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Tulip 5.7.4 is only a maintenance release.

It includes bug fixes in:
- the loading of Tulip project files(.tlpx),
- the support of the old Intel CPUs with Iris Graphics for the linux Appimage build,
- the Tulip GUI (Import CSV, Geographic and Node link diagram views, Python ide),
- the Qt 6 support.

Important notice for MacOS users:
Tulip 5.7.4 is the last version to support the Mojave 10.14 and Catalina 10.15 versions of macOS.

Tulip 5.7.3 is essentially a maintenance release.
It provides some improvements with :

• a new import plugin for the Trivial Graph Format,
• a new output parameter in the Louvain plugin measure,
• a MacOSX system tray icon to ease the management of multiple running perspectives,
• the support of Python 3.12.

It includes bug fixes especially in :

• the support of old CPUs for the Linux Appimage build,
• the computation of the local clustering coefficient used to get Cluster measure values,
• the Random General Tree import plugin,
• the Tulip GUI (Export CSV plugin, Geographic and Node link diagram views, ...),
• the Qt 6 support.

Tulip 5.7.2 is essentially a maintenance release.
It provides some improvements with :

• a new layout plugin Align nodes to make graph layout by hand easier,
• the addition of the undirected case in the Strongly Connected Components plugin,
• the ability to Group elements in a meta node having in/out meta edges,
• the support of Qt 6.4.

It includes bug fixes in :

• the computation of the Quotient clustering in the undirected case,
• the computation of min/max values of subgraph metrics,
• the plugins documentation for python binding,
• the Tulip GUI (Import CSV wizard, Geographic and Histogram views, Preferences dialog, ...).

Tulip 5.7.1 is essentially a maintenance release.

It provides some improvements with :

• a filter box in the Import Wizard,
• an enhanced display of plugins documentation,
• the addition of Qt 6.2 support.

It includes bug fixes in :

• the Geographic and Histogram views,
• the ToLabels and Import BibTex plugins,
• the selection interactors for MacOS,
• the management and documentation of inout plugins parameters,
• the font icon rendering.

Tulip 5.7 offers new features, especially:

• the Bidirectional Edges and Multiple Edges Separation plugins designed
  to improve the layout of multiple edges,
• the Unique Neighbors measure plugin, a kind of unique degree computation
  where multiple edges between two edges count as one,
• a new version of the Eccentricity measure plugin which allows to compute t
  he graph diameter in any case,
• the Python 3.11 support.... read more

Tulip 5.6.3 is a essentially a maintenance release.

It provides new python features with:

• the support of the Python 3.10 version,
• the ability to use temporary anonymous graph properties,
• the addition of a "Save as" option in the Scripts editor.

It includes bug fixes in:

• the detection of the Python installation path on windows platform,
• the "Sort rows by id" option of the Spreadsheet View contextual menu,
• the display of output parameters after plugin execution,
• and the tulip core library.... read more

Tulip 5.6.2 is essentially a maintenance release.

It provides:

• a new management of graph elements tooltips,
  with the ability to display an associated image,
• a MacOS specific script to allow installation
  of Python(pip) external modules.

It includes bug fixes in:

• the Histogram and Scatter Plot views,
• the management of errors in Import plugins,
• some OGDF plugins (backported from version v2022.02)
• the build of tulip on MacOS arm64 architecture.

Tulip 5.6.1 is a maintenance release.
It includes bug fixes in:

• the Tulip installation on macOS Big Sur,
• the management of the textures embedded in a Tulip project file,
• the Path Finder interactor of the Node-Link diagram view,
• the Color Mapping plugin,
• the display of the Spreadsheet view tooltips.

It has been successfully tested on macOS Monterey and Windows 11.

Tulip 5.6 offers numerous enhancements mainly in:

• the Geographic view with
  • the addition of 8 new maps provided by CartoDB (https://carto.com), Esri map services (http://server.arcgisonline.com/ArcGIS/rest/services), OpenTopoMap (https://opentopomap.org), and Wikimedia (https://maps.wikimedia.org),
  • the ability to interactively create nodes/edges in an automatic configured empty graph,
• the Node-link diagram view with the ability to display textured subgraphs convex hulls,
• most views with the use of an automatic save/restore View state mechanism when switching between different graphs in the same view.... read more

Tulip 5.5.1 is a maintenance release.

It includes bug fixes in:

• the MacOS and Windows installers,
• some OGDF layout algorithms,
• the automatic detection of the user choosen display mode
  (MacOS Dark mode/Win10 Dark theme).

Due to a missing dylib file preventing the use of the Geographic View, the Tulip-5.5.0*.dmg files have been replaced.
A new version of the files is available for download since January 6 at 14:25 (UTC+0100).

Due to some missing dlls, the tulip-5.5.0_x64_*_setup.exe installers have been replaced.
A new version of the files is available for download since January 5 at 16:50 (UTC+0100).

Tulip 5.4 offers numerous improvements and bug fixes, especially:

• a slight redesign of the graphical user interface, in particular the Python IDE and Search Dialog,
• a speedup of the OpenGL rendering engine,
• the addition of the Python 3.8 support (Tulip python wheels are now available for Python 2.7, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7 and 3.8 versions),
• the addition of an 'automatic choice' mode for the Geographic view geolocation feature.

