Protégé 4.0 RC1 Release Notes

The contents of this page describe changes relative to Protégé 3.4.

Release Candidate 1 -- Build 112 -- June 1, 2009

Enhancements in Protégé-OWL

There is a new background task busy indicator when performing long operations such as downloading plug-ins or exporting OWLDoc.
The load errors dialog now attempts to guess which syntax was being loaded and shows the appropriate tab.
FaCT++ updated to improve performance on iterative ontology changes.
There is now a "Check for plugins..." item in the file menu for easier access to new plug-ins.

Bug Fixes in Protégé-OWL

Protégé no longer navigates to the active ontology tab on a reload.
Additional option in "New Entities" preferences to allow ":" as a separator when creating URNs.
Imports are now more robust to syntaxes other than RDF/XML.
Problems with OWLViz plug-in on Windows Vista with new Graphviz release fixed.
Entities no longer disappear when label is deleted.
Fixed a bug that could cause an infinite save as loop.
Autocomplete corrected to suggest datatypes in qualified cardinality restrictions.
rdfs:Literal is now correctly rendered when using a qname renderer.
The preferences dialog can now be resized along with its contents.
The welcome screen is resized to fit its contents when workspaces are closed.
Fixed a bug where filenames less than 3 characters long fail to save.
Fixed a bug in the RDF/XML parser that caused it to ignore older disjointDataProperties syntax.
Fixed a bug where a reasoner may continue running in the background even when a different reasoner has been selected.
Fixed several bugs in managing disjoint properties.