GanttProject Praha 2.5.5

Well, it is kinda forced update, as it turned out that the only thing one can do with GanttProject.app on the latest Mac OSX Mountain Lion is to move it to the trash. As people normally don't find it quite useful, I spent a few days trying to sign GanttProject.app properly. Now it is done, and GP 2.5.5 runs on Mountain Lion fine.

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• The full list of fixed bugs in GP 2.5.5 
• GP 2.5.5 download page

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GanttProject 2.5.4

One more maintenance update, which fixes 11 issues is available for downloading. The most notable fixed issue is PERT chart scrolling. Now it sits in a scroll pane!

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• The full list of fixed issues
• Download GanttProject 2.5.4

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GanttProject 2.5.3

GanttProject 2.5.3, a maintenance update is available for downloading. It fixes a few weird issues here and there.

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• The full list of fixed bugs 
•  Download GanttProject 2.5.3

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GanttProject 2.5.2

GanttProject 2.5.2 is here. It fixes a severe problem in MS Project export and a few smaller UI and usability issues, and updates a number of holiday calendars.

People from USA, France, Germany, UK, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Spain, Australia, Canada, Poland, Switzerland, Netherlands, we know you sometimes don't want to schedule tasks on Thanksgiving or Autumnal Equinox day. Now you have public holiday calendars for year 2012 in GanttProject. We did our best to compile these calendars properly, but please let us know if anything is wrong with them.

There are also Croatian and Dutch translation updates.

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• Download GanttProject 2.5.2 
• See the full list of fixed issues

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GanttProject 2.5.1

GanttProject 2.5 has been downloaded more than 50k times in 4 weeks after the release, and we've received just a few bug reports, which means that either nobody uses it or that the quality of this release was really high. We prefer to think that the latter is the case :) Anyway, we have fixed 5 bugs, and published a maintenance update, so meet GanttProject 2.5.1.

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• Download GanttProject 2.5.1 
• See the full list of fixed bugs

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Happy April scheduling!

GanttProject 2.5 Release build

Hello GanttProject community,
we have published the release build of GanttProject 2.5 Praha. Thank you all for the great job you did!

• Brave souls who used beta and release candidate builds and submitted hundreds of issues to the tracker, you well deserve kudos for the high quality of this release
• Translators all over the world, thanks to your awesome efforts GanttProject speaks 15+ languages 
• Maarten, my personal thanks for initiating this release cycle and for your work on code. It was great that I was not just a single and lonely developer.

Of course it is not the end. We will be publishing maintenance updates and we will be working on new features, making GanttProject more easy, friendly and powerful tool.

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GanttProject 2.5 download page with packages for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and platform-independent ZIP distribution.

Brief summary of what's new in GanttProject 2.5

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GanttProject 2.5: Release Candidate build

We have published the first Release Candidate build of GanttProject Praha. Please fasten your seat belts and prepare for landing! If everything goes fine, we will release GP 2.5 in a few days. We want to be sure in its quality, so we're asking you to help us with the final test cycle. Download the RC, use it for planning your projects and report to us immediately if you hit a severe problem. Other bug reports are welcome too, but we're mostly interested if GP 2.5 works in general.

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GanttProject 2.5 RC I download page with packages for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and platform-independent ZIP distribution.

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We also appreciate translation contributions. Thanks to a few great guys, we have translations to major languages, but we still need Japanese, Brasilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese and other languages.

GanttProject license update: now with GPL3

GanttProject will be covered by GPLv3 starting from version 2.5. We made this update from GPLv2 mostly for the sake of license compliance with the libraries which we use. For most GanttProject users this requires absolutely no action. GanttProject remains both gratis and libre, you can use it for any purposes, including commercial, given that they are legal per se. Only those who link code of their public proprietary web applications with GanttProject code should be worried, but I really doubt that we have such users.

GanttProject 2.5 beta V

Thanks to the brave souls who are using GanttProject 2.5 and to the great guys who translate the interface, we now have a new beta with a number of important bugfixes and new translations to German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese.

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GanttProject 2.5 beta V download page with packages for Windows, Mac OSX, Linux and platform-independet ZIP distribution.

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If you're running a previous beta of GP 2.5, go ahead and download it now, and tell us if it fixes any problems or creates new. If you're a newbie or die-hard, definitely consider at least trying beta V

We hope that the next public build will be a release candidate.

GanttProject 2.5 beta IV

Beta IV fixes severe problems discovered in all export functions in beta III on Windows.

GanttProject 2.5 "Praha": the third beta

So, the third beta is waiting for you on our download pages. It finishes the stage of implementation of major features and opens the stage of bugfixing.

What has changed since the second beta?

Export functions. iText PDF export engine now prints data columns, just like other exports and printing. It also was promoted to default way of PDF export, and FOP engine will probably be removed in the next major update.

PNG and PDF exports now allow for choosing a date range for the charts.

UI. We have a new set of toolbar icons painted in one style and color scheme, 1.5x bigger in size. Thanks to the authors of AnyColorYouLike Gnome icon theme! Also we added a search box to the toolbar. Oh, wait, there is also a long anticipated feature: separate option for the short date format! Find it in the basic application settings, just under appearance and interface language.

Recover and bug reporting. A sudden power outage can ruin all your work unless either you or software regularly save it. GanttProject does save your projects but this has not been exposed in the UI. Now we have Recover project action in Help menu which scans through autosaves and suggest you to recover (or skip) them. Also, to make bug reporting easier, we added an action to view log file contents.

