enhanced support for markers in Google map component, including hyperlinks and info window;
completing features in new layered HTML exporter;
minor bug fixes and improvements;
eliminate empty collapsed columns in XLS/XLSX exporters;
XLS/XLSX data adapter improvements;
minor bug fixes and improvements;
improved report filling performance by extending the use of the simplified text measurer
that was previously used only for single line text elements;
improved subreport filling performance by using a thread pooling mechanism;
minor bug fixes and improvements;
enhanced interactivity in the table component, with support for conditional formatting
of values in a column;
support for style providers as pluggable extensions, to control report element styling
depending on report data at runtime; a default style provider implementation is available,
allowing the use of expression based custom properties at report element level, to control
each style attribute, including backcolor, forecolor, font, borders style, etc;... read more
improved performance for the newly introduced Javascript report compiler;
configuration properties to control table component interactive features;
minor bug fixes and improvements;
improved rendering performance for the table component;
enhanced interactive report viewer APIs;
new "net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.size.page.to.content" export configuration property added
to allow for variable page size in PDF documents, by adapting page size to page content size;
better control over memory footprint in large XLSX exports, by allowing the temporary files buffer size
to be configured locally through report custom properties;... read more
improved JasperReports configuration infrastructure by the introduction of a JasperReportsContext,
an new interface from where JR configuration properties are read and JR extensions are loaded.
This allows different configurations of the JR engine to exist simultaneously in the same JVM;
improved JasperReports Web Framework which now features a centralized controller to dispatch
actions triggered by end user interactions in the report viewer. Actions are backed by atomized
commands that modify the report metadata on-the-fly, with support for undo/redo operations,
to reflect changes in the report output;... read more
the JSON data source and the respective JSON query executer were moved
from the samples folder to the core library;
support for macros added in XLS and XSLX exporters;
the repository APIs were enhanced with support for pluggable persistence
services to load and store resources in the repository;
the "net.sf.jasperreports.export.pdf.force.linebreak.policy" configuration
property is un-deprecated, as a partial revert of the changes made in 4.1.1 with
regards to PDF text rendering; These changes were partially reverted as they affected
the performance of the PDF exporter when dealing with simple texts. The AWT-based text
rendering is now performed only on complex text fields that contain tab characters
for tab stop alignment or contain multiple paragraphs, with variable paragraph styling.... read more
border and padding style properties added to crosstab elements;
optimized text measurement for short and simple texts, to speed up report filling process;
new "net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.use.timezone" export configuration property added to force translation of date values during XLS export, to the timezone used to fill the report;... read more