.. _release8_8:

Release 8.8
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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
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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
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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.
