GanttProject 2.8.11 hotfix update

A new build 2396 of GanttProject 2.8.11 is available from our website: https://www.ganttproject.biz/download

It fixes a few severe issues:
-- macOS: only English, Galician and Tajik languages are available in the settings UI;
-- Linux: ganttproject launcher won't open files when using relative paths;
-- all platforms: visible columns in the task and resource tables reset to default after undo operations or on file opening;


Version number remains the same, only build number has changed.

If you already downloaded GP 2.8.11-r2393, we strongly recommend to download the new build.

GanttProject 2.8.11

GanttProject 2.8.11 is a maintenance release with updated calendars, translations, a few fixed bugs and major update in macOS package.

• Updated holiday calendars of top 20+ countries and regions according to our Google Analytics data. Welcome, Karnataka region! 
• Major update of Simplified Chinese translation and minor updates in Korean, Italian and Turkish translations.
• Several fixed bugs.
• Package for macOS now comes with bundled Java Runtime and is properly signed and notarized to make the security system in the latest macOS versions happy.
• Also, we tested a number of Java Runtime configurations on Windows and wrote up the results in the release notes to help our users choose the runtime which provides the best experience.

Packages for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Mint/Debian Linux and platform-independent ZIP archive
are available from the download page on ganttproject.biz and from the release page on GitHub.

GanttProject is free software and you can download any package at no cost. You can help us to spread the world by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra or by following us on Twitter or Facebook, or by purchasing paid download.

GanttProject 2.8.10

GanttProject 2.8.10 comes with updated holiday calendars for 20+ countries and regions where most of our users come from (welcome Mumbai and Zurich regions!). It also fixes a number of bugs and usability issues. See the full list of bugfixes.

Packages for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Mint/Debian Linux and platform-independent ZIP archive are available from the download page on ganttproject.biz.

GanttProject is free software and you can download any package at no cost. You can help us to spread the world by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra or by following us on Twitter or Facebook, or by purchasing paid download.

GanttProject 2.8.9: bugfixes

GanttProject 2.8.9 fixes a number of bugs, including a very annoying bug with task names being truncated to the first few symbols in table cells.  The full list of fixed issues is available from our GitHub pages.

There is also German translation update and new Dutch and Israel holiday calendars.

Download

Packages for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Mint/Debian Linux and platform-independent ZIP archive are available from the download page on ganttproject.biz.

GanttProject is free software and you can download any package at no cost. You can help us to spread the world by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra or by following us on Twitter or Facebook, or by purchasing paid download.

GanttProject 2.8.8: better usability, compatibility and localization

GanttProject 2.8.8 is here with a bunch of important updates. Thanks everyone who sent us bug reports and participated in testing!

Here is a brief overview of the updates.

Usability

First, annoying behavior of selection and cell editing in the task table which was introduced in 2.8.7 is now fixed. We also added some padding around cell values to separate adjacent right- and left- aligned cells.

Tasks in the predecessor dropdown in the task properties are now indented according to WBS and prefixed with task ID.

Compatibility

It turned out that GanttProject had issues when running under Java 10: MS Project import/export didn't work and macOS users had issues with launching GanttProject by double-clicking gan files. These issues are solved in 2.8.8. Besides, macOS users can now drag tasks on the chart using mouse with Command key hold. On other platforms it works with Control key hold but on macOS Ctrl+mouse click would show a context menu.

Export/Import enhancements

Two columns were added to CSV export/import: task color and resource load on particular tasks. The latter can be used for your own calculations of the total resource loads and costs in spreadsheets and databases. This column is called Assignments and it accompanies older column Resources, so you will find them both in the produced CSV files.

The values in Assignments column are semicolon-separated pairs of resource id and load which are in turn colon-separated. Thus, the value 1:50.00;2:100.00 means that the load of resource with id "1" in this task is 50%, while resource 2 works 100% of his time.

Import from Microsoft Project now recognizes recurring holidays in the default project calendar.

Localization

Great news for Chinese, Japanese and Korean users: task table in PDF reports is expected to be fixed and should show symbols properly, provided that you use an appropriate embeddable application font. On the screenshot below WengQuanYi Micro Hei font was used.

