1.6.7 -> 1.6.

8 (April 27, 2018)

- Algorithms for parsing of reference strings in Web of Science, Scopus, and
Crossref JSON files and for citation matching have been improved. A high-level
description of the algorithms can be found in the VOSviewer manual.
- Support has been restored for creating co-authorship, citation, and bibliographic
coupling maps of organizations based on Scopus files. This functionality was
removed in version 1.6.6, but users have requested this functionality to be
restored.
- Support has been restored for creating co-authorship maps of organizations based
on PubMed files. This functionality was removed in version 1.6.6, but users have
requested this functionality to be restored. Cleaning of PubMed organization data
has been improved.
- Support has been added for creating co-authorship, citation, and bibliographic
coupling maps of organizations based on Crossref JSON files.
- Code for reading Web of Science files has been revised. The AU field is used if
the AF field is not available.
- Further changes have been made to the code for reading RIS files in order to make
sure that RIS files created by EndNote can be read.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- Bug related to the command line parameter 'corpus' has been solved.

1.6.6 -> 1.6.7 (February 16, 2018)

- Colors used in the network visualization have been revised. The network
visualization now uses a modified version of the tab20 color scheme obtained from
Python's Matplotlib library (https://matplotlib.org/users/colormaps.html). Colors
are available for 18 clusters. The remaining clusters are colored grey.
- Colors used in the overlay and density visualizations have been revised. The
overlay and density visualizations now provide multiple color schemes. These are
modified versions of color schemes obtained from Python's Matplotlib library
(https://matplotlib.org/users/colormaps.html). The viridis color scheme is used as
the default scheme.
- Lab color model has replaced RGB color model for interpolating colors in the
network, overlay, and density visualizations.
- Algorithm for automatically determining minimum and maximum scores in the Set
Overlay Colors Range dialog box has been improved.
- Support has been added for ignoring 'hyperauthorship' publications (i.e.,
publications with a large number of authors) when creating co-authorship, citation,
and bibliographic coupling maps of authors, organizations, and countries.
- Support has been added for including first names of authors when creating co-
authorship, citation, and bibliographic coupling maps based on Web of Science or
PubMed files. A choice can be made between using first names or converting first
names to initials. The conversion of first names to initials when creating maps
based on Crossref data has been revised.
- Support has been added for ignoring commonly used structured abstract section
labels when creating term maps. The list of section labels that are ignored can be
found in the VOSviewer manual.
- List of adjectives that are ignored when creating term maps has been revised. The
revised list can be found in the VOSviewer manual.
- Support has been added for saving screenshots in the TIFF file format.
- Support has been added for saving screenshots with a transparent background (only
for the PDF, PNG, and TIFF file formats).
- Code for reading RIS files has been revised in order to make sure that RIS files
created by EndNote can be read.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some small bugs have been solved.

1.6.5 -> 1.6.6 (October 23, 2017)

