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Portable XMind Changelog

What's new in Portable XMind 8,0

Aug 31, 2017
  • High resolution display support.
  • Import & Export to OPML, Lighten file.
  • Import Novamind maps.
  • Resource Manager.
  • Improved XMind Cloud
  • Support manual layout.
  • Support adding idea groups in Brainstorming mode.
  • Redesigned file encryption function and password hint supported.
  • New Audio Notes operation interface.
  • Optimize export function and add recent list.
  • "Insert image from IconFinder" interaction optimization.
  • Reorganized context menu.
  • Preferences interface optimization.
  • "Numbering" usability enhancement.
  • Keyboard shortcuts optimization in Walkthrough Mode Presentation.
  • Enhanced template management UI.
  • Many other minor improvements.

New in Portable XMind 3.6.1 (Dec 28, 2015)

  • 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 Portable XMind 3.5.3 (Jun 20, 2015)

  • 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 Portable XMind 3.5.2 (Apr 28, 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 Portable XMind 3.5.1 (Nov 24, 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 Portable XMind 3.5.0 Beta 2 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • New Features:
  • All New Designed "Brainstorming Mode".
  • Save to Evernote.
  • Advanced Theme Editor.
  • Index View.
  • Export to Microsoft Project.
  • Export to Open Office (ODF).
  • More themes, styles and markers.
  • Import & Export XRB/XMind Resource Bundle.
  • Improvements:
  • Add permissions in Local Network Sharing.
  • Reorganized and improved toolbar, customize toolbar position.
  • On Mac, XMind embeds Java 7 and no need to manually install Java anymore.
  • Integrate Style View into Properties View. Add "reset style" option.
  • Reorganize View Menu, add a sub-menu instead of the Views Dialog.
  • New style notification window.
  • New Sheet From Template.
  • An option to hide paid features from menu and toolbar.
  • Add a new balanced map structure.
  • Improved context menu.
  • New color picker.
  • Improved Export to Excel.
  • Add 120% value between 100% and 150% when zoom in/out a map.
  • Many other minor improvements.
  • Fixed Bugs:
  • On Windows (Portable version) and Ubuntu, the splash image won't disappear after XMind was successfully launched.
  • When copy a link onto a topic in XMind, after export to PDF document, the link was failed to be opened.
  • Part of task text was cut off in Gantt View.
  • Fail to change the duration by dragging the task bar in Gantt View.
  • The background color of a image/marker in a topic was covered in black or changed after exporting to PDF Map.
  • The keyboard shortcut Ctrl + "+/-" can not be used to zoom in/out in Presentation Mode.
  • In Task Info View, if the text content of a task is too long, all buttons on the right side will not be displayed until the text content is displayed in full.
  • The internal web browser can not be used on Ubuntu.
  • Fail to open attachment(s) after exporting to PDF Document.
  • After exporting to Word, absolute link and relative link to file and folder are both failure; after exporting to HTML, only the relative link to file is failure.
  • Fail to import MS Word files that contain Table(s).
  • When main topic select a numbering style, the subtopic of floating topic can not select the same numbering style.
  • The MindMapEditor is not dirty when editing notes in the floating notes editor, which causes that you will not be prompted to save the modified notes while directly closing XMind.
  • Entering brainstorming mode while a topic is in edit mode will lead to mishandling of keyboard event.
  • Relative hyperlink becomes absolute link in the exported PDF Document file.
  • "Numbering Level Until" setting will be invalid after exporting to Word if the file has already included numbering.
  • AutoNumbering was removed after exporting to Excel.
  • The text's background of notes will be black after exporting to Word if the notes include bold font.
  • The notes shows normally after importing a Mindmanager file into XMind. But after exporting from XMind to PDF Document and Word, the notes part will be filled in black.
  • Part of contents was lost in XMind after importing from Word.
  • On Windows, there may be a prompt to stall Bonjour service everytime while launching XMind.
  • Many other minor bugs fixed.