New holiday calendar for South Korea has been contributed by one of our users.

Bugfixes

Weird bug "no enum constant" which appeared when reading certain projects is now fixed. Another very annoying issue with adding whitespace in task notes on Windows platforms is fixed as well.

Download

Packages for Windows, macOS, Ubuntu/Mint/Debian Linux and platform-independent ZIP archive are available from the download page on ganttproject.biz. 

GanttProject is free software and you can download any package at no cost. You can help us to spread the world by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra or by following us on Twitter or Facebook, or by purchasing package at any price > $5 set by you.

GanttProject 2.8.7

GanttProject 2.8.7 download is available!

In this update mouse wheel behavior made more consistent with other apps and GanttProject itself.

• Mouse wheel rotation will vertically scroll chart no matter if the mouse pointer is over the table or chart area.
• If Shift is hold, mouse wheel will scroll a chart horizontally.
• If Ctrl is hold mouse wheel rotation will change zooming.

We also restored a keyboard shortcut  Ctrl+Space  which expands/collapses task nodes. Discover other useful shortcuts which will make you more productive!

There is a number of bugfixes and updated translations, with major updates in Japanese and Catalan.

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If you want new updates and features to appear faster and better, please fund the development and buy GanttProject for your platform from our online shop:

* Installer for Windows
* Package for Mac OSX
* Package for Ubuntu/Mint/Debian
* Platform-independent ZIP package

We love getting paid, but still want to highlight that GanttProject is free. You can download it at no cost from our website. You can help us to spread the world by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra or by following us on Twitter or Facebook.

GanttProject 2.8.6

GanttProject 2.8.6 is available for downloading.

In GP 2.8.6 cross-window clipboard made working. You can now copy tasks and resources between GanttProject windows using standard copy/paste operations. In the previous versions one had to import the whole project to copy the data.

GanttProject 2.8.6 also includes a number of bugfixes, more than dozen holiday calendar updates (welcome Alberta, Canada and three Australian states) new Indonesian translation and a few other translation updates.

If you want to fund the development, buy GanttProject for your platform from our online shop:

* Installer for Windows
* Package for Mac OSX
* Package for Ubuntu/Mint/Debian
* Platform-independent ZIP package

We love getting paid, but still want to highlight that GanttProject is free. You can download it at no cost from our website and help us by leaving your like or review on Facebook or Capterra.

GanttProject 2.8.5: task sorting

We're glad to announce GanttProject 2.8.5 which comes with a new feature: task ordering by begin/end dates. The feature itself was highly demanded, but what makes it even more exciting is that it is the first published feature which has been contributed by external freelancer and funded by the donations from GanttProject users. A number of other paid features is already done in the main branch and will be published in the next major update.

Sample project with tasks sorted by begin date

If you love GanttProject and want new features to be added faster, donate as much as you want!

Task sorting

Sorting should work as expected: click the column header to sort in ascending order, click again to toggle to descending order.

The sort order is partial. Sibling tasks are sorted, while tasks from different branches of the task tree (e.g. sitting under different summary tasks) are not necessarily sorted. For instance, on the screenshot above milestone "GanttProject 2.8.5" goes below the child tasks  of "Architectural design", although it starts earlier. The order is indicated with an arrow in the column header showing upwards when order is ascending or downwards when it is descending.

Sorting is not maintained continuously. Any actions on the tasks such as insertion of the new task, reordering, indenting and outdenting may break the sort order. One needs to click in the column header again to restore the ordering.

Besides the new feature, GanttProject 2.8.5 fixes a few severe bugs and updates Korean and Dutch translations.

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GanttProject 2.8.4: scalable UI on high-density screens and bugfixes

We released GanttProject 2.8.4 which greatly improves UI scalability on high-density devices such as MacBook with Retina screen and Windows Surface Pro.

DPI option in GanttProject settings is now considered in the most major aspects of the user interface, including toolbar buttons and milestones and arrow shapes on the chart. This means that the whole application can be scaled by a simple change of DPI value in the settings.

