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You can find a list of solved tickets for this release at our issue tracking system. Release notes of older releases can be found at our Release Notes page.

If you're wondering where components have gone that were traditionally a part of KIELER, you might not know yet that the KIELER was split into two separate projects, KIELER Pragmatics and KIELER Semantics, which release pretty much independently.

API Changes in

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This is a summary of the API changes introduced with version 20142015/1202:

• KIELER Layout Algorithms
• KLay Layered's layout option Properties.MERGE_PORTS was renamed to Properties.MERGE_EDGES. Its ID was changed from de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.mergePorts to de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.mergeEdges.
• Similarly, KLay Layered's layout option Properties.MERGE_HIERARCHICAL_PORTS was renamed to Properties.MERGE_HIERARCHICAL_EDGES. Its ID was changed from de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.mergeHierarchicalPorts to de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.mergeHierarchicalEdges.

The de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.distributeNodes property was renamed to de.cau.cs.kieler.klay.layered.wideNodesOnMultipleLayers and allows for two modes now.

CAREFUL avoiding node/edge overlaps

• AGGRESSIVE often more compact but does not guarantee to avoid node/edge overlaps

• KIELER Lightweight DiagramsFeature composition changed s.t. de.cau.cs.kieler.klighd.feature only contains essential runtime plugins
• does not require Xtext & KIELER KIVi anymore
those components are still part of our SDK feature de.cau.cs.kieler.klighd.sdk.feature
• Plugin de.cau.cs.kieler.klighd.ui does not register the generic DiagramEditorPart and menu contributions like 'Save As Image...' anymore
  • registrations have been moved to plugin de.cau.cs.kieler.klighd.ui.contrib3x that is part of our SDK feature de.cau.cs.kieler.klighd.sdk.feature
  • nonetheless implementations remain at their previous place and can be specialized (subclassed)
• Consolidation of the printing facilities
  • consolidation of the export branding infrastructure (see IExportBranding for details on that feature)

New Features Included in

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Here's a few highlights of what's new in version 20142015/1202:

• KIELER Layout AlgorithmsA new interactive node placement algorithm in KLay Layered keeps the y coordinates of nodes intact if they don't overlap. This node placement algorithm is supposed to be used together with the interactive implementations of the other layout phases.
• KIELER Lightweight Diagrams
• upcoming ViewChange notifications received by IViewChangeListeners can now be suppressed, see ViewChange.suppressSubsequent...Notifications(...)
• introduced dedicated zoom style ZOOM_TO_FOCUS_AND_INCREASE_TO_FIT
  • 'increase to fit' behavior is now skipped while by applying the existing zoom style ZOOM_TO_FOCUS

• KLighD now ships a generic graph visualization that allows to inspect the structure of graphs specified in any format that is supported by KIML.

• The wizard for new KLighD projects received some love. We polished it's UI and generated code and added some tooltips.

We replaced the Batik SVG exporter with a customized exporter that is based on FreeHEP.

It supports semantic data to be added to the generated SVG.

• Color gradients obey to the specified rotation angle.

• KGraph Editor Product
  Layout options can now be configured using a textual DSL.

• GrAna analyses can be specified using a textual DSL and executed either via the UI or headlessly.

Important Bugs Fixed in

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Among others, the following bugs were fixed in version 20142015/1202:

• KIELER Layout AlgorithmsComputing layouts with the layout direction set to UP failed for compound nodes in KLay Layered.
• KLay Force allowed the object spacing to be zero, which does not make sense and, more importantly, crashed the algorithm.
• KGraph Text
• Converting KGX files into the KGT format failed when certain properties were set.
• KIELER Lightweight DiagramsWe fixed an issue where the allocated memory of views was not released properly.

Quickstart

Diagram Layout

One of the core features of KIELER Pragmatics is the KIELER Infrastructure for Meta-Layout (KIML). It provides the glue between diagram editors and layout algorithms. If you have installed layout support for GMF editors, you may want to try the following:

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