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XMIND Changelog

What's new in XMIND 7 (v3.6.1)

Jan 8, 2016
  • Improvements:
  • Modify the translation errors in French, German, Korean language pack.
  • Update Help File in Chinese version.
  • Bug Fixes:
  • Fix an issue that causes error while activating XMind 7 Pro license.
  • Fix an issue that "Extend" and "Extend All" functions do not work properly.
  • Fix an issue that causes comment to miss after moving the topic.
  • Fix an issue that the orders of columns and rows can not be moved under Matrix structure.
  • Fix an issue that causes error while inserting an image from web.
  • Fix an issue that the list of recent files updated incorrectly.
  • Fix a bug that causes exported PDF Map incorrect display even user selected "Show +/-" in the export to PDF dialog.
  • Fix an issue when the central topic of a map has no text, the map can not be uploaded to xmind.net.
  • Fix an issue that in Chinese, Japanese and Korean version, exported Excel file is incorrect when choosing Pivot and Outline layout.
  • - Fixed a bug when inserting too many sheets in a workbook, some of the sheets lost from the Sheet Tab.
  • Fix an issue that causes failure to import Mindmanager file.
  • Fix an issue that causes failure to export to Freemind.
  • Fix an issue that causes failure to open a file after removing this XMind file's password.
  • Fix a bug that causes the color group not to display correctly in the font dialog.
  • Other minor bug fixes.

New in XMIND 7 (Nov 13, 2015)

  • New Features:
  • A Brand New UI
  • A New Home Panel
  • Huge Improvements on Gantt Chart
  • Information Card
  • Comments
  • Callout
  • Export/Print Outline
  • Multi-page Print
  • Timeline
  • New Themes with 10 New Fonts
  • Major Improvements:
  • Share to Biggerplate.com
  • Inspector View
  • Add another Matrix (structure) which uses topics as columns.
  • Show/Edit task info (Start/End Date, Assignee, Priority and Progress) directly in Gantt Chart.
  • Export Gantt Chart to Image/PDF.
  • Print Gantt Chart.
  • Add "hide collapse/expand icon" option while printing/exporting to image/PDF/SVG.
  • Export the entire workbook to Excel.
  • Show all notes in Notes View.
  • Copy/Paste style.
  • New Window Menu.
  • Only calculate work days for tasks.
  • Add a size hint while making a map shot.
  • New topic shapes: Circle, Parallelogram, Cloud.
  • New boundary shapes: Polygon and Rounded Polygon.
  • Wallpaper Patterns.
  • New designed color palette.
  • New color set for Multi Branch Colors.
  • Add Task Assignee option in Advanced Filter View.
  • Delete the same markers of the map.
  • Clear all the markers of a topic.
  • Add "Save As" option to Image/Attachment/Audio Notes.
  • URL/Email auto detection.
  • Support Microsoft Project 2010 file format for exporting.
  • Real previews in Theme View.
  • Many other minor improvements.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Fix a bug that causes task info to export unsuccessfully while exporting to Excel.
  • Fix an issue that causes XMind to crash on Ubuntu while choosing Web Browser under Preferences.
  • Fix an issue that causes the exported SVG file to display abnormally.
  • Fix an issue that causes characters missing while printing map.
  • Fix an issue that causes boundary not to show normally while the boundary title text is too long.
  • Fix an issue that subtopics of floating topic can not be exported while exporting to Excel.
  • Fix a bug that after downloading a public map from XMind.net, the task dependencies of the map disappear.
  • Fix a bug that causes text to disappear while press "CTRL+I" in Note view.
  • Fix an issue that causes exporting to Word not successfully.
  • Fix an issue that causes encryption not to work after force quiting XMind procedure.
  • Fix a bug that topic structure changes in drill down mode.
  • Fix an issue that image in notes disappears while importing a Mindmanager file.

New in XMIND 3.5.3 (Jul 12, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue that causes the Linux 64-bit install package not to work.
  • Fixed an issue that causes some Korean and Chinese fonts can not show normally on the map.
  • Fixed an bug that the width of topic can not be changed in Brainstorming mode.

