• New chart type added: Sankey diagrams
• xmCHART 5 ready for FileMaker 2023.
• xmCHART 5 Quick Reference App: Improved support for dark mode.

• Formatting bug fixed.
• Stroke dash pattern crash fixed.
• Area charts: clipping bug fixed.

This update is free to all owners of a xmCHART 5.0 license.

• SaveAsWebPFile(): Support of WebP image compression added. WebP — Frequently Asked Questions
• xmCHART 5 ready for FileMaker 19.5

• Issues related to macOS Monterey and Apple Silicon M1 processor fixed.

• BarcodeUPC(): Support of UPC-A, UPC-E, UPC-5, UPC-2 barcodes added.
• BarcodePDF417() now supports the full ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set.

• Localization problems with month and weekday names fixed.
• A series of issues in combination with styled texts fixed.
• Formatting: Bug displaying the absolute value of a number fixed.
• Table cell borders: Clipping bug fixed.
• ViolinPlot(): Clipping bug fixed.

• xmCHART 5 now supports FileMaker Server 19 on Linux Ubuntu.
• BarcodeEAN(): Support of EAN-5 and EAN-2 added, see examples.
• HeatMapOptions(): Flag added to optimize the label color to ensure good readability, see examples.
• TreeMapOptions(): Flag added to optimize the label color to ensure good readability, see examples.
• FillColorScale(): Optional value for the middle of the color scale added, see examples.
• xmCHART 5 ready for FileMaker 19.4

• BarcodeQR(): Bug in combination with byte-order-mark (BOM) fixed.
• 3D pie charts: Fixed some rendering glitches if chart contains null or 0 values.

• xmCHART 5 for macOS is now a Universal Binary (Intel+Apple M1)
• xmCHART 5 Quick Reference App for macOS compiled as Universal Binary (Intel+Apple M1)
• Function Violin Plot(): Option for creating split violin plots added, see example.

• Histogram() axis labels: Round-off error fixed.
• Violin Plot(): Error in calculating the width of optional box plot fixed.
• Colorize Code[]: Scripts containing zero-width or no-break spaces are now colorized correctly.

• New diagram type Violin Plot. See ViolinPlot() and ViolinPlotOptions().
• Function HighLowChartOptions(): Attributes for creating range charts added, see examples.
• Function ChartDataOptions(): Optional sorting of scatter, bar and pie chart values added, see examples.
• Function ChartDataOptions(): Additional option treating a Not-enough-data error added.
• Function OpenChart(): Clipping options added, see examples.
• Optionally, optimize the color of value labels within bar and pie charts to ensure good readability. See examples.
• Function TreeMapOptions(): Support of different distribution directions added, see examples.
• New external function & script step Colorize Code[].
• New external function & script step Format Code[].

• HeatMap(): Corner rounding error fixed.
• HeatMap(): Positioning and aligning of scaled cells works now correctly.
• HeatMap(): Fixed a label bug if the number of displayed cells is less than the number of available values.
• FillColorScale(): Reference Min/Max values now work correctly in combination with heat maps and tree maps.
• DateTimeOptions(): Several issues in combination with flag dateOrder resolved.
• BarcodeQR(): Bug in combination with CRLF (\r\n) and byte-order-mark (BOM) fixed.
• Fixed a bug when parsing an argument of type string with a trailing inline comment.
• Crash in combination with styled texts fixed.
• Missing connecting line to outer pie chart labels in combination with LabelOptions(;;;;lowerlimit) fixed.
• ChartDataOptions(xyxy2): Fixed Not-enough-data error for data points containing NULL.
• Function PieChartInnerLabelBackgroundOptions() works now correctly.
• CircularBarChart(): Error in positioning and aligning within OpenChart() . . . CloseChart() fixed.
• LegendStyle(): Default text alignment changed from center to left.
• Cylindric bar charts: Fixed some minor drawing glitches.

• Significant speed improvement in rendering shadow effects (Windows).
• Improved support for Unicode emojis, flags, etc. See examples.
• Improved image quality on Retina displays (macOS).
• Different styles for ascending & descending line segments added, see example.
• New highly customizable AddMultigon() function added, see examples.
• Function AddSlice() may now have different inner start and end radii, see examples.
• Functions AddRoundFrame() and AddRoundRect() allow now up to four individual corner radii, see examples.
• New function HighLowChartOptions() added, see examples.
• SaveAsPDFFile(): Append or insert drawing to an existing PDF file.
• LineStyle(): Optional shift factor to the jump and step constants added, see examples.
• Tables: Cell texts consisting of several lines are now supported, see example.
• Tables: New function TableRowAlignments() added, see example.
• Tables: Support of user-defined fonts added.
• Improved and more precise error messages.

• Fixed incomplete export using FileMaker script step Save Records As PDF (macOS).
• Fixed a bug returning a broken image "Untitled.dat" (FileMaker Server Windows).
• Fixed a hyphenation bug occurring in non-English texts (Windows).
• Line smoothing: PCHIP algorithm now works correctly also for closed shapes.
• Fixed xmCH_GetMouse() offset error.
• Fixed a bug in "xmCHART_Installer.fmp12".
• Fixed a series of minor bugs and glitches.

• Bug returning an empty image has been fixed (FileMaker Server Windows).
• xmCHART 5 Quick Reference App: Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.

• Concurrency (multi-threading) related crash fixed (Windows).
• Label format bug in combination with running totals fixed (all platforms).
• Issue with stroke color gradient fixed (macOS).
• Fixed a bug in combination with PNG images which may cause a crash (macOS).
• Crash due to an empty chart data series fixed (all platforms).
• Wrong positioning of elements within successive views fixed (all platforms).
• ChartDataRead(): Bug messing up imported values fixed (all platforms).
• BarcodeQR(): Bug producing garbage characters fixed. (all platforms).
• LabelBackgroundOptions(): Fixed a bug which may cause a crash (all platforms).
• DropLineReferenceLine(): Wrong position of reference line fixed (all platforms).
• SaveAsPDFFile(): Memory leakage fixed (Windows).
• AddArrowExt(): Shadow clipping bug fixed (Linux).
• Speed improvement due to optimized text rendering (Linux).
• Tables: Custom column width bug fixed (all platforms).
• Tables: Missing last cell if empty fixed (all platforms).
• Tables: Cells with styled text is now working properly (all platforms).
• Tags: Fine tune positions and alignments of tag elements (all platforms).
• xmCHART 5.0.2 made more backward compatible with older xmCHART versions (all platforms).
• xmCHART 5 Quick Reference App: Improved support for the dark mode in macOS Mojave and later.
• Reworked gallery database.

• New chart types: Linear and radial gauges, contour and density plots, Venn diagrams.
• New text engine rewritten from scratch — supports now styled texts and hyphenation.
• New table, group and tag elements.
• Legend for heat maps, tree maps and density plots.
• New and improved arrow and round polygon objects.
• Texts and symbols along arbitrary paths.
• Backgrounds with round corners and paddings.
• Enhanced and improved symbol collection.
• Custom color schemes and color scales.
• Improved and optimized dashed line styles.
• Enhanced fill style for Gantt charts.
• Rotated views.
• New and faster input parser.
• Support of Script Steps.
• Enhanced gallery database.
• Numerous bug fixes.
• Ready for FileMaker 18, FileMaker 18 Server, FileMaker WebDirect.

• All xmCHART 4.0.10 plug-ins are code signed.
• Issue closing the About Box of xmCHART in FileMaker Preferences fixed (macOS).
• Fixed some minor bugs and glitches.