The very first version of AnyChart hit the shelves more than 10 years ago, check out what our products went through and see what's new in the most recent update.
Version 4.x History
AnyChart version 4.2.1
Released Jan 31, 2008New features:
- Animation effects, motions, durations, for labels, markers, points and data plot.
- Optimized Chart Performance
AnyChart version 4.2.0
Released Dec 29, 2007New features:
- AnyMap Extension with a number of features (including Charts and Maps in a single dashboard)
— to many to list in version history - Interactivity
— Multiple Elements Select
— Selectable/Hoverable Settings for Interactive Elements
— Title, Subtitle and Footer Actions
— updateView and updateChart tokens technique - Custom Controls with Fixed, Floating and Auto Layout
— Multiple Custom Interactive Labels
— Multiple Legends - Thresholds
— Custom condition based thresholds
— Automatic Thresholds - Exporting
— Save As PDF
— Save As Image now has export image size settings
— External invoking of Save As and Printing functions
— Autosaving a chart upon rendering - Axes
— Axes Custom Labels
— Axes Custom Lines (trends)
— Axes Custom Ranges (zones)
— New Axes Keywords
— New Extra Axes Definition Format - Templates
— ability to change series and data nodes attributes using template - No Data Message Configuration
- External showLoading commands and text configuration
- Massive AnyChart.js update
— https issues fix
— wmode parameter support
AnyChart version 4.1.1
Released Nov 5, 2007New features:
- Significant performance improvement
AnyChart version 4.1.0
Released Oct 16, 2007New features:
- Save As Image Feature
- New Chart Types:
- 3D Column (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 3D Bar (Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 2D/3D Pyramid(Stacked, 100% Stacked ),
- 2D/3D Cone (Stacked, 100% Stacked),
- 2D/3D Cylinder(Range, Stacked, 100% Stacked).
- New Financial Chart Types:
- Japanese Candlestick,
- Open-High-Low-Close Chart.
- DateTime:
- X and Y Axes DateTime Scales with full control over labels and scale,
- Fully Customizable DateTime Formatting,
- Flexible DateTime Input/Output localization,
- UNIX TimeStamp Input Format,
- Scatter Charts with DateTime axes.
- Dashboard Creation Feature:
- Create Interactive Dashboard using powerful layout, templates and actions system using only one SWF file.
- User's Guide Updated:
- Over 80 tutorials with more than 300 chart samples,
- A number of Implementation Samples — including AJAX integration and JavaScript Event Handlers.
- XML Reference Updated.
- Interactivity:
- Unlimited Number of Custom Actions on Point Click — open web page, launch external function, update another chart in dashboard and drilldown.
- Selected State Configuration for All Chart Types, ability to set default selected element on chart.
- Color Range Palettes — automatic feature for coloring all data points in different colors.
- Preloader Texts Customization Feature
- Advanced Number Formatting and Scaling
- Ability to set Meta Data for Points and Series using Custom Attributes for use in labels, tooltips, legend and actions.
AnyChart version 4.0.6
Released Sep 23, 2007New features:
- Complete XML reference with all nodes
- Improved gallery
- Minor bug fixes
- Tokens [%DataPlotYMin] and [%DataPlotYMax] now work in all texts
- Bug fix for with X axis invert for Spline Area series
- x and y attributes of <legend> node were changed to horizontal_padding and vertical_padding
AnyChart version 4.0.0
Released Sep 17, 2007New features:
- Absolutely New Chart Engine for Flash Player 9
- New XML Format
- Over 60 Chart Types
- Aqua Look for Bar, Column and Bubble Charts Style
- Effects, Styles, Templates
- Rich Interactivity Options
- ... and many more new features.