The absolute majority of the users should be happy with the default value of 96. Those who use high-density displays are advised to set the value to something close to the real DPI of their screens. Values in the range 150-220 shall be good.

We recommend to set Normal size of Application and Base chart fonts and adjust them only for fine tuning. Bigger DPI value and smaller application font size may produce good results in some use cases.

Settings dialog with DPI option

Changing DPI option is safe: it only linearly scales fonts and graphics in GanttProject and doesn't affect operating system or Java Runtime. However, we recommend to restart GanttProject after changing DPI option value.

In unfortunate case when fonts appear so small that it is hard even to change the DPI value, one can edit the settings file manually. The settings file is named .ganttproject (note the leading dot, such files may be hidden by the operating system) and it sits in the user home folder. It is a text file which can be edited in any text editor. Adding this line between any other option tags will set DPI to 120:

<option id="ui.screenDpi" value="120"/>
 
You need to close all GanttProject windows before editing the settings file.

Besides the scalability, GanttProject 2.8.4 fixes a few bugs and gets back iCal import plugin.

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GanttProject 2.8.3: how to get back ical import

Update: this bug is fixed in GanttProject 2.8.4

Due to a bug in the application configuration import from iCal is missing in GanttProject 2.8.2 and GanttProject 2.8.3. If you want to get it back, do the following (applies to 2.8.3):

1. Open file  plugins-2.8.3/biz.ganttproject.impex.ical/plugin.xml
   from your GanttProject 2.8.3 installation in any text editor (you may need Administrator/root priveleges for that)
2. At line 9 replace ganttproject-ical.jar with biz.ganttproject.impex.ical.jar  
3. Save the file and restart GanttProject

On Mac OSX the file sits in /Applications/GanttProject.app/Contents/Java/plugins-2.8.3/biz.ganttproject.impex.ical/ provided that GanttProject is installed in Applications

Sorry for this issue! We'll fix the distributions in the next update.

GanttProject 2.8.3: severe bugfixes

We just've published a new maintenance update. This should solve annoying misaligned rows problem and a number of other severe issues.

Also, there is a new option for setting screen DPI density. The default value of 96 should be fine for most of the users, however, those who are suffering from tiny fonts on their shiny high-density screens may want to set the appropriate value (200-400), restart GanttProject and get fonts scaled. At the moment this option affects only fonts, not icons or chart graphics, sorry.

Setting dialog with the new DPI option

Download GanttProject 2.8.3 from the official web site.

UPD:
Troubleshooting: how to get back iCal import
Oh, wait! You can now like and follow GanttProject on Facebook!

GanttProject 2.8.2: important troubleshooting notes

After the first days of running GanttProject 2.8.2 in the fields we are aware of the following issues:

• Assorted effects, such as duplicated exports or broken Properties dialog, may be observed if GanttProject 2.8.2 is installed on top of GanttProject 2.8.1 into the same folder.
  
  Install GanttProject 2.8.2 into a clean (or new) folder. However, if you have already installed it on top of 2.8.1, you can just remove folder plugins/net.sourceforge.ganttproject from the installation folder to fix the issue.
  
• Some anti-virus software may report viruses in the Windows Installer. We are certain that such reports are false positives. This issue happened to us before and actually anti-viruses report false positive virus scans in the installer files pretty often. The original file ganttproject-2.8.2-r2069.exe with MD5 checksum 6c512df96e5ad09c34540fc7a27761d8 was checked by VirusTotal and looked suspicious to only 2 out of 57 engines while the remaining believed that file is clean.
  
  Nevertheless, should you have any doubts, you can use ZIP archive which contains no native code and does not require Administrator priveleges for installation.
  
• GanttProject 2.8.2 fixes a weird issue with screen repainting on some specific Windows systems, but unfortunately we have discovered during the testing that the fix causes another weird issue - freezing and weird LoadLibrary 1114 error - under some conditions.
• With some specific fonts and sizes rows in the task table may appear misaligned with the chart after starting GanttProject. This bug will be fixed in the next update, and there is a simple workaround: open settings dialog and immediately close it by clicking OK.