- A number of changes have been made to the Create Map wizard:
- Support has been removed for creating co-authorship, citation, and
bibliographic coupling maps of organizations based on Scopus files. The data
quality is insufficient.
- Support has been removed for creating co-authorship maps of organizations based
on PubMed files. The data quality is insufficient.
- Support has been added for creating maps based on Crossref JSON files.
- Support has been added for creating maps based on data downloaded through the
Crossref API.
- When creating a citation or bibliographic coupling map of documents, the label
of a document includes a letter after the publication year if there are multiple
documents that have the same first author and the same publication year (e.g.,
'Smith (2015a)' and 'Smith (2015b)').
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data, documents without authors are
handled in a consistent way for all file types.
- Warning message is shown when creating a co-citation map of cited authors based
on Web of Science files. Only first authors are included.
- Warning message is shown when creating a co-citation map of cited references or
cited sources based on Scopus files. The data quality may be insufficient.
- Visualizations have been improved. In particular, improvements have been made to
mouseover effects.
- Some minor improvements to the screenshots have been made.
- Lines text box in the options panel has been replaced by Min. strength and Max.
lines text boxes. Default value for the maximum number of lines that are displayed
has been set to 500.
- Availability of fonts in the Font drop down list in the options panel has been
made dependent on the use of CJKV (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese)
characters in the labels of items. When the labels of items include CJKV
characters, only the SansSerif font is available.
- A number of changes have been made to the way in which encodings of text files
are handled:
- Functionality for detecting the encoding of a text file has been improved using
the juniversalchardet library.
- Encoding that is used when writing item labels to a text file has been made
dependent on encoding that was detected when the item labels were read from a text
file.
- When data is written to a text file using the UTF-8 encoding, a BOM (byte order
mark) is added.
- Code for writing GML files has been revised in order to make sure that GML files
can be read by Gephi.
- Command line parameters 'min_line_strength', 'max_n_lines', 'pan_step_size',
'zoom_speed', and 'zoom_step_size' have been added. Command line parameter
'n_lines' has been removed.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- A number of bugs have been solved. The most important bugs are:
- Null pointer exception when creating a map without links.
- Citation matching algorithm treats DOIs as case-sensitive when creating
citation and bibliographic coupling maps.

1.6.4 -> 1.6.5 (September 26, 2016)

- An Overlay Visualization tab has been added to the main panel. This tab replaces
the 'Score colors' and 'User defined colors' options available in the options panel
when the Network Visualization tab is selected in the main panel. The 'No colors'
option is no longer available in the options panel.
- Functionality for creating maps based on bibliographic data and based on text
data has been improved and extended:
- Duplicate records in Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed files are automatically
removed.
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data from Web of Science or Scopus,
a citation threshold can be used to select the items to be included in the map.
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data from Web of Science or Scopus,
additional weights and scores providing normalized and unnormalized citation
statistics are calculated.
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data, item descriptions are no
longer generated, except when creating a map of a citation network or a
bibliographic coupling network of documents.
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data, an additional score providing
publication year statistics is calculated.
- When creating a map based on text data from Web of Science or Scopus, an
additional score providing unnormalized citation statistics is calculated.
- When creating a map of a citation network of documents, there can be only one
citation link between two documents.
- Standardized weights have been introduced:
- When a map has been created or a map and a network have been opened, two
standardized weights are calculated for each item. One weight is the number of
links of an item. The other weight is the total strength of the links of an item.
The latter weight is not available when all links in a network have a strength of
1.
- In the Weights drop down list in the options panel, the standardized weights
are always listed above the user-defined weights. By default, the first user-
defined weight is selected. If there are no user-defined weights, the total link
strength weight is selected by default.
- A large number of command line parameters have been added. In particular, command
line parameters have been added for saving maps and saving screenshots.
- A number of changes to the user interface have been made. The most important
changes are:
- Most of the functionality of the information panel has been transferred to the
status bar. The information panel is no longer available if there are no item
descriptions.
- The options panel has been reorganized. Most importantly, the weights and
scores drop down lists have been made more prominently visible in the top part of
the options panel.
- The order of the Pajek and GML tabs in the Create Map wizard and the Open Map
dialog box has been reversed.
- A Save Map dialog box has been added. Saving a normalized network is no longer
supported.
- Drag and drop functionality of the main panel has been improved. Support for
dropping GML files and Pajek network files has been added.
- Quality of the density visualization has been improved by increasing the number
of points for which the density calculations are performed. In this way, quality
loss due to interpolation has been reduced.
- A number of bugs have been solved. The most important bugs are:
- When clicking the Update Clustering button on the Analysis tab in the action
panel, the selected weight in the Weights drop down list in the options panel may
change.
- The cluster density visualization shows the density of items that do not belong
to any cluster.
- Various bugs related to reading and writing VOSviewer map files, GML files, and
Pajek network files.

