High‑D

Change log

Release 2019.9.3 (February 1, 2024)

  • Added support (in beta) for non-linear scale tranformations
  • Improved installer
  • General bug fixes and improvements

Release 2019.9.2 (December 28, 2023)

  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • New token-based code signing certificate
  • Compatibility with macOS 14 (Sonoma)
  • General bug fixes and improvements

Release 2019.9.0 (July 18, 2023)

  • Forbes Global 2000 - 2023 dataset
  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Improved installer
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.16+8-b2043.64

Release 2019.8.4 (December 5, 2022)

  • Performance tuning
  • Support for macOS 13 (Ventura)
  • Improved Excel support
  • Improved databases connnectivity
  • Fixed context menu by two fingers tapping
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Improved installer
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.16+8-b2043.64

Release 2019.8.3 (June 10, 2022)

  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.15+10-b2043.56

Release 2019.8.2 (April 25, 2022)

  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.14+1-b2043.25

Release 2019.8.1 (December 29, 2021)

  • Compatibility with Windows 11
  • Support for macOS 12 (Monterey)
  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL, PostgreSQL, and DB2
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.13+7-b1751.21

Release 2019.8.0 (September 18, 2021)

  • Option for scaling the user interface from the command line
  • Improved installation process
  • Resolved NoClassDefFoundError when loading some Excel files
  • Improved connnectivity to MySQL and PostgreSQL
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.12+7-b1504.28

Release 2019.7.1 (July 9, 2021)

  • Universal binary for macOS (Intel x64 and Apple AArch64/ARM64)
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.11+9-b1341.60

Release 2019.7.0 (June 3, 2021)

  • Improved installer
  • Improved support for macOS ARM processor (Apple Silicon)
  • Better multi-screen suppport
  • Updated Look & Feel
  • Cross-platform Look & Feel with dark mode during installation
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.11+9-b1341.57

Release 2019.6.2 (March 17, 2021)

  • Possibility to export Multidimensional Scaling positions and Clustering identifiers
  • Improved compatibility with remote desktop connections
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.10+8-b1145.96

Release 2019.6.1 (January 27, 2021)

  • Improved support for macOS ARM processor (Apple Silicon)
  • Added snappy compression to Parquet format
  • Improved Excel compatibility
  • Fixed decoding of ESRI Shapefile
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.9.1+11-b1145.77

Release 2019.6.0 (December 30, 2020)

  • Support for macOS ARM processor (Apple Silicon)
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.9.1+11-b1145.63

Release 2019.5.2 (December 2, 2020)

  • Support for macOS 11 (Big Sur)
  • Wrong failure message was displayed in the uninstaller
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.9+10-b944.49

Release 2019.5.1 (September 30, 2020)

  • Improved documentation
  • General bug fixes and improvements

Release 2019.5.0 (September 7, 2020)

  • Fixed adding axis may end up in infinite loop
  • Improved documentation
  • Import/export to Apache Arrow format
  • Import/export to Apache Parquet format
  • Improved centering of CartoPlot view
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.8+10-b944.31

Release 2019.4.2 (August 17, 2020)

  • Performance improvements to font rendering engine
  • Support for DPI awareness change when changing monitor
  • Improved installers
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.7+10-b944.20

Release 2019.4.1 (June 4, 2020)

  • Fixed default categories cannot be removed
  • Corrected odd aspect ratio of geographical map
  • Update code signing certificate
  • Improved installers
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • A number of crashes on Linux and macOS were fixed
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.7+10-b765.53

Release 2019.4.0 (May 6, 2020)

  • Implemented Reload functionality
  • Fixed dates in GeoJSON files are not always properly parsed (e.g. 2020/1/1)
  • Corrected bleeding artifact in colormap view
  • Support for specifying Excel sheet name in .mhds settings file
  • Fixed boolean values not being displayed correctly in tables
  • File loading performance improvement
  • Better automatic detection of common number and date formats
  • Support of display with fractional scaling
  • Improved HiDPI support
  • Improved installers
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Minimum runtime requirement is now Java 11
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.6+8-b765.40

Release 2019.3.2 (March 18, 2020)

  • Improved installers
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.6+8-b520.43

Release 2019.3.1 (February 16, 2020)

