This section describes new features introduced in the Jaspersoft BI Suite Version 7 release. For information regarding features added to version 6 releases, see the release notes for those versions.
Version 7.5.2
JasperReports Server 7.5.2 is a maintenance release that includes improvements requested by customers. It is released as a service pack with patch files for the 7.5.1 Commercial version. You must upgrade to version 7.5.1 before applying the 7.5.2 service pack.
For information about the status of specific cases, see Closed Issues or visit TIBCO Jaspersoft Technical Support:
http://support.tibco.com
Version 7.5.1
Version 7.5.1 is a maintenance release that includes improvements requested by customers. For information about the status of specific cases, please visit TIBCO Jaspersoft Technical Support (http://support.tibco.com).
| • | Updated upgrade scripts. When upgrading JasperReports Server from 7.1 to 7.2 then to 7.5, the upgrade scripts generated a warning in logs for PostgreSQL and SQLServer, and a fatal error for Oracle DB. Use the scripts in this release to avoid warnings and errors when upgrading these databases. The issue is not resolved for DB2 and MySQL in this release. |
Version 7.5
JasperReports Server 7.5 added these features:
| • | Updated user interface. This release includes a new look and feel that is crisp and easy to navigate. It keeps the familiar layout and provides updated icons, styling, and colors throughout the application: |
| • | The home page has a simpler layout with all BI tools in a single column and introduces a color-coding of features that is consistent throughout the application. For example, the green icon for finding reports on the home page matches the green icon for adding a report in the Dashboard Designer. |
| • | The pages for creating data sources have been streamlined and color-coded. |
| • | The Domain Designer has new icons for tables, fields, joins, sets, and others throughout. |
| • | The Report Viewer, Ad Hoc Designer, and Dashboard Designer are all updated with new icons, color-coding, and matching styles so that viewing data is clearer and creating visualizations is simpler. |
| • | Three new visualizations. The new gauge types are the circular gauge, the multi-level gauge, and the arc gauge. These gauges have formatting properties to set minimum and maximum values, colors for value ranges, whether the value is displayed, and if so the number of decimal places and a suffix string such as the % sign. |
| • | Ad Hoc visualization selector. This UI element has been updated to choose or switch between visualizations more easily. The visualization selector now lets you choose crosstab or table, and the chart selection includes a sidebar for chart categories. In addition, the visualization mode toolbar drop-list is replaced with a visualization selector button. |
| • | New color picker dialog. The Ad Hoc Designer and Dashboard Designer have a new color picker interface for specifying colors to match any palette where visualizations are embedded. The default color selections are expanded, and custom colors may be specified precisely with HEX or RGB entry options. |
| • | Colors in Ad Hoc charts. There are several new features in the Ad Hoc Designer that allow greater customization of chart colors. New UI properties allow the user to set the series color, the plot color, and the background color in charts that allow it. |
| • | Distinct values in Ad Hoc tables. Tables often contain columns that have duplicate values in many rows, making it difficult to find relevant data. The new distinct values selector in the Ad Hoc Designer hides the duplicate rows and makes tables shorter and easier to read. Note that tables with a totals row will not recalculate the total values when duplicate rows are hidden. |
| • | Referential Integrity for Domains. New configuration settings let you adjust how strictly Ad Hoc views and reports are checked against their underlying Domain. By default, fields and measures in a view or report that do not exist in the Domain will cause an error upon opening. Administrators can adjust the level of referential integrity to allow opening views and reports when Domain security causes missing items. |
| • | Security. This release of JasperReports Server updates its use of cryptographic keys, for example to encrypt user passwords internally. All keys are now generated and managed in a single keystore for consistency. Keys used for encrypting export catalogs from older versions of the server have new procedures and user interface for importing into this version of the server. For more details, see the JasperReports Server Security Guide. |
| • | Update to Log4j 2. The logging service now relies on the updated Apache Log4j 2. This upgrade provides higher performance of the loggers and thus less overhead for JasperReports Server. If you have custom loggers, you will need to update their definitions using the new syntax. |
| • | Java 11. JasperReports Server runs with Java 8 and Java 11 for certain platforms, see the Platform Support document for more details. |
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