1.6.3 -> 1.6.4 (April 7, 2016)

- Support has been added for creating keyword co-occurrence maps and citation maps.
Citation maps are maps based on direct citation relations between documents,
sources, authors, organizations, or countries. The direction of a citation is
ignored.
- Support has been added for creating maps based on RIS files.
- Functionality has been added for automatically determining the values of the
attraction and repulsion parameters of the layout technique when creating a map.
Co-authorship maps of authors, keyword co-occurrence maps, and citation maps of
documents use values of, respectively, -1, 0, and 0 for the repulsion parameter.
All other maps use a value of 1 for the repulsion parameter. The attraction
parameter always has a value of 2.
- When creating a map based on bibliographic data, the default choice for the
number of items has been set to 500. Previously, the default choice was to include
all items.
- Optimization algorithm of the clustering technique has been improved based on the
idea of 'fast local moving'.
- Items may have no cluster assignment.
- Functionality has been added for removing small clusters from the results of the
clustering technique. When small clusters are removed, items belonging to these
clusters have no cluster assignment.
- Functionality has been added for normalizing scores.
- Some changes to the options panel have been made:
- Some improvements have been made to the 'Lines' spinner.
- The 'Apply normalization' check box has been removed.
- The 'Colored lines' and 'Curved lines' check boxes are now checked by default.
- When a map and a network have been opened using the Open Map dialog box, the
layout and clustering techniques are no longer disabled.
- When the option 'No normalization' or 'LinLog/modularity' is selected on the
Analysis tab (formerly the Map tab) in the action panel, it is no longer possible
to save the normalized network.
- When reading a VOSviewer map file or a VOSviewer scores file, proper checks for
NaN values are made. Null values are interpreted as NaN values.
- When writing a VOSviewer map file, the order of the columns has been changed.
- When reading a Scopus file, parsing of reference strings no longer depends on the
use of upper case letters in author names.
- Command line parameters 'scores_normalization' and 'show_item' have been added.
Command line parameters 'normalized_lines' and 'view_only' have been removed.
- A number of changes to the user interface have been made. The most important
changes are:
- A number of improvements have been made to the action panel:
- The Action tab has been renamed into the File tab and the Map tab has been
renamed into the Analysis tab.
- The 'Group items by cluster' check box on the Items tab is now checked by
default.
- The Analysis tab (formerly the Map tab) has been redesigned. Normalization
methods 1 and 2 have been renamed into, respectively, 'Association strength' and
'Fractionalization'. The term 'mapping' has been replaced by 'layout'.
- The first step in the Create Map wizard has been redesigned.
- Some improvements have been made to the color bar that is shown when working
with overlay visualizations.
- A status bar has been added.
- Mac OS X version of VOSviewer is now signed with a Developer ID to support the
Gatekeeper feature that was introduced in OS X Mountain Lion.
- A number of bugs have been solved. The most important bugs are:
- When the normalization method is changed, this change does not immediately
become effective.
- Bug that occurs when creating a term map using command line parameters.
- Bugs related to the presence of multiple weights or multiple scores per item.
These bugs occur when creating a map, opening a map, or running the layout or
clustering technique.

1.6.2 -> 1.6.3 (October 26, 2015)

- Support has been added for creating bibliographic coupling and co-authorship maps
of countries.
- Support has been added for ignoring copyright statements when creating term maps.
- When creating bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-authorship maps of
authors based on Web of Science, Scopus, or PubMed files, dummy author names
('[Anonymous]', '[No author name available]', and 'et al.') are removed.
- Support has been added for the tags '<cluster>', '<weight label>', '<weight>',
'<score label>', and '<score>' in the descriptions of items.
- Command line parameter 'colors' has been added.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- A number of bugs have been solved. The most important bugs are:
- When creating term maps based on PubMed files, the abstracts of publications
are processed only partially.
- When creating bibliographic coupling and co-authorship maps of organizations,
no deduplication is performed for publications with multiple addresses belonging to
the same organization.

