Change Logs

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v1.5.0 : 2024-04-14

• Milestone marker is placed/drawn before the text of the task to prevent the marker from obstructing the text. This resolved issue #79.

v1.4.0 : 2023-11-20

• Supported finer text alignment for milestone.

v1.3.3 : 2023-10-15

• Fixed SVG output not showing vertical line.

v1.3.2 : 2023-09-17

• Fixed #69. Task bar was not displayed with the correct width.
• Fixed defect that was introduced with the fixed for #61. The group height got extended even though there are no milestones in the group.

v1.3.1 : 2023-08-10

• Fixed #61. Incorrect Group box height due to multiple milestones.

v1.3.0 : 2023-07-09

• Fixed #39 Hardcoded text alignment issue
• Added set_background_colour() method. See Usage Documentation for more information.
• Added "svg" as a painter type. You can now save the diagram as svg file. You just have to set painter_type = "svg" when creating the Roadmap.

v1.2.1 : 2023-05-27

• Removed the dependency of Arial font on Linux system. i.e. The following commands to install MSCoreFonts is no longer required.
  • sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer
  • sudo fc-cache -f
• Code clean up

v1.2.0 : 2023-04-24

• Fixed #20: Removed absolute font naming dependency. i.e. "arial.ttf"
• Fixed #22: The date argument for add_timeline() method is now passed as keyword argument. e.g. add_timeline(start="2023-05-16")
• Introduced the 'with' statement for context management to create cleaner code.

v1.1.1 : 2023-04-02

• Fixed #15: De-coupled locale from timeline formatting. If you are using non 'en_US' locale in your machine, it will not throw error anymore. Custom timeline formatting through .json file is still supported.

v1.1.0 : 2023-01-31

• Unicode, multilingual support
• Ability to change timeline locale and labels
• Ability to add your own custom colour scheme

v1.0.0 : 2023-01-08

• Provided options to show first day of week instead of W1, W2, etc. in WEEKLY timeline mode.
• Provided options to configure font and fill colour for year in the timeline section.
• Changed add_timeline() method parameters. font, font_size and font_colour are now deprecated.
  • To configure timeline year area, use year_font, year_font_size and year_fill_colour
  • To configure timlien item area, use item_font, item_font_size and item_fill_colour
• Provided options to change task appearance in the roadmap. Task can now be displayed rectangular or rounded rectangle or rectangle with arrow head.
• Ability to add logo to the roadmap.
• Fixed issue with WEEKLY timeline mode

v0.2.2 : 2022-12-22

• Replaced problematic pycairo with Pillow library
• Ability to add subtitle text
• Option to display vertical grey lines for timelines
• Year is not displayed on top of the timeline
• Replaced "Now" marker to ▼
• Auto size surface height
• Fixed defects

v0.1.1 : 2022-12-05

• Added colour themes support.
• Added the ability to change timeline from actual date to non-specific timeline like Year 1, Year 2, Month 1, Month 2, etc.
• Added the ability to show current date marker on the roadmap.
• Cleaned up code and fixed defects.

v0.1.0-beta3 : 2022-11-18

• Fixed Roadmap.draw() error when set_footer() method has not been called.
• Added Roadmap.version to show the library version.
• Renamed package from "roadmap-generator" to "roadmapper".
• Fixed some defects.

v0.1.0-beta2 : 2022-11-14

• Fix distribution package error.

0.1.0-beta1 : 2022-11-14

• Initial beta release.