JasperReports 6.9.0

JasperReports Library 6.9.0 Change Log

• upgrade to Hibernate 5.4.1.Final;

• new export configurations added for embedding fonts in DOCX and PPTX exports;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.8.1

JasperReports Library 6.8.1 Change Log

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.8.0

JasperReports Library 6.8.0 Change Log

• support for Java 9 up to Java 11;

• build number added to the manifest file inside the main library JAR and the other optional JAR files;

• various dependencies upgrades including Apache Commons Collections 4.2, Castor 1.4.1, POI 4.0.1,
  Spring 5.1.4, jQuery 3.3.1 and RequireJS 2.3.6;

• new random value data adapter and data source for easy report testing;

• description property added to dataset variables;

• added support for generating a slide master in the PPTX documents with the possibility to include
  PPTX built-in fields for current slide number and current date/time;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.7.1

JasperReports Library 6.7.1 Change Log

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.7.0

JasperReports Library 6.7.0 Change Log

• repository context concept added to the repository access API in order to support use
  of relative paths within the repository to reference reporting resources such as subreports,
  images, style templates, resource bundles and other;

• the optional artifacts such as the chart themes, chart customizers, functions and fonts,
  which were previously built out of samples, have been moved to the new /ext folder inside the
  project source tree;

• the custom visualization component extension, which was previously available as a separate project,
  has been added to the /ext folder as an optional artifact and can be tested using the sample
  inside the /demo/samples/customvisualization folder;

• deprecated BeanShell (BSH) report compiler has been removed from the library;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.6.0

JasperReports Library 6.6.0 Change Log

• upgrade to Java 8; starting with this release, the binary distribution of the JR library
  is compiled for the Java 8 platform and is no longer guaranteed to be compatible with Java 7;

• deprecated file resolver built-in parameters have been removed, while the FileResolver interface
  and its related APIs have been now deprecated themselves and prepared for future removal.

• enhanced repository service API to support relative paths when referencing resources;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.5.1

JasperReports Library 6.5.1 Change Log

• configuration property added to exclude UUIDs attributes from the JRXML report source format
  produced by the JRXmlWriter class.

• added new group level attribute to control the reprinting of group headers on each column,
  in vertically filled multi-column reports.

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.5.0

JasperReports Library 6.5.0 Change Log

• support for configuration properties with the net.sf.jasperreports.export.xls.pattern.{arbitrary_pattern}
  format to allow more flexible and reusable mapping between Java and Excel cell format patterns
  for the XLS/XLSX exporters;

• solved various band evaluation issues related to page/column level totals
  displayed in page/column footers when page/column breaks are introduced by
  stretching bands which are prevented from splitting;

• inhibit the creation of new page/column when the current page/column is already
  new and thus avoid creating empty pages/columns in various cases where features
  for controlling page/column breaks were involved;

• added more test reports to document the changes in the way band evaluation and
  page/column breaks work;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.4.3

JasperReports Library 6.4.3 Change Log

• removed JExcelApi dependency and the deprecated source code using it,
  including exporters, data sources and query executers;

• removed deprecated HTML and XHTML exporters;

• support for simple text expressions to simplify writing expressions for custom properties,
  which rely on direct parameter/field/variable reference in-place value expansion,
  instead of the usual Java language string concatenation syntax;

• introducing support for custom properties annotations for better documentation
  of all available JasperReports configurations and for enhanced custom properties
  helper tools in Jaspersoft Studio;

• added new preventOrphanFooter flag in report and dataset group definitions,
  to avoid rendering group footers without any accompanying record at the top of new pages;

• added new minDetailsToStartFromTop attribute in report and dataset group definitions,
  to avoid rendering group headers too low on the page, where not enough detail records can fit;

• refactored some of the provided samples, including the Web application samples,
  to make use of the Jetty engine and make it easier to test them locally;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;

JasperReports 6.4.1

JasperReports Library 6.4.1 Change Log

• dependencies upgrade;

• minor bug fixes and improvements;