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by Sébastien Heymann

Gephi 0.7 alpha4 released

The alpha4 version has just been released, check out Download page or Check for Updates in your Gephi. This release comes with new features, including PDF export and bugfixes. Thank you to all members that reported bugs on the forum or through the Crash reporter, that helps a lot, more than you think!

Many bugs have been fixed, including the Menubar problem on Mac OS X and some annoying filters issues.

Let’s have a look on what’s new, and read the complete release notes.

PDF Export

The built-in PDF Exporter is now fully working. It exports the network exactly how it’s displayed in the “Preview” window. We have been impressed how fast it’s processing and exporting. One can configure the page size and margins, in addition to the orientation. Thus you can directly export your network and embed or print it anywhere. Note that texts in PDF are searchable, very useful. Special thanks to Jeremy Subtil who worked on his free time on this feature.

GraphML Export

Files in GraphML format can now be exported from Gephi. Interoperability is very important and the GraphML format is well known and supported in other tools such NodeXL, igraph or NetworkX. We hope that we reach interoperability with these tools and that we use GraphML in the same way. If not, please let us know.

Ego Network

A new filter has been created, it let’s you filter the graph from a node at depth 1, 2, 3 or Max. Enter a node label and the depth and it shows the network around this node.

Other new features in this release

  • CSV export – Export adjacency list and matrix
  • New LabelAdjust algorithm, faster and better quality. Thanks to Mathieu Jacomy.
  • Watts-Strogatz Small World Generator

Interested by being a Gephi official tester? Please consider joining the community.

by Sébastien Heymann

Gephi 0.7 alpha3 released

A new alpha version has been released in the night. It mostly includes latest bug fixes and small features developed. Thanks to users that reported issues on the forum or through the embedded crash reporter. Remaining issues will be fixed in a upcoming updates and future versions.

Changes were also deployed throught the AutoUpdate feature. Go to Help > Check for Updates in Gephi.

New features

  • Welcome screen, with recent opened files and samples.
  • CSV Importer. Import adjacency lists.
  • UCINET DL files importer. Import edge lists and full matrix.
  • DOT Import. Import DOT GraphViz files. Support directed, undirected, labels and colors only. No subgraph support.
  • Better memory starvation detection .

Check releases notes and download latest version. Please uninstall previous versions before.

This version includes a welcome screen, with samples graph file:

by Sébastien Heymann

Gephi 0.7alpha2 released

Gephi 0.7 alpha2 was just released. It increases stability and fix issues that were reported on our forum and bug tracker. Thanks for your valuable feedbacks!

Normally, for minor versions like those, Gephi updates itself by asking users to update when Gephi starts. This AutoUpdate feature was not yet available for 0.7alpha but is working now. Therefore users need to download this new 0.7alpha2 version to profit for upcoming updates through the plugin center.

Check releases notes and download latest version. Please uninstall previous versions first before installing it.

One can find many network and graph datasets on this wiki page.

by Sébastien Heymann

Gephi’s 100-Day Plan

Gephi team is very proud to announce 0.7 version of the software, after almost one year of hard, yet passionate work. You can download and try the alpha version with various datasets. Please give us all feedback on our new forum.

Gephi is turning now in a fully collaborative free software project, as its software architecture allows collaborative development. The 0.7 project was a complete rewriting of the code in a modular way. Features were spitted in modules that can be developed and managed by different developers more easily. The Google Summer of Code 09 was a perfect way to experience our architecture. The modules developed at that time are now fully integrated in the 0.7alpha release. We plan to have many developers interested by creating plugins for Gephi. We oriented our new website in that way, have a look on the Plugin Center. Plugins could be anything, from a new layout algorithm to the connector that build graphs from your enterprise data. If you’re interested, please join the discussion on the forum.

We hope to collaborate with the entire community to help drive network visualization forward. Gephi’s aim is not only proposing unseen features, but above all build a professional tool that works and serve community’s needs.

Official 100-Day plan, presented as top priorities first

  • Fix all reported bugs and improve usability. The 0.7 beta version will be released.
  • Fill users’ Quick Start guide and create a simple tutorial how to use Gephi.
  • Documentation, documentation and more documentation.
  • Make a feature-madness video, to let people know us.
  • Create tutorial pages for plugin development. At least layout, metrics and import.
  • Fill the Plugin Portal documentation on the wiki.
  • Create a Manifest and fill “Goals and Aims” on the website. Share our passion for graph visualization and highlight most challenging tasks.
  • Start Gephi Student Program, by proposing a set of programming tasks that can be managed in a semester or a quartile by computer science students.
  • Post blog articles about our approach and how Gephi is different (and great!).
  • Reorganize 0.7 specifications and build a clear roadmap and a discussion space for future developments. Invite people to join the specification team.
  • Finish documenting Gephi’s API.
  • Give more insight which dataset Gephi can deal with, get closer from users’ needs by learning which networks they wants to visualize and support them in this task.

Please consider joining us for achieving these tasks! See the wiki.

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by Sébastien Heymann

Try Gephi 0.7

Before any further announcement about the new 0.7 version, welcome to new Gephi website, an outstanding improvement for the community. The new version 0.7alpha has been uploaded on our server today at midnight. You can download it and start playing with it now.

We would be grateful if you could send us as many feedbacks as possible, about features, bugs and usability.

To start spread Gephi, you can already visit this page. However more materials will come soon, like a feature-madness video and more screenshots.

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by Sébastien Heymann

Gephi 0.7 is coming…

screenshot_960Howdy! The Gephi Team is proud to announce that the new Gephi 0.7 alpha version will be release very very soon! This will lead to a complete shift for the community, making Gephi the network visualization and manipulation software we dreamed 3 years ago, when the project started at WebAtlas NGO in France.

During the next weeks, we’ll publish a serie of blog posts to tell you more about the project history and the evolutions brought by the next release (one clue: we built it on NetBeans Platform…). Stay connected with us on Twitter and Facebook. 🙂

Go to this page to view the detailed screenshot and register to be notified by email:

Gephi 0.7 countdown