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GanttProject

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Desktop project scheduling and management tool with Gantt charts

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A desktop Gantt tool on a multi-year cadence, tethering itself to its own cloud

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◆Current state
GanttProject is a desktop project scheduling application released every one to three years, with occasional build-only tags in between. The most recent feature update, 3.3, added calculated columns driven by SQL expressions in the task table, project-relative week numbers, and a native Apple Silicon package. The intervening tags are packaging work rather than product: restoring Linux and Windows builds, and producing both Intel and Silicon macOS packages.
◆Where it's heading
The through-line since 3.0 is a desktop application acquiring a service tail. GanttProject Cloud arrived in 3.0 alongside a bundled Java runtime and an update channel, 3.1 added a connection toggle and pulled a shared human-resource database from the cloud, and 3.2 rewrote the task table with filtering and non-destructive sorting. By 3.3 the table is programmable through SQL expressions. Each release deepens either the cloud tie or the table, which are the two places a desktop planner can still differentiate — but the cadence means any given year may show only a packaging fix.
◆Prediction
Expect the next feature release to extend calculated columns or the cloud collaboration surface; on this cadence it is unlikely to arrive quickly, and the entries give no indication of timing.

◆Recent moves

  1. 7mo ago

    GanttProject 3.3

    Calculated columns let custom task-table columns derive their values from SQL expressions, joined by project-relative week numbers and a native Apple Silicon build. It continues the task table's evolution into the product's most programmable surface.

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  2. 1y ago

    Build tag restores Linux and Windows packages

    A packaging-only tag whose entire content is restoring the Linux and Windows builds. No product change.

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  3. 2y ago

    Build tag adds Intel and Apple Silicon macOS packages

    Another packaging tag, producing both macOS architectures. Native Apple Silicon support proper doesn't arrive until 3.3.

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  4. 4y ago

    GanttProject 3.2

    The task table was rewritten with completed-task filtering and multi-column sorting that doesn't destroy the task hierarchy. The foundation the calculated columns in 3.3 are built on.

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  5. 5y ago

    GanttProject 3.1

    A toolbar toggle for the cloud connection and the ability to pull human resources from a cloud-held database into a local project. The cloud tie introduced in 3.0 becomes something you use rather than configure.

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  6. 5y ago

    GanttProject 3.0

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    The release that gave a standalone desktop planner a service side: GanttProject Cloud for sharing, revisions and cross-project resource tracking, plus a bundled Java runtime and update channel. Every release since extends one or the other.

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