Hi!

New year, new version! (with a very important change)

6.4.0 version of Dédalo will introduce an important change in the Dédalo ontology. Ontology engine was founded with the hierarchy engine of version 3.0. and it was not deeply changed because it's the core engine, the kernel of Dédalo, a small change in ontology has a lot of implications.

But the ontology engine is old and it needs a totally change.

This change was on the table for years but the transition from v5 to v6 was an major refactoring of javascript and how Dédalo works with the client side and to be successful we decided to keep the old, and super stable ontology engine. Rebuild the ontology engine for v5 was not feasible and it involves double effort.

In version 6.3.0 we have finalised support for the v5 ontology, therefore it is time to change the ontology engine. And this important change needs to be tested by the community before 6.4.0 release. It's a big change and it has a lots of implications.

Old ontology engine was totally removed and the update moves the ontology editor to usual sections and hierarchy tree. The old editor is totally removed (if you want, you can download it here) and the process to publish an update of the ontology was developed from scratch.

Is important that you test this version a non production server!

You can download the beta version here

Please provide feedback.

The testing process will be until 01-02-2024, February 2024.

Best