GanttProject 2.8.2: calendars and bugfixes

The first release in 2017 is ready! GanttProject 2.8.2 comes with updated calendars of holidays in  Australia, Brasil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Mexico, Poland, Russia, Spain, Taiwan, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States.

Ласкаво просимо (warm welcome) Ukrainian language in the list of translations, thanks to the efforts of Andriy Ilechko. Hungarian, Catalan, Tajik and Hebrew translations have been significantly updated, and a few others have been touched.

Besides the calendars and translations, GanttProject 2.8.2 should be more friendly to multiscreen and high-resolution environments.

Finally, a few other bugs mostly in MS Project and CSV import/export have been fixed.

Download GanttProject 2.8.2 from the official web site.

UPD: Important post-release troubleshooting notes

GanttProject 2.8.1: maintenance update

GanttProject 2.8.1 fixes a couple of severe issues found in 2.8 and updates Polish, French and Galician translations.

Download GanttProject 2.8.1 from ganttproject.biz

Meet GanttProject 2.8 Release!

The release build of GanttProject 2.8 is available for downloading! You can download it from the main GanttProject site, or from the release binary mirrors on GitHub or SourceForge.

GanttProject 2.8 Release Candidate

The Release Candidate build of GanttProject 2.8 is available for downloading. There are Windows installer, DEB package for Ubuntu, ZIP archive and zipped application for Mac OSX (we'll build a disk image with signed app for Mac OSX a little bit later).


Download the Release Candidate build from ganttproject.biz

Announcing GanttProject 2.8 "Pilsen"

Well, it was supposed to be a maintenance update to GanttProject 2.7.2, but the changes turned out to be big enough to bump the version number rather than maintenance number. The first beta was published today, and we expect the release to be available pretty soon.

Headlines

The major new feature is actually pretty old one which has been made working. We had so called "additional constraint" called "earliest begin" in task properties for years, and its meaning was pretty vague, mostly because this constraint didn't work.

Task Properties dialog with Additional constraint set to July 14

As of 2.8 this constraint made working and it has clear semantics: task with earliest start constraint set to some date X will be scheduled to start no earlier than X and as close to X as possible, provided that other constraints permit that.

The obvious use of this constraint is to set the earliest date when a task can start. For instance, if task begin date was set on July 5 then changing its earliest start constraint to July 14 will move task to the future (e.g. see issue 1254 which is now fixed)

However, there is another use case which is now possible. If task had start date and earliest start constraint set to July 14, and was moved to some later date because of finish-start dependencies on other tasks then removing the dependencies will move the task back to July 14 (see discussion in issue 1247).

This change may have impact on older projects where earliest start was set but didn't work. When GanttProject 2.8 opens a project file it checks if dates of the tasks remain the same as written in the file after the first run of the scheduler. If some task changes its dates GanttProject will show a report:

Report after the first scheduler run

There is a number of other important bugfixes and translation updates in GanttProject 2.8 [1]. The first beta should be quite stable, as it is really mostly a bugfix update to 2.7.2.

Compatibility

File format has slightly changed -- we removed redundant information about the configuration of task table -- and that's the main reason of the version bump. Files produced by GanttProject 2.7 should open fine in GanttProject 2.8. Files produced by GanttProject 2.8 can be opened by GanttProject 2.7, except that only Name, Begin date and End date columns will be shown in the task table by default, no matter what is written in the project file.

System requirements

GanttProject 2.7 can run on Java 7, but we recommend using Java 8.

Name

Pilsen (Plzeň in Czech) is a city in Bohemia region in Czech Republic, known for its excellent beer.

Download

Beta I is available as a platform-independent ZIP distro only (install instructions [3]). You can  download it from Dropbox [2]

[1] The list of issues fixed in GanttProject 2.8: https://github.com/bardsoftware/ganttproject/milestones/2.8
[2] GanttProject 2.8 beta I packages on Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0gwuayq6vg0kyss/AAApogLPlvpg0lY9JltS-3sZa?dl=0
[3] Installing GanttProject from ZIP archive: https://github.com/bardsoftware/ganttproject/wiki/Installing-from-ZIP