# Release 8.8

September 16, 2019

The main new features of this release are a new Application Programming Interface for the .NET core programming language and a number of interesting features in the HUGIN Graphical User Interface.

## HUGIN Graphical User Interface v8.8

The HUGIN Graphical User Interface has been improved with various new features. These include:

- The implementation of the batch propagation functionality of the Data Frame has been refactored. This includes the addition of a set of new measures that can be computed after the propagation of a case, e.g., mean, median and quantile of a numeric node as well as state index of a state with maximum probability. This is useful for processing, for instance, GIS data in HUGIN Graphical User Interface.

- Support for generating vector based graphics of models.

- New and improved HTML help facilities.

- Other minor improvements.

Finally, work has been done to improve the performance of the HUGIN Graphical User Interface.

## HUGIN Decision Engine v8.8

The HUGIN Decision Engine has been extended with the following features:

- A new HUGIN Decision Engine Application Programming Interface for the .Net core programming language.

- The HUGIN Decision Engine now supports computing the variance of utility nodes.

- Support for Visual Studio 2019.