New in XMIND 3.5.2 (Jun 1, 2015)

  • Improvements:
  • Add a language change option to Preferences.
  • Improve theme usage experience. When applying a theme, users can now choose from overriding all custom styles in the target map or keeping them.
  • Improve export experiences.
  • Add Danish and Japanese "Welcome to XMind" map guide under help menu.
  • Modify the translation errors in Japanese, Russian, French language pack.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Fixed an issue that causes some text to disappear after exporting to PDF (Map) on Ubuntu.
  • Fixed some issues that cause XMind to crash after exporting to Microsoft Word and PDF Document on Ubuntu.
  • Fixed an internal error occurred during: "Template Image Loader".
  • Fixed an error while saving to Evernote under the Drill Down mode.
  • Fixed a bug that causes the exported Microsoft Project file to contain Chinese text.
  • Fixed an issue that causes "export to Microsoft PPT" not working.
  • Fixed an issue that causes XMind to crash while using "Alt +DownArrow" shortcut under Filter mode.
  • Fixed a bug that causes text typed in editing box to disappear after switching between sheets.
  • Fixed an issue that the wallpaper can't be removed after set by a theme containing it.
  • Fixed a bug that causes file hyperlinks pointing to LAN locations to be recognized as relative paths.
  • Other minor bug fixes.

New in XMIND 3.5.1 (Nov 25, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Adds Italian language pack.
  • Updates language packs of German, French, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese.
  • Changes the default format of image export to PNG.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Fixes an issue that makes style function not able to be used on Ubuntu.
  • Fixes an issue that causes the idea factory not available in brainstorming mode while using multiple displays.
  • Fixes a bug that makes the sheet style lost after extracting or saving a new theme.
  • Fixes an issue that sometimes causes failure to export to Microsoft Powerpoint.
  • Fixes an issue that cause some hyperlinks to fail to be redirected correctly.
  • Fixes some error that happens while import/export MS Word/PPT/Project.

New in XMIND 3.4.1 (Jan 25, 2014)

  • Improvements:
  • Redesign the licensing/activation flow.
  • Redesign the update information dialog.
  • Show loading indicator at splash screen.
  • Record XMind product version information into XMind files.
  • Save file blackups automatically in the "Black Box" view.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • Dynamic menus don't show correctly on Ubuntu 13.10.
  • Fail to import Mindjet files.
  • Subtopics should follow their parents' colors rather than "Multi Branch Colors".
  • Fail to change the width of the topic.
  • Fail to export to PDF/Word file successfully when two topics have the same content or there is one blank floating topic.
  • Fail to keep topics notes' background color when exporting to Word/PDF/RTF.
  • "Invalid thread access" error when export to Word/PPT.
  • Fail to enter full screen in brainstorming mode.
  • Error occurred when creating hyperlink in brainstorming mode.
  • Fail to clear the duration settings at task info view.
  • Fail to display the numbering correctly on exported Word files.
  • Fail to find and replace the last target words within one sheet.

New in XMIND 3.4.0 (Nov 14, 2013)