1.6.1 -> 1.6.2 (August 27, 2015)

- A number of improvements have been made to the network visualization:
- Thickness of lines has been made dependent on link strength.
- Support for curved and colored lines has been added.
- Visual effects (transparency and mouseover) have been improved.
- Support has been added for having multiple weights and multiple scores per item.
- Bibliographic coupling, co-citation, co-authorship, and term maps are created
with multiple weights per item (e.g., documents and co-authorships or occurrences
and co-occurrences).
- Term maps created based on Web of Science, Scopus, or PubMed files now always
include scores (if the data required to calculate scores is available). Each term
has one or two scores (i.e., average publication year and average citation impact).
- Default counting method for creating bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and co-
authorship maps has been changed from fractional counting to full counting.
- Priority of cluster colors and score colors has been reversed. Cluster colors now
have priority over score colors.
- Code for reading GML files has been revised in order to make sure that GML files
created by Gephi can be read.
- A number of command line parameters have been added. The 'label_size' parameter
has been replaced by the 'scale' parameter.
- Some changes to the user interface have been made:
- Height of the options panel has been increased. Width of the information panel
has been decreased.
- Options panel has been partly redesigned.
- Min./Max. Scores dialog box is now called Set Score Colors Range dialog box.
- Weights of items are shown in the information panel.
- A number of bugs have been solved. Some of the more important bugs are:
- Double counting of co-occurrences when creating term maps.
- Bug in code for writing CSV files (incorrect separator; tab instead of comma).
- Items tab is not always updated properly.

1.6.0 -> 1.6.1 (March 16, 2015)

- Support for GML files has been added.
- Support for creating co-authorship maps based on PubMed files has been added.
- Code for reading text files consisting of multiple columns (e.g., VOSviewer map
and network files and Web of Science files) and CSV files (e.g., Scopus files) has
been improved. In version 1.6.0, Scopus files often were not read properly, causing
some lines to be ignored. Also, files saved using Excel sometimes caused problems.
These issues have been solved.
- To improve the quality of the part-of-speech tagging for creating term maps,
sentences that are completely in upper case are converted to lower case.
- When creating term map overlay visualizations based on Web of Science, Scopus, or
PubMed files, checks have been implemented to properly handle invalid publication
years.
- First step in the Create Map wizard has been redesigned. Three options are
offered instead of two. The option 'Create a map based on a network' has been split
into the options 'Create a map based on a network' and 'Create a map based on
bibliographic data'.
- Maximum zoom level in the main panel has been increased.
- Command line parameters 'black_background' and 'white_background' have been
added.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.5.7 -> 1.6.0 (January 11, 2015)

