iReport Release 3.7.4
July 20, 2010

The iReport Team is pleased to announce the new iReport release: 3.7.4.
iReport is available as standalone application and as NetBeans plugin for NetBeans IDE 6.5.x and later. This version includes several improvements and bug fixes.

New features
New features and changes:

Full support for JasperReports 3.7.4

New Spider Chart component

Built-in support for server certificates when connecting to an https instance of JasperServer

New ability to import an XML/A data source from JasperServer to iReport

Ability to link multiple input controls to a report unit at a time
Several bug fixes

Download
Download iReport (standalone version) from SourceForge.net
Download the iReport plugin for NetBeans
The plugin is available on the NetBeans plugin center and on SourceForge

New features overview

iReport 3.7.4 comes with a new Spider Chart component. This is the first open source component of JasperReports to create a chart. The chart is rendered using the JFreeChart library. This implementation does not offer all the settings available for native charts of JasperReports, but it represents a really interesting sample for people willing to create fairly complex JasperReports component and integrate them in iReport with an iReport plugin.

The Spider Chart can use the main dataset or a sub dataset. To edit the chart data, right click the element in the designer and select Edit Chart Data.
The Spider dataset (the data to fill the chart) is formed by one or more series. Each series represent a layer in the spider. Categories are the axis of the spider.
Currently the Spider Chart does not support chart themes, chart customizer and custom colors for the series.

The new Certificates Manager provides an easy way to accept X509 certificates when connection to a JasperServer instance using https. A certificate can be temporarly accepted or permanently accepted. iReport will store the sha1 hash of the certificate to validate it on subsequent calls.
Currently files can be compiled or elaborated to replace old barcode elements based on images to the new barcode components provided by JasperReports.
To clear the certificates cache, a new button has been added to the JasperServer Plugin tab in the iReport options.

Complete changelog


- Updated to JasperReports 3.7.4

- Support for the Spider Chart component of JasperReports 3.7.4

- Added ability to import an XML/A data source from JasperServer to iReport

- Support for server certificates when connecting to an https instance of JasperServer.

- Fixed Bug 9809 - TOE - Shouldn't manditory in the plug-in for a input control apply always prompt in JasperServer?

- Fixed 0004754: Can not modify parameters of Table component

- Fixed Bug 17473 - Domain Plugin: can't select domain as data source in add report unit wizard

- Fixed Bug 17276 - [Case #11062] Allow multiple input controls to be linked at a time in JS plugin

- Added support for Markup property in styles