Tom Sawyer Perspectives, Java Edition

Release 7.1.1

Overview

This release adds support for Neo4j 2.3, adds context-menu support for charts and timelines, and improves nested hierarchical layout with connectors. It also features continued performance tuning and improves product quality.

New

Views

• Charts
  • Added context-menu functionality
• Timelines
  • Added context-menu functionality

Improvements

Views

• Drawings
  • Improved the initial rendering of the overview window in HTML5 with Mozilla Firefox
• Timelines
  • Improved rendering performance

Layout

• Improved connector placement in hierarchical layout
• Improved connector placement in orthogonal layout
• Improved precise shape clipping

System Requirements

• Added support for Neo4j 2.3

Fixes

Views

• Fixed search results that did not reflect model updates
• Fixed an update hang that occasionally occurred when using filters

• Drawings
  • Drawing fit always works properly after layout
  • Fixed the interaction between the Select and Pan tool and fixed nodes
  • Fixed tooltips that did not reflect model updates
  • Fixed hover effects showing at incorrect positions in image map views
  • Fixed an issue with view bound updates that caused slow edge crossing calculations
• Tables
  • Fixed table row highlighting problem after filter selection changes
• Charts
  • Zoom Fit correctly places objects within the view
• Timelines
  • Zoom Fit correctly places objects within the view
• Maps
  • Fixed a potential infinite loop while zooming
  • Zoom Fit correctly places objects within the view

Layout

• Improved node packing to eliminate node overlaps after incremental layout

Licensing

• Fixed a Licensing Manager issue that prevented licensing initialization in all threads

Build and Distributions

• Improved how the Maven plugin manages signed JAR files

Issues

• None