Roadmap and Background Version 7
Quote from ThoZi on 15. June 2024, 19:20JasperReports Library 7 coming soon!
Work is in progress on a separate branch (release-7.0.0) that will introduce major refactoring of the library, which is needed for the Jakarta Migration. The changes help improving the dependency management by splitting the library into multiple optional artifacts (*.jar files) depending on the functionality they provide. Deprecated code has been removed and the backward compatibility of serialized/compiled *.jasper report template files has been deliberately broken.
More details about the upcoming changes can be found here.
JasperReports Library 7 coming soon!
Work is in progress on a separate branch (release-7.0.0) that will introduce major refactoring of the library, which is needed for the Jakarta Migration. The changes help improving the dependency management by splitting the library into multiple optional artifacts (*.jar files) depending on the functionality they provide. Deprecated code has been removed and the backward compatibility of serialized/compiled *.jasper report template files has been deliberately broken.
More details about the upcoming changes can be found here.
Quote from ThoZi on 27. June 2024, 23:08That went a little faster than expected: Jasperreports 7 is out:
https://community.jaspersoft.com/download-jaspersoft/community-edition/
Find source code and release packages here:
https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports
https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports/releases/tag/7.0.0
The major changes and improvements:
- removal of the Ant build system and replacing it with a Maven build system;
- deprecated code removed;
- breaking backward compatibility of serialized/compiled *.jasper report template files,
mostly because of historical deprecated serialization code removal/cleanup mentioned above
(source *.jrxml report templates need to be recompiled to *.jasper using the new version of
the library);- breaking backward compatibility of source *.jrxml report template files and *.jrtx style
template files by replacing the Apache Commons Digester based parsers with Jackson XML object
serialization. *.jrxml and *.jrtx files created with version 6 or older can no longer be loaded
with version 7 or newer of the library alone. The conversion from the old file formats to the new
file formats and back can be made using Jaspersoft Studio 7 and later versions of it;- extracting various optional extension JAR artifacts from the the core library JAR artifact
to allow the Jakarta Migration of certain of these optional features while also introducing
better third party Maven dependency management of these artifacts;- some Java package names have changed as a consequence of separating functionality into optional JAR artifacts;
- upgraded JFreeChart to version 1.5.4 which no longer has support for 3D charts. Reports having
Pie 3D, Bar 3D and Stacked Bar 3D charts would continue to work, but will be rendered as 2D,
all their 3D effects being ignored;- minor bug fixes and improvements;
That went a little faster than expected: Jasperreports 7 is out:
https://community.jaspersoft.com/download-jaspersoft/community-edition/
Find source code and release packages here:
https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports
https://github.com/TIBCOSoftware/jasperreports/releases/tag/7.0.0
The major changes and improvements:
- removal of the Ant build system and replacing it with a Maven build system;
- deprecated code removed;
- breaking backward compatibility of serialized/compiled *.jasper report template files,
mostly because of historical deprecated serialization code removal/cleanup mentioned above
(source *.jrxml report templates need to be recompiled to *.jasper using the new version of
the library); - breaking backward compatibility of source *.jrxml report template files and *.jrtx style
template files by replacing the Apache Commons Digester based parsers with Jackson XML object
serialization. *.jrxml and *.jrtx files created with version 6 or older can no longer be loaded
with version 7 or newer of the library alone. The conversion from the old file formats to the new
file formats and back can be made using Jaspersoft Studio 7 and later versions of it; - extracting various optional extension JAR artifacts from the the core library JAR artifact
to allow the Jakarta Migration of certain of these optional features while also introducing
better third party Maven dependency management of these artifacts; - some Java package names have changed as a consequence of separating functionality into optional JAR artifacts;
- upgraded JFreeChart to version 1.5.4 which no longer has support for 3D charts. Reports having
Pie 3D, Bar 3D and Stacked Bar 3D charts would continue to work, but will be rendered as 2D,
all their 3D effects being ignored; - minor bug fixes and improvements;
Quote from biffant on 23. September 2024, 19:21I wouldn't worry about JasperReports library 7 for now - unless I had strong reasons to use some functionality which is only available in 7.0.0
I wouldn't worry about JasperReports library 7 for now - unless I had strong reasons to use some functionality which is only available in 7.0.0