New in Portable XMind 3.4.1 (Oct 10, 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 Portable XMind 3.4.0 (Oct 10, 2014)

  • 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
  • New Style Editor
  • 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 Portable XMind 3.3.1 (Jan 9, 2013)

  • New:
  • Korean Language pacakge. Now, XMind has English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, French, Spanish, Danish, and Slovenian version.
  • Auto-update support on Windows and Max OS X.
  • View/clear activation information in the license dialog.
  • Bugs fix and Improvement:
  • Upgrade to Eclipse 3.8.1
  • Increase the file saving speed tremendously
  • Re-designed “New…” Tab
  • Drag the file/folder into XMind as a local file hyperlink
  • File hyperlink pointing to a location in local area network is regarded as a broken relative link.
  • Some bugs causing startup crash on Windows.
  • Pressing ‘Enter’ key to type literal words using some input methods finishes topic title editing on Mac OS X.
  • Hyperlink in notes causes failure of exporting to Mindjet MindManager.
  • Debian package contains ‘bad permission’ files.
  • Automatically recover to original state in case of failure to save a .xmind file.
  • Many other minor improvements and bugs fix.

New in Portable XMind 3.3.0 (Aug 24, 2012)

  • New features:
  • New business model
  • New Gantt Chart
  • Revision
  • Search content in xmind file on Mac via spotlight
  • Spellcheck view
  • Qiucklook attachment/image on Mac
  • Improvement:
  • Eclipse 3.7.2
  • Double click to open' works better and more stable
  • Support dragging file onto XMind icon to open on Mac
  • Portrait/Landscape options in 'Page Setup' dialog
  • New 'Extract and Apply' option after extracting theme.
  • Improve file save/open process
  • Improved performance after enabling auto save
  • Show proper error message after failure to export to PDF(map)
  • Upload' is renamed to 'Share'
  • While saving the preview image in xmind file, save file's center position at the same time.
  • Default format of preview image changed to PNG
  • The Open dialog points to Documents folder when being first used, and points to last time path in future usage.
  • Drill down into a topic, the Gantt chart shows only the current map's topics.
  • Internal browser works well on windows
  • Map won't scroll automatically when selecting multiple elements.
  • When opening a .xmind file using double click, no extra blank map will be open.
  • Use platform-specific solution to open file hyperlink/attachment.
  • Find/Replace no longer messes across editor and notes view.
  • When closing XMind, unsaved workbooks will be asked to save one by one instead of an aggregate dialog.
  • Improve the shortcuts under Brainstorming mode
  • Improve the proxy settings
  • Improve the new file dialog
  • many other improvements, like new splash, new about dialog
  • Bugs:
  • Can't drag file into xmind as attachment on linux.
  • Default color of Notes view is white on linux.
  • Moving multiple floating topics at the same time, they will lose the relative postion.
  • In a drilled down map, after moving the central topic and a floating topic at the same time, the central topic will be lost when drilled back up.
  • Ctrl+s can not save the file in brainstorming mode
  • The date info in Taskinfo view does not update if always let xmind open
  • The status of new imported map from MindManager/FreeMind is saved. User can not save it directly unless making one modification.
  • Yes/No icons in Freemind become question mark marker after importing.
  • If there are topic links between sheets, xmind failed to export map to PDF(document).
  • Quotation marks in labels will cause exporting to Word/PPT fail.
  • The suggested file name will be not right when exporting a map with a multi-line titled central topic to PDF.
  • Spell mistake in the export dialog
  • On Windows, if setting the xmind portable as default program of .xmind files and double-clicking .xmind to open it,there will be special folder at the same level with that .xmind file.
  • Press shift key to select multiple topics, then copy and paste to another topic, the pasted topics' order is not right.
  • some other small bugs

New in Portable XMind 3.2.1 (Mar 22, 2011)

  • Brandnew dictionary management in Preferences page lets spell check work better.
  • The special XMind version for Japan serves Japanese users.
  • Improved French and Spanish UI translation is waiting for French or Spanish speaking users.
  • XMind Pro can work offline now. (expect uploading map of course.)
  • The signin process in XMind is enhanced much.
  • Fix a shortcut bug (Ctrl+Alt+N).
  • And some other improvements.

New in Portable XMind 3.2.1 Beta (Oct 25, 2010)

  • The biggest point in this update is that it improves the offline usage. After enabling "Remember me on this computer" in the signin dialog, you can enjoy XMind Pro features on the road, in the plane, and anywhere.
  • It brings the new dictionary management to help no-english-speak people to do spell check.
  • It also improves some security issues.