2.1 M3 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

This is a minor preview release that includes the following:

• new tools: Bubbles, MicroSearch, TextualArc

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Some additional information is available from the main page.

Requirements

You need Java 1.8+

2.1 M2 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

This is a minor preview release that includes the following:

• trying to resolve Java compatibility issues
• functionality for character range searches like [a-z]
• restore Z-Scores on document terms
• improvements for larger corpora

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Some additional information is available from the main page.

Requirements

You need Java 1.8+

2.1 M1 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

This is a minor preview release that includes the following:

• better handling of corpora with many documents
• restored Z-Scores in document terms (like V1)
• better interactivity and functionality in collocates graphing
• and some other stuff

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Some additional information is available from the main page.

Requirements

You need Java 1.8+

2.0 M9 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

• fixed a major bug in handling of larger documents
• preliminary work on document similarity tool
• and more
  For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0 M8 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

• fixed a critical bug for the auto-suggest search box that was causing server crashes
• improved toolbars in several tools
• and more
  For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0 M10 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

• some basic access management (setting passwords for corpus, non-consumptive use)
• some support for working with MS Excel
• and more
  For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

Voyant 2.0 is a complete rewrite of both the user interface and the server-end components. The following is an overview of some of the more significant changes:

• a cleaner, crisper appearance
• better cross-platform and mobile device support (all tools in HTML5, no Flash or Java Applets)
• advanced search capabilities, including wildcards, phrases, and proximity queries
• a new tables/grids framework that allows for infinite scrolling (instead of the awkward paging and favourites from before)
• modifying a corpus adding and reordering documents
• new Phrases tool for analyzing repeating n-grams
• much better support for larger corpora
• vastly improved performance throughout (corpus reader and collocates are notable examples)
• built-in documentation for the current version

Instructions

Please note: because of a Java compatibility issue on some machines, you may want to try the most recent preview release rather than this release.

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Some additional information is available from the main page.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0 M7 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

What's new:

• built-in documentation
• modify (add, remove, reorder) documents in a corpus
• improved support for some Asian languages
• improved support for touch devices
• Knots tool reimplemented
• fixed bug for applying stopwords globally
• new corpus collocates visualization
• export URL of default skin now remembers which panels are active
• easier to have no stopwords selected
• introdcutory text and documentation link under box
• improved HTML5 Cirrus
• preliminary RezoViz
• reader enhancements
• and more
  For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0 M6 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+

2.0 M5 (Preview Release)

VoyantServer is a standalone desktop application that allows you to run a local version of Voyant Tools. This release of VoyantServer includes an early preview release of Voyant Tools 2.0.

This VoyantServer repository is less interesting since it only contains the server wrapper. See the Voyant repository for more information about Voyant Tools and how to contribute.

For more information about releases and known issues, see the main README.md.

Instructions

Download the binary release uncompress and click on VoyantServer.jar – this will open a server console and eventually a browser window with Voyant Tools should automatically appear.

Requirements

You need Java 1.7+