# Release 8.9

June 2, 2020

The main improvement of the HUGIN software in version 8.9 is the migration of the HUGIN Graphical User Interface to OpenJDK and associated updates.

## HUGIN Graphical User Interface v8.9

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

- Migration to OpenJDK including new installers

- Improvements to the Data Frame functionality

- Support for data conflict analysis – monitor individual contributions to the conflict for discrete nodes through the log-likelihood ratio

- The sorting functionality is improved to sort numerically

- It is possible to include “evidence” on function nodes when processing cases

- Function to reset the contents of the table for a CG node

- Monitor window of a utility node includes variance (optional)

- Monitor window of a numeric decision node includes mean and variance (optional)

- Use of new library to generate vector based graphics of models

- Other minor improvements.

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

## HUGIN Decision Engine v8.9

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

- NET specifications in the form of text strings can now be generated for domains, classes, and class collections. These strings are suitable for, e.g., transmission over a network, and they can be parsed by the usual functions for parsing NET specifications.

- The documentation for the HUGIN Swift API is now available as a set of HTML pages.