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This new version brings new layout support and many improvements of layout functionality to the algorithms side.

yWorks releases version 3.1 of the yFiles for Java diagramming library for the Java Swing GUI toolkit.

This new version features an overall improved and streamlined, more consistent and intuitive API. It also brings a major update to the algorithms side with new automatic layout algorithms, new layout support, and many improvements of layout functionality.

This new version brings the yFiles for HTML GWT Overlay to support development with the GWT Web Toolkit (GWT) and also adds many new source code demo applications, including an extensive BPMN demo application with high-quality BPM visualizations and specialized automatic layout.

This version adds support for Sankey diagrams with their characteristic thick edges to the Hierarchic layout and brings improved support in the Hierarchic layout algorithm to maintain a user's mental map when collapsing and expanding group nodes in a diagram. There is also new support for layout of regular substructures in the Organic layout style and a new edge routing style in the Circular layout, Radial layout and the Tree layout algorithms, where edge paths are bundled to prevent visual clutter in diagrams.
With this version the feature set of the automatic layouts in the 1.x technology line of yFiles for HTML is on a par with yFiles for HTML 2.0.

This version features more import support for the GraphML variants of our commercial yFiles diagramming libraries and new support for text matching using regular expressions.

This new version brings a major update to the algorithms side with new automatic layout algorithms, new layout support, and many improvements of layout functionality. It features an overall improved and streamlined, more consistent API and adds CSS styling and support for native JavaFX controls in diagrams. Plus, there is new support for SVG export demonstrated and for high-quality BPM visualizations and automatic layout of BPMN diagrams.

This new version marks a major step and brings an extensively improved and streamlined API. Throughout the API there are more concise function names now and optional, default, and rest parameters can be used; there is support for "option"/object parameters in many places. ECMAScript 6 features like Promises and iterables are supported and also ECMAScript 6 and TypeScript class declarations.
The class and interface hierarchies have been simplified as well as the implementations for components, built-in styles, and input modes; working with nested/grouped graphs and configuration of layout algorithms has also been simplified.

yWorks makes available the first version of yEd Live, the browser version of the powerful yEd desktop graph and diagram editor application.