The first Milestone of the Pentaho Report Designer (PRD) version 3.6.0 is now available for download from SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfreereport/files/04.%20Report%20Designer/3.6.0-M1/

Please try this version out and let us know if your issues have been fixed and if you find other problems. Post responses to the Pentaho Reporting User Forum:
http://forums.pentaho.org/forumdisplay.php?f=78... read more

After a long silence in this release news of Pentaho-Reporting, we are proud to announce the release-candidate of the upcoming version 0.8.10 of the Pentaho-Reporting Classic-Engine.

Pentaho-Reporting Classic is a lightweight embeddable reporting engine that provides reporting and printing capabilities to both Server and Fat-Client-Applications.

The engine has a remarkable low footprint and does make many assumptions about where it is supposed to run. Give it a warm spot, JDK 1.2.2 or higher and 6MB of your hard-disk, and the reporting-engine will work happily. ... read more

A first pre-release of JFreeReport 0.8.9 has been released.

JFreeReport 0.8.9 features a new rendering and layouting engine, which finally lifts the age-old limitation of the engine not being able to create pagebreaks within bands. From now on, JFreeReport is able to print text that spans across more than one page. The new renderer allows elements to have Borders, Paddings and Background-colors - which finally aligns the engine's capabilities with the capabilities offered by the Pentaho Report-Designer.... read more

Community Connection: New Pentaho Data Integration, Pentaho Reporting Releases Available
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Pentaho Data Integration 2.4 Released
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We are proud to announce the release of Pentaho Data Integration 2.4. This exciting new release features significant improvements in performance, scalability and ease-of-use.... read more

With the release of JFreeReport 0.9.0 we entered a new area of reporting.

JFreeReport 0.9 is document centric

In the classical domain of reporting engines, the report's structure is data oriented. In these classic engines, reports consist of bands or sections which are composed in a relatively fixed structure. In that world, a report is a template with several slots. The contents of these slots can be filled with various predefined element types, which then represent the generated content.... read more

The new JFreeReport-0.8.7-6 is another "Waiting for 0.9" maintainance release. As every monthly bugfix release this version fixes another couple of bugs; upgrading is recommended.

JFreeReport 0.8.7-2 is a minor bugfix release, which fixes an invalid initialization in the page setup handlers. That particluar bug made the page setup dialogs inaccessible, which can be considered a show stopper.

Regards,
Thomas

JFreeReport 0.8.7 has been released.

This release adds a lot of new expressions to make definition reports easier. The 'no-data-band' may now carry a message for the user, whenever the supplied tablemodel does not contain any rows. All expressions are fully localizable and the new field type 'resource-message' combines the flexibility of the message-field with the internationalizability of the other resource-* field types.... read more

Pentaho Adds JFreeReport Project to Provide Comprehensive, Open Source BI

Orlando, FL – January 17, 2006 - Today, Pentaho Corp., the world’s leading provider of Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) software, announced that the JFreeReport project has permanently joined Pentaho. Thomas Morgner, the creator and primary sponsor for the project has also joined Pentaho as Chief Architect of Reporting Solutions. This acquisition furthers Pentaho’s strategy of providing a comprehensive BI suite built on best-in-class technology delivered via a professional open source model.... read more

Today the Pentaho-team released the first milestone of an report wizzard for JFreeReport.

The original Pentaho News Flash follows:

The first milestone build of the Pentaho Report Design Wizard is now available! It was created to facilitate report authoring for JFreeReport. While the Report Design Wizard is flexible in its report generation, it is not possible to solve some specific requirements. The Report Design Wizard bridges the gap between manual editing of XML and having a complete report designer. First-time users will enjoy the ease of use and power of the Report Design Wizard. Meanwhile, expert users will appreciate the time savings the Report Design Wizard provides. ... read more