Thursday, January 22, 2015

GanttProject 2.7 Release

GanttProject 2.7 "Ostrava" is finally released! Since RCII we have fixed a few bugs and updated a number of translations and calendars. Packages for all major platforms are ready.


Short summary
GanttProject 2.7 adds simple task cost calculation, weekend exceptions and other calendar improvements, import of calendars from iCalendar format, some UI customizations and usability improvements. Find the details on GanttProject 2.7 official page or in the list of enhancements and list of fixed bugs in the issue tracker.

Requirements
GanttProject 2.7 requires Java Runtime version 7 or higher. We recommend using the latest Java Runtime from Oracle or OpenJDK. No special hardware requirements.

Localization
GanttProject 2.7 is almost completely translated to Croatian, Czech, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Italian, Latviannew!, Norwegian, Polish, Brasilian Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian and Swedish. We have built-in holiday calendars for year 2015 for Austria, France, Germany, Russia, Serbia, UK and US.

Future
We will publish maintenance updates with bugfixes and localization improvements in the next few months and will soon start working on the next major update.

Thanks to everyone who was involved into translating and testing process! You're awesome!