This section describes new features introduced in the Jaspersoft BI Suite Version 7.8 release. For information regarding features introduced in previous versions, see the release notes for those versions.
Version 7.8.1
JasperReports Server 7.8.1 is a maintenance release that includes improvements requested by customers. It is released as a service pack with patch files for the 7.8.0 Commercial version.
For information about the status of specific cases, see Closed Issues or visit TIBCO Jaspersoft Technical Support:
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Version 7.8.0
JasperReports Server 7.8.0 adds these improvements:
| • | Updated user interface. This release includes new visual changes on several pages: |
| • | The Search Results page has new expand and collapse controls for the filters column on the left. |
| • | The Repository page, Library page, Schedules page, Schedules editor, and Management pages have a new look. |
| • | Ad Hoc Editor has usability improvements, including the ability to drag measurements and fields directly to the canvas to start building your visualization. |
| • | The Visualization Selector now has a new panel describing the selected visualization, including the requirements, and a new Apply and Close button. |
| • | The Dashboard Designer has usability improvements, including a new toolbar button to switch between editing and viewing a dashboard. The Designer now opens an embedded Ad Hoc Editor when creating and editing charts, crosstabs, and tables. |
| • | Cryptography improvements. Import and export operations now allow the administrator to specify the encryption key. When importing through the server UI, a list of possible keys is displayed. |
| • | New Chromium JavaScript engine. JasperReports Server Version 7.8 uses the Chromium JavaScript engine to generate graphical reports. The binary installer for JasperReports Server will display a message asking if you want to use the engine and then prompt you to enter the path to Chrome or Chromium on your machine. If you want to use Microsoft Edge as your main web browser, you will need to install JasperReports Server using the stand-alone WAR file distribution. For instructions on installing the Chromium JavaScript engine, see the TIBCO JasperReports Server Installation Guide. |
| • | Visualize.js updates. Dashboard export support has been added to Visualize.js. Supported formats include .PDF, .PNG, .DOCX, .PPTX, and .ODT. Plus, client-server communication has been migrated from using EasyXDM library to cross-origin resource sharing. |
| • | New TIBCO JasperReports® Server Data Management Using Domains Guide. A new guide on working with domains in JasperReports Server. The guide includes instructions for using the Domain Designer, localizing domains, securing your data, and more. |
| • | New Domain Designer Security tab. The Domain Designer has a new Security tab where you enter and view rules that restrict access to the data in a Domain, based on a user's roles and attributes. Rules are stored in an XML file that works together with the Domain's XML design file to identify what data you want to expose to each user. |
| • | New platforms. This release adds support for several new third-party platforms: |
| • | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.8, 8.0 |
| • | Tomcat 8.5.54, 8.5.57, 9.0.34, 9.0.37 |
| • | WebSphere 9.0.0.11, 9.0.5.1 |
| • | TIBCO Data Virtualization |
| • | MongoDB 4.2.6 Schemafilter option |
Jaspersoft Studio 7.8.0 adds these improvements:
| • | New jasperQL query language. Jaspersoft Studio supports a new query language that provides more options to aggregate and sort data in Domain-based reports (JasperReports Server Professional Edition only). For example, with jasperQL you can use Order By, Group By, and Limit in your queries. The domain query language is still supported. |
| • | JasperReports Library 6.14.0 support. Jaspersoft Studio now provides full support for JasperReports Library 6.14.0. |
| • | Updated Drivers. The following drivers are updated: |
| • | Progress DB2 driver updated from version 5.14 to 5.1.4.000288 |
| • | Progress Salesforce driver updated from version 5.14 to 6.0.0.000724 |
| • | Progress MSSQL Server driver updated from version 5.1.4.000242 to 6.0.0.000249 |
| • | Progress Spark driver updated from version 6.0.2 to 6.0.1.000081 |
| • | Progress MongoDB driver updated from version 6.0.2.404 to 6.0.2.000510 |
| • | New Drivers. The following drivers are added: |
| • | Progress Google BigQuery driver version 6.0.0.000279 |
| • | Simba Google BigQuery driver version 1.0.5.1006 |
| • | Elasticsearch driver version 7.6.0 |
| • | TIBCO Data Virtualization driver version 8.2.0 |
| • | Updated Bouncycastle bundle. Updated to version 1.64.0.jdk15on |
JasperReports Library 7.8.0 adds these improvements:
| • | Introduced a secure report execution infrastructure that allows filtering of classes used in expressions. The allowed classes are specified in a configurable whitelist. |
| • | Improvements in expression bytecode generation and expression evaluation. Simple expressions containing only parameter, field, or variable references are evaluated directly. |
| • | New built-in function ORIGINAL_DATA_SOURCE gives access the original data source when the data is sorted using sort field declarations in the dataset. |
| • | New built-in function SUB_DATA_SOURCE creates a JSON or XML sub data source when the data is sorted using sort field declarations in the dataset. |
| • | Added functionality to automatically increase the frame element width if its contents stretch horizontally. |
| • | Added support for dynamic bookmark levels based on expressions. |
| • | Added support for PDF forms to the core library. Custom properties at the report element level convert report elements into editable text fields, lists, check boxes, or radio buttons when the report is exported to PDF. |
| • | The JasperReports Web Framework providing the embeddable report viewer APIs has been removed from the JasperReports Library as it is now available as part of other products such as JasperReports Server, Jaspersoft Studio, and JasperReports IO. All Javascript, CSS, HTML templates, images files, and servlets that make up this framework have been removed from the core library JAR. The related /demo/samples/webapp-repo sample has been removed from the project distribution. The former /demo/samples/webapp sample continues to provide an example for using the JasperReports Library in Java web applications, for delivering static/non-interactive reports in all supported export formats. |
| • | Fixed an issue with the virtualization of large unpaginated reports containing large frame elements. |
| • | Improved justified alignment for paragraphs that are cut through by page or column breaks. |
| • | Added support for Java Generics in the class attribute of parameters, fields, and variables. |
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