As part of the early work on CollectionSpace v2.5, the version of the Jasper Reports engine used by the system has been updated to version 4.5.1 (March 2012), from version 4.0.1 (February 2011). My understanding is that existing reports should continue to work as before, following this update. (The existing acquisition report that ships as a sample with CollectionSpace works fine, for instance.) But it's nonetheless useful to spotlight this change, on the chance that you might observe any reporting-related changes when working with CollectionSpace v2.5 or later. This change should also allow report writers to use more recent versions of iReport, Jasper's report designer tool. FYI, Aron P.S. It's our goal to keep reasonably current with Jasper Reports releases over time, going forward.

Let's please make sure to include the change in the release notes and as you suggest Aron, to document the updates as they happen over time. We might consider a schedule for these updates depending on how frequently Jasper issues them (not sure how feasible that is)? Thanks! Angela On Jun 5, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Aron Roberts wrote: > As part of the early work on CollectionSpace v2.5, the version of > the Jasper Reports engine used by the system has been updated to > version 4.5.1 (March 2012), from version 4.0.1 (February 2011). > > My understanding is that existing reports should continue to work as > before, following this update. (The existing acquisition report that > ships as a sample with CollectionSpace works fine, for instance.) But > it's nonetheless useful to spotlight this change, on the chance that > you might observe any reporting-related changes when working with > CollectionSpace v2.5 or later. > > This change should also allow report writers to use more recent > versions of iReport, Jasper's report designer tool. > > FYI, > Aron > > P.S. It's our goal to keep reasonably current with Jasper Reports > releases over time, going forward. > > _______________________________________________ > Work mailing list > Work@lists.collectionspace.org > http://lists.collectionspace.org/mailman/listinfo/work_lists.collectionspace.org