  • New Features:
  • Local Networking Sharing (huge new feature that costs us one year to ship)
  • Enable export to Microsoft Word/PPT/Excel across all platforms, e.g. Mac OS X and Linux (huge new feature)
  • Export to Microsoft Excel/CSV
  • Export to SVG (in vectors)
  • Import from Microsoft Word
  • Merge XMind workbooks
  • Edit styles
  • New marker design and more markers
  • Print whole workbook
  • Reduce file size
  • More templates (six thinking hats, flow-chart, personal management etc.)
  • Improvements:
  • Improved Export to Word/PPT/PDF/HTML
  • Export to PDF(Map) in vector graphics
  • Improved Import from Mindjet Mindmanager
  • Gallery renamed to "Clip Art", and new lovely clip art
  • Support for input method editor (IME) in in-place topic title editing (a big usability improvement for CJK and some European users)
  • New preference options to change the default behaviour of dragging/dropping external files
  • Re-calculate relative file hyperlinks on saving
  • Synchronized topic selection between editor and Gantt view
  • Each marker group is an expandable section in Markers view
  • Markers are resized automatically to fit topic font size
  • The order of markers in a topic is fixed to be as same as the order in Markers view
  • Turn off topic filter's highlight effect after deleting the marker used for the filter
  • Embed JRE in Windows installation folder
  • Increase the maximum memory settings for Windows versions
  • Many other smaller improvements
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • On Windows, XMind fails to launch after Java upgraded to 1.7
  • On Windows, closing a loading browser editor causes script error and XMind hanging
  • On Mac OS X, the menu bar is still hidden when pressing "Esc" key to quit the Brainstorming or Presentation mode
  • On Mac OS X with Java 7 installed, XMind fails to open files with non-ASCII characters in their name
  • On Ubuntu 12.04 in German language, almost all key bindings are broken and it's impossible to type any word in topic
  • Hyperlinks are exported into unrecognizable code
  • XMind fails to locate collapsed topics when double-clicking them from search result
  • Hyperlinks in notes are exported as plain text to Word or PPT
  • Non-ASCII characters in file name are shown as "?" in recent opened file list
  • Topic's fill color, line color and line thickness property is not effective when applying an extracted theme
  • On Windows, XMind fails to conduct relative file hyperlinks across different drivers
  • Error occurs when XMind tries to open a removed/renamed home map on startup
  • Error occurs when clicking a removed/renamed file in recent opened file
  • Error occurs while exporting large mind maps to PDF (Map)
  • XMind crashes by clicking on the "Label" action in the context menu of the hyperlink/notes icon within the topic
  • On Mac OS X, double click on an XMind file in Finder to launch XMind causes an additional editor opened with errors
  • Some multi-thread access issues related to Save operation
  • Many other smaller bug fixes

New in XMIND 3.0.2 (Mar 24, 2009)

  • This version also brings some new useful features, such as "Security" to let users set the password for XMind files, instead of worrying about losing data.
  • For the corporate environment, XMind v3.0.2 includes some new templates, such as Meeting Template to let your meeting efficient, Personal Management Template to let you manage your life and work clearly, Project Management Template to let you work easily.

New in XMIND 3.0.1 (Dec 16, 2008)

  • New Features:
  • New Mind Map Structure: Clockwise and Anti Clockwise
  • Import XMind 2008 file.
  • Export to XMind 2008 file.
  • Map Shot: User can set a path to save.
  • Hyperlink: Users can add Local File/Folder link, and topic link(in the same workbook) to a topic.
  • The personal markers in a map can be seen after opening the map in
  • another computer.
  • Multi-lingual: New languages package including German, Janpanese, Chinese(Simplifiled), Chinese(Traditional)
  • New relationship style: Zigzag.
  • New markers.
  • Bugs:
  • XMind can not run on PowerPC-based Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.
  • Print dialog will be freeze sometimes.
  • Marker, legend will become ugly if printing the map.
  • Extract a Theme, and apply to a map. This theme will be lost after reopening XMind and that file.
  • If users enable the Auto Save in XMind, open a new workbook and edit it, then leave XMind and do other work. After a while, there will be many "Save as" dialog.
  • Open the build-in browser, and open a website, now if there is no response after clicking a URL inside this website, closing this
  • browser view will close XMind.
  • SpellCheck is in.
  • If users use XMind 3 to open an XMind 2008 file which has wallpaper, that wallpaper can not be read.
  • Some other bugs fixed.
  • Improvement:
  • Can not open all XMind 2008 files directly.
  • Theme will be seen after uploading and exporting to images.
  • Users can drag an image into XMind as an individual topic.
  • Ctrl+Home will let users focus on Central topic and central topic be at center.
  • Users can change the Row order in Spreadsheet easily.
  • Importing Mind Manager file performs better.
  • Hightlight the theme in current map in the theme view.
  • If a topic is near the left or right of editor, and now double clicking or F2 to edit it, the map will jump to let this topic be center of editor.
  • The Fishbone Chart has tapered line.
  • There is a print icon on toolbar.
  • New .deb package for Debian/Ubuntu Linux.
  • Open .xmind file directly from Share.xmind.net.
  • Some other improvements.

New in XMIND 3.0.0 (Nov 26, 2008)

  • XMind 3 brings a free service for all users: Online Share the mind maps. You can just click the "upload" button on XMind toolbar. Then you can share your mind maps on http://share.xmind.net.
  • Another change is... before using XMind, you should register a XMind account at http://www.xmind.net/signup/