Release Highlights
GanttProject 2.8.10 is a maintenance and localization update. It comes with updated holiday calendars for the top 20 countries where our users come from and a number of fixed bugs, mostly in the user interface. Users with high density screens will enjoy a fix of the row height issue in resource table. The full list of closed issues is available from the milestone page.
Installation notes and system requirements
GanttProject 2.8.10 requires Java Runtime version 7 or higher. We recommend using Java Runtime version 8 from Oracle although more recent runtimes, such as Java 10 or Java 11 shall also be okay.
Windows
Provided that Java Runtime is installed, it is enough to run the installer executable and complete the wizard steps to install GanttProject.
Reports from anti-virus software
Some anti-virus programs may report viruses in the installer. This is a known issue which happens to installers very often. It doesn't mean that the file is infected, it rather means that antivirus engine have seen malware packed using similar installer.
File ganttproject-2.8.10-r2363.exe was checked by VirusTotal and at the moment of writing this no engines reported positive results (which is good).
If your anti-virus software reports positive result, this is most likely a false positive, provided that the file which you downloaded is the original one. You can check if you downloaded the original file by checking its MD5 checksum. The original checksum of ganttproject-2.8.10-r2363.exe is 8f37f5ad4eb707276f1afecce9e8ee78 (case insensitive).
If you can't or don't want to run program which your antivirus engine considers as infected, we recommend using ZIP distribution. It involves no native code (except for Java machine) and doesn't require Administrator priveleges.
Mac OSX
Provided that Java Runtime is installed, it is enough to drag GanttProject application into Applications.
We are aware of possible issues with launching GanttProject application on macOS Mojave with Java 10. Please refer to Knowledge Base article for details.
Ubuntu/Mint/ other Debian-based Linux distros
Install deb package using your system software/package management tools.
ZIP distro
Provided that java command is available in the command line, it is enough to unpack the archive and run launcher script from ganttproject-2.8.10-r2363 folder. Read more detailed instructions on the Wiki pages.