- Support for overlay visualizations has been improved:
- Scores are no longer expected to be in the range between 0 and 2.
- Suitable mapping from scores to colors is determined algorithmically. This
mapping can be changed manually in the Min./Max. Scores dialog box.
- Color bar is presented horizontally rather than vertically, creating more space
for showing scores.
- A number of changes have been made to the Create Map wizard:
- Support has been added for creating bibliographic coupling, co-citation, and
co-authorship maps based on Scopus files.
- Support has been added for creating term maps based on PubMed files.
- Support has been added for creating term map overlay visualizations based on
Web of Science, Scopus, and PubMed files. These visualizations can be created
either for showing time trends or for showing citation impact differences.
- A number of algorithmic changes have been made:
- Data structure for storing networks has been changed. Networks are stored in a
sparse format rather than in the full format that was used previously. This leads
to a significant reduction in memory usage in the case of sparse networks.
- Option has been added in the Advanced Parameters dialog box for using the
LinLog/modularity normalization.
- VOS mapping technique has been generalized. Two new parameters, the mapping
attraction and the mapping repulsion, have been made available on the Map tab.
Changing the values of these parameters may in some cases lead to more satisfactory
mapping results.
- Optimization algorithm of the VOS mapping technique has been changed. The
majorization algorithm that was used previously has been replaced by a gradient
descent algorithm. As a consequence, the Efficient Java Matrix Library is no longer
needed. The mapping parameters available in the Advanced Parameters dialog box have
been changed.
- Default number of iterations of the optimization algorithm of the VOS
clustering technique has been reduced from 50 to 10 in the Advanced Parameters
dialog box. Clustering therefore takes less time.
- A number of changes have been made to the user interface. The most important
changes are:
- The label view, density view, and cluster density view have been replaced by a
network visualization and a density visualization.
- The scatter view has been removed.
- The Options dialog box has been replaced by an options panel.
- An Update VOSviewer button has been added to the Action tab.
- A number of changes have been made to the visualization options:
- Option has been added for choosing between different fonts for displaying the
labels of items. The default font has been changed from SansSerif into Open Sans.
- Option has been added for having a black instead of a white background in the
network visualization.
- Option has been added for importing and exporting density colors.
- A number of less important visualization options have been removed. This
simplifies the user interface.
- Mac compatibility has been improved. A special Mac OS X version of VOSviewer has
been created.
- Various libraries (FreeHep VectorGraphics, Insubstantial, and SwingX) have been
updated.
- A substantial number of bugs have been solved. Some of the more important bugs
are:
 - URLs are incorrectly linked to items when there are multiple connected
components and only the largest connected component is kept.
- Null pointer exception in case of networks with unconnected items.
- Cluster numbers starting at 0 rather than 1 in Pajek partition files.
- Null pointer exception when reading Scopus files.
- Missing Scopus file names in the VOSviewer title bar.
- Resizing the VOSviewer main window.
- Too much overlap of labels.
- Missing VOSviewer logo when saving screenshots in vector format.
- Mapping and Clustering dialog boxes sometimes remain visible and VOSviewer then
does not respond anymore. This bug seemed to occur mainly on Mac systems.
- Mouse events are not properly handled after closing a dialog box. This bug
seemed to occur only on Mac systems.

1.5.6 -> 1.5.7 (June 2, 2014)

- Some of the default cluster colors have been changed slightly. The colors red
(cluster 1) and blue (cluster 3) have both been made slightly less dark.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.5.5 -> 1.5.6 (May 15, 2014)

- Support has been added for creating co-authorship maps based on Web of Science
files.
- Algorithm for determining which labels are displayed and which are not has been
improved.
- Definition of normalization method 2 has been changed.
- To improve the quality of the part-of-speech tagging for creating term maps, a
distinction between upper case and lower case characters is no longer made.
- Default settings in the Screenshot Options dialog box have been changed. The
default scaling has been increased from 100% to 200%. A border is no longer
included by default.
- Reference to the Web of Science terms of use has been added to the Create Map
wizard.
- A small bug in the processing of Web of Science data has been solved.

1.5.4 -> 1.5.5 (December 7, 2013)

- Support has been added for scores files in creating term maps. Scores files can
be used to create 'overlay visualizations'.
- Screenshot Options dialog box has been added. This dialog box can be used to
increase the resolution of screenshots.
- Cleaning of bibliographic data extracted from Web of Science files has been
improved.
- Old CWTS logo has been replaced by new one.
- Various libraries (Apache OpenNLP, Efficient Java Matrix Library, FreeHEP
VectorGraphics, Insubstantial, and SwingX) have been updated.
- A number of bugs have been solved. These bugs relate to:
- Frames in label view.
- Pajek partition files.
- Web of Science files.
- Identification of noun phrases.
- Screenshots.
- User interface.

1.5.3 -> 1.5.4 (January 1, 2013)

- Minimum cluster size parameter has been added.
- Map tab has been redesigned. Most mapping and clustering parameters have been
moved from the Map tab to an Advanced Parameters dialog box.
- When a VOSviewer map file containing coordinates or cluster numbers is opened in
the Create Map wizard, the wizard asks whether the coordinates or cluster numbers
from the map file should be used or whether new coordinates or cluster numbers
should be calculated. A Pajek network file containing coordinates is handled in a
similar way.

