hale»studio 5.0.0

hale»studio 5.0.0

This hale»studio release brings several new features as well as fixes for issues of the previous release. These include:

• The latest hale»studio 5.0.0 now supports Java 17 as target runtime, this is a major migration from Java 8 used in the previous releases
• Support for Groovy 2.4 also updated to Groovy 2.5
• Support to configure details on HTTP client max connections and connection eviction via environment variables
• Support for TopoJSON as a format for exporting data
• Deegree workspace configuration generation has been temporarily removed since it requires further work to integrate updated dependencies that are compatible with Java 17

For a complete list of changes, please take a look at the change log.

Important note for Windows users

In case you experience problems with hale studio after upgrading from a previous version (e.g. a missing menu bar or other UI glitches), please make sure to delete or rename the workspace folder HALE in %APPDATA%\wetransform as this folder may contain data incompatible with the new Eclipse platform.

Installation instructions

Using the installer for Windows:

• Download the installer for Windows and run it
• Run the hale studio executable (e.g. HALE.exe on Windows)

On macOS:

• download the dmg file and double click on it
• drag hale studio to the Applications folder
• launch terminal and execute the following command

 xattr -cr '/Applications/hale studio.app'

• Finally, launch hale studio from Applications

On Linux

• No special instructions required, extract, copy and run as usual