Editing Cartographer Project Release Notes (section)

== What's New in Release 1.5? ==

* Cartographer GUI has been ported to the JGraphX graph library (JGraph version 6) and extensively re-worked.  Improvements and fixes have been made to the Java/Swing event handling and window drawing/updating.  Major architectural changes are in store for future versions.

* Cartographer GUI views now update automatically and periodically

* Cartographer GUI layouts are not re-created unless explicitly needed.  This improvement should cut down on CPU and memory consumption.

* Cartographer GUI debug/stderr window now does not forced on top of other windows

* Cartographer GUI Fixed handling of reachable status

* Cartographer GUI status bars now properly updated via Swing event queue

* Cartographer GUI query/prune thread writes its status to the status bar

* Cartographer GUI can now set dependency age out interval in minute-granularity

* Cartographer plugin includes fixes for IPv6 remote filesystem detection and reachability

* Cartographer plugin better works around DNS errors when determining dependency client/server.  Many times, systems have forward records that do not match reverse records.  Cartographer plugin now better accommodates those situations.

* Cartographer plugin win32 router discovery could be fooled by bogus pattern matching of IP addresses

* Cartographer plugin includes fixes for IPv6 reachability testing

* Cartographer plugin peer contact and reachable times were incorrectly initialized

* Cartographer plugin includes detection of newer ''chronyd'' discovery

* Cartographer plugin now includes ability to configure ''dependencyScanInterval'' via ''cartographer.xml'' config file.  Default is 90-seconds now which reduces Cartographer agent CPU consumption.

* Cartographer plugin better detects local IPv6 dependencies

* MIB2 plugin now includes IPv6 addresses when communicating with Cartographer plugin