WISE 5.7 is now available

[Hiroki Terashima]

Hi WISE developers and server administrators,

WISE 5.7 is now available for download from http://wise5.org! Thanks to all the people that made this release possible.

Major changes

1. Added support for symbolic linking of resources while running WISE in embedded tomcat mode.

Minor changes

1. Animation Component: Fixed a bug where the red line would not move. #1041
2. Graph Component: Authors can now hide the legend, can author a custom legend and can have the graph highlight the latest point. Students can highlight a range.
3. Label Component: Students can now import open response student data as a background image. Added an option to allow students to edit labels. #1040
4. Graph and embedded components: Made some style and UI updates
5. WISE4 Project Converter: Fixed a bug where old animation steps could break the conversion process
6. Notebook: Fixed a bug that was preventing the report from functioning in the VLE
7. WISE homepage and public library: Made some changes to the homepage featured projects display and removed unnecessary filters from the public library; changed the "Research & Technology" section on the homepage to "Research" and updated it's link to go to http://wise-research.berkeley.edu

Full release notes can be found here: https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE/releases/tag/5.7.0

Upgrading from 5.6.x to 5.7 should be straight-forward because there are no database and property file changes.

Other notes

WISE 5.8 goals include redesigning the homepage and project library pages. We hope to update you with some initial designs soon.

Please report any issues you find on this mailing list or on GitHub: https://github.com/WISE-Community/WISE.  Also, we're using Gitter (https://gitter.im/WISE-Community/WISE), so come chat with us there as well.

Thanks!

WISE Team@Berkeley