
• Dropped support for JDK 1.3
• These operating systems have been added:
• Apple Mac OS X 10.4
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
• These operating systems have been dropped:
• Compaq Tru64
• Silicon Graphics IRIX
• Sun Solaris 7 and 8

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None

Release 7.0.0

Overview

This release introduces two new analysis algorithms.

New

Analytics

• New algorithms
  • Sorted Paths
  • Root Cause

Improvements

Analytics

• Added node capacity and cost to applicable algorithms
• Added several cluster size options in the clustering algorithms

System Requirements

• Added support for JDK 1.5
• Added support for Apple Mac OS X

Fixes

• None

Issues

• None