1.5.2 -> 1.5.3 (December 3, 2012)

- Functionality has been added for switching between user defined item colors,
score-based item colors, and cluster-based item colors. The 'cluster', 'score',
'red', 'green', and 'blue' columns may now all be used together in a VOSviewer map
file.
- Optimization algorithm of the VOS clustering technique has been improved. An
Iterations parameter has been added to the Map tab in the action panel.
- The JLAPACK library has been replaced by the Efficient Java Matrix Library,
resulting in a significant increase in the speed of the optimization algorithm of
the VOS mapping technique.
- Search for updates functionality has been added.
- When items do not have descriptions but do have scores, their scores are reported
in the information panel.
- VOSviewer label has been added to screenshots (in the lower left corner).
- A number of changes to the user interface have been made (e.g., the Options tab
has been replaced by an Options dialog box and automatic filtering has been added
to the Items tab).
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.5.1 -> 1.5.2 (September 1, 2012)

- Support for Pajek files has been extended.
- Support has been added for Web of Science files in plain text format.
- Support has been added for creating term maps based on Scopus files.
- Functionality has been added for changing the font size of labels displayed in
the main panel.
- A number of new command line parameters have been added.
- Default number of terms in a term map has been increased.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.5.0 -> 1.5.1 (June 13, 2012)

- Bug has been solved. This bug sometimes caused VOSviewer to crash when using Java
7.

1.4.3 -> 1.5.0 (May 23, 2012)

- Functionality has been added for creating different types of maps based on Web of
Science files.
- Functionality for creating term maps has been extended. Support for thesaurus
files has been added. Document-term relations can be saved in a text file.
- Functionality has been added for automatically recognizing the character encoding
of a text file.
- Splash screen has been added.
- Some changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.4.2 -> 1.4.3 (March 14, 2012)

- Functionality has been added for creating a term map based on Web of Science
files.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.

1.4.1 -> 1.4.2 (February 23, 2012)

- Some bugs in the Create Map wizard have been solved.
- Random starts parameter of the VOS mapping technique has been added back to the
Map tab in the action panel. (This parameter was removed in version 1.3.0.)
- Command line parameter has been added for specifying the character encoding to be
used for reading and writing text files.
- Java version number has been added to the About dialog box.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.

1.4.0 -> 1.4.1 (January 18, 2012)

- Optimization algorithm of the VOS clustering technique has been improved. The new
algorithm is much faster than the old one. The Random starts 2 parameter has been
removed from the Map tab in the action panel.
- Support has been added for cluster color files and score color files.
- Distinction between scores and normalized scores has been removed. Normalization
of scores is not performed anymore.
- Color bar panel has been improved. Scores are no longer restricted to the range
from 0 to 2.
- Natural language processing techniques for term identification have been
improved.
- Support for command line parameters has been improved and extended.
- Default height of the information panel has been increased.
- Version 6.3 of the Substance library has been replaced by version 7.0.
- Apache OpenNLP 1.5.1-incubating has been replaced by Apache OpenNLP 1.5.2-
incubating.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.3.2 -> 1.4.0 (September 10, 2011)

- A clear separation between creating new maps and opening existing maps has been
introduced. The Open Map dialog box can no longer be used for creating new maps.
This dialog box can only be used for opening existing maps. The Create Map wizard
has been added for creating new maps.
- Functionality has been added for selecting the items to be included in a new map.
- Functionality has been added for creating a term map based on a text corpus.
Terms are identified using natural language processing techniques. Also, a
technique for selecting the most relevant terms is provided.
- Support has been added for map files with a NORMALIZED WEIGHT column.
- Support has been added for map files with a SCORE or NORMALIZED SCORE column.
- Functionality has been added for saving a map or a network in a Pajek file.
- Names of the libraries used by VOSviewer have been added to the About dialog box.
- Some changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.3.1 -> 1.3.2 (June 8, 2011)

- Functionality has been added for assigning URLs to items. When one clicks on the
label of an item in the main panel, the URL assigned to the item will be opened.
- Information on memory usage has been added to the About dialog box.
- Some memory-related bugs have been solved.