Tulip 5.3.1 is a maintenance release.

It provides bug fixes and improvements mainly in:
- the Python bindings and tools,
- the Random graphs import plugins,
- some measure plugins,
- some views.

Tulip 5.3 offers numerous improvements mainly:

• a new implementation of the Geographic View which uses map tiles provided by Open Street Map, public Esri map services and view interaction features provided by Leaflet,
• the possibility to draw the convex hulls of subgraphs when displaying a graph hierarchy in a Node-Link diagram view,
• the addition of the new selectShortestPath(...) function in the C++ api and the python bindings,
• the enhancement of the view interactors configuration.... read more

Tulip 5.2.1 is only a maintenance release.

It contains minor bug fixes noticely in the Import CSV and Export SVG plugins.
The support of Python 3.7 has been added. So the Tulip python wheels are now available for Python 2.7, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6 and 3.7 versions.

Important notice for Python users:
Tulip 5.2.1 is the last release with support of the tulipgui python module.

Tulip 5.2 offers numerous improvements, mainly in:

• the Node-Link diagram view with
  • the speedup of the Graph rendering engine (up to 60%),
  • the addition of 3 new sphere glyphs with a drop shadow for nodes rendering,
  • the addition of new iconic node glyphs from the latest versions of the Material design and FontAwesome iconic fonts,
  • the use of an "Url property" enabling the launch of your default web browser on the node/edge associated web page.
• the CSV Import wizard with more configuration options to import properties,
• the Geographic view which allows incremental retrievement of the geographic locations from the Geo location server,
• the Spreadsheet view where a zoom of its contents (from 60 to 300%) has been added.... read more

This is essentialy a minor maintenance release with bug fixes and improvements,
especially in Python components.

Three new layout plugins (BubblePack, H3, OrthoTree) have been integrated.
A quick access bar has been added to some views (Histogram, Pixel oriented, ScatterPlot 2D...)
The windows downloadable binaries are now packaged with Python 3.6

Tulip 5 offers new features, mainly:

• a new Python IDE in a dedicated window allowing the coding/execution of modules, plugins or Python scripts (the older Python script view is non longer available),
• numerous import plugins dedicated to the graph generation of known social network models,
• a BibTEX file (.bib) import plugin,
• a CSV export plugin.

It adds some GUI improvements with :
* the integration of the "Material design icons" (https://materialdesignicons.com) to be used as nodes glyphs,
* the management of the Message log window,
* the management of the Drawing defaults preferences,
* the addition of a status bar and more documentation through tooltips.... read more

Tulip 4.10.0 offers new features to manage the use
of Color scales throughout the Tulip perspective.

It contains many bug fixes and GUI improvements,
especially in the

• CSV Import,
• Export/Import wizards,
• ** Geographic** view,
• Pixel Oriented view,
• Self Organizing Map view.

A linux dedicated executable is now available for download.
It is an AppImage (see appimage.org) which has been successfully
tested on the latest versions of the CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu distributions.

This is essentialy a maintenance release with major improvements in the SVG export plugin

It adds many performance improvements in the computation of graph measures
(Link Communities, Louvain, K-Core, MCL, Page Rank, Welsh and Powell)
and some user interaction improvements in the CSV Import Wizard and the Python Script view.

Several bugs have been also fixed especially in the :
- Color Scale dialog,
- Fish Eye interactor
- Geographic and Scatter Plot dedicated views,
- Python bindings,
- interactive selection of graph elements,
- Undo/Redo mechanism.

This is essentialy a maintenance release with many bug fixes and improvements in:
- the OpenGL rendering engine,
- the GUI, especially in the Geographic, Histogram, Python Script, Self Organizing Maps, dedicated views,
- the Import CSV wizard,
- several plugins such as the Bertault (OGDF) layout, Fast Multipole Embedder (OGDF) layout, File System import, Link Communities measure, Quotient Clustering algorithm, TLPB file import, Web Site import.

This release offers some new features, mainly :
* new layout plugins coming from the newly integrated OGDF v2015.05,
* an improved version of the Color mapping plugin with predefined color schemes added from ColorBrewer.org,
* a compressed format for the TLPB import/export plugins.

It adds some improvements in :
* the computation performance of K-Core and Louvain clustering measures,
* the graphical user interface of the Self Organizing map dedicated view.... read more

This is essentialy a maintenance release with many bug fixes and improvements in:
- the OpenGL rendering engine,
- the GUI, especially in the
* Adjacency Matrix,
* Geographic,
* Histogram,
* Parallel Coordinates,
* Scatter plot
dedicated views.

Two new features have been also added;
a new edge drawing algorithm Curve Edges can be used to compute quadratic or cubic bezier paths for edges,
and the new rendering property viewFontAwesomeIcon allowing to use one of the many predefined icons (about 600 are available) of the free Font Awesome iconic font (by David Gandy - see http://http://fontawesome.io) for the rendering every node of a graph.

This is a minor maintenance release with bug fixes and improvements mainly in:
- the OpenGL rendering engine,
- the Python components,
- the Qt5 build,
- the Geographic view.

New binaries without the Python components are available.
These are intended to users who do not need to develop any Python specific code to interact with their data when using Tulip.