What's New in yaap!

A running list of changes to yaap!, written for the people who use it. Newest changes are at the top. Each version is a release codename — one or more pope names followed by the version number in Roman numerals.

John Paul XXXIV

New

• Changelog: you can now see what’s new and what has changed in yaap!
• Subgropus with at least 3 numerical values get ploted as chart
• New setting (off by default): “also found in” can be optionally added (off becasue of performance issues)
• Sorting options in “My Timelines” to help you find a timeline faster.
• “What happened between” can now suggest:
  • Geography
    • Settlements and cities
  • Science
    • Astronomical events: solar and lunar eclipses, and notable comet appearances.
    • Inventions and discoveries.
  • Politics
    • Treaties signed.
    • Elections held.
    • Coronations that took place.
    • Assassinations that took place.
  • Economy
    • Companies founded.
  • Nature & disasters
    • Natural disasters (earthquakes, eruptions, floods, storms)
  • Culture and Art
    • Paintings and sculptures created.
    • Video games released.
    • Movies and TV series whose story is set in the timeline’s period.
• Setting “Indicate: has comment/reference” (off by default): shows a double-dagger/double-cross symbol at the end of an entry’s label when it has a reference or comment.
• Dates can now have a precision, also loaded if available from Wikidata (for example year instead of day).
• Dates can now be marked as “circa” (approximate), just like in Wikidata, and shown that way on the timeline.
• Setting to choose a default date precision (minimum precision) and, if you like, add a “circa” label automatically for less precise dates.
• Setting what your circa lable shall be.
• Setting (on by default): when several birth or death dates exist, the timeline automatically keeps only the most likely one.
• References from Wikidata can now be loaded into the matching item.
• Fields to describe your timelines and items: add tags and geo-tags, and record a source, an author, and a license.
• Pictures are now part of the export.

Improved

• Manage an entry’s Wikidata links right in the edit dialog: every linked item and property is shown as a link, you can remove and if an entry has no link yet you can set a Wikidata key.
• Move items to combine them instead of overwriting: drop a group or subgroup onto an entry, drop a group onto a subgroup, or merge two single dates into one start–end entry. In every case both keep their own Wikidata links and pictures and take on the other’s — nothing is lost, and everything is shown together.
• More control when exporting a timeline: you can now include the references, and choose whether to show the author, the timeline source, the license, and the legend. Also change number of time-ticks.
• Number of ticks on the time axis — in the now step in doublings.
• Dragging one entry onto another to combine them now works with every kind of date.
• Adding an entry does no longer always initialise with “please choose”.
• The switch for showing the “circa” label is now also in the settings.
• Setting dates remembers last set date now

Fixed

• Item images now line up with their label on the timeline.
• When registering, a mistyped e-mail address is now pointed out right away.
• A new timeline no longer keeps the style of the previous one.

Francis XXXIII

• Major improvements to retrieving data from Wikidata.
• Better calculation of timedistances

Martin XXXII

• Easier item moving: drop items onto lines, or merge two points in time into a single start–end entry.

Gregory Benedict John XXXI

• Improvements to selecting multiple items.
• New intro videos added where helpful.

Alexander XXIX

• Select multiple items at once.

Clement XXVI

• Reworked the styling feature.

Leo XXIV

• Export timelines as images.

IV to XXIII: The Dark Ages

• Lots of work happened here, but it was never really written down.

Peter III

• Alpha release with a proof of concept: fetch date-related data from Wikidata and show it on an SVG timeline.