  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.5+10-b520.38

Release 2019.3.0 (December 20, 2019)

  • Improved databases support
  • Improved installers
  • Fixed handshake failures
  • Improved drag and drop suport
  • Better Shapefile support
  • Corrected file association on Linux
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.5+10-b520.17

Release 2019.2.3 (November 29, 2019)

  • Corrected current view may get replaced by a newly loaded dataset
  • Added WebP export
  • Fixed installer too small on some HiDPI displays
  • Improved Postscript output
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.4+10-b520.11

Release 2019.2.2 (November 4, 2019)

  • Background data loading
  • Progress indicator when loading large data files
  • Support for drag and drop of directories onto the application frame
  • Improved date detection and parsing
  • Improved support for Excel files
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.4+10-b304.77

Release 2019.2.1 (September 25, 2019)

  • Improved CSV detection based on MIME type and parsing
  • Improved installer
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.4+10-b304.69

Release 2019.2.0 (August 20, 2019)

  • Application is now notarized
  • Fixed automatic closing progress monitor
  • Improved installer
  • Improved HiDPI support
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.3+12-b304.39

Release 2019.1.6 (July 25, 2019)

  • Fixed keyboard input for some special characters
  • Added captions to Rendering pane
  • Improved installer
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.2+9-b159.64

Release 2019.1.5 (June 11, 2019)

  • Default file chooser location is now relative to the data file
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.2+9-b159.60

Release 2019.1.4 (May 10, 2019)

  • Improved font rendering on Ubuntu and macOS
  • Fixed reporting of error (NPE) when server server is unreachable
  • Updated runtime to 11.0.2+9-b159.56

Release 2019.1.3 (May 3, 2019)

  • Completed HiDPI support

Release 2019.1.2 (April 29, 2019)

  • Native full screen support on macOS
  • Look and feel switching was not updated
  • General bug fixes and improvements

Release 2019.1.1 (April 19, 2019)

  • Improved HiDPI support
  • Fixed opening corrupt dataset may produced leftover window
  • Improved installation procedure
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Updated runtime

Release 2019.1.0 (April 2, 2019)

  • Seamless opening of datasets through drag and drop
  • Improved error reporting and logging
  • Faster rendering
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Custom runtime derived from Java 11.0.2
  • Embedded runtime now included in Linux packages

Release 2019.0.0 (March 5, 2019)

  • Fixed icon for installers was not used anymore on macOS
  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • RPM archives now include SHA-1 and SHA-256 digests to avoid warnings on recent Linux distributions
  • Update to Java 11.0.2

Release 2018.1.1 (December 7, 2018)

  • General bug fixes and improvements
  • Update to Java 11.0.1

Release 2018.1.0 (October 15, 2018)

  • Corrected probing on parallel coordinates axis
  • Improved support for missing values for the multidimensional scaling procedures
  • Basic support for group of axis, with the possibility of collapsing them
  • UBS Prices and Earnings 2018 dataset
  • Improved performance
  • Upgrade to Java 11

Release 2018.0.6 (September 12, 2018)

  • Support for encrypted files
  • Improved Excel support
  • Upgrade to Java 10.0.2

Release 2018.0.5 (July 28, 2018)

  • Quotes inside CSV cells aren't properly parsed
  • List PostgreSQL databases may throw exception
  • Opening data file directly may open two windows
  • Store data source as part of data file
  • Leaner installers
  • Removed unnecessary dependencies
  • Faster startup time
  • Optimized parallel processing
  • Colors for over and underflow appeared as blank
  • License key was not always saved
  • Frame decoration was missing when opening file directly
  • Fixed potential memory leak when opening multiple datasets
  • Upgrade to Java 10.0.1

Release 2018.0.4 (June 21, 2018)

  • PCA as Multidimensional Scaling method
  • High-D doesn't exit properly when window is closed directly
  • License invalid message in CartoPlot
  • Two windows are open upon direct file opening
  • Apply default file extension during Save
  • Possibility to scroll through large number of variables
  • Allow drag and drop of files onto entire frame

Release 2018.0.3 (June 4, 2018)

  • Detached windows now are staying on top
  • Optimized filtering
  • More strict detection of dates
  • Handle missing values in Control Chart
  • Corrected check for update
  • Misleading expiration date in about window