1.3.0 -> 1.3.1 (March 9, 2011)

- Visualization of lines in the label view and the scatter view has been changed.
The lines have become better visible.
- Open button on Action tab is always enabled.
- Some minor changes to the user interface have been made.
- Some bugs have been solved.

1.2.1 -> 1.3.0 (January 22, 2011)

- File types used by VOSviewer have been changed. Item files, co-occurrences files,
and coordinates files are no longer supported. Item files and coordinates files
have been replaced by map files. Co-occurrences files have been replaced by network
files.
- Functionality has been added for saving normalized and unnormalized networks.
- Support for asymmetric adjacency matrices (i.e., directed networks) has been
added. Internally, these matrices are made symmetric.
- Support for networks with unconnected items has been changed. One can choose to
map either all items in the network or only the largest set of connected items.
- Similarity measure 1 has been removed. Similarity measures are now referred to as
normalization methods. Similarity measures 2 and 3 have become normalization
methods 1 and 2, respectively. Self links may or may not be ignored during
normalization. Normalization is no longer enforced.
- Normalization is now performed each time the mapping and/or clustering techniques
are run rather than only when a map is opened.
- Functionality has been added for displaying lines between items in the label view
and the scatter view of the main panel.
- Various minor changes have been made to the way in which maps are shown in the
different views of the main panel.
- Functionality has been added for optimizing screenshots.
- Functionality has been added for rotating and flipping maps.
- Random starts parameter of the mapping technique has been removed from the Map
tab in the action panel. The parameter now has a fixed value of 1. The default
value of Convergence parameter of the mapping technique has been changed.
- Action panel has been largely redesigned. The VOS tab is now called the Map tab.
- Drag and drop functionality has been added to the main panel.
- Information panel has been made always visible. The default description of items
in the information panel has been changed.
- Line numbers have been added to error messages that appear when reading a map
file or a network file.
- Version 6.1 of the Substance library (https://substance.dev.java.net/) has been
integrated. As a consequence, the look and feel has changed.
- Various bugs have been solved.

1.2.0 -> 1.2.1 (June 15, 2010):

- Bug during opening map has been solved.
- Functionality for saving similarities files has been removed.
- Default setting of "Group items by cluster" check box on the Items tab has been
changed.

1.1.0 -> 1.2.0 (May 18, 2010):

- VOS clustering technique has been added.
- Find tab has been redesigned. The tab is now called the Items tab.
- Support for coordinates files with four columns has been added. The fourth column
can be used to specify cluster numbers.
- New similarity measure has been added.
- Functionality has been added to the Change Cluster Colors dialog box for choosing
cluster colors randomly.
- Drag and drop functionality has been added to the Open Map dialog box.
- Various small bugs have been solved.

1.0.2 -> 1.1.0 (January 6, 2010):

- Functionality has been added for automatically identifying the largest set of
connected items.
- Functionality has been added for changing the colors of clusters.
- Support for items files with non-consecutive cluster numbers has been added.
- Support for sparse co-occurrences files consisting of two (rather than three)
columns has been added.
- Import functionality for Pajek files has been added.
- Error handling has been added for unexpected errors during file input, in
particular for out of memory errors.
- Various file I/O bugs have been solved.
- Open Map dialog box has been redesigned.
- Various minor changes to the user interface have been made, and some bugs in the
user interface have been solved.

1.0.1 -> 1.0.2 (October 1, 2009):

- Copy screenshot to clipboard functionality has been added.
- Print screenshot functionality has been added.
- Zoom level used by the Show button on the Find tab has been changed.
- Map reflection procedure has been changed.
- Version 5.0 of the Substance library has been replaced by version 5.3.

1.0.0 -> 1.0.1 (July 6, 2009):

- About dialog box has been changed.