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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Forum login system update

Google Friend Connect which we've been using for authentication on our forum is retired and stopped working since March. From now on, we use authentication service called "Loginza" which is developed by Yandex

You can authenticate using your Google, Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, OpenID account. Neither GanttProject web site nor Loginza store your passwords.

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!