Release 2018.0.2 (May 18, 2018)

  • Control Chart
  • Option to control histogram bin size
  • Collapsible parallel coordinates
  • New window manager
  • Possibility to go full-screen
  • Corrected upgrade procedure
  • Fixed export to PDF producing damaged file
  • Fixed export to SVG producing damaged file
  • Possibility of scaling the user interface
  • Export/import settings
  • Sigmas distribution type
  • Multiple Scatter Plots
  • Support for date/time in distribution

Release 2018.0.1 (March 30, 2018)

  • Wrong default extension for Save As
  • Populate Open Dataset menu from server
  • Reimplement Open Recent Files...
  • Added first blank item in document list from server
  • Improved look and feel
  • Display sheet selector when opening Excel files with multiple sheets
  • About may throw exception on macOS

Release 2018.0.0 (January 15, 2018)

  • Too many improvements to be listed!

Release 1.0rc13 (July 17, 2016)

  • Display values for single selection in parallel coordinates
  • Rubberband selection in TablePlot and Scatter Plot Matrix
  • Introduced default interaction modes
  • Made axes scales more reliable
  • Improved coloring performance
  • Display of selection in Categories, Clustering, and Distributions
  • Improved formatting and display of range values in parallel coordinates
  • Basic support for adding multiple scatter plots
  • Stricter detection of dates
  • Better painting colors
  • Improved CartoPlot
  • Corrected potential wrong
  • Manuel input of filter range in Axes
  • Fixed Export/Import settings
  • Shift key for rubberbanding in most visualizations
  • Improved display in Clusters
  • Adaptative bin width computation to Distributions
  • Interaction at the bin level for Distributions
  • Performance improvements
  • Improved range sliders
  • Tuning to light and dark color schemes
  • Upgrade to Java 8u102
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc12 (June 3, 2016)

  • Performance improvements
  • Improved range sliders
  • Tuning to light and dark color schemes
  • Possibility to open files from URL
  • Natural Amenities Scale dataset
  • US Counties geo-referencing
  • Improved Statistics view
  • Fixed support for GeoJSON file format
  • Added missing JSON library
  • Corrected rubberband not visible in alpha-blended mode
  • Improved range sliders
  • SQL export
  • Removed memory limitations
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc11 (April 27, 2016)

  • Major performance improvement
  • Reflect selection count in categorical filters
  • Allow selection in categorical filters (with Alt key down)
  • Bubble plot support in Scatter Plot
  • Added t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding (t-SNE) layout algorithm to MDS
  • Improved performance of Spring layout and Sammon mapping
  • Allow for range selection in Table
  • Support for GeoJSON file format
  • Support for Date values
  • Use of density layer for multiple selection
  • Cache OLS regression computation
  • Improved performance of TreeMap selection and filtering coordination
  • Corrected filtered items aren't drawn properly in Scatter Plot Matrix in AlphaBlended mode
  • Resolved K-means clusters are different on every run by controlling the random seed
  • Handling of escape control characters in JSON output
  • Added Prices and Earnings 2015 dataset
  • Show Distribution in Table
  • Fixed Scatter plot get transparent when focused
  • Resolved changing value range doesn't update Table Lens
  • Mixing numbers and text in an Excel column resulted in common type Object instead of String
  • Fine-tuned multiple selection color map
  • Improved handling of look and feel changes for parallel coordinates and scatter plot matrix
  • Upgrade to Java 8u92
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc10 (March 7, 2016)

  • Improved Filters panel
  • Removed regression line from MDS
  • Fixed SVG export
  • Added possibility to filter selection
  • Full support for showing/hiding filtered items in Table view
  • Mean of creating new dataset based on active items
  • Support for multiple selection in Table
  • Improved rubberbanding in Parallel Coordinates, Scatter Plot and CartoPlot
  • Removed access to Yahoo Finance data
  • Added Clustering panel with k-means++ algorithm
  • Changed default to hide filtered items
  • Changed default to anti-aliased rendering for dataset with less than 500 rows
  • Improved handling of Excel files
  • Added possibility to export data excluding/including filtered items
  • Added data export to JSON and Shapefile
  • Upgrade to Java 8u74
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc9 (September 11, 2015)