The last, but not least, is that Custom columns tab in task properties dialog now shows and edits the values of custom columns for the selected task. Not the columns themselves and their default values as it was before. Less surprises, less need to write manuals.

GP Praha has got its version number, now it is officially GanttProject 2.5. Go ahead and give it a try!

Eager to discuss? Visit the forum!

GanttProject Praha: beta 2 is here!

The second beta of GanttProject Praha is available for download. We have packages for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX.

It fixes a lot of issues found in the first beta and on old usability problems, such as losing entered data in task resource and predecessor tables. Thanks to all who reported them!  We also updated the UI of custom columns management in task and resource tables. Now you can add, remove, change default value, hide or show custom columns from the single window.

It is available from the context menu on task/resource table header.

Beta 2 certainly has a lot of bugs. Please report them on the forum or in the issue tracker, and please save our time by checking first if it is already reported or maybe even already fixed!

We plan to release the third beta with a few remaining features to the wild as soon as possible and focus after that on translations and bugfixing. Stay tuned!

GanttProject Praha: beta1 is out!

Hello everyone!

The first public beta of the new major update of GanttProject is available for downloading. All traditional packages plus a new DEB package for Linux (Ubuntu) users are waiting!

There are many updates, some of them have already been around for a while, so here I enumerate those which appeared after the last alpha build.

• Notification area in the status bar which reports errors, if any, and keeps you tuned by reading updates feed from our site. It checks the updates just once per day and it incurs no startup delay. 

• Simple search service which can search in task/resource names and task notes. You can activate it by hitting Ctrl+F

• Rubber dependencies are now rendered as dashed lines

• If you're sharing with your colleague a project file on a network disk and your buddy overwrites it while you're working on your part, GanttProject will show you a warning

• WebDAV over HTTPS is now supported, and overall is expected to work better.
• Column resize mode is now "next column" instead of "proportional resize" which turned out to be annoying. 

It is a public release, and we encourage you to try it, but keep in mind it is still beta. There are bugs, some of them are already known, so please check the existing issues before submitting new bug reports!


Wondering how to comment? Visit the forum!

Move the whole project

If you planned to start your project on January 1 and created a big plan, but after that decided to go hiking to New Zealand until February, you would want to move the whole project somehow. You can use some tricks to do it in the old good GanttProject 2.0.10, but starting from build 428 of GP Praha you have an explicit option.

In the Calendar page of Project Properties dialog you see a date chooser. It shows the current project start date, that is, the start date of the earliest task in your project. Choosing another date will move some or all of the tasks, depending on what rescheduling option you select.

Move all tasks will just add the same number of days to all tasks in the project, and it is the default option. However, sometimes you want to move the project start but prefer to keep the remaining tasks intact whenever possible. You can use the second option for that.

GanttProject Praha build 428

A new build of GanttProject Praha is available for downloading.

What's new and noteworthy (I will try to give more details later on the most important items) :

• Major rewrite of the options dialog. I hope it now looks much more clean and professional.
• Move the whole project feature. Checkout Calendar page in the project properties and set a new start date, with two rescheduling options.
• "Project states" renamed to what they're supposed to be, that is, to baselines.There is a new baseline edit dialog, and the button which shows it sits above the gantt chart timeline next to "show/hide critical path" button
• Some more intelligence with respect to the custom properties in MS Project MPP import
• Many small UI fixes everywhere.

We're approaching the wide beta testing phase, with announcements on the home page and all. It hopefully will start with the next public build of GP Praha. Stay tuned and give the alpha build the first try!

Download link: http://ganttproject.googlecode.com/files/ganttproject-praha-r428.zip

GanttProject Praha build 306

Hello GanttProject friends,
the next build of GanttProject Praha is available for downloading. The most noteworthy changes are:

1. Microsoft Project export and improved import
2. Months at the bottom of the timeline and thus ability to fit a few years into the Gantt chart viewport

You can download it from http://ganttproject.googlecode.com/files/ganttproject-praha-r306.zip

Read more about GanttProject Praha: http://ganttproject.blogspot.com/2010/11/announcing-ganttproject-praha.html

Announcing GanttProject Praha

Hello GanttProject community!

We haven't been publishing any news for quite a while, but today we have pretty sweet ones!

We are announcing a new GanttProject update with codename Praha. It is a successor of the old good GanttProject 2.0 but with many important updates. Its first alpha version is available for download. It is by far not complete and we will be adding more features and more stability. At the same time we want to make this release cycle short and release the final version of GanttProject Praha as soon as possible.

So, what's new?


What can you try in the first Praha build?

• New Microsoft Project import. It should be able to import the most recent MS Project files, and it also supports importing custom properties, project calendar and resource days off.
• New timeline which is less cluttered and has navigation and zooming controls built-in.
• New weekend option for those who love weekends but have to work 24/7 :). It allows for rendering weekends still counting them as working days. By the way, you can change now weekend setup in your existing projects.
• Task end date is now the date when a task finishes, not the next day. So 1 day long task starting on Nov 12 will finish on Nov 12.
• Task properties dialog UI was rewritten. Now it looks more professional, and task notes are located next to the main properties.
• Additional priority levels

What about Loire?

Well, it turned out that changing that much as had been planned in Loire was impossible. Loire is still in very unstable state while GanttProject absolutely needs a major update. So I decided to build a new version based on 2.0 code. However, many things were backported from Loire and I hope that Praha will eventually evolve to Loire.

Acknowledgements.

Many thanks to Maarten Bezemer whose amazing job on bugs, features and on code cleanup kicked off this development.