  • Completely revamped filtering panel
  • Fitted regression line in scatter plot
  • Fixed range adjustment removes items with missing values
  • Corrected scatter plot variables not synchronized with the selected axis
  • Improved installer
  • Updated code signing certificate
  • Fixed screen menu bar no longer active with Mac OS X 10.10.4 update
  • Upgrade to Java 8u60
  • Improved handling of Excel files
  • Improved CSV and Tab-delimited parsing
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc8 (December 29, 2014)

  • Polygons do not get filled properly in CartoPlot with Density rendering
  • Country codes aren't always detected automatically
  • Switchig off the colormap do not update the parallel coordinates plot
  • Complete rewrite of the underlying visualization infrastructure (cross-platform).
  • Improved CartoPlot compatbility
  • Major performance improvements
  • Default encoding during charset autodection for CSV and TSV files set to UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1
  • Updated PostgreSQL and PostGIS drivers
  • Improved handling of Excel files
  • Improved CSV and Tab-delimited parsing
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc7 (May 2, 2014)

  • Complete rewrite of the underlying infrastructure using the MOLAP data structures and engine.
  • Fixed base map doesn't always get displayed
  • Improved CartoPlot reliability
  • Parallel Coordinate Matrix is now more space efficient
  • Major performance improvements
  • Upgrade to Java 8
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc6 (February 20, 2014)

  • Rubberband selection in Parallel Coordinates, Scatter Plot and MDS
  • Respect antialiasing setting
  • Added georeferencing based on country names and codes
  • Added Georeferencing configuration panel
  • Full support for hiding filtered in Table Lens
  • Way to automatically set the min/max values
  • Option to hide filtered
  • Corrected projection in CartoPlot
  • Fixed switching of look and feel reduces the size of the parallel coordinates header labels
  • Improve filtering performance
  • Improve layout performance for create Parallel Coordinates shapes
  • Allow changing min/max values for multiple variables
  • Mean of zooming on an axis
  • Antialiased drawing
  • Added Statistics view
  • Improved configuration of multiple axes
  • Optimized processing when views are not showing
  • Improved Excel compatibility
  • Major performance improvements
  • Upgrade to Java 7u51
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc5 (December 4, 2013)

  • Limited size of Parallel Coordinates Matrix (20) and Scatter Plot Matrix (40)
  • Made Scatter Plot Matrix interactive
  • Axis can now easily be flipped in Parallel Coordinates (single click on header)
  • Added Distributions view
  • Added TreeMap view
  • More compact Parallel Coordinates Matrix
  • Support for negative range filtering in Parallel Coordinates
  • Added margin to Table Lens
  • Simplified configuration of multiple axes
  • Scrollable Scatter Plot Matrix, and Parallel Coordinates Matrix
  • Horizontally scrollable Parallel Coordinates, Table Lens, and Distributions views
  • Improved Table Lens
  • Optimized processing when views are not showing
  • Fixed loading of xlsx files
  • Performance improvements
  • Upgrade to Java 7u45
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc4 (October 21, 2013)

  • Multidimensional Scaling scalability enhancements
  • Improved controls for Multidimensional Scaling
  • Fixed background change on focus
  • Improved support for dark theme (e.g. Dark Eye)
  • Added Details panel
  • Introduced density, alpha-blended, and opaque based rendering
  • Added support for (multi)polygon geometry in geographical view
  • Added dark theme surpport for geographical view
  • Similarity measure for MDS should be computed on selected axes
  • Improved Spring layout engine performance through sampling
  • Added support for SAS file format
  • Added support for SPSS file format
  • Added possibility to load license key from High-D.mhds file
  • Performance improvements
  • Upgrade to Java 7u45
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc3 (September 20, 2013)

  • Added geographical (CartoPlot) view
  • Similarity measure for MDS should be computed on selected axes
  • Multidimensional scaling view is not always updated
  • CSV files with both comma and semicolon without quotes are not loaded properly
  • Performance improvements
  • Upgrade to Java 7u40
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc2 (September 9, 2013)

  • Simplified configuration panel
  • Axis automatic reordering
  • Performance improvements
  • Parallel Coordinates Matrix
  • Various minor bug fixes and improvements

Release 1.0rc1 (September 3, 2013)

  • Initial beta release